Excellent point that copying the disc encrypted isn't a problem. Its like a cabinet we all have a key to. Any DVD player can just unlock it. Which raises the question is it possible to ever secure mass media from reproduction? Any schemes or ideas I've heard of ruin the ability to play the media in computers. Like the audio CD's that started popping up last summer. Look at the standards battle that unleashed with phillips saying they couldn't use the compact disc logo on those...
The only goldfish I'd ever eat are the little cheesy crackers made by Pepperidge Farm... Otherwise its like eating Carp, nasty bottom muck feeding fish. I'd say stick to freezing your meat if your planning to go on a long trip into space... I see less of a sanitation risk to that than dealing with fluid to grow meat in.
No kidding?! I either never noticed or they need to buy new machines down at the corner bar... I always get screwed on the desert courses and hit a cactus multiple times...
When I asked how much it was... and where BeOS was still available... Dan Johnston replied:
$300,000, and Gobe Software www.gobe.com
Thanks for your well wishes.
regards,
Dan S. Johnston President Be Incorporated P.O. Box 391420 Mountain View, California 94041 Phone: (650) 965-4842 Fax: (650) 292-2193 E-mail: danj@beincorporated.com
British American Link during World War II
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We had a link with the British in the War that would use a disk of noise to overlay a signal on top of communications that would be un scrambled on the other side by the same wheel running on at the same time. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The main control for it is a trackball that you really have to crank to get power into your golf swing. its a bit larger than a baseball... It controls slice and everything on the back swing. Addictive bar game. I mention it since the bowling video game was mentioned.
4 Months and mine failed... 3 months to replace!
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Bought a 75GB 75GXP in August of 2000 and it was dead by December. What really horified me was it took 3 months for IBM to acknowledge the drive I bought from IBM.com was an IBM Product... I entered the P/N and S/N on their automated RMA form... No such listing... called tech support... We have no record of drives being produced with those numbers on it... It took three months for them to figure out the drive was made in Hungary a year before. I have since switched to Western Digital for desktop drives and Fujitsu for Servers. I was very disappointed in IBM and will NEVER buy another IBM storage product.
Which used to be the Empeg... what I really want though is a DVD/CD changer that can play MP3 DVDs, DVDA and regular CD's... Why hasn't anyone major come out with an elegantly designed changer that plays MP3s? Also... with most head units in cars being sculpted into some ornate ergonomic expression I can rarely find cool cars that accept "standard" head units. At least not without chopping up the look of the dash.
Conduct like this is truly writing a virus in a pretty package. There needs to not only be monetary consequence but jail time if it can be proven they new this program would damage TCP/IP. Let's get serious about our right to privacy and start making these people pay for criminal acts. Whether it is invasion of privacy or funds lost from system damage. Symantec and McAfee need to start treating them like viruses too... when there are cases that the vendors have not explained their program sufficiently. What are some opinions... I'm a more than a bit biased and I'd like some ideas, not flaming or non-constructive criticism.
Corporations the size of Boeing and MS don't really pay enough taxes to make or break a budget when compared to the thousands of people they employ. They need to consider changing their tax policy in Washington in relation to private citizens. The government officials may have to take a bullet and do something unpopular to balance things out. Until then I'm just saying that no new software business will ever move into that community and some developing businesses may leave. That's a side effect of being a hot spot for a certain industry... You have to cater to them or they will leave and take your job with them. Then who are you going to count on to pay taxes? The thousands of people now without jobs?
Tennessee is 350 million short this year on its budget. They're not about to tax industry to keep up the pace. They're targeting consumers and raising the sales tax if a new bill passes. No one is going to pick up and move over it... Its too hard for a family to move considering no one is going to give them millions in incentives and tax breaks to move to Chicago and do their jobs.
I'm not free-loading, I take great pride and responsibility in where I live. That is why I'm trying to encourage development which ultimately with smarter taxing and smarter spending will lead to prosperity.
That's a great move for Seattle! That will curb and eventually inspire negative growth in a huge sector of your local economy. A classic case of biting the hand that feeds you. OK, so that was sarcastic... but maybe that means that tech jobs will get spread around a little. Software development is one industry where the only resource you truly need is smart people. Unlike the chemical industry where you need things like cheap water and power, or auto industry with good transportation infrastructure. A good software company can equally exist in towns like Chattanooga, TN as it can in Seattle. Tax the software developers... they may not move right away due to large capital investments. However, they won't ever build a new investment in that community.
No kidding... I remember the original Profile
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My RA had one my freshman year, so I think it could be said Apple is taking cues from PC design. The iMac of course looks better, but that's very low on the reasons to buy a computer. To each his own... but Gateway stole nothing from Apple on this one.
Amazon's current price for StarOffice 5.2 Deluxe is ~$37 and for what I get out of StarOffice that I downloaded from Sun $37 is worth it... (6.0 Beta and 5.2 on my laptop) I'd even say $50 is fine... But if they intend to make this a $199 package... they're not going to get a second look from anyone in the Windows world... To pay 1/2 the price and get even 90% of the features and compatibility isn't going to sway the typical decision makers... To pay a tenth... Now we're talking! Best of luck to Sun, and I hope a lot of this money can go to helping OpenOffice... Which I'll probably have on the laptop while my business runs with Sun for documentation and tech support reasons.
If I wanted a two wheeled beautifully designed vehicle I would have already bought a V-Rod at this auctions prices... Or I would have bought two of these Monsters first... I love my Monster... They have more sex appeal than any gyro oriented battery operated piece of tech, and are 100x more fun! If you're looking for transportation on this scale... I would walk.
I wonder what I can get for an old IBM punch card machine that I remember from when I was a kid... BTW I'm 21 and this IBM was still being used from the days it was made in the second world war... You wonder if anything will ever have a useful lifespan like that again.
I recall (or hallucinated) they had a contest to crack it... can't remember how long it took... Wonder if the programmer(s) actually got anything for it.
That's really cool! I didn't think about that aspect of targeting audiences... They figure that fake mexican food won't go over well in England? What fast food chains did they try to infect the culture with? Are there any England/Europe only fast food empires?
I've noticed on two XBox games, Project Gotham Racing and NFL Fever 2002 have fairly visible Taco Bell "ads". NFL Fever having the end of game Taco Bell highlight reel, and PGR having a few signs in NYC that say Taco Bell. I don't have any problem with it. Its a detail that if completely absent would draw some attention too... I mean think of the BCS for college football. I remember when each bowl didn't have a sponsor like the Tostito's Fiesta Bowl... Fed Ex... etc. Sponsorship is a part of our everyday lives... Does it mean I've gone to Taco Bell since their XBox media blitz started... Nope. Although a soft taco supreme sounds kinda good right now...
"Young lady in this household we obey the second law of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpson
But seriously... you shave a little here, you get a little back... $$$ is the issue, and this sounds expensive. Plus its probably better for large scale applications, like collecting waste heat that is done in power plants... I asked a prof if it would make sense to do so on a smaller engine... and the benefits are tiny when you've really just got another link to fail and throw your whole idea of power production off on the smaller engine.
I asked: "I have a broadband router / basic firewall connected before my computer do you permit this? Or, do you not want one set up since multiple users can connect through one?"
and I quote: "We don't care, run the firewall, hook up a few computers, we don't really like servers on the network. Just be aware that when you call tech support we're going to ask you to remove the router so that we can test the connection."
If you're really concerned about it... don't run they're browser software... Don't go look at their homepages... I don't think I looked at Excite.com the entire 8 months I was a subscriber before they went down. Just pay your bill in the mail and enjoy the bandwidth when all the easily scared jump ship. If they do knock at your door, phone, e-mail... drop them... there's no contract involved and there are other ISP's out there. Hooray for capitalism!
On a totally unrelated note, I took differential equations from Akram Aldroubi. On the first day of class when we all sat down he said, "Welcome to French 101." Scared the hell out of a class full of engineers that haven't seen anything to do with humanities/arts courses in a while. If you ever have to take math at VU this guy is really good at explaining it.
Tour busses like used in the music industry shuttling your favorite bands from city to city already have in place most of the electrical requirements needed for this project. Since just about every one has a few TVs, stereos, ridiculous lighting... Satellite TV... assorted gadgets. The industry is also used to coming up with strange configurations for these... A semi trailer would have to be built from the ground up. I think that would be rather cost prohibitive. You can't just use any run of the mill old freight rig... The busses could be used or new... I would recommend actually rackmounting the computers down in the cargo holds and having an industrial cooling solution... It would cut down on the noise inside the bus. Also the cargo area is great for holding extra networking gear, course literature... If someone seriously wants to build one... get in touch with me: JC
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Excellent point that copying the disc encrypted isn't a problem. Its like a cabinet we all have a key to. Any DVD player can just unlock it. Which raises the question is it possible to ever secure mass media from reproduction? Any schemes or ideas I've heard of ruin the ability to play the media in computers. Like the audio CD's that started popping up last summer. Look at the standards battle that unleashed with phillips saying they couldn't use the compact disc logo on those...
The only goldfish I'd ever eat are the little cheesy crackers made by Pepperidge Farm... Otherwise its like eating Carp, nasty bottom muck feeding fish. I'd say stick to freezing your meat if your planning to go on a long trip into space... I see less of a sanitation risk to that than dealing with fluid to grow meat in.
No kidding?! I either never noticed or they need to buy new machines down at the corner bar... I always get screwed on the desert courses and hit a cactus multiple times...
When I asked how much it was... and where BeOS was still available... Dan Johnston replied:
$300,000, and Gobe Software www.gobe.com
Thanks for your well wishes.
regards,
Dan S. Johnston
President
Be Incorporated
P.O. Box 391420
Mountain View, California 94041
Phone: (650) 965-4842
Fax: (650) 292-2193
E-mail: danj@beincorporated.com
We had a link with the British in the War that would use a disk of noise to overlay a signal on top of communications that would be un scrambled on the other side by the same wheel running on at the same time. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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The main control for it is a trackball that you really have to crank to get power into your golf swing. its a bit larger than a baseball... It controls slice and everything on the back swing. Addictive bar game. I mention it since the bowling video game was mentioned.
Bought a 75GB 75GXP in August of 2000 and it was dead by December. What really horified me was it took 3 months for IBM to acknowledge the drive I bought from IBM.com was an IBM Product... I entered the P/N and S/N on their automated RMA form... No such listing... called tech support... We have no record of drives being produced with those numbers on it... It took three months for them to figure out the drive was made in Hungary a year before. I have since switched to Western Digital for desktop drives and Fujitsu for Servers. I was very disappointed in IBM and will NEVER buy another IBM storage product.
Which used to be the Empeg... what I really want though is a DVD/CD changer that can play MP3 DVDs, DVDA and regular CD's... Why hasn't anyone major come out with an elegantly designed changer that plays MP3s? Also... with most head units in cars being sculpted into some ornate ergonomic expression I can rarely find cool cars that accept "standard" head units. At least not without chopping up the look of the dash.
Conduct like this is truly writing a virus in a pretty package. There needs to not only be monetary consequence but jail time if it can be proven they new this program would damage TCP/IP. Let's get serious about our right to privacy and start making these people pay for criminal acts. Whether it is invasion of privacy or funds lost from system damage. Symantec and McAfee need to start treating them like viruses too... when there are cases that the vendors have not explained their program sufficiently. What are some opinions... I'm a more than a bit biased and I'd like some ideas, not flaming or non-constructive criticism.
Corporations the size of Boeing and MS don't really pay enough taxes to make or break a budget when compared to the thousands of people they employ. They need to consider changing their tax policy in Washington in relation to private citizens. The government officials may have to take a bullet and do something unpopular to balance things out. Until then I'm just saying that no new software business will ever move into that community and some developing businesses may leave. That's a side effect of being a hot spot for a certain industry... You have to cater to them or they will leave and take your job with them. Then who are you going to count on to pay taxes? The thousands of people now without jobs?
Tennessee is 350 million short this year on its budget. They're not about to tax industry to keep up the pace. They're targeting consumers and raising the sales tax if a new bill passes. No one is going to pick up and move over it... Its too hard for a family to move considering no one is going to give them millions in incentives and tax breaks to move to Chicago and do their jobs.
I'm not free-loading, I take great pride and responsibility in where I live. That is why I'm trying to encourage development which ultimately with smarter taxing and smarter spending will lead to prosperity.
That's a great move for Seattle! That will curb and eventually inspire negative growth in a huge sector of your local economy. A classic case of biting the hand that feeds you. OK, so that was sarcastic... but maybe that means that tech jobs will get spread around a little. Software development is one industry where the only resource you truly need is smart people. Unlike the chemical industry where you need things like cheap water and power, or auto industry with good transportation infrastructure. A good software company can equally exist in towns like Chattanooga, TN as it can in Seattle. Tax the software developers... they may not move right away due to large capital investments. However, they won't ever build a new investment in that community.
My RA had one my freshman year, so I think it could be said Apple is taking cues from PC design. The iMac of course looks better, but that's very low on the reasons to buy a computer. To each his own... but Gateway stole nothing from Apple on this one.
LOL... I'll have to ask him about that one...
Actually I went to high school with him... his real name is Ben Curtis.
Amazon's current price for StarOffice 5.2 Deluxe is ~$37 and for what I get out of StarOffice that I downloaded from Sun $37 is worth it... (6.0 Beta and 5.2 on my laptop) I'd even say $50 is fine... But if they intend to make this a $199 package... they're not going to get a second look from anyone in the Windows world... To pay 1/2 the price and get even 90% of the features and compatibility isn't going to sway the typical decision makers... To pay a tenth... Now we're talking! Best of luck to Sun, and I hope a lot of this money can go to helping OpenOffice... Which I'll probably have on the laptop while my business runs with Sun for documentation and tech support reasons.
If I wanted a two wheeled beautifully designed vehicle I would have already bought a V-Rod at this auctions prices... Or I would have bought two of these Monsters first... I love my Monster... They have more sex appeal than any gyro oriented battery operated piece of tech, and are 100x more fun! If you're looking for transportation on this scale... I would walk.
I wonder what I can get for an old IBM punch card machine that I remember from when I was a kid... BTW I'm 21 and this IBM was still being used from the days it was made in the second world war... You wonder if anything will ever have a useful lifespan like that again.
I recall (or hallucinated) they had a contest to crack it... can't remember how long it took... Wonder if the programmer(s) actually got anything for it.
That's really cool! I didn't think about that aspect of targeting audiences... They figure that fake mexican food won't go over well in England? What fast food chains did they try to infect the culture with? Are there any England/Europe only fast food empires?
I've noticed on two XBox games, Project Gotham Racing and NFL Fever 2002 have fairly visible Taco Bell "ads". NFL Fever having the end of game Taco Bell highlight reel, and PGR having a few signs in NYC that say Taco Bell. I don't have any problem with it. Its a detail that if completely absent would draw some attention too... I mean think of the BCS for college football. I remember when each bowl didn't have a sponsor like the Tostito's Fiesta Bowl... Fed Ex... etc. Sponsorship is a part of our everyday lives... Does it mean I've gone to Taco Bell since their XBox media blitz started... Nope. Although a soft taco supreme sounds kinda good right now...
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"Young lady in this household we obey the second law of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpson
But seriously... you shave a little here, you get a little back... $$$ is the issue, and this sounds expensive. Plus its probably better for large scale applications, like collecting waste heat that is done in power plants... I asked a prof if it would make sense to do so on a smaller engine... and the benefits are tiny when you've really just got another link to fail and throw your whole idea of power production off on the smaller engine.
They only need to come up with a bulletproof enough CSS2+supermegaextra copy prevention system first.
And then have it broken in 3 days by a kid half my age from a country with no electricity.
I asked: "I have a broadband router / basic firewall connected before my computer do you permit this? Or, do you not want one set up since multiple users can connect through one?"
and I quote: "We don't care, run the firewall, hook up a few computers, we don't really like servers on the network. Just be aware that when you call tech support we're going to ask you to remove the router so that we can test the connection."
If you're really concerned about it... don't run they're browser software... Don't go look at their homepages... I don't think I looked at Excite.com the entire 8 months I was a subscriber before they went down. Just pay your bill in the mail and enjoy the bandwidth when all the easily scared jump ship. If they do knock at your door, phone, e-mail... drop them... there's no contract involved and there are other ISP's out there. Hooray for capitalism!
On a totally unrelated note, I took differential equations from Akram Aldroubi. On the first day of class when we all sat down he said, "Welcome to French 101." Scared the hell out of a class full of engineers that haven't seen anything to do with humanities/arts courses in a while. If you ever have to take math at VU this guy is really good at explaining it.
Tour busses like used in the music industry shuttling your favorite bands from city to city already have in place most of the electrical requirements needed for this project. Since just about every one has a few TVs, stereos, ridiculous lighting... Satellite TV... assorted gadgets. The industry is also used to coming up with strange configurations for these... A semi trailer would have to be built from the ground up. I think that would be rather cost prohibitive. You can't just use any run of the mill old freight rig... The busses could be used or new... I would recommend actually rackmounting the computers down in the cargo holds and having an industrial cooling solution... It would cut down on the noise inside the bus. Also the cargo area is great for holding extra networking gear, course literature... If someone seriously wants to build one... get in touch with me: JC