DSL is limited in the United States due to concerns that the signal will bleed over in legacy telco equipment, thereby rendering many older phone systems obsolete. The baby bells wanted to push this regulatory measure through to enable her to make all equipment, even older Phone systems, work with the extra measure of having DSL on the line.
Keep in mind that most DSL equipment actually operates several thousand hertz higher than what you can physically hear.
It is quite all right though, as I worked for a DSL acompany, I got to test equipment. Imagine pure internet joy at 3 MB up and down with a class C of Public IP's:) (Two DSL lines channel bonded together through a netopia router)
They installed this at the Dominicks in Oak Park Illinois when I lived only across the street.
Anyway, push one over the line. The wheel locks up abruptly. Drag it back. It may or may not unlock. (Chances are more than not that it will stay locked for a time) They installed this at this location because people where stealing carts.
Hope that this helps.
Oh, you could also do a check on google for more information. Google is a "search engine", which indexes and allows you to search threw them for information. Google is considered by many the best "search engine" available currently.
My friend, I am unsure if you are purposely being obtuse, or just don't know about firewire technology.
Firewire is hot-swappable. Try that with a external SCSI Drive. (not a hot swappable disk, the entire drive)
Firewire doesn't need a computer to work. USB 2.0 and 1.1 need a computer for it to work, but you can actually plug a DV camcorder straight into a digital VCR.
There is up to 50MB/s transfer rates (400Mbits/s) and the design is scalable, meaning the next iteration of Firewire will be 800Mbits/s, or possibly even 1.2Gbits/s
Ease of use: FireWire cables are a snap to connectyou dont need device IDs, jumpers, DIP switches, screws, latches or terminators.
Data and power: the FireWire cable carries data of course, but also power. I have one cable on my desktop for my iPod. It charges and synchs it to my iTunes with one wire. Serial doesn't do that.
USB 2.0 doesn't have real world speeds at the advertised 480MBs. Firewire does.
It is an industry standard. Bar none. Purchase a new digital 8 or mini DV camcorder. What do you get? A firewire port right on the side.
So basically, I wish all ports were designed with the expandibility of firewire in mind. I can do just about anything with it. Now even if I have a super-duper fast parallel port, there is tons of stuff I wouldn't want to do it with.
The 970 is a derivative of the Power 4 chip (with what I assume to be the Altivec extensions)
These run in the 1.6 -2.0 Gig range
As a Risc chip
with 64 byte chunks.
Granted, I am unsure as of yet if Darwin runs 64 bit natively, but when it does, imagine a dual processor of these (with of course, quartz extreme pushing all of the video over to the Graphics processor).
Maybe I am getting my hopes up, but this is what I have been waiting for. New macintosh, here I come:)
I have had some of this stuff for years....
on
Magic Sand
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· Score: 2
I have a plastic dispenser of this stuff sitting at home that I remember my dad showing me when I was a kid. It is red, instead of blue. It is called "Magic Sand"
It is trademarked 1981.
Played with it just last week. Works well in water, not well in alcoholic drinks.
The grains of sand are smaller than beach sand, but of course, it may not be silicon at all, though I haven't done a chemical analysis on it. ( It was sold as a children's toy at a place called Pamida a loooong time ago)
As a geek who also has a social life and (what the women call) a hard body, let me let you in on the two secrets to staying in shape.
Excercise and Food intake.
The first thing that I would do if I were you would be eliminate soda's. I still drink coffee in the morning as I probably only get 3-4 hours of sleep a night (thank you WebObjects), but because I eliminate soda, I have kept off tons of weight when I see the geeks around me slowly adding a gut. That is just a start, and you may want to change other eating habits as well. I have found that because I no longer drink pop (at 170 calories a can x 5-6 cans a day) I save almost 1000 calories. That leaves me enough room to pig out occasionally. Also if you excercise your metabolism will speed up, allowing you to burn off more calories, even when you are just sitting there.
I personally work out maybe 30 minutes a day, with 10 minutes of warm up streching and 5 minutes of cool down streching. That is 45 minutes a day. Yes, it sucks, yes it takes time out of my day, but YES I LOVE the eventual benifit. As an aside, I have more energy, and feel better about myself. As an aside, streching is VERY important. You will be stiff and sore the next day, and get burned out on working out IF YOU DON'T STRECH OUT. If you do the soreness is kept to a minimum.
The workout program is simple, but I know that you may want to taylor this to your own. I run two miles, which I can do in 10 minutes, then I work out my upper body and abs, and I alternate between the two of them. I have free weights at home and a curl bar (the bar was $30 at play it again sports, the weights are about 40 at wal-mart) As a person who has obnoxiously strong legs (I used to race bicycles long ago) I run with leg weights on, but that is something that you may not wish to start out on.
There are a couple of books which I use as a guideline to help me out, and I recommend them highly.
They are the "Stronger Abs and Back: 165 Exercises to Build Your Center of Power"
I am finally getting close to a rock hard 6 pack thanks to this book alone. WOW.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157826085 X/ 104-1080760-7878365 Great book, hints on eating correctly, and hints on using what you have to achieve what you want.
This book is very good if you wish to get into a gym and you really want to know which excersices work what. It has diagrams and walk throughs of dozens of machines and free weights, and shows you drawings of what muscles it works.
I have been working out for 4 months now. I have lost 15 pounds, went from 14 to 7% body fat, and really started toning up. I have found that it has really done a lot more than just make me look better. I hope that you find what you need and start working out yourself.:)
The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes.
------------- I just woke up, but if my math is correct, this is almost 9300% faster?!? I cannot believe that just the optimizations of Linux have done that.
Linux is fast, but they didn't even mention the fact that the new hardware was quite a bit faster then there legacy Unix systems. It is a bias in the way of making Linux appear even better, so I can't argue too awful much, but consider this point.
No program that I have switched over to Linux (IIS to Apache, etc) have gotten that kind of speed gain. The only thing that I have seen with that kind of performance increase was when I put novell 3.12 on a P3 1.3 ghz (from a 33 mhz 486):)
I didn't read the article online (I read it at lunch yesterday in the dead tree edition... Had a nice army of Tuxes on the cover of the section).
>>Because Micron can't produce their ram as cheaply as their foreign competitors. I say boo fucking hoo to Micron. If they can't produce it as cheap as everyone else then they should get out of the business
Yes there is a minimum wage here in the US, in addition to insurance, taxes, safety, and other concerns that you ob. I am happy that they actually do make some of their RAM here in the states, instead of offloading it to China of Tiawan where they can pay someone 1/3 as much and work them so much harder.
>> So they get Congress to increase the tarriffs to a point where foreign produced ram costs about the same or slightly higher to purchase then Micron ram.
You really want to say Boo-Hoo to Micron... And while you say that your employer will be outsourcing your Perl hacking job to 3 people in India who he can get for half the salary that he is paying you with. So Boo-Hoo to you. That is what Tarriffs are for. It isn't what it is always used for, but this is actual intent of having them. It is protectionary.
At least they still make some microprocessors here. Not to say that AMD hasn't made factory's in Ireland simply because the Tax write-offs and other benifits outweigh dealing with OSHA and other parts of the federal government.
Basically, Take Buisness 101, since is painfully obvious you haven't taken it.
15 K a year is horrible, but you must add in the 30K GI Bill and Army college fund. Blamo, a little less than 30k a year at 17. Defered payment on most of it, but you also must realize that food, shelter and just about everything else is covered (you get money for new uniforms for crist's sake)
I used that time to hone my skills, and got a good entry level job when I got out (I was only 20 with an honorable discharge:) I raised up to a NOCC tech, and after leaving that company on great terms (left right before Sept 11 doh!) I got a job as a Sys Admin, which I what I wanted to do.
This is a rather roundabout way to get to where you want to be, but in the roundabout way I took, I have been to 13 countries, I have seen the world and have been exposed to many different types of people, cultures, and ideas. To be honest, I didn't really think about being a sys admin until I was about 7 months into the Army. I was accepted (and they deferred my acceptance until I got out) to a flight school in Florida.
It can also be noted that everything I have done, I have done on my own, with no outside help. College, yep, I paid for that.
My parents have passed, so this really was a logical direction for me to take.
Please email me offline if you are interested in this. I am not a recruiter, nor am I even in the military anymore. I just think that for someone who has an idea of what they want to do should be exposed to many other ideas, to verify that what they want to do is truly what they want to do.
it would really suck if you got your MCSE and CCNA and then decided that this wasn't for you.
I joined the military for the smallest amount of time that I could (2 years 19 Weeks), although that may not be in your options. Because of that, (I did non-computer related things in the military) I gained people skills, leadership, and all of the other things the military teaches you. I also got a six pack stomach, and a nice chest, and ladies dig that. I work now as a sysadmin, and go to school part time. Make good money (35k), get paid even more to go to school through the GI Bill (around 3k per semester) And I am only 22!
If you live in Illinois, Florida, or Texas, I believe, You get to go to a public school free, but you still reap the GI Bill Benifits.
I did simple math before I joined. 2 years making dirt pay,but when you add in what you will recieve from schooling, it makes good sense
My easy Math
where I could find the time to hone my system skills on my own (I did combat related jobs in the Army) and I did some side consulting work while I was in. You can even take CLEP tests for Free as well as other major tests (retake the ACT, SAT, ASE)
Thanks to xStainDx for the heads up in BPN on our forums. He has found some documentation on Windows Codenamed Longhorn, the new Windows planned to follow XP. Microsoft have been keeping mum about this, not letting on if Longhorn will be XPSE (read: Second Edition) or a major upgrade and advancement.
We can reveal today that there will be some major advancements in compliance and driver support for Longhorn with an addition to securing the OS and making it more central to the home PC. For example: Taken from h3-longhorn_preview_winhec.doc ADVANCES: Broadcast and video components meet reliability and stability requirements New built-in driver support is being planned for Windows Longhorn. Support planned at this time includes a new class driver for USB video cameras. Proposed requirements include the following:
For any device that provides end-user capabilities for transfer of digital content, expose the device schema so that Windows can support seamless content transfer.
The device and driver must ensure a minimum level of propagation and persistence of device or content metadata.
The DirectX Video Acceleration (DirectX VA) API must be used if the hardware supports acceleration of MPEG-2 decode with motion compensation, iDCT, or VLD.
Video that is interlaced must be de-interlaced using the DirectX VA and Direct3D 9 APIs for video.
The components must be capable of rendering video with the Microsoft DirectShow Video Mixing Renderer using DirectX 9 Direct3D. and also discussed is: NEW: "Mira" device, if implemented, meets stability, reliability, and compatibility requirements
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Now let me get this straight? The RIAA, MPAA and others (through the Disney Senator) want to take away many of the rights that hardware manufacturers have in building their systems. And now they want these same companies to spend money to help keep the horrible music system in place? At least movie stars make money. 99% of artist's don't. Read This article [Salon.com] by Courtney Love if you want to know why I personally don't like the RIAA.
I applaud Gateway for this, and I really hope that this helps bring them from the brink of going out of buisness. I plan on supporting them through corporate purchases (which I oversee). I hope supporting companies who endorse (publically) our ideals will win in the long run
"One of the most basic "hacks" (to use the media's bastardization of the term)
I read the article several times, and they seemed to call them "attacks" not hacks. So why are you claiming the media bastardizes the term when this author actually uses the correct terminology?
Quoting Michael Howard, the security expert who designed the course for Microsoft:
"Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed."
I was astonished that he can make such bold claims. I have always thought that geeks have a mindset all of our own, and not one to be brainwashed easily. But then I found this quote:
"Microsoft has always had a crisis-driven mentality," said Mr. Howard, the security expert. "You have my word: we will lead the industry in delivering secure software."
He put the slash in Slashdot (a slash being an interupt, i.e. http\
He put the backslash in ASCII code (without it, where would DOS be now.... oh, I mean.. nevermind)
He Texas Plates are "ASCII". That just rocks in itself.
He helped invent COBOL. I learned to program on COBOL. I can't even imagine the fortitude trying to make an entire programming language. The old programmers had it really tough. Imagine wanting to program in a high level, so you have to design and implement a high level language yourself.
The whole reason this got out is simply because he is fed up with all of these outrageous patents. Hyperlinking... bah, One click purchasing.
He is one of us (albiet probably the oldest)
Slashdot would do good for itself to do an interview with him, maybe even make him the honorary "grandpa" of slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
What is it?
I have looked in the forums and the homepage, and it almost seems as if it is a joke.
Does it work?
Does it actually make a speed improvement?
How does it work?
With software that possibly emulates a 512bit integer processor (or so I gathered from the website) I would assume a massive slowdown from emulation.
Before I actually try this software, would someone let me know of their experiences with it?
Yahoo Picture
Here is a decent picture of the new unit next to the old unit
DSL is limited in the United States due to concerns that the signal will bleed over in legacy telco equipment, thereby rendering many older phone systems obsolete. The baby bells wanted to push this regulatory measure through to enable her to make all equipment, even older Phone systems, work with the extra measure of having DSL on the line.
:) (Two DSL lines channel bonded together through a netopia router)
Keep in mind that most DSL equipment actually operates several thousand hertz higher than what you can physically hear.
It is quite all right though, as I worked for a DSL acompany, I got to test equipment. Imagine pure internet joy at 3 MB up and down with a class C of Public IP's
without the dot between the c and the e
afcexpress.com
Yes.
They installed this at the Dominicks in Oak Park Illinois when I lived only across the street.
n .com/fravia/nola_wheel.htm
Anyway, push one over the line. The wheel locks up abruptly. Drag it back. It may or may not unlock. (Chances are more than not that it will stay locked for a time) They installed this at this location because people where stealing carts.
Hope that this helps.
Oh, you could also do a check on google for more information. Google is a "search engine", which indexes and allows you to search threw them for information. Google is considered by many the best "search engine" available currently.
http://www.carttronics.com/
http://www.woodman
You have no email address. I would love that old IIc. I used one back in middle school :)
Email me at danmNOSPAM@afcNOSPAMexpress.com
Thanks,
Dan
My friend, I am unsure if you are purposely being obtuse, or just don't know about firewire technology.
Firewire is hot-swappable. Try that with a external SCSI Drive. (not a hot swappable disk, the entire drive)
Firewire doesn't need a computer to work. USB 2.0 and 1.1 need a computer for it to work, but you can actually plug a DV camcorder straight into a digital VCR.
There is up to 50MB/s transfer rates (400Mbits/s) and the design is scalable, meaning the next iteration of Firewire will be 800Mbits/s, or possibly even 1.2Gbits/s
Ease of use: FireWire cables are a snap to
connectyou dont need device IDs, jumpers, DIP switches, screws, latches or
terminators.
Data and power: the FireWire cable carries data of course, but also power. I have one cable on my desktop for my iPod. It charges and synchs it to my iTunes with one wire. Serial doesn't do that.
USB 2.0 doesn't have real world speeds at the advertised 480MBs. Firewire does.
It is an industry standard. Bar none. Purchase a new digital 8 or mini DV camcorder. What do you get? A firewire port right on the side.
So basically, I wish all ports were designed with the expandibility of firewire in mind. I can do just about anything with it. Now even if I have a super-duper fast parallel port, there is tons of stuff I wouldn't want to do it with.
I Am An Electrical Engineer?
THis is an interesting story:
:)
The 970 is a derivative of the Power 4 chip (with what I assume to be the Altivec extensions)
These run in the 1.6 -2.0 Gig range
As a Risc chip
with 64 byte chunks.
Granted, I am unsure as of yet if Darwin runs 64 bit natively, but when it does, imagine a dual processor of these (with of course, quartz extreme pushing all of the video over to the Graphics processor).
Maybe I am getting my hopes up, but this is what I have been waiting for. New macintosh, here I come
I have a plastic dispenser of this stuff sitting at home that I remember my dad showing me when I was a kid. It is red, instead of blue. It is called "Magic Sand"
It is trademarked 1981.
Played with it just last week. Works well in water, not well in alcoholic drinks.
The grains of sand are smaller than beach sand, but of course, it may not be silicon at all, though I haven't done a chemical analysis on it. ( It was sold as a children's toy at a place called Pamida a loooong time ago)
I mean really.
Dumb.
Come on now Pudge.
As a geek who also has a social life and (what the women call) a hard body, let me let you in on the two secrets to staying in shape.
8 0/ 104-1080760-7878365
5 X/ 104-1080760-7878365
5 0/ 104-1080760-7878365
:)
Excercise and Food intake.
The first thing that I would do if I were you would be eliminate soda's. I still drink coffee in the morning as I probably only get 3-4 hours of sleep a night (thank you WebObjects), but because I eliminate soda, I have kept off tons of weight when I see the geeks around me slowly adding a gut. That is just a start, and you may want to change other eating habits as well. I have found that because I no longer drink pop (at 170 calories a can x 5-6 cans a day) I save almost 1000 calories. That leaves me enough room to pig out occasionally. Also if you excercise your metabolism will speed up, allowing you to burn off more calories, even when you are just sitting there.
I personally work out maybe 30 minutes a day, with 10 minutes of warm up streching and 5 minutes of cool down streching. That is 45 minutes a day. Yes, it sucks, yes it takes time out of my day, but YES I LOVE the eventual benifit. As an aside, I have more energy, and feel better about myself. As an aside, streching is VERY important. You will be stiff and sore the next day, and get burned out on working out IF YOU DON'T STRECH OUT. If you do the soreness is kept to a minimum.
The workout program is simple, but I know that you may want to taylor this to your own. I run two miles, which I can do in 10 minutes, then I work out my upper body and abs, and I alternate between the two of them. I have free weights at home and a curl bar (the bar was $30 at play it again sports, the weights are about 40 at wal-mart) As a person who has obnoxiously strong legs (I used to race bicycles long ago) I run with leg weights on, but that is something that you may not wish to start out on.
There are a couple of books which I use as a guideline to help me out, and I recommend them highly.
They are the "Stronger Abs and Back: 165 Exercises to Build Your Center of Power"
I am finally getting close to a rock hard 6 pack thanks to this book alone. WOW.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/08801155
The Body Sculpting Bible for Men
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/15782608
Great book, hints on eating correctly, and hints on using what you have to achieve what you want.
Strength Training Anatomy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/07360418
This book is very good if you wish to get into a gym and you really want to know which excersices work what. It has diagrams and walk throughs of dozens of machines and free weights, and shows you drawings of what muscles it works.
I have been working out for 4 months now. I have lost 15 pounds, went from 14 to 7% body fat, and really started toning up. I have found that it has really done a lot more than just make me look better. I hope that you find what you need and start working out yourself.
From the Article:
:)
The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes.
-------------
I just woke up, but if my math is correct, this is almost 9300% faster?!? I cannot believe that just the optimizations of Linux have done that.
Linux is fast, but they didn't even mention the fact that the new hardware was quite a bit faster then there legacy Unix systems. It is a bias in the way of making Linux appear even better, so I can't argue too awful much, but consider this point.
No program that I have switched over to Linux (IIS to Apache, etc) have gotten that kind of speed gain. The only thing that I have seen with that kind of performance increase was when I put novell 3.12 on a P3 1.3 ghz (from a 33 mhz 486)
I didn't read the article online (I read it at lunch yesterday in the dead tree edition... Had a nice army of Tuxes on the cover of the section).
>>Because Micron can't produce their ram as cheaply as their foreign competitors. I say boo fucking hoo to Micron. If they can't produce it as cheap as everyone else then they should get out of the business
Yes there is a minimum wage here in the US, in addition to insurance, taxes, safety, and other concerns that you ob. I am happy that they actually do make some of their RAM here in the states, instead of offloading it to China of Tiawan where they can pay someone 1/3 as much and work them so much harder.
>> So they get Congress to increase the tarriffs to a point where foreign produced ram costs about the same or slightly higher to purchase then Micron ram.
You really want to say Boo-Hoo to Micron... And while you say that your employer will be outsourcing your Perl hacking job to 3 people in India who he can get for half the salary that he is paying you with. So Boo-Hoo to you. That is what Tarriffs are for. It isn't what it is always used for, but this is actual intent of having them. It is protectionary.
At least they still make some microprocessors here. Not to say that AMD hasn't made factory's in Ireland simply because the Tax write-offs and other benifits outweigh dealing with OSHA and other parts of the federal government.
Basically, Take Buisness 101, since is painfully obvious you haven't taken it.
yes voodoo.
4096 colors, plus black and white.
:)
This posted before I was done. Argh.
:) I raised up to a NOCC tech, and after leaving that company on great terms (left right before Sept 11 doh!) I got a job as a Sys Admin, which I what I wanted to do.
Math,
15 K a year is horrible, but you must add in the 30K GI Bill and Army college fund. Blamo, a little less than 30k a year at 17. Defered payment on most of it, but you also must realize that food, shelter and just about everything else is covered (you get money for new uniforms for crist's sake)
I used that time to hone my skills, and got a good entry level job when I got out (I was only 20 with an honorable discharge
This is a rather roundabout way to get to where you want to be, but in the roundabout way I took, I have been to 13 countries, I have seen the world and have been exposed to many different types of people, cultures, and ideas. To be honest, I didn't really think about being a sys admin until I was about 7 months into the Army. I was accepted (and they deferred my acceptance until I got out) to a flight school in Florida.
It can also be noted that everything I have done, I have done on my own, with no outside help. College, yep, I paid for that.
My parents have passed, so this really was a logical direction for me to take.
Please email me offline if you are interested in this. I am not a recruiter, nor am I even in the military anymore. I just think that for someone who has an idea of what they want to do should be exposed to many other ideas, to verify that what they want to do is truly what they want to do.
it would really suck if you got your MCSE and CCNA and then decided that this wasn't for you.
And here is what I did.
I joined the military for the smallest amount of time that I could (2 years 19 Weeks), although that may not be in your options. Because of that, (I did non-computer related things in the military) I gained people skills, leadership, and all of the other things the military teaches you. I also got a six pack stomach, and a nice chest, and ladies dig that. I work now as a sysadmin, and go to school part time. Make good money (35k), get paid even more to go to school through the GI Bill (around 3k per semester) And I am only 22!
If you live in Illinois, Florida, or Texas, I believe, You get to go to a public school free, but you still reap the GI Bill Benifits.
I did simple math before I joined. 2 years making dirt pay,but when you add in what you will recieve from schooling, it makes good sense
My easy Math
where I could find the time to hone my system skills on my own (I did combat related jobs in the Army) and I did some side consulting work while I was in. You can even take CLEP tests for Free as well as other major tests (retake the ACT, SAT, ASE)
Do you use winamp? If not download it
It is in the standard plug in.
Thanks to xStainDx for the heads up in BPN on our forums.
He has found some documentation on Windows Codenamed Longhorn, the new Windows planned to follow XP. Microsoft have been keeping mum about this, not letting on if Longhorn will be XPSE (read: Second Edition) or a major upgrade and advancement.
We can reveal today that there will be some major advancements in compliance and driver support for Longhorn with an addition to securing the OS and making it more central to the home PC. For example: Taken from h3-longhorn_preview_winhec.doc
ADVANCES: Broadcast and video components meet reliability and stability requirements
New built-in driver support is being planned for Windows Longhorn. Support planned at this time includes a new class driver for USB video cameras.
Proposed requirements include the following:
For any device that provides end-user capabilities for transfer of digital content, expose the device schema so that Windows can support seamless content transfer.
The device and driver must ensure a minimum level of propagation and persistence of device or content metadata.
The DirectX Video Acceleration (DirectX VA) API must be used if the hardware supports acceleration of MPEG-2 decode with motion compensation, iDCT, or VLD.
Video that is interlaced must be de-interlaced using the DirectX VA and Direct3D 9 APIs for video.
The components must be capable of rendering video with the Microsoft DirectShow Video Mixing Renderer using DirectX 9 Direct3D.
and also discussed is:
NEW: "Mira" device, if implemented, meets stability, reliability, and compatibility requirements
Proposed requirements for "Mira" devices are TBD
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading ... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Now let me get this straight? The RIAA, MPAA and others (through the Disney Senator) want to take away many of the rights that hardware manufacturers have in building their systems. And now they want these same companies to spend money to help keep the horrible music system in place? At least movie stars make money. 99% of artist's don't. Read This article [Salon.com] by Courtney Love if you want to know why I personally don't like the RIAA.
I applaud Gateway for this, and I really hope that this helps bring them from the brink of going out of buisness. I plan on supporting them through corporate purchases (which I oversee). I hope supporting companies who endorse (publically) our ideals will win in the long run
Damn, when I read the header, I really thought we were all talking about The Game of Life
Was I the only one who thought that?
"One of the most basic "hacks" (to use the media's bastardization of the term)
I read the article several times, and they seemed to call them "attacks" not hacks. So why are you claiming the media bastardizes the term when this author actually uses the correct terminology?
Quoting Michael Howard, the security expert who designed the course for Microsoft:
"Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed."
I was astonished that he can make such bold claims. I have always thought that geeks have a mindset all of our own, and not one to be brainwashed easily. But then I found this quote:
"Microsoft has always had a crisis-driven mentality," said Mr. Howard, the security expert. "You have my word: we will lead the industry in delivering secure software."
And I couldn't help but laugh my ass off.....
I pay $699 for a full T1 today. No cap on upload/download amount. Of course, I am going through an ILEC
He put the slash in Slashdot (a slash being an interupt, i.e. http\
He put the backslash in ASCII code (without it, where would DOS be now.... oh, I mean.. nevermind)
He Texas Plates are "ASCII". That just rocks in itself.
He helped invent COBOL. I learned to program on COBOL. I can't even imagine the fortitude trying to make an entire programming language. The old programmers had it really tough. Imagine wanting to program in a high level, so you have to design and implement a high level language yourself.
The whole reason this got out is simply because he is fed up with all of these outrageous patents. Hyperlinking... bah, One click purchasing.
He is one of us (albiet probably the oldest)
Slashdot would do good for itself to do an interview with him, maybe even make him the honorary "grandpa" of slashdot.