ahem... understanding the technical difficulties here, co2 is carbon and oxygens (2 of them). diamonds are pure carbon (traces of other stuff for color). if you take co2 and make diamonds, the 'leftover' is oxygen.
there might be patent issues, but i think they list those one the software or license somewhere. my understanding of trade secrets is that it is their reponsibility to maintain a the secret. and if this is *really* source code for nt4/win2k, it's not a secret anymore.
it's been my understanding that i386 is a rather generic term that describes the intel platform (instruction set) that started with the 80386, as opposed to 'alpha' or 'ppc'.
documents that should not be available to the general public should be a) behind firewalls where the general public is on the other side, b) stored on web servers that require authentication to read such pages (where the general public does not have username/password), or c) not be stored on a web server!
i think that this is somewhat an issues of bad management and somewhat (maybe more) and issue of the weakness of web service security (compared to something like local novell services).
i have dsl through a local company that does dsl and dialup. $60/month. this included 4 static addresses.
bell was $50 for 1 dynamic address and (i think) $129 for 1 static. and way out of control for more than one static ip.
adelphia (cabletv) was $50 for 1 dynamic, $150 for 1 static address and *another* $150 if you needed another (one address per cable!)
bell jumped out with teeth and claws a short time ago. i had a (bell) customer with 5 regular lines and they were paying 225/month. bell offered them 5 lines and dsl for 195/month. something smells here, but i asked all the questions. it will be interesting to see if they can maintain a reasonable data rate...
*i* think they (bell) were afraid of adelphia and not the 'other' dsl providers. i think also it's a hook to keep customers on land lines. ya gotta have copper (or fiber) to have dsl. this may also be to keep people from moving that number to cell phone.
i don't know that i would use timewarner/AOL (yes, i know they changed the name!) as a good example here! aol played games, merged with/bought timewarner and has been dragging it down the drain ever since. i beleive that they may have stopped the bleeding, but they already blead billions (and billions) of dollars. not a shining example in my book.
for all of you who have not seen this (on mtv), it was a claymation animation of two (or more) people/parties taking it to the ring. to the death. usually a pretty gruesome death. and sometimes for both parties.
remember that the fcc is ultimately run by people that are *elected*. if in 2005 poeple are bitching about not wanting to lose old-analog, it's not going anywhere.
if you want this fixed, the best way is grassroots so that people will complain to their elected officials.
there may not be very many tech savy people out there, but there are *lots* of people that have VCRs.
let me also make the following point: tv land is hurting. 10% drop in male viewers 18-24 (or such). it doesn't take a lot of lost viewership before lost revenue hurts. why am i saying this? because if a sizable portion of the viewing populations gets fed up (poor quality or punted into new tech), it costs them money.
two years until this happens or doesn't happen. i would say that it's still way up in the air.
i think that longhorn is/will be much bigger in terms of lines of code. if you look at 2000/xp from the right angle, 2000 was released without all the stuff that ms wanted because they were out of time. xp looks like the rest of the features that they wanted to put into 2000. they can't afford to release part of longhorn in 200x and have longhorn+ 18 months later.
ms is also very busy with other projects, mainly bug fixes. i think they were not planning to spend so much time on these, but that's the way the coookie crumbles.
eric
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remember that there are other ways to do error recovery besides with tcp. this system could detect errors by sending a crc of the total packet/sector sent and the receiving end would do the same crc. read-after-write would also detect bad stuff.
my concern with this is that it won't be bi-directional. it seems that there is every opportunity to have the black box used against you (i.e. the insurance company looking to prove you were speeding), but i somehow doubt that they will rush out to tell you about the black box that might prove that you were not. and i can't wait for the insurance company lawyers to try to toss the box out by claiming whatever when it doesn't read in their favor.
i've been told by several salesweasels that they love seeing a 'no soliciting' or 'no salesmen' sign because those people lack the time/motivation/temperment to say *no*. if you were really good at telling the salesperson 'no' and leave, don't comeback, don't call back, etc, they wouldn't need the sign.
probably the easiest people in the world to see to are the people on the do not call list.
i have seen a plastic (i assume anti-static) tray designed to to just this. it was maybe 6-12 inches, orange plastic, and had glooves about every half inch. i have no idea how made this.
why not the isp mail provider to start. if you get the isp to issue certificates, make them responsible for their mail users. people that get their own mailservers could still get a cert from their isp.
if the isp riske being bounced, i think they will manage their mail system/users a little more closely.
when their quicken data or other very personal info is 'liberated'. or any number of other personal information. can you imagine how fast things would be patched if a virus/worm scanned for quicken/quickbooks/misc financial data and emailed them to people in the local address book?
p.s. about 12 years ago epson america had some documentation on printer troubleshooting that stated that most dotmatrix printer problems were caused by DEUs. defective end users. i am not kidding.
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ahem... understanding the technical difficulties here, co2 is carbon and oxygens (2 of them). diamonds are pure carbon (traces of other stuff for color). if you take co2 and make diamonds, the 'leftover' is oxygen.
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there might be patent issues, but i think they list those one the software or license somewhere. my understanding of trade secrets is that it is their reponsibility to maintain a the secret. and if this is *really* source code for nt4/win2k, it's not a secret anymore.
eric
it's been my understanding that i386 is a rather generic term that describes the intel platform (instruction set) that started with the 80386, as opposed to 'alpha' or 'ppc'.
eric
documents that should not be available to the general public should be a) behind firewalls where the general public is on the other side, b) stored on web servers that require authentication to read such pages (where the general public does not have username/password), or c) not be stored on a web server!
i think that this is somewhat an issues of bad management and somewhat (maybe more) and issue of the weakness of web service security (compared to something like local novell services).
eric
gigli!
that there are *laws* to protect you from cc fraud! it appears that if your debit card is defrauded, you're outta luck!
eric
i have dsl through a local company that does dsl and dialup. $60/month. this included 4 static addresses.
bell was $50 for 1 dynamic address and (i think) $129 for 1 static. and way out of control for more than one static ip.
adelphia (cabletv) was $50 for 1 dynamic, $150 for 1 static address and *another* $150 if you needed another (one address per cable!)
bell jumped out with teeth and claws a short time ago. i had a (bell) customer with 5 regular lines and they were paying 225/month. bell offered them 5 lines and dsl for 195/month. something smells here, but i asked all the questions. it will be interesting to see if they can maintain a reasonable data rate...
*i* think they (bell) were afraid of adelphia and not the 'other' dsl providers. i think also it's a hook to keep customers on land lines. ya gotta have copper (or fiber) to have dsl. this may also be to keep people from moving that number to cell phone.
eric
this ought to be interesting.
it's apples and oranges. i would bet that there is less overhead in india. no over time, no osha, less/no legal liabilities, etc.
eric
i don't know that i would use timewarner/AOL (yes, i know they changed the name!) as a good example here! aol played games, merged with/bought timewarner and has been dragging it down the drain ever since. i beleive that they may have stopped the bleeding, but they already blead billions (and billions) of dollars. not a shining example in my book.
eric
i just got a picture of Celebrity Deathmatch.
for all of you who have not seen this (on mtv), it was a claymation animation of two (or more) people/parties taking it to the ring. to the death. usually a pretty gruesome death. and sometimes for both parties.
just a pretty picture to brighton your day!
eric
remember that the fcc is ultimately run by people that are *elected*. if in 2005 poeple are bitching about not wanting to lose old-analog, it's not going anywhere.
if you want this fixed, the best way is grassroots so that people will complain to their elected officials.
there may not be very many tech savy people out there, but there are *lots* of people that have VCRs.
let me also make the following point: tv land is hurting. 10% drop in male viewers 18-24 (or such). it doesn't take a lot of lost viewership before lost revenue hurts. why am i saying this? because if a sizable portion of the viewing populations gets fed up (poor quality or punted into new tech), it costs them money.
two years until this happens or doesn't happen. i would say that it's still way up in the air.
eric
i thought that they only included nsnipes on 2.x? i remember when 3.x came out and was disappointed that snipes wasn't included.
eric
nope. novell! wasn't it a university in nc that walled up a server for four years?
i think that longhorn is/will be much bigger in terms of lines of code. if you look at 2000/xp from the right angle, 2000 was released without all the stuff that ms wanted because they were out of time. xp looks like the rest of the features that they wanted to put into 2000. they can't afford to release part of longhorn in 200x and have longhorn+ 18 months later.
ms is also very busy with other projects, mainly bug fixes. i think they were not planning to spend so much time on these, but that's the way the coookie crumbles.
eric
remember that there are other ways to do error recovery besides with tcp. this system could detect errors by sending a crc of the total packet/sector sent and the receiving end would do the same crc. read-after-write would also detect bad stuff.
eric
if this is about spending to much time in front of a computer, shouldn't this be 'user destruction'?
eric
my concern with this is that it won't be bi-directional. it seems that there is every opportunity to have the black box used against you (i.e. the insurance company looking to prove you were speeding), but i somehow doubt that they will rush out to tell you about the black box that might prove that you were not. and i can't wait for the insurance company lawyers to try to toss the box out by claiming whatever when it doesn't read in their favor.
eric
the game company (take two) probably doesn't have that much money. but sony does.
i hope this gets tossed out of court. fast.
eric
i've been told by several salesweasels that they love seeing a 'no soliciting' or 'no salesmen' sign because those people lack the time/motivation/temperment to say *no*. if you were really good at telling the salesperson 'no' and leave, don't comeback, don't call back, etc, they wouldn't need the sign.
probably the easiest people in the world to see to are the people on the do not call list.
eric
that hurt!
i have seen a plastic (i assume anti-static) tray designed to to just this. it was maybe 6-12 inches, orange plastic, and had glooves about every half inch. i have no idea how made this.
eric
why not the isp mail provider to start. if you get the isp to issue certificates, make them responsible for their mail users. people that get their own mailservers could still get a cert from their isp.
if the isp riske being bounced, i think they will manage their mail system/users a little more closely.
eric
when their quicken data or other very personal info is 'liberated'. or any number of other personal information. can you imagine how fast things would be patched if a virus/worm scanned for quicken/quickbooks/misc financial data and emailed them to people in the local address book?
eric
i know about 1d 10t codes. what is pebkac.
eric
p.s. about 12 years ago epson america had some documentation on printer troubleshooting that stated that most dotmatrix printer problems were caused by DEUs. defective end users. i am not kidding.
i never made the connection to gigawatt. whenever i hear that clip, 'jigawatt', it meant a huge, amazing, un-freakin-imaginable amount of power.
.... jiga!
ie kilo, mega, giga, tera,
eric