Not all boomers are yuppie scum, many are chain-smoking fat blue-collar schmucks living in double-wides in the Midwest, who never went to Woodstock and thought Vietnam was a just war. They are the ones who vote to take your rights away, not the ex-hippies, who just gave up and don't get involved anymore.
I read an article somewhere that stated that something like 15 MILLION people now say they were at Woodstock - many of them weren't even born at the time. Don't perpetuate the myth that everyone who graduated from high school in 1969 had a tie-dye shirt and long hair. Most were everyday stupid joes, making the same uninformed decisions then that they do now.
He's not an idiot, he just picked the wrong Sparc to start with. The Sparc 5s, especially the higher-Mhz ones, have a truly evil memory architecture, and many have a built-in video system that is not fully supported. I love the old pizza boxes and lunch boxes, but the 4s and 5s I avoid like the plague. (By the way, this message passed through two lunchbox Sparcs on its way to the world - an SS10 running Mandrake, and an LX with OBSD 2.8.
What this really shows is how dangerous it is to make sweeping generalizations from a sample of one.
Scene in a mid-size corporate IT department - door opens to the server room. On top of the Cisco router hardware and Sun Enterprise webserver sits the customers broadband CPE...
a steel gray Motorola StarTac.
With one of those awful Nokias with the 'leopard skin' snap-on case as a backup connection.
Cisco and Sun will need to sell 'coordinating' faceplates so their equipment stays fashionable.
Some technical background about why "those companies that shoulda saw it coming" couldn't have done much, regardless:
The Northpoint network used Copper Mountain DSLAMs with a frame relay backend. Rythms is the only surviving DSL provider that uses a similar setup, so customers in a CO that have a NPT _and_ Rythms DSLAM would be able to keep their router and IP. Everyone else is screwed.
Everyone is screwed anyway, because the ILECS, smelling blood, have refused to 'hot swap' the existing DSL pairs over to a new DSL provider. Verizon is the worst - full re-provisioning of the pair required, 20-30 days of delay and obfuscation until a 'new' pair is forthcoming, if ever.
Some ISPs have gone to local PSCs (public service commissions) to get relief. I believe the Texas PSC has sided with the ISPs, and required SWBell to hot-swap the pairs to a new DSL provider.
Don't expect much from the graphics subsystems - most of the frame buffers that are supported are only 8 bit and unaccelerated. My LX would run Gnome and KDE, but it was excruciating. I am now running most of my Sparc gear (IPX, 2 Classics, an LX and a 2xSM51 Sparc 10) on OpenBSD. The IPX makes a great firewall with the addition of another NIC, and the 'lunchbox' Sparcs are nice and tidy. Watch the heat issues, especially with newer high RPM SCSI drives...
By the way, does anyone know if the PCMCIA - SBUS bridge (nell) is due for attention? What about pthreads and mysql on the old Sparcs?
Actually, one of the major selling points of the Beta format was the tape path: simpler, less twists and turns, which made it much more reliable - both the media and the player. Before "professional/consumer" became a real difference in Beta, you would see the format popping up in all sorts of repeat-play environments, instead of VHS. Airlines have been using Beta for many years.
The only thing I regret is after Gore finally is rightfully president, I'll have to listen to cretins like this going on about how all this is connected to Vince Foster and black helicopters.
This article is really aimed at the lowest common denominator. The metaphors are lame!
My favorite quote, what a mental image is creates:
"The immediate culprit was a busted cross-country Internet pipe which was spewing out bad data."
So they've got this side street in Ames, Iowa blocked off - big hole in the ground, data spewing everywhere, the data pumps can't handle the flow!
There's a bunch of DPW sewer guys standing around in hard hats drinking coffee... those sawhorses with the flashing lights... a backhoe... and all that bad data 'spewing' into the storm drains. Do you have to call the EPA on a bad data spill?
I suspect you are a troll, from your boorish personal attack, but in the real chance that you style yourself as some sort of hip neo-fascist thug intellectual, allow me to edify:
Wealth IS a zero-sum game: there is a finite amount of it, be it West Texas Intermediate Crude, Park Avenue Co-ops, your precious SUV and gun, bauxite ore, Big Macs, arable land, oxygen, or feeder cattle. Ask anyone in Eritrea if they think YOUR accumulation of wealth doesn't have a DIRECT negative effect on their well-being. I believe you have confused 'money' with true wealth; this is a common mistake. Perhaps you should have attended a good mid-level macroeconomics lecture instead of those physical education classes.
Point Two: Some wealth aggregating is a good thing, but as I stated before, when left unchecked, wealth will continue to aggregate in larger and larger slices, which becomes an increasingly bad thing to people with less or without, be they in Palo Alto, Baltimore, Bombay, Medford, Lubbock, or Addis Ababa. Claiming 'I am a selfish ass' as you enter the ballot box will NOT absolve you of responsibility, regardless of Pat Buchanan's protestations to the contrary.
Point Three: Total distribution of wealth is not obtainable, and would be not be an optimal or moral solution in any case. And about 'mercantilism' - the modern tools of taxation and subsidy are more efficient than 18th century strategems in any case.
Point Four: It is a perfectly reasonable goal of government to try to set a ratio of aggregated and un-aggregated wealth at some happy medium. In fact, what this ratio is, and what tools we use to achieve the ratio, are the reasons for a political process in the first place.
There is positive benefit to having some of the total wealth concentrated in large 'slices'. Unfortunately, wealth tends to aggregate on its own, and left to its own devices, will aggregate into larger and larger blocks, which will use the political process to protect and preserve that aggregation, to the detriment of everyone else (this is the pyramid Brin talks about).
So our government's wealth transfer policies (taxation and distribution) should be considered as tools that are used to counteract that natural tendency for aggregation in an unchecked environment. Total dispersal of wealth (an upside down pyramid?) would be just as bad as total aggregation. The government's role is to strike a 'happy medium', which will often seem quite unfair to those who have already aggregated large 'slices of the pie'.
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Not all boomers are yuppie scum, many are chain-smoking fat blue-collar schmucks living in double-wides in the Midwest, who never went to Woodstock and thought Vietnam was a just war. They are the ones who vote to take your rights away, not the ex-hippies, who just gave up and don't get involved anymore.
I read an article somewhere that stated that something like 15 MILLION people now say they were at Woodstock - many of them weren't even born at the time. Don't perpetuate the myth that everyone who graduated from high school in 1969 had a tie-dye shirt and long hair. Most were everyday stupid joes, making the same uninformed decisions then that they do now.
He's not an idiot, he just picked the wrong Sparc to start with. The Sparc 5s, especially the higher-Mhz ones, have a truly evil memory architecture, and many have a built-in video system that is not fully supported. I love the old pizza boxes and lunch boxes, but the 4s and 5s I avoid like the plague. (By the way, this message passed through two lunchbox Sparcs on its way to the world - an SS10 running Mandrake, and an LX with OBSD 2.8.
What this really shows is how dangerous it is to make sweeping generalizations from a sample of one.
Scene in a mid-size corporate IT department - door opens to the server room. On top of the Cisco router hardware and Sun Enterprise webserver sits the customers broadband CPE...
a steel gray Motorola StarTac.
With one of those awful Nokias with the 'leopard skin' snap-on case as a backup connection.
Cisco and Sun will need to sell 'coordinating' faceplates so their equipment stays fashionable.
Metroid Rocked!
I can blame that game for the intial onset of carpal tunnel. Nothing did more then (and now!) to destroy my potential productivity.
Does anybody remember that game with the two jeeps - "Jackal"? That was my other chief waste of time in the late 80's.
Some technical background about why "those companies that shoulda saw it coming" couldn't have done much, regardless:
The Northpoint network used Copper Mountain DSLAMs with a frame relay backend. Rythms is the only surviving DSL provider that uses a similar setup, so customers in a CO that have a NPT _and_ Rythms DSLAM would be able to keep their router and IP. Everyone else is screwed.
Everyone is screwed anyway, because the ILECS, smelling blood, have refused to 'hot swap' the existing DSL pairs over to a new DSL provider. Verizon is the worst - full re-provisioning of the pair required, 20-30 days of delay and obfuscation until a 'new' pair is forthcoming, if ever.
Some ISPs have gone to local PSCs (public service commissions) to get relief. I believe the Texas PSC has sided with the ISPs, and required SWBell to hot-swap the pairs to a new DSL provider.
"...it would be much easier for schools and libraries to filter explicit porn..."
.XXX domains like the plague; or
.xxx and .com / .net domains;
.com namespace is concerned.
Which is why, in the absence of legislative mandate, any profit-maximizing entity would either:
1) Avoid
2) Register both
Which puts you back at square one, as far as
A paper phone for this Iridium thing?
Why not just steal somebody's phone? We are talking about criminals, after all...
"AMD's latest 486-DX/4-100 ran at 3V and kept cool with a good heatsink. Avoid Pentiums and 5Volts-486s."
It sounds like this article was written in 1995...
The zilog chip that runs the serial ports is seriously throughput-challenged, the upper limit is around 33.6 reliably.
They do make nice little firewalls for a ether connection, though - but watch the heat!
Don't you usually go in to these settlement things with a lowball offer? How much is Napster _really_ prepared to pay?
Yes, it sounds like New Years Eve:
"Honey... (hic)... lets have secsh!"
...thump...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Don't forget the version with the wireless access point! The model number is SMC7004WBR.
When I sold audio in a mom-and-pop hi-fi place back in the early 80's (the good old days before Circus-Shitty came to town), we used the same saying:
"No highs, no lows, must be Bose."
The old timers then had been saying that since the 70's...
Pardon me for criticizing further, but your subject should be:
"Yay! Lack of quality in schools show*s* through!"
It's a classic mistake - subject-verb disagreement.
I did understand the 'computard' pun, though.
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Don't expect much from the graphics subsystems - most of the frame buffers that are supported are only 8 bit and unaccelerated. My LX would run Gnome and KDE, but it was excruciating. I am now running most of my Sparc gear (IPX, 2 Classics, an LX and a 2xSM51 Sparc 10) on OpenBSD. The IPX makes a great firewall with the addition of another NIC, and the 'lunchbox' Sparcs are nice and tidy. Watch the heat issues, especially with newer high RPM SCSI drives...
By the way, does anyone know if the PCMCIA - SBUS bridge (nell) is due for attention? What about pthreads and mysql on the old Sparcs?
Actually, one of the major selling points of the Beta format was the tape path: simpler, less twists and turns, which made it much more reliable - both the media and the player. Before "professional/consumer" became a real difference in Beta, you would see the format popping up in all sorts of repeat-play environments, instead of VHS. Airlines have been using Beta for many years.
It does circumvent the restrictions, doesn't it? Wasn't that the argument in the DeCSS case?
"I can do 5 at home by myself.."
You have five people using them concurrently, eight hours per day? That can make a difference... and can make for a crowd in your house!
The only thing I regret is after Gore finally is rightfully president, I'll have to listen to cretins like this going on about how all this is connected to Vince Foster and black helicopters.
This article is really aimed at the lowest common denominator. The metaphors are lame!
My favorite quote, what a mental image is creates:
"The immediate culprit was a busted cross-country Internet pipe which was spewing out bad data."
So they've got this side street in Ames, Iowa blocked off - big hole in the ground, data spewing everywhere, the data pumps can't handle the flow!
There's a bunch of DPW sewer guys standing around in hard hats drinking coffee... those sawhorses with the flashing lights... a backhoe... and all that bad data 'spewing' into the storm drains. Do you have to call the EPA on a bad data spill?
I suspect you are a troll, from your boorish personal attack, but in the real chance that you style yourself as some sort of hip neo-fascist thug intellectual, allow me to edify:
Wealth IS a zero-sum game: there is a finite amount of it, be it West Texas Intermediate Crude, Park Avenue Co-ops, your precious SUV and gun, bauxite ore, Big Macs, arable land, oxygen, or feeder cattle. Ask anyone in Eritrea if they think YOUR accumulation of wealth doesn't have a DIRECT negative effect on their well-being. I believe you have confused 'money' with true wealth; this is a common mistake. Perhaps you should have attended a good mid-level macroeconomics lecture instead of those physical education classes.
Point Two: Some wealth aggregating is a good thing, but as I stated before, when left unchecked, wealth will continue to aggregate in larger and larger slices, which becomes an increasingly bad thing to people with less or without, be they in Palo Alto, Baltimore, Bombay, Medford, Lubbock, or Addis Ababa. Claiming 'I am a selfish ass' as you enter the ballot box will NOT absolve you of responsibility, regardless of Pat Buchanan's protestations to the contrary.
Point Three: Total distribution of wealth is not obtainable, and would be not be an optimal or moral solution in any case. And about 'mercantilism' - the modern tools of taxation and subsidy are more efficient than 18th century strategems in any case.
Point Four: It is a perfectly reasonable goal of government to try to set a ratio of aggregated and un-aggregated wealth at some happy medium. In fact, what this ratio is, and what tools we use to achieve the ratio, are the reasons for a political process in the first place.
I am curious about your reference to 'left-leaning' economists.
Can you name names?
There is positive benefit to having some of the total wealth concentrated in large 'slices'. Unfortunately, wealth tends to aggregate on its own, and left to its own devices, will aggregate into larger and larger blocks, which will use the political process to protect and preserve that aggregation, to the detriment of everyone else (this is the pyramid Brin talks about).
So our government's wealth transfer policies (taxation and distribution) should be considered as tools that are used to counteract that natural tendency for aggregation in an unchecked environment. Total dispersal of wealth (an upside down pyramid?) would be just as bad as total aggregation. The government's role is to strike a 'happy medium', which will often seem quite unfair to those who have already aggregated large 'slices of the pie'.
That's a *bluetooth* bottle opener, buddy.