Just a word of caution after having been through several hurricanes this year:
What happens when the power goes out, the fiber goes dark, and now you have no telephone? During the hurricanes many people running phone service through broadband were SOL, and cell phone reliability also went into the toilet. Keep in mind some areas were without power for _weeks_. As much as I want to ditch mine, sometimes a land line is still the best way to go.
Right on! So that explains why Metallica coming to Tampa in November requires the radio station to have a "May"tallica 5 months before the show! And of course it's been usually crappy post Black Album Metallica ever since being played
Another anecdote: Linkin Park (whom I think rock) was coming to town. Between the two "progressive/alternative" radio stations I knew I could hear a Linkin Park song on either one of them within an hour's time without fail. I would just keep switching between the two during the drive home and sure enough... Linkin Park would come on. Oddly enough, that stopped immediately after their show.
I expect a cease and desist letter shortly, thanks to this slashdotting. By simply looking up this patent he would have known to keep the cat in the box!
The question of course is whether a kitten is a derivative cat work, or if having a kitten gives this guy prior art...
I realize the heading of this is "Agenda Setters", but c'mon! The majority of the reasoning behind Gates' placement is based on vaporware: whether that be seamless computing, the much-awaited Longhorn OS or the promise of 64-bit chips. Gates continues to make security an agenda I realize PHBs suck this crap up, but you'd think there would be good _technical_ reasons to give Gates such a high placement. The article read more like it was apologizing for the man.
Mr. Bush, I supported your decision to replace Saddam Hussein, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I don't care whether WMDs were found or not. That being said, why does it seem that no one had a clue about what to do with Iraq once the war was over? With our proven experience in successfully occupying other countries (Germany, Japan), why did we stumble so badly in Iraq?
Follow up: Is it too late to get rid of John Ashcroft? He makes me ashamed to be "conservative"
Your comment sounds pretty interesting, since you seem to know what you want, but apparently haven't looked anywhere other than Cisco.
Avaya's IP telephony products provide your encryption, Cell+Wifi with auto switch over, and my favorite, all the servers run GNU/Linux! No video phones yet.
I hear they're really expensive, but I really don't have any clue as to that, I just fix the stuff.
There's a lawsuit going on about the matter right now, but it looks like the Unix copyrights were never actually transfered from Novell to SCO
That lawsuit does not concern ownership of the copyrights. The lawsuit was brought about by oldSCO saying Novell was defaming them. Copyrights are a sidenote
i had just seen Nosferatu and found it's undertones very intriguing. For the record, this was no 'film' type course and i don't pretend to be a critic. i'm just a layman who likes certain movies.
I wrote a paper in college comparing the elements present in the seminal German film Nosferatu to conditions in the Weimar republic at the time, and I certainly came to the same conclusion, that is, audiences using movies to cope with troubles in reality land. The parallels of the ending of the First World War with the movie's seeming rejection of moderninity (the girl offers herself as a sacrifice to slay Nosferatu), the blow of the Spanish Flu which had ravished Germany (the vampire makes his presence known in the town as a plague), and the villification of totalitarinism (all characters ultimately must bow before the relentless dread of the vampire, plus Harker is sent to Transylvania by a cruel boss, and he sets out as on a lark, but we know what became of him. I found it to be fairly interesting. Maybe we find it empowering when Bruce Willis is fighting terrorists and beats them with his American moxie... Opiate of the masses indeed!
What's worse is the general hypocrisy being espoused here. The Hagia Sophia in Instanbul (nee Constantinople) immediately springs to mind as a church that was converted to a mosque. The region known as the Holy Land is littered with converted churches. For the sake of fairness, it's also littered with churches that are still churches, though.
The definition of annoying is knowing what you're talking about? This article implies that because people are ignorant (I use that term descriptively) for some reason YOU have a problem. If I had to remind someone every third day how to turn a doorknob I would seriously doubt their sanity, yet non-technical folks presume they should receive a pass when they're asking you the same damn question for the one hundredth time because they're too lazy to remember. So now you're the guy that knows it all, but you're "arrogant" if you show the slightest irritation with these folks. It's users that are annoying.
This article simply re-inforces one of Bart's chalk lessons: I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
I use a linuxfromscratch system as my personal workstation, so if I can't find a good OSS program for what I want to do I'm pretty much stuck. Oddly enough the only time I've run into that situation with a linux system is finding a good image viewing program. Sure, there are lots of clones out there, but not one is even close to Thumbsplus or Compupic's half-hearted linux version of their windows program. I mean what's the use of having all this pr0n when I can only cycle the slideshow with the mouse?;-)
Try to interop with an Avaya VSU using LZS. It'll never work because they use LZS as the encryption protocol for IPPCP (not to mention the other peculiarities of the VSU which require yet other patches to freeswan).
Openswan is a good example of a patent hurting an Open Source app. I *need* LZS compression for my company's VPN, but Openswan won't work cuz of IPCP LZS compression. I was offered an internal version of super-freeswan with the LZS code but refuse to use it cuz it's not Free. i'm stupid that way
Did Darl refer to cattle rustling when he asked for the code comparison? And what happened to the other two MIT scientists... are they _sleeping with the fishes_?
why isn't your company routing your calls through their PBX using a VPN? I fail to understand all these comments about private phone solutions. If they're letting her work VO they need to support her and give her the ability to route calls through the company PBX
What sort of PBX does the company have? Using a VPN she could connect back to the company PBX and route all calls through there. For example, with a Definity PBX she could use IP Agent and everything from her end would be a local call. I do it all the time.
_Star Wars_ was a good idea. The same way successive U boat campaigns against the British were a good idea, the same way Sherman's march to the sea was a good idea. IOW, hit them in the wallet or flatten their production capability. Because of the great debate on Star Wars and the intransigence of the Reagan administration on the issue, the Sovs had to take it as something plausible, and thus we were able to force them to divert funds and resources to a possible chimera.
It doesn't matter whether you think Star Wars can work now or not, it's been almost 20 years since it was first proposed, so the reality now has no bearing on then. For what it was used to accomplish, Star Wars was a great idea.
"BayStar Capital Management LLC believes SCO needs to hire executives with more savvy about intellectual property cases and spend less money on its Unix products, BayStar spokesman Bob McGrath said Wednesday."
"SCO's chief executive is Darl McBride, whose cash compensation totaled $986,047 in the company's fiscal year ending last October. That pay package troubled BayStar, McGrath said, given SCO's small size - the company has annual revenue of $79 million and about 300 employees."
Baystar may finally be the one's to shut oldSCO's mouth for us so that IBM can finish the execution cleanly
If you RTFA you'll see that PJ did not start the company. She runs a site that covers the SCO case and while she is an employee of OSRM, I believe this is a valid bit of news for her site to cover. In the same sense however, seeing as she does hold a legal review position at OSRM, raising questions of conflict of interest is a valid point
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Just a word of caution after having been through several hurricanes this year:
What happens when the power goes out, the fiber goes dark, and now you have no telephone? During the hurricanes many people running phone service through broadband were SOL, and cell phone reliability also went into the toilet. Keep in mind some areas were without power for _weeks_. As much as I want to ditch mine, sometimes a land line is still the best way to go.
Right on! So that explains why Metallica coming to Tampa in November requires the radio station to have a "May"tallica 5 months before the show! And of course it's been usually crappy post Black Album Metallica ever since being played
Another anecdote: Linkin Park (whom I think rock) was coming to town. Between the two "progressive/alternative" radio stations I knew I could hear a Linkin Park song on either one of them within an hour's time without fail. I would just keep switching between the two during the drive home and sure enough... Linkin Park would come on. Oddly enough, that stopped immediately after their show.
"regression testing, what's that? If it compiles it works and if it boots it's perfect!" - Linus
'nuff said
I expect a cease and desist letter shortly, thanks to this slashdotting. By simply looking up this patent he would have known to keep the cat in the box!
The question of course is whether a kitten is a derivative cat work, or if having a kitten gives this guy prior art...
I realize the heading of this is "Agenda Setters", but c'mon! The majority of the reasoning behind Gates' placement is based on vaporware:
whether that be seamless computing, the much-awaited Longhorn OS or the promise of 64-bit chips.
Gates continues to make security an agenda
I realize PHBs suck this crap up, but you'd think there would be good _technical_ reasons to give Gates such a high placement. The article read more like it was apologizing for the man.
Mr. Bush, I supported your decision to replace Saddam Hussein, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I don't care whether WMDs were found or not.
That being said, why does it seem that no one had a clue about what to do with Iraq once the war was over? With our proven experience in successfully occupying other countries (Germany, Japan), why did we stumble so badly in Iraq?
Follow up: Is it too late to get rid of John Ashcroft? He makes me ashamed to be "conservative"
Your comment sounds pretty interesting, since you seem to know what you want, but apparently haven't looked anywhere other than Cisco.
Avaya's IP telephony products provide your encryption, Cell+Wifi with auto switch over, and my favorite, all the servers run GNU/Linux! No video phones yet.
I hear they're really expensive, but I really don't have any clue as to that, I just fix the stuff.
There's a lawsuit going on about the matter right now, but it looks like the Unix copyrights were never actually transfered from Novell to SCO
That lawsuit does not concern ownership of the copyrights. The lawsuit was brought about by oldSCO saying Novell was defaming them. Copyrights are a sidenote
i had just seen Nosferatu and found it's undertones very intriguing. For the record, this was no 'film' type course and i don't pretend to be a critic. i'm just a layman who likes certain movies.
I wrote a paper in college comparing the elements present in the seminal German film Nosferatu to conditions in the Weimar republic at the time, and I certainly came to the same conclusion, that is, audiences using movies to cope with troubles in reality land. The parallels of the ending of the First World War with the movie's seeming rejection of moderninity (the girl offers herself as a sacrifice to slay Nosferatu), the blow of the Spanish Flu which had ravished Germany (the vampire makes his presence known in the town as a plague), and the villification of totalitarinism (all characters ultimately must bow before the relentless dread of the vampire, plus Harker is sent to Transylvania by a cruel boss, and he sets out as on a lark, but we know what became of him. I found it to be fairly interesting.
Maybe we find it empowering when Bruce Willis is fighting terrorists and beats them with his American moxie... Opiate of the masses indeed!
Lela: society's never going to improve until we can all learn to pretend to like each other
you need to print that on a shirt. Now I can sound even MORE condescending!!
What's worse is the general hypocrisy being espoused
here. The Hagia Sophia in Instanbul (nee Constantinople) immediately springs to mind as a church that was converted to a mosque. The region known as the Holy Land is littered with converted churches. For the sake of fairness, it's also littered with churches that are still churches, though.
The definition of annoying is knowing what you're talking about? This article implies that because people are ignorant (I use that term descriptively) for some reason YOU have a problem. If I had to remind someone every third day how to turn a doorknob I would seriously doubt their sanity, yet non-technical folks presume they should receive a pass when they're asking you the same damn question for the one hundredth time because they're too lazy to remember. So now you're the guy that knows it all, but you're "arrogant" if you show the slightest irritation with these folks. It's users that are annoying.
This article simply re-inforces one of Bart's chalk lessons:
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
I use a linuxfromscratch system as my personal workstation, so if I can't find a good OSS program for what I want to do I'm pretty much stuck. Oddly enough the only time I've run into that situation with a linux system is finding a good image viewing program. Sure, there are lots of clones out there, but not one is even close to Thumbsplus or Compupic's half-hearted linux version of their windows program. I mean what's the use of having all this pr0n when I can only cycle the slideshow with the mouse? ;-)
Try to interop with an Avaya VSU using LZS. It'll never work because they use LZS as the encryption protocol for IPPCP (not to mention the other peculiarities of the VSU which require yet other patches to freeswan).
Openswan is a good example of a patent hurting an Open Source app. I *need* LZS compression for my company's VPN, but Openswan won't work cuz of IPCP LZS compression. I was offered an internal version of super-freeswan with the LZS code but refuse to use it cuz it's not Free. i'm stupid that way
Did Darl refer to cattle rustling when he asked for the code comparison? And what happened to the other two MIT scientists... are they _sleeping with the fishes_?
why isn't your company routing your calls through their PBX using a VPN? I fail to understand all these comments about private phone solutions. If they're letting her work VO they need to support her and give her the ability to route calls through the company PBX
What sort of PBX does the company have? Using a VPN she could connect back to the company PBX and route all calls through there. For example, with a Definity PBX she could use IP Agent and everything from her end would be a local call. I do it all the time.
_Star Wars_ was a good idea. The same way successive U boat campaigns against the British were a good idea, the same way Sherman's march to the sea was a good idea. IOW, hit them in the wallet or flatten their production capability. Because of the great debate on Star Wars and the intransigence of the Reagan administration on the issue, the Sovs had to take it as something plausible, and thus we were able to force them to divert funds and resources to a possible chimera.
It doesn't matter whether you think Star Wars can work now or not, it's been almost 20 years since it was first proposed, so the reality now has no bearing on then. For what it was used to accomplish, Star Wars was a great idea.
Obligatory Futurama quote:
What makes a man turn from good to neutrality? - Zap Brannigan
More on this at Groklaw and the Mercury News
"BayStar Capital Management LLC believes SCO needs to hire executives with more savvy about intellectual property cases and spend less money on its Unix products, BayStar spokesman Bob McGrath said Wednesday."
"SCO's chief executive is Darl McBride, whose cash compensation totaled $986,047 in the company's fiscal year ending last October. That pay package troubled BayStar, McGrath said, given SCO's small size - the company has annual revenue of $79 million and about 300 employees."
Baystar may finally be the one's to shut oldSCO's mouth for us so that IBM can finish the execution cleanly
If you RTFA you'll see that PJ did not start the company. She runs a site that covers the SCO case and while she is an employee of OSRM, I believe this is a valid bit of news for her site to cover. In the same sense however, seeing as she does hold a legal review position at OSRM, raising questions of conflict of interest is a valid point