What crack have you been smoking? LA has *NO* reasonable mass transit. MTA has been targets of lawsuits by bus riders for shitty service. Metrolink is OK, but ONLY if you're going downtown in the morning and coming back at night. MetroRail is a joke. It's a $1Billion/mile subway that doesn't go anywhere. They put a surface rail line from downtown to the airport that doesn't even go to the airport!
Transit in LA is based on the faulty assumption that everyone wants to go downtown. This is BS. There are about 7 or 8 "city centers" in the greater LA area (LA, Orange, Ventura, San Bernadino, and Riverside counties). Transit exists for ONE count them ONE of them.
No company will ever charge more for banwidth than its worth,
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Mod this guy up +1 Funny, or +1 Clueless!
Seriously, what planet do you live on? Let's look at a hypothetical. Bandwidth is free (to the ISP). Do you really think they wouldn't charge for it? If they do, then they're charging more than it's worth.
Let's look at CDs. One of the big memes running around here is that CDs are ridiculously overpriced.
But no... "No company will ever charge more for bandwidth than its worth".
Joel, I have this really nice swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you, along with this bridge in Brooklyn.
No, actually,k it's not just a minor version release. The XP2200+ is a new 0.13 micron process. The chip was redesigned (see the Ace article linked above).
It also draws less power (not much less, but less).
The dolphin Office Assistant is downloadable. For some reason, I find it much less annoying than Clippy (when I have it enabled). Do a search for the word "Kairu" on http://office.microsoft.com
I am pissed that otherwise incredibly intelligent people like Esther Dyson and Vint Cerf are not standing up and crying foul as ICANN becomes a corporate plaything
What do you mean? Dyson and Cerf *ARE* corporate types.
A feature is an objective attribute such as "provides variable-sized fonts". It is not something like "must be identical to MS Office".
What planet do you live on? Back when we were bidding one of the x86 PCs to the army, we had to provide a word processor. The laundry list of specs for the word processor was for WP5.1. (This was back in the late 80's early 90s).
For example, we had wanted to bid using Word 5.0 (for DOS) as the word processor. But the laundry list had "Must have a 'Show Codes'" mode. Unfortunately, Word didn't have such an item.
So, no the specs don't say "must be identical to MS Office", they just give specs that read off the laundry list of MS Office features, and if you don't have it, tough. It essentially says, must be identical without explicity stating that.
I don't think that Newman's is a good example. Note that it specifically says "profits", not "gross".
Newman's, being privately owned by Newman himself, doesn't have to worry about shareholders bitching about the "give all profits to charity". He's independently wealthy and probably gets a hell of a tax write-off as well.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a Good Thing(tm) that he's doing. But it's not a valid business example.
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What crack have you been smoking? LA has *NO* reasonable mass transit. MTA has been targets of lawsuits by bus riders for shitty service. Metrolink is OK, but ONLY if you're going downtown in the morning and coming back at night. MetroRail is a joke. It's a $1Billion/mile subway that doesn't go anywhere. They put a surface rail line from downtown to the airport that doesn't even go to the airport!
Transit in LA is based on the faulty assumption that everyone wants to go downtown. This is BS. There are about 7 or 8 "city centers" in the greater LA area (LA, Orange, Ventura, San Bernadino, and Riverside counties). Transit exists for ONE count them ONE of them.
It would be a bittersweet thing to see the {MP,RI}AA take Big Broadband to court for profiting from copyright infringement...
Except that the {MP,RI}AA *IS* Big Broadband. Can you say "AOL/Time-Warner"?
No company will ever charge more for banwidth than its worth,
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Mod this guy up +1 Funny, or +1 Clueless!
Seriously, what planet do you live on? Let's look at a hypothetical. Bandwidth is free (to the ISP). Do you really think they wouldn't charge for it? If they do, then they're charging more than it's worth.
Let's look at CDs. One of the big memes running around here is that CDs are ridiculously overpriced.
But no... "No company will ever charge more for bandwidth than its worth".
Joel, I have this really nice swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you, along with this bridge in Brooklyn.
crap. I need to learn to use preview.
That should have read
1Tb, not 1TB
Dude, the article was 1T not 1T.
Didn't I see somewhere that a (60MHz -- original) pentium made out of vacuum tubes (or valves, for you brits) would take up several football fields?
I'd hate to drop a deck of punch cards that size. You'd need a microscope to put them back in order.
Didn't you put numbers in columns 75-80?
Looks like a typo.
1 in = 25.4mm = 25*10^6nm
10nm/(25*10^6nm/in) ~0.5*10^-6 in, or half a millionth of an inch.
Is OpenVMS really open? How about an x86 port of VMS?
No, actually,k it's not just a minor version release. The XP2200+ is a new 0.13 micron process. The chip was redesigned (see the Ace article linked above).
It also draws less power (not much less, but less).
Let's see... I go to the Fred's neighborhood garage sale. I buy his old 19" TV.
I plug it into the wall, and connect the TV's built-in rabbit-ears to the ANT-IN terminals.
I turn it on, switch to Channel 4, and by golly, "Friends" is right there on my screen.
Where and how did I make a contract with anyone?
Next I expect spammers to sue the Unix software model to make filters and killfiles illegal.
Something close to that's already happened
Pinball is pretty good. The Trek LCARS themes are a bit too garish, though.
I dare say that if Microsoft were to behave nicely and come out with a superier product that was priced fairly,
They can have my MS Natural Keyboard and MS Mouse 2.0 w/IntelliEye when they pry them out of my cold dead hands.
Frozen Caveman Lawyer!
I'm just a simple caveman...
Sites can suddenly disappear or (more frequently) slowly slid into inactivity.
That's what the Wayback Machine is for.
The Yorktown incident comes to mind (and yes, I know that some claim it's not NT's fault -- but it's not relevant here).
Someone was able to bring the ship to a complete halt because of user error. Do we really want the same sort of thing to happen in ATC?
I'd say to ask Jon Johannsen, but then the MPAA would just use it to prove that he's an Evil Terrorist Hacker(tm).
I wonder what the ZeroWing manual looked like...
In A.D. 1989, game was beginning...
Player 1: What Happen?
Player 2: Somebody set us up the game!
Nah... I'm sure that didn't happen.
The dolphin Office Assistant is downloadable. For some reason, I find it much less annoying than Clippy (when I have it enabled). Do a search for the word "Kairu" on http://office.microsoft.com
Me Too!
I was going to say the same thing about Postel.
I am pissed that otherwise incredibly intelligent people like Esther Dyson and Vint Cerf are not standing up and crying foul as ICANN becomes a corporate plaything
What do you mean? Dyson and Cerf *ARE* corporate types.
Nobody would ask McDonnell-Douglas to make their B2 bomber plans public.
Well, they could, but they wouldn't get vey far, since the B-2 Spirit is built by Northrop-Grumman, not Boeing/McDonnel-Douglas!
A feature is an objective attribute such as "provides variable-sized fonts". It is not something like "must be identical to MS Office".
What planet do you live on? Back when we were bidding one of the x86 PCs to the army, we had to provide a word processor. The laundry list of specs for the word processor was for WP5.1. (This was back in the late 80's early 90s).
For example, we had wanted to bid using Word 5.0 (for DOS) as the word processor. But the laundry list had "Must have a 'Show Codes'" mode. Unfortunately, Word didn't have such an item.
So, no the specs don't say "must be identical to MS Office", they just give specs that read off the laundry list of MS Office features, and if you don't have it, tough. It essentially says, must be identical without explicity stating that.
I don't think that Newman's is a good example. Note that it specifically says "profits", not "gross".
Newman's, being privately owned by Newman himself, doesn't have to worry about shareholders bitching about the "give all profits to charity". He's independently wealthy and probably gets a hell of a tax write-off as well.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a Good Thing(tm) that he's doing. But it's not a valid business example.
Anybody remember the CMS drives in the original AT?