They almost always just by the line and not go through a hosting service. The hosting service cost is based on having lots of websites with low traffic on one machine. This allows them to cut costs and mark it up to very high levels. Most places which have high transfer levels just by a direct line from the Baby Bells, AT&T, Sprint or something like that. They don't go through some silly hosting service. The cost for a constant connection is micropennies per gig, especially if it gets almost constant use.
Salon's quality has gone way down in recent months. Most of the stores are just fed from the wires, so the same stories appear on Salon, CNN, Yahoo, etc. The unique stuff is updated very infrequently, although it is of a better than avage quality still. I believe this has a lot to do with firing a good part of their staff. $30 dollars is a little to much for the small amount of content offered.
I don't think slashdot could support a fee service. Mainly because it is a complete rehash of other web sites and the authors put so much support behind "free sofware". The community would backlash if this was tried.
Merely entering a country from another country. The outbond trip you are expected to be recieved by customs of the entering country. It is not our fault the moom didn't do what it was supposed to.
The language taught should not matter at all. What is important is the concepts presented in a number of different languages and applying those concepts to other languages. If too much emphisis is placed on what is cool and high tech then students suffer because they don't understand concepts when moving onto new or older languages. Cool languages are like the soup de jour. They're only really around for a day or so. After graduation, do you really think you'll be given a course on the new lanuage the boss wants to program in? No, he or she will just say go program in it and it will be up to you to learn it.
20 years ago the cool languages were Fortran and Cobol. 10 years ago it was C and Pascal, now it's C++ and Java. What will be cool 10 years from now who knows. The important to learn and understand how the machine works and how data, instructions, and devices are handled. Specific language skills are generally worthless in a few years, because you'll either forget them from lack of use. or the language will be obsolete for new stuff and legacy for everything else.
That being said, teaching in C++ to begin with introduces a number of ideas including object oriented programming, some structural programming, and things that Java doesn't teach such as pointers and memory management. My university, KU, is moving away from Java and back to C++, because Java hides so many details the new students don't understand how things work.
Like you stated, learning on your own you gained more knowledge. I agree, but the vast majority of students are only in the classes to get a grade and not to learn. All that matters is the A, and not C++.
I really don't think that Microsoft is driving the new economy. Its stock headed for a down turn a long time ago. I really think if the US is that dependant on one company it's time to force that company out. Homogenous ecnonomies are just frought with peril. Even if the DOJ were to let up on Microsoft, I don't think it would have any more effect than a temporary raise. Remeber the entire sector has been filled with companies that have no reason to exist let alone float stocks, that's what's pulling down the stocks, underpants gnome corps. And added to that a self induced recession by GW, who despite all indications that the economy is just slowing down, keeps saying were in a recession in order to get his tax plan passed and not be like his father. Even after this, I doubt Microsoft can pull it out, there bottom line is based on the number of PC's sold. But market saturaiton for PC's is high, and there is little demand to upgrade or to buy a new Microsoft OS (the old MS OSes work well enough). They need a change of business models, i.e. dot net. It has yet to be seen if they can pull this dot net thing off.
You'd like GW to let up, but it's out of his hands now. Even if the DOJ would let up (but really why would they forfit a game that they won by a big margin) the states AJ are ready to continue rhe case with or without the Feds. Microsoft will be attacked until the bitter end and get a lot more that just a slap on the wrist.
It is actually RAMBUS that is at falt here. As a member of JEDEC they agreed not to get any patents on the technology and to disclose if they held any current or pending patents on technology they held. The technology isn't stolen at all, as part of JEDEC it is the proposed standard, which RAMBUS agreed to. I'd have some symphathy if RAMBUS wasn't part of JEDEC, but they were and by joining of they're own free will they have little or no ground to stand on as being moral and upright for doing this.
It already has been extended. The mouse was due to be public domain in 3 years, until works for hire got extended 50 more years to protect the mouse, beatles, etc. The copyright extensions are granted to solely protect a small number of valuable properties.
As far as power consumption growing is concerned, it's not the desktops. It's the servers. They consume far more power than a truckload of
desktops, and they run much closer to capacity than a desktop, most of the time.
But balance that out for the number of desktops. For every server there is probably 500 regular old desktops sitting on desks, idling and sucking away power. In the end the two are probably equal.
It's not the Federal government, its the states trying to do this The Federal government has no sales tax, just states, counties, and cities. The states are just trying to collect the revenue that is already due to them. (You are supposed to pay sales taxes on out on mail-order puchases, but no one ever does.) And those stocks you were discussing, they are losing money, but so are the companies with the crappy business plans that people invested in. One needs to acually look at the companies they are buying and not just go with the crowd. It led a bubble. That bubble burst, get over it. Companies go bankrupt and people lose there jobs, but again get over it. It happens. If someone's whole life savings are invested in Internet companies then they deserved to lose that money, investments should be deversified to protected against one bad thing chewing away all the money. Right now, no banks are going under, the US isn't defaulting on any bonds. The economy is actually very good at this point, we're growing all be it more slowly than last year, but it is going through a period where it is sorting out the wheat from the chaft.
The #9 is supported under XFree 3.x only. I know it sucks. No quake on the flat panel was my biggest disappointment. SGI did not buy #9, S3 did, but S3 sold it to Via. SGI has nothing to do with porting the drivers or #9 in general, other than the cards.
That is all fine and good if these people were actually just working for a number of weeks and then left. But in this case you had people working for 5-10 years on the same project, but couldn't move up or get the same benifits are their co-workers because of their status as temp. They we're fully employees except for the fact Microsoft wouldn't bite the bullet and pay them. Being temp is one thing, being a full employee and still getting screwed is another. This won't kill temp employment at all, but it will stop a company from trying to get around actually having to (god forbid) pay their employees the salary and benifits they are actually owed.
Onto the main thrust of you argument though, you will not see higher wages as a result of fewer "required" benifits. History does not bare that out. Employers will pay as little as possible to keep the workers and require unduly time pressures on the works. Be glad you don't have to reapply for your job everyday like they did in the 1900's and have to work 15 hours shifts to keep you job and forget about vaction time, because it would never be offered. Leave for a day and your fired. Laws requiring worker rights and safety have made your life and the life of everyone else much better.
"Iridium-Flares" have nothing to do with solar reflections. They are directly related to the satelites brodcast frequencies. They frequencies chosen for communication are near to the ones used for radio telescopes. The satelites aren't always on the mark, so their signals bleed into the images that astronmers are taking of outerspace.
They currently don't block votenader, but the do block buchanan2000.com (listed as Politics/Religion). I think that they really just don't want any views at all.
And how exactly will the Inderama not have professionally designed games? They are just replacing the underlying operating system (which is on every console. Dreamcast has Windows CE and another one, the X-box will have Windows 2001 Lite, the Playstations and Nintendos have secret ones.) Replacing the underlying system will not prevent professionally designed games, any more than Loki games are not professionally designed or the Xbox's ports of PC games are not professionaly designed. Granted, the Inderama is target to some people who would like to design there own games at home and share them with their friends. This doesn't proclude those games at all. We'll probably see a lot of Loki ports and other games migrate to Inderama. The question of professionally designed games is a red herring.
Luckly DMCA does not apply to ISP contracts. Just regular old contract law. Which is how it should be. There is no copyright to protect with ISP service, since there is no copyright material. The kill/misuse clause has been in all ISP contracts from the begining. If you don't like the standard contract, try to negotate for a better one (or better yet form a consumer union and try to get a better one.) By not forcing them to give uptime (which should be required in the contract you sign) it is your own fault that the connection stops working.
IBM's JDK is a closed source program, but it is very good. I'd recommend it. It is much faster than Suns (some tests by a factor of 2) but it is slower than Kaffe. Kaffe cannot run Java2 programs, only Java 1.1. It does use native threads.
Rambus claims to hold a patent over all SDRAM and DDR SDRAM chips produced. Anywhere. Rambus's goal is to force companies to pay fees to Rambus in order raise the cost of all non-Rambus memory. Rambus is just too weak to compete on the open market. Hyundai is one of the SDRAM producers that haven't caved in. Micron is another. Some others have caved though.
Apple is just selling a repackaged Wavelan. Open up the AirPort hub, and its a Lucent card in there. They didn't even bother to relabel it.
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It was out sourced because for the longest time Microsoft refused to admit that any deframentation what so ever was needed on a NT system. Others thought it was bunk, and wrote defragmenters anyway..Eventually microsoft backed down, admitted that one was needed, and included one of the more popular ones with Windows 2000. It was about bloody time. Are there any other defragmenters still around?
Microsoft is already commited to producing a Windows 64 for IA-64. They seem to like the idea just fine. Intel is very dependant on Microsoft by the oppiste is also true. Microsoft needs intel to push its chips faster to encourge people to upgrade (there by re-buying windows). If we were still at 400 MHz would anyone have a new computer? And besides Intel still owns 80%-85% of the entire chip market, everyone else is just small fries.
TimeWarner/AOL will not be the only backbone supplier of the internet, becuase they own none of the main backbones. That would of been Sprint/WorldCom before the FTC had the good sense to stop them. TimeWarner/AOL will just control the last mile. (And AT&T/TCI as well). Isn't centralized ownership so much fun! So it's really just 4 companies who own everything.
I understand water can keep you alive on Mars - but why would you want to be there in the first place? I haven't heard one useful reason to go to Mars. The cost of extracting ore from the crust is prohibitive. There are no useful materials to extract beyond ore. Even if you just wanted to go so you said it could be done, the cost is so high that making more than one trip isn't realistic.
I'm glad that the Spanish didn't take the same idea with the Americas. I mean it takes three months to get there and get back, there's nothing really useful there at all except for gold and silver ore, and it costs a lot to send those gallons across the sea for all that time, they can be put to much better use fighting the English or hauling spices from the Turkish coast. We should just avoid the New World at all costs. It's really just not worth the effort to go at all.
But you see that the possible profit drove them to the New World and the profit will drive people into space. You say that all that's there is ore, well everything around you is just ore. Nothing more. It is what can be done with it that matters. Prohibitive costs in research and development are not going to stop SSTO ships, no more than the prohibitive research costs have stopped cars or airplanes. As long as there is any profit to be made at anything it will be done. It is worth being done. Lowering costs by complete reusing of a spacecraft will cocur. It might not be nasa, esa or the russians. It could be Roton Rockets. Quite simply the current needs of space are not being met. It takes too long to set up a launch, it costs too much per pound, and repair is impossible (try replacing a broken motherboard is space, really can't be done so a $50 million dollar satilite has to be splashed for a $1,000 part.) The shuttle cannot do all these things, Soyez is just a orbital taxi, and the Protons, Arians, and Deltas of the world are too few to go around. There is money to be made in space, and we are going to go there, whether you agree with it or not. Developments costs can be divided over time, and there is no testing like putting it to work now.
USB2 devices, when plugged into a USB1 or USB1.1 port, will downgrade themselves to use the older protocols. As always you'll still need a driver for this all to work, but it isn't as bad as your trying to make it to be. USB2 really just specifies a faster data path, most of the protocol is exactly the same.
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They almost always just by the line and not go through a hosting service. The hosting service cost is based on having lots of websites with low traffic on one machine. This allows them to cut costs and mark it up to very high levels. Most places which have high transfer levels just by a direct line from the Baby Bells, AT&T, Sprint or something like that. They don't go through some silly hosting service. The cost for a constant connection is micropennies per gig, especially if it gets almost constant use.
it does if you use vnc.
I've heard of people overclocking a 486 to 247MHz This should help them out a whole lot!
Salon's quality has gone way down in recent months. Most of the stores are just fed from the wires, so the same stories appear on Salon, CNN, Yahoo, etc. The unique stuff is updated very infrequently, although it is of a better than avage quality still. I believe this has a lot to do with firing a good part of their staff. $30 dollars is a little to much for the small amount of content offered.
I don't think slashdot could support a fee service. Mainly because it is a complete rehash of other web sites and the authors put so much support behind "free sofware". The community would backlash if this was tried.
Merely entering a country from another country. The outbond trip you are expected to be recieved by customs of the entering country. It is not our fault the moom didn't do what it was supposed to.
The language taught should not matter at all. What is important is the concepts presented in a number of different languages and applying those concepts to other languages. If too much emphisis is placed on what is cool and high tech then students suffer because they don't understand concepts when moving onto new or older languages. Cool languages are like the soup de jour. They're only really around for a day or so. After graduation, do you really think you'll be given a course on the new lanuage the boss wants to program in? No, he or she will just say go program in it and it will be up to you to learn it.
20 years ago the cool languages were Fortran and Cobol. 10 years ago it was C and Pascal, now it's C++ and Java. What will be cool 10 years from now who knows. The important to learn and understand how the machine works and how data, instructions, and devices are handled. Specific language skills are generally worthless in a few years, because you'll either forget them from lack of use. or the language will be obsolete for new stuff and legacy for everything else.
That being said, teaching in C++ to begin with introduces a number of ideas including object oriented programming, some structural programming, and things that Java doesn't teach such as pointers and memory management. My university, KU, is moving away from Java and back to C++, because Java hides so many details the new students don't understand how things work.
Like you stated, learning on your own you gained more knowledge. I agree, but the vast majority of students are only in the classes to get a grade and not to learn. All that matters is the A, and not C++.
I really don't think that Microsoft is driving the new economy. Its stock headed for a down turn a long time ago. I really think if the US is that dependant on one company it's time to force that company out. Homogenous ecnonomies are just frought with peril. Even if the DOJ were to let up on Microsoft, I don't think it would have any more effect than a temporary raise. Remeber the entire sector has been filled with companies that have no reason to exist let alone float stocks, that's what's pulling down the stocks, underpants gnome corps. And added to that a self induced recession by GW, who despite all indications that the economy is just slowing down, keeps saying were in a recession in order to get his tax plan passed and not be like his father. Even after this, I doubt Microsoft can pull it out, there bottom line is based on the number of PC's sold. But market saturaiton for PC's is high, and there is little demand to upgrade or to buy a new Microsoft OS (the old MS OSes work well enough). They need a change of business models, i.e. dot net. It has yet to be seen if they can pull this dot net thing off.
You'd like GW to let up, but it's out of his hands now. Even if the DOJ would let up (but really why would they forfit a game that they won by a big margin) the states AJ are ready to continue rhe case with or without the Feds. Microsoft will be attacked until the bitter end and get a lot more that just a slap on the wrist.
It is actually RAMBUS that is at falt here. As a member of JEDEC they agreed not to get any patents on the technology and to disclose if they held any current or pending patents on technology they held. The technology isn't stolen at all, as part of JEDEC it is the proposed standard, which RAMBUS agreed to. I'd have some symphathy if RAMBUS wasn't part of JEDEC, but they were and by joining of they're own free will they have little or no ground to stand on as being moral and upright for doing this.
It already has been extended. The mouse was due to be public domain in 3 years, until works for hire got extended 50 more years to protect the mouse, beatles, etc. The copyright extensions are granted to solely protect a small number of valuable properties.
As far as power consumption growing is concerned, it's not the desktops. It's the servers. They consume far more power than a truckload of desktops, and they run much closer to capacity than a desktop, most of the time.
But balance that out for the number of desktops. For every server there is probably 500 regular old desktops sitting on desks, idling and sucking away power. In the end the two are probably equal.
It's not the Federal government, its the states trying to do this The Federal government has no sales tax, just states, counties, and cities. The states are just trying to collect the revenue that is already due to them. (You are supposed to pay sales taxes on out on mail-order puchases, but no one ever does.) And those stocks you were discussing, they are losing money, but so are the companies with the crappy business plans that people invested in. One needs to acually look at the companies they are buying and not just go with the crowd. It led a bubble. That bubble burst, get over it. Companies go bankrupt and people lose there jobs, but again get over it. It happens. If someone's whole life savings are invested in Internet companies then they deserved to lose that money, investments should be deversified to protected against one bad thing chewing away all the money. Right now, no banks are going under, the US isn't defaulting on any bonds. The economy is actually very good at this point, we're growing all be it more slowly than last year, but it is going through a period where it is sorting out the wheat from the chaft.
The #9 is supported under XFree 3.x only. I know it sucks. No quake on the flat panel was my biggest disappointment. SGI did not buy #9, S3 did, but S3 sold it to Via. SGI has nothing to do with porting the drivers or #9 in general, other than the cards.
That is all fine and good if these people were actually just working for a number of weeks and then left. But in this case you had people working for 5-10 years on the same project, but couldn't move up or get the same benifits are their co-workers because of their status as temp. They we're fully employees except for the fact Microsoft wouldn't bite the bullet and pay them. Being temp is one thing, being a full employee and still getting screwed is another. This won't kill temp employment at all, but it will stop a company from trying to get around actually having to (god forbid) pay their employees the salary and benifits they are actually owed.
Onto the main thrust of you argument though, you will not see higher wages as a result of fewer "required" benifits. History does not bare that out. Employers will pay as little as possible to keep the workers and require unduly time pressures on the works. Be glad you don't have to reapply for your job everyday like they did in the 1900's and have to work 15 hours shifts to keep you job and forget about vaction time, because it would never be offered. Leave for a day and your fired. Laws requiring worker rights and safety have made your life and the life of everyone else much better.
"Iridium-Flares" have nothing to do with solar reflections. They are directly related to the satelites brodcast frequencies. They frequencies chosen for communication are near to the ones used for radio telescopes. The satelites aren't always on the mark, so their signals bleed into the images that astronmers are taking of outerspace.
They currently don't block votenader, but the do block buchanan2000.com (listed as Politics/Religion). I think that they really just don't want any views at all.
And how exactly will the Inderama not have professionally designed games? They are just replacing the underlying operating system (which is on every console. Dreamcast has Windows CE and another one, the X-box will have Windows 2001 Lite, the Playstations and Nintendos have secret ones.) Replacing the underlying system will not prevent professionally designed games, any more than Loki games are not professionally designed or the Xbox's ports of PC games are not professionaly designed. Granted, the Inderama is target to some people who would like to design there own games at home and share them with their friends. This doesn't proclude those games at all. We'll probably see a lot of Loki ports and other games migrate to Inderama. The question of professionally designed games is a red herring.
Luckly DMCA does not apply to ISP contracts. Just regular old contract law. Which is how it should be. There is no copyright to protect with ISP service, since there is no copyright material. The kill/misuse clause has been in all ISP contracts from the begining. If you don't like the standard contract, try to negotate for a better one (or better yet form a consumer union and try to get a better one.) By not forcing them to give uptime (which should be required in the contract you sign) it is your own fault that the connection stops working.
IBM's JDK is a closed source program, but it is very good. I'd recommend it. It is much faster than Suns (some tests by a factor of 2) but it is slower than Kaffe. Kaffe cannot run Java2 programs, only Java 1.1. It does use native threads.
Rambus claims to hold a patent over all SDRAM and DDR SDRAM chips produced. Anywhere. Rambus's goal is to force companies to pay fees to Rambus in order raise the cost of all non-Rambus memory. Rambus is just too weak to compete on the open market. Hyundai is one of the SDRAM producers that haven't caved in. Micron is another. Some others have caved though.
Apple is just selling a repackaged Wavelan. Open up the AirPort hub, and its a Lucent card in there. They didn't even bother to relabel it. James
It was out sourced because for the longest time Microsoft refused to admit that any deframentation what so ever was needed on a NT system. Others thought it was bunk, and wrote defragmenters anyway. .Eventually microsoft backed down, admitted that one was needed, and included one of the more popular ones with Windows 2000. It was about bloody time. Are there any other defragmenters still around?
Microsoft is already commited to producing a Windows 64 for IA-64. They seem to like the idea just fine. Intel is very dependant on Microsoft by the oppiste is also true. Microsoft needs intel to push its chips faster to encourge people to upgrade (there by re-buying windows). If we were still at 400 MHz would anyone have a new computer? And besides Intel still owns 80%-85% of the entire chip market, everyone else is just small fries.
TimeWarner/AOL will not be the only backbone supplier of the internet, becuase they own none of the main backbones. That would of been Sprint/WorldCom before the FTC had the good sense to stop them. TimeWarner/AOL will just control the last mile. (And AT&T/TCI as well). Isn't centralized ownership so much fun! So it's really just 4 companies who own everything.
I understand water can keep you alive on Mars - but why would you want to be there in the first place? I haven't heard one useful reason to go to Mars. The cost of extracting ore from the crust is prohibitive. There are no useful materials to extract beyond ore. Even if you just wanted to go so you said it could be done, the cost is so high that making more than one trip isn't realistic.
I'm glad that the Spanish didn't take the same idea with the Americas. I mean it takes three months to get there and get back, there's nothing really useful there at all except for gold and silver ore, and it costs a lot to send those gallons across the sea for all that time, they can be put to much better use fighting the English or hauling spices from the Turkish coast. We should just avoid the New World at all costs. It's really just not worth the effort to go at all.
But you see that the possible profit drove them to the New World and the profit will drive people into space. You say that all that's there is ore, well everything around you is just ore. Nothing more. It is what can be done with it that matters. Prohibitive costs in research and development are not going to stop SSTO ships, no more than the prohibitive research costs have stopped cars or airplanes. As long as there is any profit to be made at anything it will be done. It is worth being done. Lowering costs by complete reusing of a spacecraft will cocur. It might not be nasa, esa or the russians. It could be Roton Rockets. Quite simply the current needs of space are not being met. It takes too long to set up a launch, it costs too much per pound, and repair is impossible (try replacing a broken motherboard is space, really can't be done so a $50 million dollar satilite has to be splashed for a $1,000 part.) The shuttle cannot do all these things, Soyez is just a orbital taxi, and the Protons, Arians, and Deltas of the world are too few to go around. There is money to be made in space, and we are going to go there, whether you agree with it or not. Developments costs can be divided over time, and there is no testing like putting it to work now.
USB2 devices, when plugged into a USB1 or USB1.1 port, will downgrade themselves to use the older protocols. As always you'll still need a driver for this all to work, but it isn't as bad as your trying to make it to be. USB2 really just specifies a faster data path, most of the protocol is exactly the same.