I meant that IBM *created* the business computer market. Prior to them, there was no big business PC market. It was a bunch of people TRYING -- Tandy, Apple, Commodore, etc. -- but it was IBM that *CREATED* the business PC market.
Apple essentially CREATED the fashion computing market. Their equipment is as much a fashion accessory as it is an electronic device.
I never said MS didn't do a killer business deal. But IBM legitimized computers in the office. Before them a PC was looked at as a toy and a game machine, but not for serious business.
MS-DOS succeeded because it was originally compatible with PC-DOS. IBM was expensive, which is where the entire clone market came from.
(And I *LIKED* the Newton.;-) It was the only Apple kit I've ever owned, other than recently an iPod Shuffle. Yes, Apple and all the others have made crap at one time or another.
I wasn't talking about necessarily being the first, but being the one who popularized everything and created the MARKET.
Yes, Henry Ford with his assembly line essentially CREATED the personal automobile MARKET.
Yes, but that isn't a solution. That is just passing it on to the user to say "I see something, what is it?" Again, it defers determining intent to the user.
In real world application, ZoneAlarm and Comodo are next to useless because clueless users just keep clicking "allow" to make it stop bothering them.
God help them when "svchost.exe" pops up asking for permission.
"In nature, we know that ants defend against threats very successfully," Fulp said. "They can ramp up their defense rapidly, and then resume routine behavior quickly after an intruder has been stopped. We're trying to achieve that same framework in a computer system."
Yeah, that's what we need. One Symantec AV can't stop a virus it doesn't know about, so we need TEN SYMANTEC AVS on the job.
The problem in computer security is one of DISCERNING INTENT. Good code and bad code look the same. The call the same functions, perform mostly the same tasks.
Think of VNC or Windows Remote Help vs a backdoor trojan. Same basic thing, just different intent.
FTP, Dropbox or other file transfer vs a trojan that uploads your files. Intent again.
Apple went it alone, and while they've had their share of heartache, they eventually built the shining behemoth they are today.
Microsoft never did that. *IBM* built their market, and Microsoft rode in on the coattails. (See the history of PC-DOS vs MS-DOS.) They certainly took advantage, but *THEY* did not build the market, IBM did.
As far as I can tell, they've NEVER built ANY market. They've always come in as a Johnny-Come-Lately. The 900 lb gorilla J-C-L, but never-the-less, not the innovator.
In the past few years it seems their entire business plan could be summed up simply as "Whatever Google is doing, plus Windows and Office".
Their stock has floundered under the leadership, or lack thereof, of Steve "Monkey Boy" Ballmer. They need a new direction, and since all they know how to do is emulate, they might as well emulate the most successful company they can find.
If you insist on GSM, that means AT&T or T-Mobile. If you want rural coverage of 3G, that pretty much leaves out T-Mobile.
So...AT&T it is. (I'd say "We have a winner!", but I'd be lying.)
Buy a pre-paid SIM and be done with it. The smartphone plan is like $2 / day on days used for unlimited talk and text. 3 Gb of data for a month will run you $35. The SIM itself should be free.
I have a Brother HL-2227DW, monochrome laser, built-in wireless, wired ethernet and DUPLEX printing that cost me $120. The "starter" toner cartridge that came with it lasted me a year.
If I need a color print, I take a USB with the file to Kinkos or the local UPS Store.
I keep getting that question from random people. "Have you found Jesus?" That guy must be seriously lost. I mean worse than Charlie Sheen's television career, or Donald Trump's political ambitions. Totally gone.
Ditto. For $0.99, I just had it store the album in my cloud drive. I may use the storage at some time.
Though in all honesty, I prize bandwidth more than storage space. I can't envision seriously using teh clouds without a hell of a lot more bandwidth. Thinking about how all this won't scale at the office if EVERYONE tried to do it at once...
Different type of insurance. By "no fault" the parent means "no fault collision", which relates to damage to vehicles only. Liability insurance covers property damage and bodily injury.
If so, you'd realize it was 6^6^6, or 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056, which is the number of parallel universes accessible through the continua device.
Maybe it can teach the difference between "to" and "too"? Then move on to advanced concepts like "their", "they're" and "there"; the proper use of commas and even that spawn of satan itself, the apostrophe.
Income Tax in the United States originally applied only to profits from dividends and the like. Wages and salaries were explicitly excluded. It affected only the wealthy who could afford to invest, and were successful at it.
That is really the only way it passed, by exempting 90% of the population. For an example, see Tennessee State's income tax today.
All of that revolves around the definition of "money". The Liberty Dollar guy had the issue of calling the coins "dollars" and the stated goal of having them be an alternate currency.
Lots of places mint their own, local "silver rounds". They just make sure to call them "tokens" or "rounds" or some such and don't even hint that they are dollar-equivalents.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents anyone from accepting alternate forms of payment. As a business owner in the United States, I can accept Euros, Yen or chickens in payment, if I want to. I can also define payment in terms of gold or silver, though it would be by weight and purity.
The idea of stamping a numeric value on a precious metal coin stopped working when gold and silver were allowed to float in value. Hell, I'd be happy to take any "$5" gold piece that anyone wants to give me in exchange for $5 worth of goods.:-)
Calling it "money" or "currency" is what the government has exclusive control over. But the government can't arbitrarily restrict the medium for exchange except in what they demand taxes be paid in. Just because BitCoins can be exchanged for U.S. Dollars doesn't make them potentially illegal.
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Maybe. If our State Dept. got hacked, people would freak out even if it was just a bunch of "where are we going for lunch" messages.
With luck, Anonymous will dump the load over to Wikileaks.
The Google hack targeted, among other things, the accounts of human rights activists which is what made it despicable.
I meant that IBM *created* the business computer market. Prior to them, there was no big business PC market. It was a bunch of people TRYING -- Tandy, Apple, Commodore, etc. -- but it was IBM that *CREATED* the business PC market.
Apple essentially CREATED the fashion computing market. Their equipment is as much a fashion accessory as it is an electronic device.
I never said MS didn't do a killer business deal. But IBM legitimized computers in the office. Before them a PC was looked at as a toy and a game machine, but not for serious business.
MS-DOS succeeded because it was originally compatible with PC-DOS. IBM was expensive, which is where the entire clone market came from.
(And I *LIKED* the Newton. ;-) It was the only Apple kit I've ever owned, other than recently an iPod Shuffle. Yes, Apple and all the others have made crap at one time or another.
I wasn't talking about necessarily being the first, but being the one who popularized everything and created the MARKET.
Yes, Henry Ford with his assembly line essentially CREATED the personal automobile MARKET.
I defined the acronym in the previous sentence.
Yes, but that isn't a solution. That is just passing it on to the user to say "I see something, what is it?" Again, it defers determining intent to the user.
In real world application, ZoneAlarm and Comodo are next to useless because clueless users just keep clicking "allow" to make it stop bothering them.
God help them when "svchost.exe" pops up asking for permission.
"In nature, we know that ants defend against threats very successfully," Fulp said. "They can ramp up their defense rapidly, and then resume routine behavior quickly after an intruder has been stopped. We're trying to achieve that same framework in a computer system."
Yeah, that's what we need. One Symantec AV can't stop a virus it doesn't know about, so we need TEN SYMANTEC AVS on the job.
The problem in computer security is one of DISCERNING INTENT. Good code and bad code look the same. The call the same functions, perform mostly the same tasks.
Think of VNC or Windows Remote Help vs a backdoor trojan. Same basic thing, just different intent.
FTP, Dropbox or other file transfer vs a trojan that uploads your files. Intent again.
Ants don't do any better at recognizing bad guys than AV software does. Faced with an enemy that is TRYING to disguise itself, they are fooled or sidelined. http://www.securityweek.com/researchers-model-security-software-mimic-behavior-ants
On the bight side, I'll be they can squeeze a few research grants out of it.
Apple went it alone, and while they've had their share of heartache, they eventually built the shining behemoth they are today.
Microsoft never did that. *IBM* built their market, and Microsoft rode in on the coattails. (See the history of PC-DOS vs MS-DOS.) They certainly took advantage, but *THEY* did not build the market, IBM did.
As far as I can tell, they've NEVER built ANY market. They've always come in as a Johnny-Come-Lately. The 900 lb gorilla J-C-L, but never-the-less, not the innovator.
In the past few years it seems their entire business plan could be summed up simply as "Whatever Google is doing, plus Windows and Office".
Their stock has floundered under the leadership, or lack thereof, of Steve "Monkey Boy" Ballmer. They need a new direction, and since all they know how to do is emulate, they might as well emulate the most successful company they can find.
No, you're confusing the DDs with the STDs.
Terrorists, or Ford employees?
He wasn't abroad, he was at home. He posted that while in the U.S., the country in which he resides and is a citizen.
If you insist on GSM, that means AT&T or T-Mobile. If you want rural coverage of 3G, that pretty much leaves out T-Mobile.
So...AT&T it is. (I'd say "We have a winner!", but I'd be lying.)
Buy a pre-paid SIM and be done with it. The smartphone plan is like $2 / day on days used for unlimited talk and text. 3 Gb of data for a month will run you $35. The SIM itself should be free.
Amen!
I have a Brother HL-2227DW, monochrome laser, built-in wireless, wired ethernet and DUPLEX printing that cost me $120. The "starter" toner cartridge that came with it lasted me a year.
If I need a color print, I take a USB with the file to Kinkos or the local UPS Store.
Yes, but did she find Jesus?
I keep getting that question from random people. "Have you found Jesus?" That guy must be seriously lost. I mean worse than Charlie Sheen's television career, or Donald Trump's political ambitions. Totally gone.
Ditto. For $0.99, I just had it store the album in my cloud drive. I may use the storage at some time.
Though in all honesty, I prize bandwidth more than storage space. I can't envision seriously using teh clouds without a hell of a lot more bandwidth. Thinking about how all this won't scale at the office if EVERYONE tried to do it at once...
Different type of insurance. By "no fault" the parent means "no fault collision", which relates to damage to vehicles only. Liability insurance covers property damage and bodily injury.
That would be infinity+1, wouldn't it? I always wondered what that symbol was for. Thanks for pointing out a practical usage.
Not the Christian Rapture, but Ragnarok! Right date, wrong set of Gods. Oops.
They probably just saw the movie Thor, causing Odin to blow mead thru his nose. Keep an eye on the sun, and any wolves you meet.
Not a Heinlein fan, are you?
If so, you'd realize it was 6^6^6, or 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056, which is the number of parallel universes accessible through the continua device.
There is no such thing as a white horse.
Been reading the Centers for Disease Control website, have you?
The same thing we do EVERY night, Pinky -- try to take over the world!
Dilbert #1
Dilbert #2 -- Also explains IE 6
Maybe it can teach the difference between "to" and "too"? Then move on to advanced concepts like "their", "they're" and "there"; the proper use of commas and even that spawn of satan itself, the apostrophe.
You understand it is true, though?
Income Tax in the United States originally applied only to profits from dividends and the like. Wages and salaries were explicitly excluded. It affected only the wealthy who could afford to invest, and were successful at it.
That is really the only way it passed, by exempting 90% of the population. For an example, see Tennessee State's income tax today.
All of that revolves around the definition of "money". The Liberty Dollar guy had the issue of calling the coins "dollars" and the stated goal of having them be an alternate currency.
Lots of places mint their own, local "silver rounds". They just make sure to call them "tokens" or "rounds" or some such and don't even hint that they are dollar-equivalents.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents anyone from accepting alternate forms of payment. As a business owner in the United States, I can accept Euros, Yen or chickens in payment, if I want to. I can also define payment in terms of gold or silver, though it would be by weight and purity.
The idea of stamping a numeric value on a precious metal coin stopped working when gold and silver were allowed to float in value. Hell, I'd be happy to take any "$5" gold piece that anyone wants to give me in exchange for $5 worth of goods. :-)
Calling it "money" or "currency" is what the government has exclusive control over. But the government can't arbitrarily restrict the medium for exchange except in what they demand taxes be paid in. Just because BitCoins can be exchanged for U.S. Dollars doesn't make them potentially illegal.