...light pipes were originally devised in the Victorian Age and more then a few Victorian Era homes do have them installed in them or had them installed at one point.
I am unsure why, but they weren't extremely popular and when the electric light became common, they were "forgotten".
I read about the history of them a number of years ago and considered installing them in my own home. The pricing was to expensive then and there just isn't enough money at this moment to get it done.
...the problem is that they are considered a "Common Carrier", as such they are simply providing access to what is essentially a public network and as such should not be blocking out anything, unless they want to take on the responsibility of also blocking truly illegal content, like Kiddie Porn.
Would you expect the phone company to block your home phone from being able to call up a competing phone company to discuss changing service? Essentially, this is the kind of thing that is going on via blocking the web-site of something that doesn't directly benefit this telecommunications provider.
People = "Microsoft Employees", Programmers that program for Microsoft Products, Administrators that run Microsoft Products and similar "people". It's best written as (Microsoft) People, but you can leave the (Microsoft) bit off, if you are one of those people...
The quote should have been more like this:
"Ten years ago, (Microsoft) people didn't really understand Buffer Overruns, Port 80 and I/O Issues."
This is, or should be, similarly inferred when we have another major network news release about a "computer" or "Internet", examples follow.
"A new (Microsoft) Computer Virus in making the rounds through (Microsoft Outlook) E-mail Clients."
"A new (Microsoft OS Targeting) Internet Worm was discovered on (Microsoft OS Running) Computers yesterday morning which quickly spread across the (Microsoft OS Running Portion of the) Internet."
If you say, "It's great that (list of OS that works with setup), but I really wish it would work with (my esoteric setup)"
Then you increase the chances of other people saying, "Hey, I wish (my esoteric setup, as above) did indeed work with (hardware name) , too!"
Then, by chance, a small snowball will form to start rolling down the hill. Once that gets to a certain point the manufacturer (in this case Nvidia) may decide that it is worthwhile to make available drivers for (my esoteric setup, as above) available for you to install.
But hey, I figured that you would have caught that with my snarky comment about how useless complaining about the small list of supported hardware, without mentioning what hardware you have, appeared to me and likely others.
Yeah, except that the article makes one mistake...
It suggests that Linux and BSD users are the same, except that BSD users have kissed girls. It's actually the other way around, we are the same, but Linux users have actually kissed girls.
You can't just wake up one day and decide that you are going to switch all your network servers and workstations to a new OS over the course of a few days. These things take time.
Moving to a new platform/OS without knowing all the ins and outs, could be just as dangerous as staying with Windows.
I remember my early days with Linux, back when I used to futz around and actually made my machines less secure, before I learned a great deal more about the OS and its features.
I am not saying that switching is bad, I am just saying that it is important to know what you are switching to before making the switch.
Nobody should get caught with their firewall down holding their LAN cable in their hand...
It was a very old-school C64, early IBM PC game that took place in the AD&D World of the Forgotten Realms, where players would go through the provided adventure and then craft their own adventures to share with their friends.
This second part of the game, creating adventures to share with friends, includes making set goals and awarding XP based upon the achievement of those goals. Oh and it also takes place all on an electronic device...
This was in the mid to early 80's.
If that isn't prior art, I honestly have no idea what is.
"You overestimate this conference committee, the power to pass or fail legistlation is nothing compared to the power of corporate greed."
"You're sad devotion to that inhuman corporate machine hasn't given you the power to conjure away all the citizen's rights or the power...." (hurk---gah....)
By that logic... as soon as something can be easily copied, then there is no longer a recourse or monopoly on the ownership of the piece of creative work.
Which means in this day and age of ubiquitous copying devices, that all Copy Rights are essentially void.
In actuality, the "Attempt" to profit that you are referring to is putting that creative work together in some kind of package and making that available for sale. If the sale of that package fails all that means is that the sale of the creative works didn't go through as planned. The holder of that copy right still maintains the monopoly on that creative work until such a time as their copyright expires...
What that means is if someone later attempts to 'steal' the original copyright holder's right of monopoly on that creative work, then the original copyright holder has the legal right to demand compensation for the profits they are entitled to by copyright law.
The Right to profit from a given work BY DEFAULT includes the right to give away one's work without profiting from it. That is what Copy Right law provides.
Those rights need to be protected and once again let me state that those rights should not have been extended in perpetuity as they have been regularly extended for the past 20 or so years.
...copyright is about protecting the right to profit from an otherwise easily copyable work.
That's all it does.
If you infrigne on someone's copyright, you aren't stealing anything, what you are doing is taking away their legal right to profit from the work they own the rights to profit from.
The right to profit from an easily copyable work is something that should be protected and at the same time it shouldn't be continually extended as it has been during the past 20 or so years.
...in the story Google had responded by stating that any copyrighted works would be limited to bibliographical information and a few short lines of selected texts. (I believe that Google would then use that as impetus to generate sales revenue off of their "Digital Library" by offering links to associated businesses that produce those texts.)
Honestly, this can be a great financial gain for those publishers, if they get together with Google on how to best select enticing pieces of their copyrighted works in order to drive sales, the academic community will have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
...when you start looking at the larger UNIX Server systems, you are able to perform quite a bit of 'routine maintenance' without needing to any kind of reboot procedure.
In fact, some of those systems even allow for significant portions of hardware to be swapped in and out WHILE the system is running.
If you have good hardware, you aren't likely to see or get any corruptions, failed startup scripts or other related issues. Startup scripts don't suddenly fail, text based configuration files are only going to get corrupt if you have massive hardware problems, like a failing Hard Drive or a failing Processor.
So you are still running Windows NT 3.51 systems or are you talking about early release NT 4.0 systems?
There has been so many changes with Windows products over the past ten years, that each iteration, while built upon the last, is sufficiently different from the previous release so as to make it virtually impossible to use the exact same skill set from one revision of the OS to another.
So, at most, if you are running Windows 2000 Pro and Server across your network, you have roughly 5 years experience and expertise. If you switched up to Windows Server 2003, and WinXP Pro workstations, you have even less. (Although, from my limited reading the 2000 to 2003 Server changes aren't quite as drastic as the Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro changes...)
Don't let that out! You don't want the Religious Right in the US to get wind of Reading teaching people to think and understand things!
If they get wind of that, they will start a national campaign to start teaching "Inteligent Learning" via osmosis and straight preaching, cause student's minds are far to precious to over-tax with the burden of learning how to read...
...many people believe that once you are an expert or extremely succesful in one area, you are suddenly an expert or very knowledgeable in many, many areas. From what I read, this belief can be held by both the person making the out of their element claims, as well as by the people that find 'truth' (whether or not it is the truth, remains to be seen) in those claims.
It appears that Bill Gates is not immune to this ego inflating weakness of the human condition.
I only know this, due to having read a bit of study a year or so back. So, my information could be wrong, out of date or otherwise inaccurate.
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You are right, partiall...
Marketing involves finding a product that will fill a consumer's need, it's finding that "niche".
Advertising is telling all the people outside of the niche that they really need this product in order to make their lives complete.
I would say lack of advertising killed it, since the only time I had ever seen or heard of it was when I walked into a CompUSA and saw the display.
The marketing also sucked, since it was geared at people like me, but the device didn't make me go "Oooooh! I need this!"
I am unsure why, but they weren't extremely popular and when the electric light became common, they were "forgotten".
I read about the history of them a number of years ago and considered installing them in my own home. The pricing was to expensive then and there just isn't enough money at this moment to get it done.
Would you expect the phone company to block your home phone from being able to call up a competing phone company to discuss changing service? Essentially, this is the kind of thing that is going on via blocking the web-site of something that doesn't directly benefit this telecommunications provider.
People = "Microsoft Employees", Programmers that program for Microsoft Products, Administrators that run Microsoft Products and similar "people". It's best written as (Microsoft) People, but you can leave the (Microsoft) bit off, if you are one of those people...
The quote should have been more like this:
"Ten years ago, (Microsoft) people didn't really understand Buffer Overruns, Port 80 and I/O Issues."
This is, or should be, similarly inferred when we have another major network news release about a "computer" or "Internet", examples follow.
"A new (Microsoft) Computer Virus in making the rounds through (Microsoft Outlook) E-mail Clients."
"A new (Microsoft OS Targeting) Internet Worm was discovered on (Microsoft OS Running) Computers yesterday morning which quickly spread across the (Microsoft OS Running Portion of the) Internet."
MS Shell for upcoming versions of Windows, they may very well be bringing a Unix-like OS to the market...
You really just wanted to make a snarky quip to someone proclaiming their ignorance, because you are Uber-leet and user Plan9.
Kudos to you sir, kudos to you. (That's sarcasm)
If you say, "It's great that (list of OS that works with setup), but I really wish it would work with (my esoteric setup)"
Then you increase the chances of other people saying, "Hey, I wish (my esoteric setup, as above) did indeed work with (hardware name) , too!"
Then, by chance, a small snowball will form to start rolling down the hill. Once that gets to a certain point the manufacturer (in this case Nvidia) may decide that it is worthwhile to make available drivers for (my esoteric setup, as above) available for you to install.
But hey, I figured that you would have caught that with my snarky comment about how useless complaining about the small list of supported hardware, without mentioning what hardware you have, appeared to me and likely others.
Thanks for sharing what is supported while suggesting your setup isn't supported, without sharing your setup.
You might as well hand someone a Bible with all the bits about that guy Jesus taken out...
Thanks for the term. I will do my best to remember it for future use. (Although I don't know when that will next be.)
Yeah, except that the article makes one mistake...
It suggests that Linux and BSD users are the same, except that BSD users have kissed girls. It's actually the other way around, we are the same, but Linux users have actually kissed girls.
I am talking about a whole network.
You can't just wake up one day and decide that you are going to switch all your network servers and workstations to a new OS over the course of a few days. These things take time.
Moving to a new platform/OS without knowing all the ins and outs, could be just as dangerous as staying with Windows.
I remember my early days with Linux, back when I used to futz around and actually made my machines less secure, before I learned a great deal more about the OS and its features.
I am not saying that switching is bad, I am just saying that it is important to know what you are switching to before making the switch.
Nobody should get caught with their firewall down holding their LAN cable in their hand...
Strategic Simulations Incorporated's Unlimited Adventures game.
It was a very old-school C64, early IBM PC game that took place in the AD&D World of the Forgotten Realms, where players would go through the provided adventure and then craft their own adventures to share with their friends.
This second part of the game, creating adventures to share with friends, includes making set goals and awarding XP based upon the achievement of those goals. Oh and it also takes place all on an electronic device...
This was in the mid to early 80's.
If that isn't prior art, I honestly have no idea what is.
"You overestimate this conference committee, the power to pass or fail legistlation is nothing compared to the power of corporate greed."
"You're sad devotion to that inhuman corporate machine hasn't given you the power to conjure away all the citizen's rights or the power...." (hurk---gah....)
"I find your lack of faith... disturbing..."
By that logic... as soon as something can be easily copied, then there is no longer a recourse or monopoly on the ownership of the piece of creative work.
Which means in this day and age of ubiquitous copying devices, that all Copy Rights are essentially void.
In actuality, the "Attempt" to profit that you are referring to is putting that creative work together in some kind of package and making that available for sale. If the sale of that package fails all that means is that the sale of the creative works didn't go through as planned. The holder of that copy right still maintains the monopoly on that creative work until such a time as their copyright expires...
What that means is if someone later attempts to 'steal' the original copyright holder's right of monopoly on that creative work, then the original copyright holder has the legal right to demand compensation for the profits they are entitled to by copyright law.
The Right to profit from a given work BY DEFAULT includes the right to give away one's work without profiting from it. That is what Copy Right law provides.
Those rights need to be protected and once again let me state that those rights should not have been extended in perpetuity as they have been regularly extended for the past 20 or so years.
That's all it does.
If you infrigne on someone's copyright, you aren't stealing anything, what you are doing is taking away their legal right to profit from the work they own the rights to profit from.
The right to profit from an easily copyable work is something that should be protected and at the same time it shouldn't be continually extended as it has been during the past 20 or so years.
Honestly, this can be a great financial gain for those publishers, if they get together with Google on how to best select enticing pieces of their copyrighted works in order to drive sales, the academic community will have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
In fact, some of those systems even allow for significant portions of hardware to be swapped in and out WHILE the system is running.
If you have good hardware, you aren't likely to see or get any corruptions, failed startup scripts or other related issues. Startup scripts don't suddenly fail, text based configuration files are only going to get corrupt if you have massive hardware problems, like a failing Hard Drive or a failing Processor.
So you are still running Windows NT 3.51 systems or are you talking about early release NT 4.0 systems?
There has been so many changes with Windows products over the past ten years, that each iteration, while built upon the last, is sufficiently different from the previous release so as to make it virtually impossible to use the exact same skill set from one revision of the OS to another.
So, at most, if you are running Windows 2000 Pro and Server across your network, you have roughly 5 years experience and expertise. If you switched up to Windows Server 2003, and WinXP Pro workstations, you have even less. (Although, from my limited reading the 2000 to 2003 Server changes aren't quite as drastic as the Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro changes...)
Reading, who knew you could learn so much? ;)
Don't let that out! You don't want the Religious Right in the US to get wind of Reading teaching people to think and understand things!
If they get wind of that, they will start a national campaign to start teaching "Inteligent Learning" via osmosis and straight preaching, cause student's minds are far to precious to over-tax with the burden of learning how to read...
It appears that Bill Gates is not immune to this ego inflating weakness of the human condition.
I only know this, due to having read a bit of study a year or so back. So, my information could be wrong, out of date or otherwise inaccurate.
Without one, he is incapable of sensing humor, as presented in the parent post!