Someone like Red Hat need to run an ad in the business section of each towns local news paper with a copy of the threating letter and let people know there is a better way...
They are fools if they don't use MS marketing when they can.
They should use Discovery to find out what forms of "Windows" MS knew about when they trademarked the name. The proper stunts in court and we can stop using that circle-r with Windows. They should also ask for other interesting documents.
They should under all cases object to closing up any documents on the case.
There are lots of IRCisms in the true names story.
One of my favorite parts of the story is when the cops say "An honest citizen is content with an ordinary data set..." to the guy because he has way more computing power than a normal citizen.
With the return of this book I soon expect to see IRC full of handles like DON.MAC, mailman, Mr Slipery, Erythrina.
Hey, I just sent an email message to this guyemail pointing out that Verisign is cybersquating and the Dept of Commerce has an obligation to do something about it or else they are breaking US law.
My proposal was that they should release names on a published schedule.
I've been looking for solutions somewhat related to this involving Telephone for the Deaf. It turns out that the TTY phones use some 50baud nonsens that modern modems can't understand but a voice modem should be able to send voice data to a PC which is more than fast enough to decode the data windmodem style in real time. Idealy the system should use a standard messageing client as a the gui. If any one is interested in this, let me know.
You have the same problem that Telstra has. They charge per megabyte but the high end cicsos don't count quite right (they tend to guess well enough to get a good 5 minute average). They have to run specail versions of IOS just to get their stupid accounting.
Same thing with their phone switches. Since they have to account for local calls, there is a limited number of phone swtiches they can use and that causes their expense to go up and as a result they just raised the rates again. I suspect it costs them more to account for the calls than it does to complete the voice connection. Sine I can get mobile calls to the US at AU$.17/min and local calls on the same carrier for AU$.36/min
The reason people in the US don't care about caching and per packet accounting is that it costs way more than its worth. In the US, I pay $2/gigabyte, in Australia, its AU$.17/megabyte. In the US $4000/mo will cover a T3 with as much data as can fit through it as well as voice to anywhere in the US and a reasonable amount of voice traffic anywhere in the world. I'm paying 1/4 of that in Australia for a few ISDN links and an unstable slow ADLS link and a 5 gigs of traffic a month.
If there is that much demand for pr0n, something is seriouly wrong with American geeks.
Any enviroment where there are slighly more women than men, the women tend to behave much differently than where the ratio is the other way around. This has huge advantages for geeks. Geeks should understand that women all have a self image problem and when the ratios favor the guys by even the slightest amount, there is huge force compleing women to compete for the limited supply of men. This is why every step in the sexual revolution has happened when the ratios of men to women were artificial changed (aka wars). As a geek you are not expected to understand the strangeness that goes on inside a womens head but thats ok, no one else does either.
There are much better girls walking around at most American universities than you will find in the airbrushed art of prOn.
When LED's where new (1970s), a company built a production car that had a roof console with lots of warning lights. There may have been over 50. Does anyone know who made it?
I've been looking into the product placement aspect of new music. It turns out that the record compaines only want a limited number of albums per month. This year, there will be about 70 new top 40 albums if it was like last year. The length of time that an album will stay in the top 100 is much shorter than it was a decade ago. If you look at billboard's top albums, you will find that only two of the top 40 have been there for more than a year. A decade ago that number was 31 out of the top 40. I think that the music businesses methods to control their investments in unsellable stock, they have reduced the numbers of new products and the result is that there isn't anything decent making to the top of the charts.
I'm guessing that Australia has about 6000 bands that have current tracks on CD's. Recently a radio station ran a contest where they got songs from 3000 bands from Melbourne (population 3.4m).
I've started looking into this when I found out about a survey that was being propsed by a record company. They wanted to know if unknown bands thought they had any chance of making it big. I got the impression that the record comapines don't want the good unknown bands to give up because its hopeless and that they may need to spread around a bit more money to keep up a supply of new bands.
Its obvious that the record industry is messing up their industry. I haven't bought a new main stram album in years. The albums I buy where recored years ago with the exception of local bands.
How many people has the Irradiation already killed? Keep in mind that the only way to get medical samples tested in some parts of the US is to send them to a lab by the Postal Service. How many people are dead already because the USPS radiated their blood samples and the medical tests came back as a false negitve?
My hs calc instructor would disagree with you. He was convinced that I couldn't add, subtract or divide. On one problem he noticed that I had something like 24/4=9 and at a later step fixed the problem. Thats when he figured out I didn't do decimal. He also taught the Fortran class and knew octal as well as I knew hex. After that he would only deduct a bit if I slipped into base 16. At the start of the next school year, he gave us a quiz to see how much trig we rememberd. There were questions involving taylor series and such and calculating things like. After a summer of building a fast floating point trig library for the 6809, I knew the stuff quite well but I did all the work in hex floating point and then converted to decimal. I got 99 points out of 100 since he deducted a point for doing it hex and not octal or deciaml. Its the higest any one had ever scroed on that test. Too bad the rest of my scores weren't as good.
My first semester Calc in college, the instructors rules were simple. If you write the software your self you can use it. I got an HP-28C and procedded to write the software. Since professor Freed was a good programmer, he insisted I explain how things worked. Then he changed the rules, you had to build the hardware too. Got as far as booting the 32016 cpu but never got the second board built that would fit in a handheld case.
Does anyone know of a supplier of side rules? I want one. You would think "think geek" would have one. click here to search their site for one. maybe they will get the hint.
Most Europeans have a passport that is acceptable as ID in other parts of Europe as a proof of ID but since Erurope generaly has different attitudes about drinking and drinking ages, it has less problems. Its also rare to allow 16 yr olds to drive in most of the world.
All states will issue a drivers license to non citizens. If you are a resident in the state, you must have a drivers license in that state if you want to drive. Most states' drivers licenses are no longer valid if you no longer live in that state as well.
If you come from a small town (less than 5000 people), there will be people in your town that know just about everybody. There are some people with an increadable ability to remember details about a huge number of other people. The same thing is true in most high schools. One girl in my school of 1000 could name about 99 out of a 100 people. She knew who hung out whith who and could tell you lots of details about them. She would be hard pressed to tell you what states where next to the one she lived in and had trouble in every class she took but she knew lots of people.
The difference between the computer databases and her info is she could tell you how to talk to if you wanted to track down someone. She wouldn't be accurate about address info or dob but she had all the other info down.
Years ago, people would put esacpe sequences in headers in usenet postings that would reprogram keys. A real VT100 will let you program a 4 byte sequence for the "Enter" key but most emulators would let you put in many more characters.
qqqq\nrm -rf/\n would be a bad thing to have your enter key send out.
Flash is great for vector images because they can scale to the window size, they work over a much wider range of color depths, are smaller than bit maps, they print out at printer resolutions.
Current won't matter unless there is enough potental energy (aka voltage) for the current to flow. For thouse that are too caught up in forumlas they don't understand, think about a water system. Voltage is the height of the water tower and directly related to the water pressure. The resistance is related to the size of the pipe.
My 96V battery pack should be good for about 800 amps till something blows.
The thing will run an entire rack of gear for about 6 to 12 hrs and a reduced load for maybe a day but will take nearly 4 days to completely recharge.
High qulaity means motor generator pairs and more than $10k. The solid state ones can only produce square waves its just a mater of how many steps per cycle. The "true sine wave" UPSs will generate lots of square waves of different voltages and the sum will track a sine wave but if you have a good scope, you will still see the steps.
What the UPS does it takes 12 or 24 or some other voltage (96 in the case of the one I just installed) and convert it to 110v (or 220 or 240) at 60hz (or 50). It does this by makeing lots of steped squarewaves and if you look at them with a scope, they look like little steps.
Your PC power supply then takes that AC and when it gets above 90 V, its starts charging a cap. when the voltage gets too high (like above 100 or so), it stops charging the cap. That energy stored in that cap is then switched at a very high rate through a transformer to charge up another cap to 5V and a different one to 12V and one for -12v etc. which goes off to your cpu and memory and hard drive.
The problem with running just 12 volts is you need to swtich it anyway down to 5 and if you put 12v on one end of a wire, it will be less on the other end. Pulling out the Disney book of electronics... Assume you get have a wire from lusers electrical supply and you put 12 v on one end and measure it at the other. Since its very bad wire, you get 11.5V. Now if you put 1000V on that wire (assume it has good insulation!), you will find the other end is 999.5V. So basicly your wires are going to have a fixed drop based on their length (the current remains the same). This is why the power compaines run 7500V on the power poles and switch it down close to your house.
Back towards the correct tangent...
If you have a large battery pack...
I've got 16 deep cycle batteries (think big car batteries) in two banks of 8. I get 96 Volts accross them in series. Now my over priced inverter takes that and chops it into nice square waves which get run into a toridal transfomer. somevoltage comes out the other side and its switched to chage up different caps at different voltages. Those caps are then switched so the voltage sort of looks like a sine wave. If I put an inductor on the line, it will look more like a sine wave but I'm not sure how the iverter will like it. If you plug in a cheap audio amp, you will hear the noise. The PC's don't care.
With the hassles I've had with UPSs over the years, I was tempted to just run the 96 volts off the battery to the PC's. The next time the UPS dies, this may happen. They don't care since they swtich on at about 90 volts, they will like the battery voltage.
When playing at home, just keep in mind that more than 48v dc can kill you and if it grabs you, you won't be able to let go.
And a final drift in the history direction...
Edison's electrical system was all DC at low voltage. He tried to show A/C (the Westinghouse & Telsa way) was dangerous because of its higer voltage and even killed an elephant which I'm sure you can find on the web somewhere.
I suspect that Google will delete it from the Index and keep the data about. I suspect the people who run Google have to be data packrats so the stuff may come back. When I get the option to go through my tapes again (which are on a different continent than my tape drive) I'll pull out my notes archive (remember the news vs notes wars? I guess not...). If I find any posts in it that aren't in google, I'll send them the tapes since some of them were in that transitional time after Henery Spenser stoped his archives.
I'm not too worried about my past Usenet history but he 1st (of 2,640) thing that show up under my name is a bit of a flamewar I started with the UVV in the early days of web based news readers. I set up a web page where people could vote from on usenet groups. This upset a large number of people:-)
As far as your flat earth comment, we still navigate as if the world was flat and it works fine (except very close to Mc Murdo base).
I would like some sort of reinstatment policy about removed material. So it will come back in 10 or 20 years.
None of the groups I read are flooded with spam or noise. My server deals with about 450 groups and with the exception of some regional persoanls, there is almost no spam in any of them.
If your purchase mattered in the grand scheme of PC compaines you would be talking about how how slow your 2Ghz P4 was. Thats my point... the only ones buying new top of line hardware just for speed are the hard core gamers. Even the people runing render farms tend to buy a few boxes they can run in parallel before they will buy the fastest cpus they can get.
Is this loss like the losses that the MPAA and RIAA can show for the production of their artists' work?
I heard Alan Alda talk about how they went to great lenghts to fix up the funny accounting when they made M*A*S*H so the actors could get roylaties. Most shows from that time still have not made a profit and therefor pay no royalties.
I suspect the current cost of the XBox slightly less than US$300. The losses are an accounting trick. For example what budget did the design come out of? How about the SDK? How about every thing else that is part of the "system". I expect MS is letting the world know its taking a loss on each system so it can prop up the price of the games and come down hard when someone figure out how to build a PC that will run them. Its legal tactic to help them win in court.
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Someone like Red Hat need to run an ad in the business section of each towns local news paper with a copy of the threating letter and let people know there is a better way...
They are fools if they don't use MS marketing when they can.
you could also spoena anything that mentions linux (or samba). that could be quite a bit of source code and marketing stuff.
They should use Discovery to find out what forms of "Windows" MS knew about when they trademarked the name. The proper stunts in court and we can stop using that circle-r with Windows. They should also ask for other interesting documents.
They should under all cases object to closing up any documents on the case.
There are lots of IRCisms in the true names story.
One of my favorite parts of the story is when the cops say "An honest citizen is content with an ordinary data set..." to the guy because he has way more computing power than a normal citizen.
With the return of this book I soon expect to see IRC full of handles like DON.MAC, mailman, Mr Slipery, Erythrina.
Hey, I just sent an email message to this guy email pointing out that Verisign is cybersquating and the Dept of Commerce has an obligation to do something about it or else they are breaking US law.
My proposal was that they should release names on a published schedule.
I've been looking for solutions somewhat related to this involving Telephone for the Deaf. It turns out that the TTY phones use some 50baud nonsens that modern modems can't understand but a voice modem should be able to send voice data to a PC which is more than fast enough to decode the data windmodem style in real time. Idealy the system should use a standard messageing client as a the gui. If any one is interested in this, let me know.
You have the same problem that Telstra has. They charge per megabyte but the high end cicsos don't count quite right (they tend to guess well enough to get a good 5 minute average). They have to run specail versions of IOS just to get their stupid accounting.
Same thing with their phone switches. Since they have to account for local calls, there is a limited number of phone swtiches they can use and that causes their expense to go up and as a result they just raised the rates again. I suspect it costs them more to account for the calls than it does to complete the voice connection. Sine I can get mobile calls to the US at AU$.17/min and local calls on the same carrier for AU$.36/min
The reason people in the US don't care about caching and per packet accounting is that it costs way more than its worth. In the US, I pay $2/gigabyte, in Australia, its AU$.17/megabyte. In the US $4000/mo will cover a T3 with as much data as can fit through it as well as voice to anywhere in the US and a reasonable amount of voice traffic anywhere in the world. I'm paying 1/4 of that in Australia for a few ISDN links and an unstable slow ADLS link and a 5 gigs of traffic a month.
If there is that much demand for pr0n, something is seriouly wrong with American geeks.
Any enviroment where there are slighly more women than men, the women tend to behave much differently than where the ratio is the other way around. This has huge advantages for geeks. Geeks should understand that women all have a self image problem and when the ratios favor the guys by even the slightest amount, there is huge force compleing women to compete for the limited supply of men. This is why every step in the sexual revolution has happened when the ratios of men to women were artificial changed (aka wars). As a geek you are not expected to understand the strangeness that goes on inside a womens head but thats ok, no one else does either.
There are much better girls walking around at most American universities than you will find in the airbrushed art of prOn.
"You just ask them?" --Richard Feynman about sex
When LED's where new (1970s), a company built a production car that had a roof console with lots of warning lights. There may have been over 50. Does anyone know who made it?
I've been looking into the product placement aspect of new music. It turns out that the record compaines only want a limited number of albums per month. This year, there will be about 70 new top 40 albums if it was like last year. The length of time that an album will stay in the top 100 is much shorter than it was a decade ago. If you look at billboard's top albums, you will find that only two of the top 40 have been there for more than a year. A decade ago that number was 31 out of the top 40. I think that the music businesses methods to control their investments in unsellable stock, they have reduced the numbers of new products and the result is that there isn't anything decent making to the top of the charts.
I'm guessing that Australia has about 6000 bands that have current tracks on CD's. Recently a radio station ran a contest where they got songs from 3000 bands from Melbourne (population 3.4m).
I've started looking into this when I found out about a survey that was being propsed by a record company. They wanted to know if unknown bands thought they had any chance of making it big. I got the impression that the record comapines don't want the good unknown bands to give up because its hopeless and that they may need to spread around a bit more money to keep up a supply of new bands.
Its obvious that the record industry is messing up their industry. I haven't bought a new main stram album in years. The albums I buy where recored years ago with the exception of local bands.
How many people has the Irradiation already killed? Keep in mind that the only way to get medical samples tested in some parts of the US is to send them to a lab by the Postal Service. How many people are dead already because the USPS radiated their blood samples and the medical tests came back as a false negitve?
My hs calc instructor would disagree with you. He was convinced that I couldn't add, subtract or divide. On one problem he noticed that I had something like 24/4=9 and at a later step fixed the problem. Thats when he figured out I didn't do decimal. He also taught the Fortran class and knew octal as well as I knew hex. After that he would only deduct a bit if I slipped into base 16. At the start of the next school year, he gave us a quiz to see how much trig we rememberd. There were questions involving taylor series and such and calculating things like. After a summer of building a fast floating point trig library for the 6809, I knew the stuff quite well but I did all the work in hex floating point and then converted to decimal. I got 99 points out of 100 since he deducted a point for doing it hex and not octal or deciaml. Its the higest any one had ever scroed on that test. Too bad the rest of my scores weren't as good.
My first semester Calc in college, the instructors rules were simple. If you write the software your self you can use it. I got an HP-28C and procedded to write the software. Since professor Freed was a good programmer, he insisted I explain how things worked. Then he changed the rules, you had to build the hardware too. Got as far as booting the 32016 cpu but never got the second board built that would fit in a handheld case.
Does anyone know of a supplier of side rules? I want one. You would think "think geek" would have one. click here to search their site for one. maybe they will get the hint.
Most Europeans have a passport that is acceptable as ID in other parts of Europe as a proof of ID but since Erurope generaly has different attitudes about drinking and drinking ages, it has less problems. Its also rare to allow 16 yr olds to drive in most of the world.
All states will issue a drivers license to non citizens. If you are a resident in the state, you must have a drivers license in that state if you want to drive. Most states' drivers licenses are no longer valid if you no longer live in that state as well.
You don't have any privacy anyway.
If you come from a small town (less than 5000 people), there will be people in your town that know just about everybody. There are some people with an increadable ability to remember details about a huge number of other people. The same thing is true in most high schools. One girl in my school of 1000 could name about 99 out of a 100 people. She knew who hung out whith who and could tell you lots of details about them. She would be hard pressed to tell you what states where next to the one she lived in and had trouble in every class she took but she knew lots of people.
The difference between the computer databases and her info is she could tell you how to talk to if you wanted to track down someone. She wouldn't be accurate about address info or dob but she had all the other info down.
Years ago, people would put esacpe sequences in headers in usenet postings that would reprogram keys. A real VT100 will let you program a 4 byte sequence for the "Enter" key but most emulators would let you put in many more characters. /\n would be a bad thing to have your enter key send out.
qqqq\nrm -rf
Flash is great for vector images because they can scale to the window size, they work over a much wider range of color depths, are smaller than bit maps, they print out at printer resolutions.
Of course I have never seen them used that way.
Current won't matter unless there is enough potental energy (aka voltage) for the current to flow. For thouse that are too caught up in forumlas they don't understand, think about a water system. Voltage is the height of the water tower and directly related to the water pressure. The resistance is related to the size of the pipe.
My 96V battery pack should be good for about 800 amps till something blows.
The thing will run an entire rack of gear for about 6 to 12 hrs and a reduced load for maybe a day but will take nearly 4 days to completely recharge.
High qulaity means motor generator pairs and more than $10k. The solid state ones can only produce square waves its just a mater of how many steps per cycle. The "true sine wave" UPSs will generate lots of square waves of different voltages and the sum will track a sine wave but if you have a good scope, you will still see the steps.
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin. --Alan J. Perlis
I don't think we are anywhere close to one of thouse 5 year periods.
What the UPS does it takes 12 or 24 or some other voltage (96 in the case of the one I just installed) and convert it to 110v (or 220 or 240) at 60hz (or 50). It does this by makeing lots of steped squarewaves and if you look at them with a scope, they look like little steps.
Your PC power supply then takes that AC and when it gets above 90 V, its starts charging a cap. when the voltage gets too high (like above 100 or so), it stops charging the cap. That energy stored in that cap is then switched at a very high rate through a transformer to charge up another cap to 5V and a different one to 12V and one for -12v etc. which goes off to your cpu and memory and hard drive.
The problem with running just 12 volts is you need to swtich it anyway down to 5 and if you put 12v on one end of a wire, it will be less on the other end. Pulling out the Disney book of electronics... Assume you get have a wire from lusers electrical supply and you put 12 v on one end and measure it at the other. Since its very bad wire, you get 11.5V. Now if you put 1000V on that wire (assume it has good insulation!), you will find the other end is 999.5V. So basicly your wires are going to have a fixed drop based on their length (the current remains the same). This is why the power compaines run 7500V on the power poles and switch it down close to your house.
Back towards the correct tangent...
If you have a large battery pack...
I've got 16 deep cycle batteries (think big car batteries) in two banks of 8. I get 96 Volts accross them in series. Now my over priced inverter takes that and chops it into nice square waves which get run into a toridal transfomer. somevoltage comes out the other side and its switched to chage up different caps at different voltages. Those caps are then switched so the voltage sort of looks like a sine wave. If I put an inductor on the line, it will look more like a sine wave but I'm not sure how the iverter will like it. If you plug in a cheap audio amp, you will hear the noise. The PC's don't care.
With the hassles I've had with UPSs over the years, I was tempted to just run the 96 volts off the battery to the PC's. The next time the UPS dies, this may happen. They don't care since they swtich on at about 90 volts, they will like the battery voltage.
When playing at home, just keep in mind that more than 48v dc can kill you and if it grabs you, you won't be able to let go.
And a final drift in the history direction...
Edison's electrical system was all DC at low voltage. He tried to show A/C (the Westinghouse & Telsa way) was dangerous because of its higer voltage and even killed an elephant which I'm sure you can find on the web somewhere.
I suspect that Google will delete it from the Index and keep the data about. I suspect the people who run Google have to be data packrats so the stuff may come back. When I get the option to go through my tapes again (which are on a different continent than my tape drive) I'll pull out my notes archive (remember the news vs notes wars? I guess not...). If I find any posts in it that aren't in google, I'll send them the tapes since some of them were in that transitional time after Henery Spenser stoped his archives.
:-)
I'm not too worried about my past Usenet history but he 1st (of 2,640) thing that show up under my name is a bit of a flamewar I started with the UVV in the early days of web based news readers. I set up a web page where people could vote from on usenet groups. This upset a large number of people
As far as your flat earth comment, we still navigate as if the world was flat and it works fine (except very close to Mc Murdo base).
I would like some sort of reinstatment policy about removed material. So it will come back in 10 or 20 years.
None of the groups I read are flooded with spam or noise. My server deals with about 450 groups and with the exception of some regional persoanls, there is almost no spam in any of them.
If your purchase mattered in the grand scheme of PC compaines you would be talking about how how slow your 2Ghz P4 was. Thats my point... the only ones buying new top of line hardware just for speed are the hard core gamers. Even the people runing render farms tend to buy a few boxes they can run in parallel before they will buy the fastest cpus they can get.
Is this loss like the losses that the MPAA and RIAA can show for the production of their artists' work?
I heard Alan Alda talk about how they went to great lenghts to fix up the funny accounting when they made M*A*S*H so the actors could get roylaties. Most shows from that time still have not made a profit and therefor pay no royalties.
I suspect the current cost of the XBox slightly less than US$300. The losses are an accounting trick. For example what budget did the design come out of? How about the SDK? How about every thing else that is part of the "system". I expect MS is letting the world know its taking a loss on each system so it can prop up the price of the games and come down hard when someone figure out how to build a PC that will run them. Its legal tactic to help them win in court.