Considering how many Class A netblocks there are (each with 2^^24 globally-routable addresses) how is this a surprise?
Does anyone really believe that IBM has 16 million globally-addressable systems? Hell, no. IBM, like any sensible company, has a good firewalls. Likewise AT&T, the USDOD, etc.
At a rough guess, more than half of the IPv4 address space is unreachable and doing absolutely no good for the assigned owners.
While some say the language is simply their 'D' language renamed to a further letter down the alphabet, the language is criticized for lack of a promised cross-platform function because of its ties to MS SQL server, which only runs on Windows."
Lynda Carter has never been know as an air head.
Her intellect was commented on many time, including when she was voted most beautiful women in the world.
of course 40 years ago she was 17, so maybe she played an airhead in high school. However nothing in here history says 'air head' to me.
You didn't go to high school with her. Trust me, she was the true airhead's airhead.
"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics,"
Today? Was it ever otherwise?
I come to this as a "child of Sputnik:" I entered elementary school in 1957, and I can tell you that the "culture of American society" as found in any public schools I ever saw never came anywhere close to encouraging academics of any sort, much less mathematics. And these were far from poor schools or inner-city, they were districts where college graduates were the majority of parents.
I know some very sharp people from my high-school graduating class. They fall into two categories: those who were socially successful and those who made the mistake of letting other students find out that they had brains.
Example: Lynda Carter (yes, Wonder Woman) is now known as a very sharp businesswoman. Forty years ago, she was the quintessential airhead.
If there aren't resources to effectively enforce a law, that law should be taken off the books.
You're making the totally unfounded assumption that the purpose of a law is to be obeyed. On the contrary, the purpose of many laws is to stroke some group of constituents while remaining secure in the knowledge that the law will never be enforced. CAN-SPAM is a good example, as are the plethora of bills passed each year that are immediately rejected as unconstitutional. Again.
And the reason why judges (and prosecutors) won't pursue perjury charges is very, very simple: it would increase their workload, and they already have more than they can do in an ordinary 80-hour week.
You can argue till you turn blue and die that enforcement would actually reduce their workload in the great bye-and-bye but it Just Ain't Gonna Happen.
Has anyone at Google considered that the reason I have a phone with a camera is because it's hard to get a decent phone that doesn't have a crappy built-in camera? If I want to take pictures, I'll use something with optics that don't suck.
Likewise for the address book, the text input (gag!), the audio (which is a spectacular pain to use anyway) sucks, the Internet access costs a body part per page and is unreadable anyway, and so on.
they suck bricks!
Get me a touchscreen phone that's basically my Palm Titanium with GSM and GPS and you have a customer.
You can be sued for anything, the question is can you be successfully sued
"Success" depends on objectives. As J. K. Rowling found out, "profit" doesn't follow from "winning." On the other hand, if the objective is to drain your opponent's bank account, then "success" is almost certain.
Maybe so, but the story was the same from Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, and so on. This was committee work and they all had ugly things to say about the reliability of the connections going through hinges, and sliders are worse than hinges.
It's the nature of flexible connections stuffed into a small space with a limited budget, subjected to far too many deformations.
that's what flip screens are for. Still have the real estate, but have the QWERTY too.
Sorry, I spent too many years working with cellphone designers to spend more than pocket lint on anything with a hinge (or worse, a slider.) You get a hint from the fact that these guys got their free from the Company and still insisted on candy bars for reliability reasons.
I remember the "processes vs. threads" argument, but last time around wasn't it Microsoft arguing that a threaded process model was superior to an isolated task model like Linux had? Weren't the Linux camp blowing the horn for the superior robustness and security of full task isolation?
'If you look at the money being spent to build out the fiber to the home infrastructure, and if you look at the competitive deals that are going on, vendors are trying hard to make it affordable and "outspeed" each other.'
As long as you don't read the fine print, anyway.
I've looked at the offers available here, and the funny thing is that they pretty much permanently lock in the duopoly.
No access to other service providers
no way to go back to competitive services
TOSes that have amazing little clauses (no servers on their network or any network connected to theirs, etc.)
The pricing looks good until you notice that it's only for the first few months and then goes through the roof
the deals are all quoted as parts of bundles (internet, voice, television) and the bundles aren't cheap at all,
after a quick search, open proximity appears to have something to do with switches, and doesn't seem to conflict in any way with "close proximity" being redundant
If this _doesn't_ involve absurdly draconian DRM attempts, I'd be very surprised indeed.
Well, of course. I was thinking of the other security possibilities, such as touching someone's portable and scoring their data files or giving them some electronic "social disease."
That last may be a design requirement, you know. Think of updating DRM security profiles on contact. That would be a good thing, right?
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Does anyone really believe that IBM has 16 million globally-addressable systems? Hell, no. IBM, like any sensible company, has a good firewalls. Likewise AT&T, the USDOD, etc.
At a rough guess, more than half of the IPv4 address space is unreachable and doing absolutely no good for the assigned owners.
They don't seem to realize that this is John McCain they're dealing with not some nobody prole.
That's not a bug, that's a feature.
You didn't go to high school with her. Trust me, she was the true airhead's airhead.
I had some truly great math teachers. Makes no difference if you have to choose between number theory and nookie.
Horse, water.
Today? Was it ever otherwise?
I come to this as a "child of Sputnik:" I entered elementary school in 1957, and I can tell you that the "culture of American society" as found in any public schools I ever saw never came anywhere close to encouraging academics of any sort, much less mathematics. And these were far from poor schools or inner-city, they were districts where college graduates were the majority of parents.
I know some very sharp people from my high-school graduating class. They fall into two categories: those who were socially successful and those who made the mistake of letting other students find out that they had brains.
Example: Lynda Carter (yes, Wonder Woman) is now known as a very sharp businesswoman. Forty years ago, she was the quintessential airhead.
US.
Since you asked.
At last something that might reduce spim.
You're making the totally unfounded assumption that the purpose of a law is to be obeyed. On the contrary, the purpose of many laws is to stroke some group of constituents while remaining secure in the knowledge that the law will never be enforced. CAN-SPAM is a good example, as are the plethora of bills passed each year that are immediately rejected as unconstitutional. Again.
You can argue till you turn blue and die that enforcement would actually reduce their workload in the great bye-and-bye but it Just Ain't Gonna Happen.
Even asian humans aren't cheap enough now?
Of course, like any memories from the 60s ...
Likewise for the address book, the text input (gag!), the audio (which is a spectacular pain to use anyway) sucks, the Internet access costs a body part per page and is unreadable anyway, and so on.
they suck bricks! Get me a touchscreen phone that's basically my Palm Titanium with GSM and GPS and you have a customer.
"Success" depends on objectives. As J. K. Rowling found out, "profit" doesn't follow from "winning." On the other hand, if the objective is to drain your opponent's bank account, then "success" is almost certain.
You can be sued for anything. After that, you're going to lose a boatload of money to the landsharks even if you end up "winning" in court.
Maybe so, but the story was the same from Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, and so on. This was committee work and they all had ugly things to say about the reliability of the connections going through hinges, and sliders are worse than hinges.
It's the nature of flexible connections stuffed into a small space with a limited budget, subjected to far too many deformations.
Sorry, I spent too many years working with cellphone designers to spend more than pocket lint on anything with a hinge (or worse, a slider.) You get a hint from the fact that these guys got their free from the Company and still insisted on candy bars for reliability reasons.
For those of us with fingers larger than pencil points, QWERTY is just a waste of precious real estate.
It's not altogether clear that they have ...
My head hurts, I'm confused.
As long as you don't read the fine print, anyway.
I've looked at the offers available here, and the funny thing is that they pretty much permanently lock in the duopoly.
It appears I was too subtle.
Well, that or you fit the /. stereotype too well.
I will point out that there most definitely is such a thing as "open proximity" even if the canonical /.er has never encountered the possibility.
Well, of course. I was thinking of the other security possibilities, such as touching someone's portable and scoring their data files or giving them some electronic "social disease."
That last may be a design requirement, you know. Think of updating DRM security profiles on contact. That would be a good thing, right?