From that page: <I> Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. </I>
So what's all this about recovery CDs that aren't real? Uncle Bill says that everybody has an original CD.... or does he...
You gotta blast the registry, too... and it complains if there is already a folder named 'Desktop', and a few other minor things (for a fresh install w/o trashing the drive)... upgrades haven't shown to be nearly as functional. I always fresh install off of the upgrade CDs anyway...
Hypercard also had quite a bit more in the way of system resources to work with. It's a much bigger challenge to fit a dev env in 64k (and I loved writing ML on my C=64!). I never cared for the enviornment on the Apple ][s as much as the C=64/128, but that's just personal preference. Apple ][gs - the first step down the dark path...
Being a stereotype. Ditto. I think they probably do - the are all fat, rich and white... three essential invariant qualities of being a fat, rich, white guy. I'd wager that if the person was too skinny, they might not get noticed in the big leather chair during important meetings, and that might have a negative impact on negotiations - as for race differences, I'm pretty sure the leather chairs come in different colors, and everybody from Brooklyn sounds the same on a conference call.
With that out of the way...
I'm white, and I aspire to be rich someday (well, at least well-off). If I get a little bit soft around the middle from too much food and golf when I'm fifty or sixty, so be it. Somehow, I don't feel that I'd be destined to fit the mold of the execs. I think that the most salient part is being in control of a powerful company where the power and greed rub off on you, even if you have good intentions. Got $40M, how 'bout $70M... it's all academic, but greed is a self-serving passion - the more you have, the more you want. After all, BillG and the top oil barons are still ahead of you, so you can't stop yet 8^)
BTW,I remeber seeing a picture of the head of BMG and he didn't look all that fat..
The problem is that there really isn't a good solution for streaming audio at the moment. Everything is either low quality, too fat for most people to stream (I still have trouble with a broadband connection), or both. Streaming mp3s, for example would be a nice solution, but I'm not going to pay for anything that skips, so I'd have to download the whole thing first. Plus, if this became a *really* popular thing, the servers and links would be fairly flooded. I'm not saying that it isn't possible, just tough the way things are now. Mp3 isn't up to snuff in terms of quality, and the better bit rates are still too large for anyone on a dialup to stream reliably.
If they would guarantee me service, I'd pay for that, too, but I doubt I'd be satisfied.
I saw a commercial for AOL where they talked about downloading the internet. I tried it out, and now I have the internet on a Zip disk (it doesn't fit on a floppy anymore, though it used to before there was so many pages). If anyone wants a copy of the internet, I can copy my Zip disk for you or e-mail it to you. AOL didn't tell me about any ping though, maybe I missed that part of the internet. e-mail me at st00p1d_lu53r@aol.com for the internet.
Exactly... my linux box is also my NAT router/firewall, as well as my web/mail server. I can't take it down without affecting the other systems (granted, I'm usually the one using them...). Rebooting isn't the greatest solution, especially when you consider the amount of drive space you end up wasting to install another OS for just a few programs.
I've got a friend who is r/g and purple/pink/blue color-blind... mostly a function of the red. The pink cups in the dining hall... well, he still claims those are clear... I don't remember if he had problems with yellow/blue.
Did they consider the difference in the shades of green? Traffic lights are shaded blue-green so R/G color blind people can easily differentiate red and green. I would think that any border indicator of this kind would also be customizable for colors...
As for the all-the-way blind - you'd have to come up with a different translation for it, but it shouldn't be too much different than an ALT tag - you can't see the picture, but you can still grab the meaning.
1. Sun boxes were always designed to be more I/O friendly than the x86 series. A 386 has really poor I/O processing, but I have several 386 boards that run just fine...
2. Redundant N+1 power supplies can be found in a lot of mid-level x86 servers - not much to do with the CPU... Raid, either. The rest of the hardware, yes, and like I said before, Sun has architected their systems to perform well in the I/O sector, but have been further behind in processing power (less important for most blind servers).
3. Excellent point. IBM, Sun, HP all offer far better support at the moment for their unix boxen than Redhat could for their OS box. Note the hardware/software (I hate to use this term) synergy, though. Everything from head to toe is by one company - easier troubleshooting. Less third party involvement and dirtying of the system.
4. Commodity hardware with a short expected lifespan (1-3 years) versus server-grade hardware that is expected to have value over a longer time (5-8 years). No question about that, though...
I don't think they are scared, I think they are trying to grab mindshare. IBM has been winning some big battles against Sun in both the marketplace (IBM passed Sun to lead in UNIX midrange sales this 1Q, and the much touted success of the RS/6000 S80 versus the E10k) and in mindshare ( A.Root, supercomputing, Linux support announcements, Transmeta announcements, etc...). Sun is trying to gain more in the mindshare of the open-source community and other tech-savvy people that might be making decisions. It's a tough marketplace, and Sun is trying to keep growing at a high rate.
This is somewhat of a marketing move, but they also need to satisfy the other parties involved with the code they own... hence the restritive licensing and release in chunks bit.
#include<std_disclaim.h>/*I may work for IBM, but I don't speak for them*/
Isn't there some funnyness with Solaris (it may be gone with the latest incarnations, I haven't kept up). I know sockets weren't the same, and I thought they didn't support pthreads or something... this is just some vague recollection, so it might all be different now.
There are people who do this for brass instruments (trumpet, trombone...). The people who have had it done claim that it does make the instrument play better, or at least it changes it in some way... I'd prefer to wait the week just to make sure that my lips don't freeze to the mouth piece;-)
after all, I ran a GUI (GeOS) on my C-64... it wasn't quite as good as the PalmOS, but not too much worse. If I can run a drawing program through a GUI in 64k, I could probably conquer the world in 8 MB... [/stupid nostalgia]
I figured, I've just always been amused by the "Thinking Outside the Box" metaphor... I need a box, so I can think outside of it... of course, if I don't have a box, I'm at least outside of one... unless the Matrix is a big box, maybe being shipped UPS, and mis-routed through three continents... that would explain this past week.
Please note the light mood in which the post was made, and the general responses (especially the 'Funny' moderation). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Also, it's not quite certain that NSI didn't screw up - if the email came unencrypted and they made the change, NSI is at fault. It was supposed to be encrypted, and they claim that the forged mail was supposedly from the billing contact, who doesn't have authority to request those changes anyway. 0 for 2...
I wouldn't put a lot of faith in the guy raising the suit (not clear whether he was the one who initiated this in the first place), but Nike should have a case against NSI if the other points hold true. I can't see how they 'deserved the hack'. NSI may be hapless (that's never been questioned), but in this case they may have been willfully negligent, and there are many reports of the same problem with other domains they control. We'll see what happens. Should be interesting.
The mainframe buisness is picking up again, though, and todays mainframes have more power than the supercomputers of years past. Heck the IBM S80 (not a mainframe, just a mid-level machine) kicks the pants off of older mainframes and some supercomputers from several years ago. The power is there now in a cheaper, more accessible form - not every evil overlord needs a supercomputer when even a regular PC or low-end Intel-based server is far more powerful than they used to be.
What campus book stores have you been to? All the ones I've been in you can get the same books online for ~the same price or quite a bit cheaper (especially engineering texts, it seems). I found a few of my books cheaper at three different online retailers than at the campus store, and they actually took Discover (gotta get that 1%), unlike my former CBS (Campus Book Store).
As a student who routinely paid >$400 for books each semester, I don't remember any cheap ones.
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Thank you for making me laugh again... I need a little levity on Friday afternoons at work...
From that page:
<I>
Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. </I>
So what's all this about recovery CDs that aren't real? Uncle Bill says that everybody has an original CD.... or does he...
51735.
not that I have ever visited one, either ("Hey man, I was a freshman in college - I needed the program, and I only had $$ for ramen noodles!")
You gotta blast the registry, too... and it complains if there is already a folder named 'Desktop', and a few other minor things (for a fresh install w/o trashing the drive)... upgrades haven't shown to be nearly as functional. I always fresh install off of the upgrade CDs anyway...
Hypercard also had quite a bit more in the way of system resources to work with. It's a much bigger challenge to fit a dev env in 64k (and I loved writing ML on my C=64!). I never cared for the enviornment on the Apple ][s as much as the C=64/128, but that's just personal preference. Apple ][gs - the first step down the dark path...
Being a stereotype. Ditto. I think they probably do - the are all fat, rich and white... three essential invariant qualities of being a fat, rich, white guy. I'd wager that if the person was too skinny, they might not get noticed in the big leather chair during important meetings, and that might have a negative impact on negotiations - as for race differences, I'm pretty sure the leather chairs come in different colors, and everybody from Brooklyn sounds the same on a conference call.
With that out of the way...
I'm white, and I aspire to be rich someday (well, at least well-off). If I get a little bit soft around the middle from too much food and golf when I'm fifty or sixty, so be it. Somehow, I don't feel that I'd be destined to fit the mold of the execs. I think that the most salient part is being in control of a powerful company where the power and greed rub off on you, even if you have good intentions. Got $40M, how 'bout $70M... it's all academic, but greed is a self-serving passion - the more you have, the more you want. After all, BillG and the top oil barons are still ahead of you, so you can't stop yet 8^)
BTW,I remeber seeing a picture of the head of BMG and he didn't look all that fat..
The problem is that there really isn't a good solution for streaming audio at the moment. Everything is either low quality, too fat for most people to stream (I still have trouble with a broadband connection), or both. Streaming mp3s, for example would be a nice solution, but I'm not going to pay for anything that skips, so I'd have to download the whole thing first. Plus, if this became a *really* popular thing, the servers and links would be fairly flooded. I'm not saying that it isn't possible, just tough the way things are now. Mp3 isn't up to snuff in terms of quality, and the better bit rates are still too large for anyone on a dialup to stream reliably.
If they would guarantee me service, I'd pay for that, too, but I doubt I'd be satisfied.
I saw a commercial for AOL where they talked about downloading the internet. I tried it out, and now I have the internet on a Zip disk (it doesn't fit on a floppy anymore, though it used to before there was so many pages). If anyone wants a copy of the internet, I can copy my Zip disk for you or e-mail it to you. AOL didn't tell me about any ping though, maybe I missed that part of the internet. e-mail me at st00p1d_lu53r@aol.com for the internet.
[arrrggh]
Exactly... my linux box is also my NAT router/firewall, as well as my web/mail server. I can't take it down without affecting the other systems (granted, I'm usually the one using them...). Rebooting isn't the greatest solution, especially when you consider the amount of drive space you end up wasting to install another OS for just a few programs.
And how, moderators, does post #2 get a redundant? That's what I wanna know...
Maybe you should look up 'redundant' in a dictionary.
[/moderator flame]
Bah!
[/karma burn]
I've got a friend who is r/g and purple/pink/blue color-blind... mostly a function of the red. The pink cups in the dining hall... well, he still claims those are clear... I don't remember if he had problems with yellow/blue.
Did they consider the difference in the shades of green? Traffic lights are shaded blue-green so R/G color blind people can easily differentiate red and green. I would think that any border indicator of this kind would also be customizable for colors...
As for the all-the-way blind - you'd have to come up with a different translation for it, but it shouldn't be too much different than an ALT tag - you can't see the picture, but you can still grab the meaning.
1. Sun boxes were always designed to be more I/O friendly than the x86 series. A 386 has really poor I/O processing, but I have several 386 boards that run just fine...
/*I may work for IBM, but I don't speak for them*/
2. Redundant N+1 power supplies can be found in a lot of mid-level x86 servers - not much to do with the CPU... Raid, either. The rest of the hardware, yes, and like I said before, Sun has architected their systems to perform well in the I/O sector, but have been further behind in processing power (less important for most blind servers).
3. Excellent point. IBM, Sun, HP all offer far better support at the moment for their unix boxen than Redhat could for their OS box. Note the hardware/software (I hate to use this term) synergy, though. Everything from head to toe is by one company - easier troubleshooting. Less third party involvement and dirtying of the system.
4. Commodity hardware with a short expected lifespan (1-3 years) versus server-grade hardware that is expected to have value over a longer time (5-8 years). No question about that, though...
I don't think they are scared, I think they are trying to grab mindshare. IBM has been winning some big battles against Sun in both the marketplace (IBM passed Sun to lead in UNIX midrange sales this 1Q, and the much touted success of the RS/6000 S80 versus the E10k) and in mindshare ( A.Root, supercomputing, Linux support announcements, Transmeta announcements, etc...). Sun is trying to gain more in the mindshare of the open-source community and other tech-savvy people that might be making decisions. It's a tough marketplace, and Sun is trying to keep growing at a high rate.
This is somewhat of a marketing move, but they also need to satisfy the other parties involved with the code they own... hence the restritive licensing and release in chunks bit.
#include<std_disclaim.h>
Isn't there some funnyness with Solaris (it may be gone with the latest incarnations, I haven't kept up). I know sockets weren't the same, and I thought they didn't support pthreads or something... this is just some vague recollection, so it might all be different now.
There are people who do this for brass instruments (trumpet, trombone...). The people who have had it done claim that it does make the instrument play better, or at least it changes it in some way... I'd prefer to wait the week just to make sure that my lips don't freeze to the mouth piece ;-)
after all, I ran a GUI (GeOS) on my C-64... it wasn't quite as good as the PalmOS, but not too much worse. If I can run a drawing program through a GUI in 64k, I could probably conquer the world in 8 MB... [/stupid nostalgia]
Actually.... there *is* an sftp program...
http://www.xbill.org/sftp/
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sftp.html
and what about CD-R/RW and Zip/Jaz/Syqest drives? Great Heavens! Our world is crumbling around us! Get out now while there's still time!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............
I figured, I've just always been amused by the "Thinking Outside the Box" metaphor... I need a box, so I can think outside of it... of course, if I don't have a box, I'm at least outside of one... unless the Matrix is a big box, maybe being shipped UPS, and mis-routed through three continents... that would explain this past week.
but that answer isn't fun! I wanna buy a new car! ;-)
Please note the light mood in which the post was made, and the general responses (especially the 'Funny' moderation). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Also, it's not quite certain that NSI didn't screw up - if the email came unencrypted and they made the change, NSI is at fault. It was supposed to be encrypted, and they claim that the forged mail was supposedly from the billing contact, who doesn't have authority to request those changes anyway. 0 for 2...
I wouldn't put a lot of faith in the guy raising the suit (not clear whether he was the one who initiated this in the first place), but Nike should have a case against NSI if the other points hold true. I can't see how they 'deserved the hack'. NSI may be hapless (that's never been questioned), but in this case they may have been willfully negligent, and there are many reports of the same problem with other domains they control. We'll see what happens. Should be interesting.
The mainframe buisness is picking up again, though, and todays mainframes have more power than the supercomputers of years past. Heck the IBM S80 (not a mainframe, just a mid-level machine) kicks the pants off of older mainframes and some supercomputers from several years ago. The power is there now in a cheaper, more accessible form - not every evil overlord needs a supercomputer when even a regular PC or low-end Intel-based server is far more powerful than they used to be.
Darn exponential curves 8^)
What campus book stores have you been to? All the ones I've been in you can get the same books online for ~the same price or quite a bit cheaper (especially engineering texts, it seems). I found a few of my books cheaper at three different online retailers than at the campus store, and they actually took Discover (gotta get that 1%), unlike my former CBS (Campus Book Store).
As a student who routinely paid >$400 for books each semester, I don't remember any cheap ones.
get a (+1;informative) for posting the links to previous /. discussions on this topic?
Inquiring minds want to know...
If the Dept of Ed gets chucked out, do I have to pay back the last $16k of my student loans?