A monopoly is a monopoly is a monopoly. It's time for the Federal Trade Commission to reopen a lawsuit against Intel. Doesn't Motorola or IBM make chipsets aswell? There has to be alternatives.
What if it was Josh who was behind the horrors in the last scenes? Consider it. He was the one who heard cackling laughter the first night. Maybe he was possessed by the witch, just like the hermit? In his crazed state, he could have pulled out his own teeth(or used an animal's), created the piles of stones, collapsed the tent, thrown his stuff about the campsite, and gotten the others lost. He had the compass the day they circled back on themselves. Maybe he steered them all wrong and in a circle. If one is subtle about it, it is easy to do. It would have been easy for him to leave when he was on watch and then call out to them in the night. The noises of the first night would have been animals, or even the witch, but I am convinced she possesed Josh just like the hermit. Remember, Josh was calling from the basement! The corellation of piles of stones, to victims is easy to figure out. The recurring theme of the burning witch symbol maybe all of the victims over the years she has taken, or a kind of reverse voodoo doll created by locals. The largest figure of wood is easy to figure out if you recall the crazy woman's testimony to the film makers.
I am convinced it was all Josh being possessed by the witch.
NOT! This will not change anything as far as commercials are concerned. All that advertiers and network executives have to do is randomly shuffle the time for commercial breaks. They do at during sports anyway. Most poeple are going to be too lazy to sit and watch this machine record so that they can cut out the commercials. It is just like a VCR except there is no "pirate" distribution of recorded content. You still need a VCR to make permanent copies. S.S.D.D.
It does look like a cheap knock-off of the IMac. I wonder if intellectual property or even copywrite extends to the look and feel of a product. Most of the time anyone comes out with a new product, all th ecompetitors start copying the product and even the design. I guess that we shall have to wait and see.
Please remember that this is a test of a specific condition of web traffic under static (not dynamic) conditions. I can say with certainty that if the tests had been conducted with actual web traffic, then Linux would have won. Traffic loads and speed aside, Windows NT IIS simply cannot maintain long amounts of uptime without a server swap or reboot. This benchmark only serves as a guide for the required improvements needed in Linux. Linux is still the OS that has uptime records counted in years not days and hours.
As a switchgear technician, I can say that using Linux is like retrofitting existing, reliable equipment. Just because it is old, does not mean that it is useless. NT may be better under extremely specific conditions, but it is like buying an expensive under-voltage, over ladened circuit breaker. Anyone care to guess what happens when a low voltage breaker is used in high voltage switchgear? You will fuse the contacts (like a Blue Screen of Death halt). When we retrofit older equipment, we reuse relaible technology and add relable, newer components to improve performance. This is how Linux is to me. The benchmark tests only tell me that it is better to drive a Volvo that an MGB.
There is no excuse for AOL to be using its leverage against a private citizen. It is atrocious to think that Network Solutions has been behaving like a monopoly when its license from the NSF strictly forbids such behaviour. But this has always been so, hasn't it?
I wonder if the commerce department and the NSF should revoke both NSI's license as the Domain Host and AOL's upcoming status as a Domain host Provider. Call it racism, sexism, money politics, or whatever; it still is wrong. Besides it does not matter that she used aolsearch.com as a site name. It was registered to her first, AOL has stolen it without consent. I suggest you write your Senator or Congressman.
Since when is an operating system written in the 1990's to be called 1960's tecnology? First of all the definition of technology is any tool capable of being used now. If it cannot be used, it is just vapour-ware. Secondly, Linux was started by Torvalds in 1991. People have been IMPROVING it since then. That makes it a technology that is evolving. Don't hackers all over the world constantly contribute to the developement and extension of the linux kernal? As for the Richard Stallman's GNU project, Linux would have been stuck as a useless kernal if it had not been for this man's vision. Calling him a communist is like calling the Pope a Catholic Conspiracist. Stallman created software that, while based upon 1960's ideas, has been constantly improved or maintained. Just because it works, does not meen you adopt, extend, and monoploize. I have had enough of fudware. It is bad enough that the software and operating system I use at work is based upon Redmond, WA's worldview. Personally I would take AT&T's UNIX or even VMS over Windows crashing-halting on a daily basis. If blue screens of death, bloatware, useless addtions and extensions are the wave of the future, then let me be the first to write LINUX on my saboes and fling them into the machines!
Thank goodness that format is dead. It just blatently violated any privacy that consumers had in their viewing habits. I for one would not want some database somewhere being being filled with my credit card information, movie purchase history, and personal information. (I know. It happens at blockbusters.) At least with DVD the discs can be played on any other DVD player. The DIVX format was a farcical culmination of consumer excess-- play once, throw away.
I think that all the books should be opened now on government activities and that the average citizen should have a constitutionally protected right of privacy. We need 1024 bit key codes now.
So what if John Katz is not a computer guru? Does everyone have to be as technically inclined or have super human powers to have the right to an opinion? You guys give geekdom a bad name.
Personally, I think that the Fucking Bunch of Idiots' raids are just a way for the Bureau to solve its Y2K problems. Ever notice they take only the really good stuff from the alledged crackers? At least they are not taking the toasters and microwaves like the SS stormtroopers did back in the 1980's. Just ask LOD (Legion of Doom) or Steve Jackson games about that.
Since Linus Torvalds created Linux, legally it is his to do as he pleases and he is from Finland. However since he GPL'ed the kernal, it falls under American copyright laws and International copyright law.
Go ahead and export to Iran. Americans do not solely create international laws or have the monopoly on what is right.
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I wonder if anyone can stop flaming Mr. Katz long enough to look at the validity some of his arguements. However, I think that the media still exaggerates things. We live in a society whose obsession with death, the darkside, and violence is supposedly the greatest in all of history. Who teaches history these days? There have been many ancient, and even more recent cultures whose obsession with occult, death, and violence rivaled our own. Just look at the Egyptians and their tombs, the Western Europeans during the Renaissance/Reformation, the multitude of invasions from the east by nomads (barbarians to the locals), the druids, American Indians, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, etc. Their art, literature, religeons, oral traditions, and methods of warfare are no different than ours at the most basic level of expressing human needs.
Life is just as messed up as it always has been, if you are a pessimist or cynic. I say, "Its's the same old song and dance. It's just a different tune."-- ST:TNG
This thing reads like an uniformed fluff magazine article. I will say one thing. As a switchgear technician, I can tell you that the mechanisms that control the flow of electricity are unaffected by the Y2K problem. The hardware in most cases is not computerized and in many cases was built over 40 years ago. I should know, I retrofit (upgrade) them for a living.
Please keep in mind that I am not attacking anyone's religeon. I only with to point out the errors of the previous post: 1. A theory is not a scientifically proven fact, it is just a hypothesis that happens to fit observations and has stood up to rigourous attempts to disprove it. Only certain theories ever become Laws- like Gravity because they have stood up to all attempts at disproving them. 2. Evolution has been difficult to prove because we have limited life spans. We cannot observe directly the course of evolution but we can infer from reliable methods of short term observations. The Galapagos islands variation of species, animal husbandry, and the proliferation of breeds of domesticated animals adds solid and ample evidence to support evoltion. Did you know that all dogs and wolves are genetically the same? Dogs are only domesticated wolves, that is why they can interbreed and have viable, reproductive offspring. 3. The fossil record thus far disciovered has been limited because it is a hit or miss proposition. Even with the best technology, it is still hampered by the enourmous surface area of the Earth. Geology has also made it difficult to find fossil records. Glaciation, Volcanic eruptions, Plate Tetonics, Erosion have all served to hide the complete fossil record. The average age of the surface of the earth is only a few hundred million years in comparison to the surface of the moon which is over 4 billion years old. The lack of complete fossil records or even trackable progression can be accounted by geologic phenomena. Since 99% of all life forms that have ever lived are now extinct, it would be presumptuous to think that the fossil record would be found every where if you factor in geological progress. You should also consider that the majority of life on earth has a body mass of less than 1 kilogram- microbes, insects, etc.
There is one theory that accounts for that lack of slow progressive fossils-- punctuated equilibrium. This theory of evolution states that long periods of little or no change is riddled with moments of abrupt change. The fossil record of sponges and even the propogation of species in the Galapagos Islands support this. Fossil records would be drastically changed due to dramatic genetic mutations (the biological mechanism of evolution).
I do not wish to insult your faith or opinions but please be careful when trying to make assumptions about scientific theories. In science the worst mistakes often resulted from assumptions. Just look at the Michealson-Morely experiments with trying to find the Aether at the turn of the 19th century.
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A monopoly is a monopoly is a monopoly. It's time for the Federal Trade Commission to reopen a lawsuit against Intel. Doesn't Motorola or IBM make chipsets aswell? There has to be alternatives.
What if it was Josh who was behind the horrors in the last scenes? Consider it. He was the one who heard cackling laughter the first night. Maybe he was possessed by the witch, just like the hermit? In his crazed state, he could have pulled out his own teeth(or used an animal's), created the piles of stones, collapsed the tent, thrown his stuff about the campsite, and gotten the others lost. He had the compass the day they circled back on themselves. Maybe he steered them all wrong and in a circle. If one is subtle about it, it is easy to do.
It would have been easy for him to leave when he was on watch and then call out to them in the night. The noises of the first night would have been animals, or even the witch, but I am convinced she possesed Josh just like the hermit. Remember, Josh was calling from the basement!
The corellation of piles of stones, to victims is easy to figure out. The recurring theme of the burning witch symbol maybe all of the victims over the years she has taken, or a kind of reverse voodoo doll created by locals. The largest figure of wood is easy to figure out if you recall the crazy woman's testimony to the film makers.
I am convinced it was all Josh being possessed by the witch.
However I am not going to get my hopes up!
NOT! This will not change anything as far as commercials are concerned. All that advertiers and network executives have to do is randomly shuffle the time for commercial breaks. They do at during sports anyway. Most poeple are going to be too lazy to sit and watch this machine record so that they can cut out the commercials. It is just like a VCR except there is no "pirate" distribution of recorded content. You still need a VCR to make permanent copies.
S.S.D.D.
It does look like a cheap knock-off of the IMac. I wonder if intellectual property or even copywrite extends to the look and feel of a product. Most of the time anyone comes out with a new product, all th ecompetitors start copying the product and even the design. I guess that we shall have to wait and see.
Please remember that this is a test of a specific condition of web traffic under static (not dynamic) conditions. I can say with certainty that if the tests had been conducted with actual web traffic, then Linux would have won. Traffic loads and speed aside, Windows NT IIS simply cannot maintain long amounts of uptime without a server swap or reboot. This benchmark only serves as a guide for the required improvements needed in Linux. Linux is still the OS that has uptime records counted in years not days and hours.
As a switchgear technician, I can say that using Linux is like retrofitting existing, reliable equipment.
Just because it is old, does not mean that it is useless. NT may be better under extremely specific conditions, but it is like buying an expensive under-voltage, over ladened circuit breaker. Anyone care to guess what happens when a low voltage breaker is used in high voltage switchgear? You will fuse the contacts (like a Blue Screen of Death halt). When we retrofit older equipment, we reuse relaible technology and add relable, newer components to improve performance. This is how Linux is to me. The benchmark tests only tell me that it is better to drive a Volvo that an MGB.
There is no excuse for AOL to be using its leverage against a private citizen. It is atrocious to think that Network Solutions has been behaving like a monopoly when its license from the NSF strictly forbids such behaviour. But this has always been so, hasn't it?
I wonder if the commerce department and the NSF should revoke both NSI's license as the Domain Host and AOL's upcoming status as a Domain host Provider.
Call it racism, sexism, money politics, or whatever; it still is wrong.
Besides it does not matter that she used aolsearch.com as a site name. It was registered to her first, AOL has stolen it without consent. I suggest you write your Senator or Congressman.
Since when is an operating system written in the 1990's to be called 1960's tecnology? First of all the definition of technology is any tool capable of being used now. If it cannot be used, it is just vapour-ware. Secondly, Linux was started by Torvalds in 1991. People have been IMPROVING it since then. That makes it a technology that is evolving. Don't hackers all over the world constantly contribute to the developement and extension of the linux kernal?
As for the Richard Stallman's GNU project, Linux would have been stuck as a useless kernal if it had not been for this man's vision. Calling him a communist is like calling the Pope a Catholic Conspiracist. Stallman created software that, while based upon 1960's ideas, has been constantly improved or maintained. Just because it works, does not meen you adopt, extend, and monoploize. I have had enough of fudware. It is bad enough that the software and operating system I use at work is based upon Redmond, WA's worldview. Personally I would take AT&T's UNIX or even VMS over Windows crashing-halting on a daily basis. If blue screens of death, bloatware, useless addtions and extensions are the wave of the future, then let me be the first to write LINUX on my saboes and fling them into the machines!
Thank goodness that format is dead. It just blatently violated any privacy that consumers had in their viewing habits. I for one would not want some database somewhere being being filled with my credit card information, movie purchase history, and personal information. (I know. It happens at blockbusters.)
At least with DVD the discs can be played on any other DVD player. The DIVX format was a farcical culmination of consumer excess-- play once, throw away.
Some you guys have way, way too much time on your hands (sic).
I think that all the books should be opened now on government activities and that the average citizen should have a constitutionally protected right of privacy. We need 1024 bit key codes now.
So what if John Katz is not a computer guru? Does everyone have to be as technically inclined or have super human powers to have the right to an opinion?
You guys give geekdom a bad name.
Personally, I think that the Fucking Bunch of Idiots' raids are just a way for the Bureau to solve its Y2K problems. Ever notice they take only the really good stuff from the alledged crackers? At least they are not taking the toasters and microwaves like the SS stormtroopers did back in the 1980's. Just ask LOD (Legion of Doom) or Steve Jackson games about that.
Since Linus Torvalds created Linux, legally it is his to do as he pleases and he is from Finland. However since he GPL'ed the kernal, it falls under American copyright laws and International copyright law.
Go ahead and export to Iran. Americans do not solely create international laws or have the monopoly on what is right.
I wonder if anyone can stop flaming Mr. Katz long enough to look at the validity some of his arguements. However, I think that the media still exaggerates things.
We live in a society whose obsession with death, the darkside, and violence is supposedly the greatest in all of history. Who teaches history these days? There have been many ancient, and even more recent cultures whose obsession with occult, death, and violence rivaled our own. Just look at the Egyptians and their tombs, the Western Europeans during the Renaissance/Reformation, the multitude of invasions from the east by nomads (barbarians to the locals), the druids, American Indians, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, etc.
Their art, literature, religeons, oral traditions, and methods of warfare are no different than ours at the most basic level of expressing human needs.
Life is just as messed up as it always has been, if you are a pessimist or cynic. I say, "Its's the same old song and dance. It's just a different tune."-- ST:TNG
Let the flames begin!
This thing reads like an uniformed fluff magazine article. I will say one thing. As a switchgear technician, I can tell you that the mechanisms that control the flow of electricity are unaffected by the Y2K problem. The hardware in most cases is not computerized and in many cases was built over 40 years ago. I should know, I retrofit (upgrade) them for a living.
This site is all FUD and crud.
Please keep in mind that I am not attacking anyone's religeon. I only with to point out the errors of the previous post: 1. A theory is not a scientifically proven fact, it is just a hypothesis that happens to fit observations and has stood up to rigourous attempts to disprove it. Only certain theories ever become Laws- like Gravity because they have stood up to all attempts at disproving them. 2. Evolution has been difficult to prove because we have limited life spans. We cannot observe directly the course of evolution but we can infer from reliable methods of short term observations. The Galapagos islands variation of species, animal husbandry, and the proliferation of breeds of domesticated animals adds solid and ample evidence to support evoltion. Did you know that all dogs and wolves are genetically the same? Dogs are only domesticated wolves, that is why they can interbreed and have viable, reproductive offspring. 3. The fossil record thus far disciovered has been limited because it is a hit or miss proposition. Even with the best technology, it is still hampered by the enourmous surface area of the Earth. Geology has also made it difficult to find fossil records.
Glaciation, Volcanic eruptions, Plate Tetonics, Erosion have all served to hide the complete fossil record. The average age of the surface of the earth is only a few hundred million years in comparison to the surface of the moon which is over 4 billion years old. The lack of complete fossil records or even trackable progression can be accounted by geologic phenomena. Since 99% of all life forms that have ever lived are now extinct, it would be presumptuous to think that the fossil record would be found every where if you factor in geological progress. You should also consider that the majority of life on earth has a body mass of less than 1 kilogram- microbes, insects, etc.
There is one theory that accounts for that lack of slow progressive fossils-- punctuated equilibrium. This theory of evolution states that long periods of little or no change is riddled with moments of abrupt change. The fossil record of sponges and even the propogation of species in the Galapagos Islands support this. Fossil records would be drastically changed due to dramatic genetic mutations (the biological mechanism of evolution).
I do not wish to insult your faith or opinions but please be careful when trying to make assumptions about scientific theories. In science the worst mistakes often resulted from assumptions. Just look at the Michealson-Morely experiments with trying to find the Aether at the turn of the 19th century.