After Jobs was ousted from apple, he bought Pixar (at some point before) the NeXT failure. He never wanted to get kicked out of his baby again, so, Jobs owns more than 50% of Pixar, making it impossible to take over.
On the other side of things, this definitly explains why my cable bill is so high.
I have actually found that playing with my friends is much more difficult than online games -- especially with FPS's and RTS's.
I was quite disapointed the first time I played Quake 3 online and destroyed the rest of the players to the point they thought I was cheating (I wasn't, it is just that the people I played against were so just so excellent, and I tend to do better when there are larger crowds [one shot, four kills - versus with my friends where they have much more chances of dodging my shot]).
First rule of politics, the guy you like best is never wrong, can never make mistakes, always has everyone's best needs in mind (even those who completly think they are wrong), does everything first, walks on water, oh, and is never wrong.
This is the case for most political writers on all sides of the spectrum.
Hm, this presents an odd idea -- what if someone wrote a virus to make http requests to one candidate's web site to make it look as if they were getting lots of traffic, but it was really some guy in Russia with an odd sence of humor.
The Skunk Works is the plant that built the U-2, the first jet fighter (don't know the name), the Blackbird (AKA SR-70, SR-71, etc), F-22, F-35 (the new joint strike fighter), the stealth fighter, and others that are probably still classified.
The Boeing version is called the Phantom Works, which is their high end idea plant which created Boeing's JSF entry (which lost to the Lockheed version, but that isn't important).
I would do hosting, except my hosting is done at my employer. It is a small company and my computer is doing secondary dns and backup mail server. The primary dns and mail server for the company is handling my backup dns and mail.
So, I am not really in a position to offer hosting. Beyond that, my server would definitly melt if too much was done on it. It is an older sparc running linux (b/c solaris was just giving me too much greef) and definitly needs more ram.
I have just been too lazy to add more ram/ruin my uptime (about 105 days right now).
But, thanks for the link to the tmda, looks interesting and I will definitly check it out (always good to eliminate spam).
I would probably implement all of this on my mail servers except for one critical flaw, they only mention sendmail and qmail support (and presumably exchange as well). I use exim b/c I like the filtering options (and a friend of mine highly recommended it).
If they don't support exim, then I can't use it. Exim developers may implement it, but yahoo can't resonably say that they would start blocking before other projects have a chance to make their own versions.
On the other side of things, I'm going to start with the spf's shortly.
I know it is a bit off-topic, but, I had the same thing happen on a Chrysler Cirrus. I hit a deer and broke the plastic covering the one headlight (as well as the turn signal bulb). They couldn't just repair the plastic covering -- they had to replace the whole module (and the working headlight) for a cost of about $210.
Good suggestion on finding a computer 'junk yard'.
I believe that these two components are generally considered one part (as in they have the same part number when they come from the factory).
While the plastic is worth very little, if the factory will only ship them as one part, you are out of luck. I doubt you could find a store who would split them apart.
I know that on my old compaq (Armada 7400), when the repair-man came to fix the LCD, he took the plastic surrounding it with him. I believe it is simpler for repairs as you only have to put a couple of screws in place and attach a cable or two and the screen is ready to go.
I doubt that you will be able to find this, although I would like to be proved wrong. I assume it is out of warantee, since most companies would probably fix it if it still were.
It is most likely a cost item being the reason the factory/supplier won't sell them as anything other than one item.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, doesn't MS make a lot of money by licensing the WMA technology to other companies (DVD players, Dell [for the jukebox], etc)?
So, if this were to be true, every sale of an iPod would generate revenue for MS.
Somehow I don't think that apple would really let this happen -- at least not to Apple branded models.
You really do have no idea what is going on in the world, do you?
The Chinese have hundreds of spies everywhere. So do many other places. The Chinese nuclear program grew rapidly in the 90's, mainly due to spying. And they are just one of many. We have only caught a handful of spies recently. For each one caught, there are probably hundreds. Granted, the USA has spies everywhere too, but other countries are expelling/capturing/killing them too.
Let's just say that no matter what you think, the world about 100 times more dangerous than you can possibly imagine.
This is a good thing for two reasons. #1 - it adds extra protection, and while not much, when combined with everything else, is a good start. #2 - it reminds us that we are still a target for numerous terrorist groups that for some reason feel a need to blame the US for all of their problems.
Mod me down if you want. The truth is the truth.
Oh, and the intelligence community has been saying for years (before 2001) that it will never be possible to end terrorism.
Everyone out there likes to complain about things, but you offer no real solutions. One of the loopholes this is supposed to close is people overstaying their visas. Several of the 9/11 highjackers had overstayed their visas. Is this the best way? No. But, it at least lets people know that it is there, rather than impliment a different system that is designed to be covert.
think about it.
I think that many people would prefer that we didn't have to do anything like this, however, we should never get as careless as we did during the period of 1993-2001. bin Laden & co are just biding their time until we get relaxed again (and just ignore the global terrorism problem). Then, they will hit us again.
How different is this from the Speed Cameras (used in at least Australia) and red light cameras? They too are cold, heartless, hidden machines that catch you when you are breaking the law.
I used to trip a surge protector every time I would try to print something with my laser printer if I had everything else on. Then I realised that I had two complete computers plugged into one surge protector (and the protector was about 10 years old). I soon switched it out for a better one and didn't have any trouble with it (it has since been taken apart).
You are braver than I usually am -- you just stuck your head into a lion's mouth.
That being said, it was quite brave and honourable of you to actually respond to this.
I have read your 'about' page, in case you were wondering. You have interesting goals, bringing the stability and features of apache/linux to IIS/MS (if I read it right). The market you are in has huge potential clients and I wish you the best of luck.
Um, I sure hope you are Mr David himself, of The windows crash site as he is the only person I really said was allowed to use my picture of the drumscape crashing (took it on vacation while down at Ocean City, NJ).
Not that I really mind, I just want photo credit where credit is due.
...you can hire a Mexican to do the same work as an american for about 1/10th of the cost. However, you will only get about 1/15th of the productivity.
If a teacher is saying it, then shortly those who work in companies will be saying it, and then shortly those jobs will be coming back. Well, maybe in my little happy world.
Hm, I was thinking that the BIOS was supposed to be this small thing whose only real purpose was to start up the main OS.
Old Biosii were quite small. Even if they really tried to make this super efficient, this bios will be huge.
So, since there is less and less room to bloat the software, are they trying to bloat the bios now too?
Of course, imagine a network -- corporate/school/home -- that uses all of this type of bios. Now, imagine a flaw is found and a virus written that infects this network. This could be the worst virus ever written b/c it has control of the bios.
But, it opens up the ability to break the security to a whole new group of people, namely, the people in the same office.
It is now harder for a cracker/hacker/etc to get the information (as it is on a post-it). But, the janitor (who under many conditions would not be able to break the computer security) can easily get this information.
So, we are both correct, we only refer to a different group of people. I think.
Arguably, the line about "without circumventing the inherent security of such password-protection schemes" negates the post-it argument as there is now a clear-text version of the password available for anyone to see.
While I don't believe this is patent worthy, the whole idea of a password wallet/keyring/etc would be much better than what many office workers do -- "hide" their passwords and usernames on a piece of paper that is right under their keyboard.
Just another day and another round of bashing Foxnews. For some of us, it is nice to have a break from being beaten over the head with the ultra liberalness of most of the rest of the media.
I can understand not liking Fox news for one reason or another, but putting "Fair and Balanced" in quotes somehow implies that all other media outlets are fair and balanced. NYTimes, Wall Street Journal? They are both politically motivated, one liberal, the other conservative.
I totally agree, Murdoch probably doesn't care what either show thinks/says/publishes/etc. But, he is a very conservative person. Such to the point where (I think) Ted Turner considered him "The most dangerous man on the planet", which is total crap b/c Turner is so liberal that Murdoch only challanges his belief structure.
But, yes, people are dumb. And this is quite stupid to threaten a law suit over something that I think everyone found to be amusing.
Oh, and I'm not flaming you, if it came across that way.
No worries, I figured that it probably came out a bit meaner than you intended.
Interestingly enough, I have always heard that Nikon has the better glass than Canon (and that olympus glass is the best, but there camera's aren't all that great).
I just graduated from college and I am by now means a professional. But, I had a couple of friends who would only use Canon cameras. My prof, myself, and a couple others would use Nikons.
I think we can agree that both companies make great cameras, and there are many people who feel strongly one way or the other.
I personally have a Canon S30 (digital point and shoot) which I love. It is almost 2 years old now, but I have taken it to many exotic locations. It is a great little camera for which I have an underwater case and have taken it down about 37M/125Ft. For these pictures, see my other site Most of the pictures taken in the past two years are with this camera (with a few exceptions as I was using both my old digital and the canon for about a month while I got used to the new one).
Oh, my comment about the Rebel series was not intended to badmouth the camera. At the time I used it, it was the greatest camera I had ever used (which isn't saying much) probably due to the interchangeable lenses.
Thanks for the praise. I did enjoy Oxford, but only was able to spend a few hours there (took the train up from London for the day). My brother intends to study there next semester (study abroad, I'm from the USA).
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After Jobs was ousted from apple, he bought Pixar (at some point before) the NeXT failure. He never wanted to get kicked out of his baby again, so, Jobs owns more than 50% of Pixar, making it impossible to take over.
On the other side of things, this definitly explains why my cable bill is so high.
-CPM
I have actually found that playing with my friends is much more difficult than online games -- especially with FPS's and RTS's.
I was quite disapointed the first time I played Quake 3 online and destroyed the rest of the players to the point they thought I was cheating (I wasn't, it is just that the people I played against were so just so excellent, and I tend to do better when there are larger crowds [one shot, four kills - versus with my friends where they have much more chances of dodging my shot]).
-CPM
First rule of politics, the guy you like best is never wrong, can never make mistakes, always has everyone's best needs in mind (even those who completly think they are wrong), does everything first, walks on water, oh, and is never wrong.
This is the case for most political writers on all sides of the spectrum.
-CPM
Hm, this presents an odd idea -- what if someone wrote a virus to make http requests to one candidate's web site to make it look as if they were getting lots of traffic, but it was really some guy in Russia with an odd sence of humor.
Which is exactly your point, I suppose.
-CPM
I believe that "Skunk Works" is a trademark of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The Skunk Works is the plant that built the U-2, the first jet fighter (don't know the name), the Blackbird (AKA SR-70, SR-71, etc), F-22, F-35 (the new joint strike fighter), the stealth fighter, and others that are probably still classified.
The Boeing version is called the Phantom Works, which is their high end idea plant which created Boeing's JSF entry (which lost to the Lockheed version, but that isn't important).
Just my little input of random facts.
-CPM
"internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities"
No I don't. But, this would have been true had you asked me more than a couple months ago (started a new job).
-CPM
I would do hosting, except my hosting is done at my employer. It is a small company and my computer is doing secondary dns and backup mail server. The primary dns and mail server for the company is handling my backup dns and mail.
So, I am not really in a position to offer hosting. Beyond that, my server would definitly melt if too much was done on it. It is an older sparc running linux (b/c solaris was just giving me too much greef) and definitly needs more ram.
I have just been too lazy to add more ram/ruin my uptime (about 105 days right now).
But, thanks for the link to the tmda, looks interesting and I will definitly check it out (always good to eliminate spam).
-CPM
I would probably implement all of this on my mail servers except for one critical flaw, they only mention sendmail and qmail support (and presumably exchange as well). I use exim b/c I like the filtering options (and a friend of mine highly recommended it).
If they don't support exim, then I can't use it. Exim developers may implement it, but yahoo can't resonably say that they would start blocking before other projects have a chance to make their own versions.
On the other side of things, I'm going to start with the spf's shortly.
-CPM
I know it is a bit off-topic, but, I had the same thing happen on a Chrysler Cirrus. I hit a deer and broke the plastic covering the one headlight (as well as the turn signal bulb). They couldn't just repair the plastic covering -- they had to replace the whole module (and the working headlight) for a cost of about $210.
Good suggestion on finding a computer 'junk yard'.
-CPM
I believe that these two components are generally considered one part (as in they have the same part number when they come from the factory).
While the plastic is worth very little, if the factory will only ship them as one part, you are out of luck. I doubt you could find a store who would split them apart.
I know that on my old compaq (Armada 7400), when the repair-man came to fix the LCD, he took the plastic surrounding it with him. I believe it is simpler for repairs as you only have to put a couple of screws in place and attach a cable or two and the screen is ready to go.
I doubt that you will be able to find this, although I would like to be proved wrong. I assume it is out of warantee, since most companies would probably fix it if it still were.
It is most likely a cost item being the reason the factory/supplier won't sell them as anything other than one item.
Good Luck
-CPM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, doesn't MS make a lot of money by licensing the WMA technology to other companies (DVD players, Dell [for the jukebox], etc)?
So, if this were to be true, every sale of an iPod would generate revenue for MS.
Somehow I don't think that apple would really let this happen -- at least not to Apple branded models.
-CPM
You really do have no idea what is going on in the world, do you?
The Chinese have hundreds of spies everywhere. So do many other places. The Chinese nuclear program grew rapidly in the 90's, mainly due to spying. And they are just one of many. We have only caught a handful of spies recently. For each one caught, there are probably hundreds. Granted, the USA has spies everywhere too, but other countries are expelling/capturing/killing them too.
Let's just say that no matter what you think, the world about 100 times more dangerous than you can possibly imagine.
This is a good thing for two reasons. #1 - it adds extra protection, and while not much, when combined with everything else, is a good start. #2 - it reminds us that we are still a target for numerous terrorist groups that for some reason feel a need to blame the US for all of their problems.
Mod me down if you want. The truth is the truth.
Oh, and the intelligence community has been saying for years (before 2001) that it will never be possible to end terrorism.
Everyone out there likes to complain about things, but you offer no real solutions. One of the loopholes this is supposed to close is people overstaying their visas. Several of the 9/11 highjackers had overstayed their visas. Is this the best way? No. But, it at least lets people know that it is there, rather than impliment a different system that is designed to be covert.
think about it.
I think that many people would prefer that we didn't have to do anything like this, however, we should never get as careless as we did during the period of 1993-2001. bin Laden & co are just biding their time until we get relaxed again (and just ignore the global terrorism problem). Then, they will hit us again.
-CPM
I would really like to see this tried on Judge Judy or something like that.
At the very least, it would be quite amusing.
-CPM
How different is this from the Speed Cameras (used in at least Australia) and red light cameras? They too are cold, heartless, hidden machines that catch you when you are breaking the law.
-CPM
Now I know I saw something like that in the Man with the Golden Gun (old bond flick for those who don't know).
The bad guy turned his car into an airplane in about 5 minutes.
-CPM
I used to trip a surge protector every time I would try to print something with my laser printer if I had everything else on. Then I realised that I had two complete computers plugged into one surge protector (and the protector was about 10 years old). I soon switched it out for a better one and didn't have any trouble with it (it has since been taken apart).
-CPM
You are braver than I usually am -- you just stuck your head into a lion's mouth.
That being said, it was quite brave and honourable of you to actually respond to this.
I have read your 'about' page, in case you were wondering. You have interesting goals, bringing the stability and features of apache/linux to IIS/MS (if I read it right). The market you are in has huge potential clients and I wish you the best of luck.
Thanks for the reply.
-CPM
Um, I sure hope you are Mr David himself, of The windows crash site as he is the only person I really said was allowed to use my picture of the drumscape crashing (took it on vacation while down at Ocean City, NJ).
Not that I really mind, I just want photo credit where credit is due.
-CPM
...you can hire a Mexican to do the same work as an american for about 1/10th of the cost. However, you will only get about 1/15th of the productivity.
If a teacher is saying it, then shortly those who work in companies will be saying it, and then shortly those jobs will be coming back. Well, maybe in my little happy world.
-CPM
PS - no offence to any Mexicans out there.
Hm, I was thinking that the BIOS was supposed to be this small thing whose only real purpose was to start up the main OS.
Old Biosii were quite small. Even if they really tried to make this super efficient, this bios will be huge.
So, since there is less and less room to bloat the software, are they trying to bloat the bios now too?
Of course, imagine a network -- corporate/school/home -- that uses all of this type of bios. Now, imagine a flaw is found and a virus written that infects this network. This could be the worst virus ever written b/c it has control of the bios.
-CPM
For this person, yes.
But, it opens up the ability to break the security to a whole new group of people, namely, the people in the same office.
It is now harder for a cracker/hacker/etc to get the information (as it is on a post-it). But, the janitor (who under many conditions would not be able to break the computer security) can easily get this information.
So, we are both correct, we only refer to a different group of people. I think.
-CPM
Arguably, the line about "without circumventing the inherent security of such password-protection schemes" negates the post-it argument as there is now a clear-text version of the password available for anyone to see.
While I don't believe this is patent worthy, the whole idea of a password wallet/keyring/etc would be much better than what many office workers do -- "hide" their passwords and usernames on a piece of paper that is right under their keyboard.
-CPM
That is, of course, compared to CNN's shitty, imcomplete, skewed news.
And the news channel that Al Gore wanted to start, that would have been really un-biased.
And pigs can fly.
-CPM
Just another day and another round of bashing Foxnews. For some of us, it is nice to have a break from being beaten over the head with the ultra liberalness of most of the rest of the media.
I can understand not liking Fox news for one reason or another, but putting "Fair and Balanced" in quotes somehow implies that all other media outlets are fair and balanced. NYTimes, Wall Street Journal? They are both politically motivated, one liberal, the other conservative.
I totally agree, Murdoch probably doesn't care what either show thinks/says/publishes/etc. But, he is a very conservative person. Such to the point where (I think) Ted Turner considered him "The most dangerous man on the planet", which is total crap b/c Turner is so liberal that Murdoch only challanges his belief structure.
But, yes, people are dumb. And this is quite stupid to threaten a law suit over something that I think everyone found to be amusing.
Oh, and I'm not flaming you, if it came across that way.
-CPM
No worries, I figured that it probably came out a bit meaner than you intended.
Interestingly enough, I have always heard that Nikon has the better glass than Canon (and that olympus glass is the best, but there camera's aren't all that great).
I just graduated from college and I am by now means a professional. But, I had a couple of friends who would only use Canon cameras. My prof, myself, and a couple others would use Nikons.
I think we can agree that both companies make great cameras, and there are many people who feel strongly one way or the other.
I personally have a Canon S30 (digital point and shoot) which I love. It is almost 2 years old now, but I have taken it to many exotic locations. It is a great little camera for which I have an underwater case and have taken it down about 37M/125Ft. For these pictures, see my other site Most of the pictures taken in the past two years are with this camera (with a few exceptions as I was using both my old digital and the canon for about a month while I got used to the new one).
Oh, my comment about the Rebel series was not intended to badmouth the camera. At the time I used it, it was the greatest camera I had ever used (which isn't saying much) probably due to the interchangeable lenses.
Thanks for the praise. I did enjoy Oxford, but only was able to spend a few hours there (took the train up from London for the day). My brother intends to study there next semester (study abroad, I'm from the USA).
-CPM