The FoF's excuse for excluding Apple is that there are costs associated with switching to Apple hardware. But so what? There are always costs switching to any new product. The relevant question is whether a consumer wishing to use a non-Microsoft product has that option. The answer is yes.
Actually, this is one of the barriers that defines a monoploy. If the cost for the consumer to make a change, or a competitor to viably enter the market, is consider to be so high as to make it fiscally imprudent then a monopoly may exist.
I would expect that this will have little effect on most end users. Except for one place, your local movie theater. I would expect these types of devices are what would be needed to deliver the kind of bandwidth needed to distribute completely digital movies, like the special showings of Phantom Menace this summer, to the thousands of theaters across the country.
The only real problem with this scheme is how do you feed a pipe like this.;)
Most of what I've heard, considering the appeals process, suggest that a final outcome will not be known until 2002. This isn't really much different then other anti-trust cases, and in many ways may be quicker.
These cases take years to build and try. Then it takes years for the appeals to run there course.
That all depends on what you mean by "Guinness". If you mean "Guinness Extra Stout", then yes it's not beer it's stout. However the Guinness company also produces other beverages that are beer.
Get everything notarized first, and then put a copy in a safe deposit box, file another copy with your lawyers, and then mail one to yourself. If it ever comes up what you want is evidence that you thought of the idea(s) first. If the product can be patented, start the patent process. If it can be copyrighted, go through the copyright process.
No, patients apply to both objects and processes. Software and algorithmic, i.e. LZW encryption, patients usually describe a process, and the equipment used, that is patiented.
They are also playing two shows in Chicago at the House of Blues. They are fund raisers for a local charity, but $300/ticket is bit too steep for me. Too bad I would have liked to see them again.
While we are on music it you get the chance to see Elvis Costello on his current tour, by all means GO! We went Friday night and he played for over 2.5 hours, almost 40 different songs.
Pure magnesium would suck as a case material, it is way too ductile(soft) and wouldn't hold it's shape. It does work great in various alloys however, and this is what is actually used. These alloys also make good heatsinks.
The base TCP/IP protocol can already be 'tapped' with a sniffer.
There is no point to adding monitoring 'features' at the protocol level. The end user controls the content, just as they do with a POT's line. On a POT's line I can talk plainly, in code, use a modem, tap morse code, etc. With TCP/IP I can send pain text, encryped text, sound, video, etc. Having a hole in the protocol will have little impact on how easy it is for law enforcement to _understand_ what is being transmitted.
Given that you need to design games for a broad market, not just bleeding edge systems, what do you find to be the most challenging limits to game design?
Sure but a second, or third or fourth, drive and clone them.
If your main drive dies you just swap the clone to be the master and you are up and running again with a complete image of what you had as of your last backup.
Yes this doubles your cost for two drives, plus the cloning software, but at current drive prices you can't really buy a tape drive of the same capacity for much less. And a cloned hard drive is a lot faster, both backing up and restoring.
If you need more mobile media so you can stor things off site or archivally, try some of the new 8mm or DLT systems that can put 20-40+GB, uncompressed, on a single tape. There are also new tape technologies that have even higher capacities. These devices aren't exactly cheap, but if this is what you need they do the job.
Think about it this way. PC's are now 25+ years old, are they no longer exciting? Things have changed dramatically since the mid 70's, but we still call them PC's, even though they have the power of a mid 70's super computer. It may still be called Linux in 20 years, but there will be new and exciting things revolving around it. New UI's, new processors and archetectures, news peripherals, etc.
When you get right down to it it is not the Linux kernel that is exciting, it is all the stuff that is being done with it that is exciting.
Actually you could just buy the snap on covers and repaint them in whatever way you want. This would avoid the problems of trying to repaint a laptop without messing it up and when you get bored with a paticular design you could make another.
This guys writeup of what he did is very good. It gives a very good description of how one goes about gaining information about a system and thus exploiting it.
Definitely required reading for sysadmins. Just so you know what people might be attempting so you can take steps to protect yourself.
THis has nothing to do with marca, think about this. Star Office available to AOL users running on Sun servers. Once you have the applications people want available you can move them to any OS you want, including an AOL/Sun one.
Forget messing with the hardware and try a remote control app such as VNC(Virtual Network Computing) or PCAnywhere. I have used VNC to keep tabs on/control a machine on the other side of the building with an old 25MHz 486 and it worked out great.
Bad idea! Don't make the judgement call yourself. Because if you do and there is any kind of dispute you will be held responsible. Either report nothing or EVERYTHING.
Reporting EVERYTHING actually serves a purpose. Overwhelm the suits with 10's of MB of data every day or week and let them sift through it. If they have to do the work of sorting through it they will soon loose interest.
No Compaq didn't write Alpha NT, but they did have 100+ people working on porting and supporting it to run on Alpha. Microsoft doesn't spend the time writing for anything other then Intel. This is why other processors, MIPS, etc., that were originally going to be supported by NT aren't now.
Another point of interest is that I heard that Compaq is really only dropping support for 32 bit NT on Alpha. They will support it again once the 64 bit version of w2K is released.
I don't think this is just a trend that will go away or come and go as some have suggested. I think that it is just what people are used to. They get comfortable with a small subset of sites that they visit. You can see that from posts where people spend most of their time reading slashdot and 2-3 other sites.
People tend to stick with what they know. In the 'real world' most people shop for mystery novels at Border's and Barnes & Noble, instead of going to the little Mystery Bookstore down the street. Most people watch the major networks more then the History channel. Most people go to the big multiplex theaters instead of the little art house that plays organ music between shows.
They go to places they know or have heard about a lot. Thus it is not surprising that most people, who are casual internet user, tend to spend most of their time at the big name, well known sites.
The reason that this trend is becoming more so is that there are many more casual users then a year ago, and there will be even more casual user next year. At some point it will level out, and it will change a little from year to year, but it will still remain generally true.
This does not however lessen the impact of all the other sites out there. They will still exist and many of them will gain large amounts of traffic, because even if only one person in a thousnd visits a given site that makes for a lot of people when there are hundreds of millions out there.
Most people follow the herd, some don't, and that will always be so.
With thier acqusition of DEC and Linux becoming a viable alternative, why pay Microsoft so you can ship NT. Especially when M$ does none of the work to get it to run on Alpha.
It looks to me like Compaq is looking to reduce system costs in the server area. Particularly in the lower end of the market an OS like NT makes up a significant portion of a systems total cost. Especially in the user license area.
Maybe M$ went and increased the licensing cost for W2K.
Then again it could just be they are cutting out an area of the business that just did make much money.
This does remove some of the potential Microsoft 'it's a feature effect' from the market. Intel always had the potential to sell their graphics chips at cost or at a loss, just to get market share. Now everyone is basically at the same level, meaning none of them can afford to sell at a loss. So hopefully the competition will be in the performance, feature, and support areas. Except at the very low end of the cost equation where Intel will still be a player.
>At least when you see a box and it says requires >Windows you know it'll work if you have Windows.
Actually if all it says is 'Windows' you can't be sure which version it will run under, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, NT3, NT3.5, NT4, 2000. Now usually it will run under the latest consumer, 9X, version of windows.
A lot of stuff will not run under NT/2000 that will run in 3.X and 9X. Particularly in the consumer market.
There is also stuff that will run only on NT/2000.
Thus you still need to list multiple versions of Windows if it runs on more then one version.
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Actually, this is one of the barriers that defines a monoploy. If the cost for the consumer to make a change, or a competitor to viably enter the market, is consider to be so high as to make it fiscally imprudent then a monopoly may exist.
I would expect that this will have little effect on most end users. Except for one place, your local movie theater. I would expect these types of devices are what would be needed to deliver the kind of bandwidth needed to distribute completely digital movies, like the special showings of Phantom Menace this summer, to the thousands of theaters across the country.
;)
The only real problem with this scheme is how do you feed a pipe like this.
Most of what I've heard, considering the appeals process, suggest that a final outcome will not be known until 2002. This isn't really much different then other anti-trust cases, and in many ways may be quicker.
These cases take years to build and try. Then it takes years for the appeals to run there course.
That all depends on what you mean by "Guinness". If you mean "Guinness Extra Stout", then yes it's not beer it's stout. However the Guinness company also produces other beverages that are beer.
If it is by donating to a tax deductable non-profit organization you get a tax break.
You could always use the name of people in the computer industry. Stallman, Torvalds, Jobs, Gates, etc. I kind of like Postel for the DNS box.
At home we currently have the following
Yoda - The old 486 laptop with the dead battery
Kiki - My girlfriends PC
MojoJojo - My PC
ProfessorX - The file and print server
Gnat - Firewall/NAT box running GantBox of course.
Blossum/Bubbles/Buttercup - The test box name dependant on OS currenting running.
Get everything notarized first, and then put a copy in a safe deposit box, file another copy with your lawyers, and then mail one to yourself. If it ever comes up what you want is evidence that you thought of the idea(s) first. If the product can be patented, start the patent process. If it can be copyrighted, go through the copyright process.
No, patients apply to both objects and processes. Software and algorithmic, i.e. LZW encryption, patients usually describe a process, and the equipment used, that is patiented.
They are also playing two shows in Chicago at the House of Blues. They are fund raisers for a local charity, but $300/ticket is bit too steep for me. Too bad I would have liked to see them again.
While we are on music it you get the chance to see Elvis Costello on his current tour, by all means GO! We went Friday night and he played for over 2.5 hours, almost 40 different songs.
Pure magnesium would suck as a case material, it is way too ductile(soft) and wouldn't hold it's shape. It does work great in various alloys however, and this is what is actually used. These alloys also make good heatsinks.
The base TCP/IP protocol can already be 'tapped' with a sniffer.
There is no point to adding monitoring 'features' at the protocol level. The end user controls the content, just as they do with a POT's line. On a POT's line I can talk plainly, in code, use a modem, tap morse code, etc. With TCP/IP I can send pain text, encryped text, sound, video, etc. Having a hole in the protocol will have little impact on how easy it is for law enforcement to _understand_ what is being transmitted.
Given that you need to design games for a broad market, not just bleeding edge systems, what do you find to be the most challenging limits to game design?
Sure but a second, or third or fourth, drive and clone them.
If your main drive dies you just swap the clone to be the master and you are up and running again with a complete image of what you had as of your last backup.
Yes this doubles your cost for two drives, plus the cloning software, but at current drive prices you can't really buy a tape drive of the same capacity for much less. And a cloned hard drive is a lot faster, both backing up and restoring.
If you need more mobile media so you can stor things off site or archivally, try some of the new 8mm or DLT systems that can put 20-40+GB, uncompressed, on a single tape. There are also new tape technologies that have even higher capacities. These devices aren't exactly cheap, but if this is what you need they do the job.
Here's a couple of other possibilities if this works out. ;) http://www.reston.com/nasa/humor/shuttle.ads.html http://www.reston.com/nasa/commercialization/iss.a ds.cooke.html
Think about it this way. PC's are now 25+ years old, are they no longer exciting? Things have changed dramatically since the mid 70's, but we still call them PC's, even though they have the power of a mid 70's super computer. It may still be called Linux in 20 years, but there will be new and exciting things revolving around it. New UI's, new processors and archetectures, news peripherals, etc.
When you get right down to it it is not the Linux kernel that is exciting, it is all the stuff that is being done with it that is exciting.
Actually you could just buy the snap on covers and repaint them in whatever way you want. This would avoid the problems of trying to repaint a laptop without messing it up and when you get bored with a paticular design you could make another.
This guys writeup of what he did is very good. It gives a very good description of how one goes about gaining information about a system and thus exploiting it.
Definitely required reading for sysadmins. Just so you know what people might be attempting so you can take steps to protect yourself.
THis has nothing to do with marca, think about this. Star Office available to AOL users running on Sun servers. Once you have the applications people want available you can move them to any OS you want, including an AOL/Sun one.
Forget messing with the hardware and try a remote control app such as VNC(Virtual Network Computing) or PCAnywhere. I have used VNC to keep tabs on/control a machine on the other side of the building with an old 25MHz 486 and it worked out great.
Bad idea! Don't make the judgement call yourself. Because if you do and there is any kind of dispute you will be held responsible. Either report nothing or EVERYTHING.
Reporting EVERYTHING actually serves a purpose. Overwhelm the suits with 10's of MB of data every day or week and let them sift through it. If they have to do the work of sorting through it they will soon loose interest.
No Compaq didn't write Alpha NT, but they did have 100+ people working on porting and supporting it to run on Alpha. Microsoft doesn't spend the time writing for anything other then Intel. This is why other processors, MIPS, etc., that were originally going to be supported by NT aren't now.
Another point of interest is that I heard that Compaq is really only dropping support for 32 bit NT on Alpha. They will support it again once the 64 bit version of w2K is released.
I don't think this is just a trend that will go away or come and go as some have suggested. I think that it is just what people are used to. They get comfortable with a small subset of sites that they visit. You can see that from posts where people spend most of their time reading slashdot and 2-3 other sites.
People tend to stick with what they know. In the 'real world' most people shop for mystery novels at Border's and Barnes & Noble, instead of going to the little Mystery Bookstore down the street. Most people watch the major networks more then the History channel. Most people go to the big multiplex theaters instead of the little art house that plays organ music between shows.
They go to places they know or have heard about a lot. Thus it is not surprising that most people, who are casual internet user, tend to spend most of their time at the big name, well known sites.
The reason that this trend is becoming more so is that there are many more casual users then a year ago, and there will be even more casual user next year. At some point it will level out, and it will change a little from year to year, but it will still remain generally true.
This does not however lessen the impact of all the other sites out there. They will still exist and many of them will gain large amounts of traffic, because even if only one person in a thousnd visits a given site that makes for a lot of people when there are hundreds of millions out there.
Most people follow the herd, some don't, and that will always be so.
With thier acqusition of DEC and Linux becoming a viable alternative, why pay Microsoft so you can ship NT. Especially when M$ does none of the work to get it to run on Alpha.
It looks to me like Compaq is looking to reduce system costs in the server area. Particularly in the lower end of the market an OS like NT makes up a significant portion of a systems total cost. Especially in the user license area.
Maybe M$ went and increased the licensing cost for W2K.
Then again it could just be they are cutting out an area of the business that just did make much money.
This does remove some of the potential Microsoft 'it's a feature effect' from the market. Intel always had the potential to sell their graphics chips at cost or at a loss, just to get market share. Now everyone is basically at the same level, meaning none of them can afford to sell at a loss. So hopefully the competition will be in the performance, feature, and support areas. Except at the very low end of the cost equation where Intel will still be a player.
>At least when you see a box and it says requires
>Windows you know it'll work if you have Windows.
Actually if all it says is 'Windows' you can't be sure which version it will run under, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, NT3, NT3.5, NT4, 2000. Now usually it will run under the latest consumer, 9X, version of windows.
A lot of stuff will not run under NT/2000 that will run in 3.X and 9X. Particularly in the consumer market.
There is also stuff that will run only on NT/2000.
Thus you still need to list multiple versions of Windows if it runs on more then one version.