ok, now that is just scary.... because after investigating all the email options I could find, hosting with Pair is the solution I came up with. The reason I chose Pair over other services was that Pair does IMAP (though not secure IMAP, alas), and I could not (easily) find anything else that did IMAP at a reasonable price. Funny thing, a few days after I signed up, another ISP called me to try to get me to switch to them, and I had to explain to the guy on the phone what IMAP was before he would let me go.... Pair also has a web interface (https) for mail, runs SpamAssassin and procmail. I am pretty sure that this morning's mail from Yahoo was not flagged as being spam though...
I don't know anything about this code/documentation-stealing thing, but is 84% of the market a monopoly?
I interned at IBM working on PCOMM in the summer of 1998, and at that time everyone was all worried about Hitachi mainframes eating up their hardware business, and terminal emulation from Zephyr
Apparently the hardware part was due to Hitachi's continuing to use bipolar technology for their CPUs (which is what IBM used as well), where IBM made the leap to CMOS - this gave Hitachi an advantage for about two years, but these days, CMOS again has the performance advantage, and IBM was there first.
On the software side (and this is a big deal, because when you sell hardware, usually you sell tens of thousands of software licenses as well), the Zephyr software seemed to be just generally more modern and "better", and that's probably as true today as it was then.
This is somewhat offtopic, but if you're running some version of NT (4.0, 2000, XP), you can just run most DOS games with support for sound, using VDMSound.
I've played both Monkey Island and Monkey Island II with it; hearing the music and sound effects for the first time EVER almost brought a tear to my eye. (When I first played them, my PC didn't have a sound card, so it was all PC Speaker blips and beeps...)
... well, at least the stuff that adorns sidewalks, all over Cambridge. So anyway, one of my roommates and I went outside, to see what the stuff was really made of, and here is the story:
I sent some email to emusic, about a month ago, asking if they would ever offer higher-quality mp3s than 128kbit. The response was basically, "maybe; that would require us to triple our storage capacity, but do you have any suggestions for a good encoder at high bitrates?"
so anyway, I don't think that emusic is going to be doing high-quality mp3s, anytime soon, which will stop me from subscribing, but other than that, it looks like a pretty excellent service!
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.... except that interoperability with ICQ wouldn't count, because they OWN ICQ, and already plan to unify the two.... in addition, AOL is working on an Open IM standard, so opening the AIM protocol to competitors is really sort of pointless.
all in all, this idea seems to have been cooked up by people who really have no idea what's going on in the world of instant messaging...
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which will tell you that you need to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SFCDisable to 1 or 2 to disable the file protection.
what fun!
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yes, at this point, interconnect is starting to become a bottleneck. Copper helps, silver would help more, although I haven't heard of anyone doing research into silver interconnect.. and with wierd effects like electron tunnelling really coming into full force at this size, and it will be a minor miracle if anyone actually gets this technology to work!
of course, that's what engineering is all about..
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The face is very good, the hair.. you can't really see the hair, so I'll hold off judgement. The hand and the sleeve though, are pretty unrealistic. Still, I think that hands are harder to "get right" than faces, so I can understand.
This is going to be a severely cool movie..
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"I would like a lot more people in the community to be aware of the cost, the difficulty, and the perceived value of having polished software: software that is well tested, well documented, and well supported. To understand that making software that crosses the chasm does take a lot more effort, and that it's by having the software that has crossed the chasm that you're going to attract a lot of people to an alternative way to getting nice software produced. Because I think that is really where UNIX lost out. I think that is why Microsoft now pretty much owns the desktop. UNIX hackers, who have the best system technology, never really made a mental connection with the world of the user. If cooperative software development and free software distribution are going to continue to expand and to start creating a change in mind-set, then there has to be a lot more awareness of that chasm and what it takes to cross it. "
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Slashdot Mirror
I especially love the subtitle of this story: "from the debug-twice-distribute-once dept."
Perhaps it should have been from Slashdot's "post-twice-spellcheck-zero-times dept."
ok, now that is just scary.... because after investigating all the email options I could find, hosting with Pair is the solution I came up with. The reason I chose Pair over other services was that Pair does IMAP (though not secure IMAP, alas), and I could not (easily) find anything else that did IMAP at a reasonable price. Funny thing, a few days after I signed up, another ISP called me to try to get me to switch to them, and I had to explain to the guy on the phone what IMAP was before he would let me go.... Pair also has a web interface (https) for mail, runs SpamAssassin and procmail. I am pretty sure that this morning's mail from Yahoo was not flagged as being spam though...
I don't know anything about this code/documentation-stealing thing, but is 84% of the market a monopoly?
I interned at IBM working on PCOMM in the summer of 1998, and at that time everyone was all worried about Hitachi mainframes eating up their hardware business, and terminal emulation from Zephyr
Apparently the hardware part was due to Hitachi's continuing to use bipolar technology for their CPUs (which is what IBM used as well), where IBM made the leap to CMOS - this gave Hitachi an advantage for about two years, but these days, CMOS again has the performance advantage, and IBM was there first.
On the software side (and this is a big deal, because when you sell hardware, usually you sell tens of thousands of software licenses as well), the Zephyr software seemed to be just generally more modern and "better", and that's probably as true today as it was then.
This is somewhat offtopic, but if you're running some version of NT (4.0, 2000, XP), you can just run most DOS games with support for sound, using VDMSound.
I've played both Monkey Island and Monkey Island II with it; hearing the music and sound effects for the first time EVER almost brought a tear to my eye. (When I first played them, my PC didn't have a sound card, so it was all PC Speaker blips and beeps...)
For Linux' DOSEmu, there's SBEmu.
Never having used that, I can't vouch for how well it works, but I don't think it's quite as advanced as VDMSound.
http://24.147.16.240/
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I sent some email to emusic, about a month ago, asking if they would ever offer higher-quality mp3s than 128kbit. The response was basically, "maybe; that would require us to triple our storage capacity, but do you have any suggestions for a good encoder at high bitrates?"
so anyway, I don't think that emusic is going to be doing high-quality mp3s, anytime soon, which will stop me from subscribing, but other than that, it looks like a pretty excellent service!
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all in all, this idea seems to have been cooked up by people who really have no idea what's going on in the world of instant messaging...
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which will tell you that you need to set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SFCDisable
to 1 or 2 to disable the file protection.
what fun!
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yes, at this point, interconnect is starting to become a bottleneck. Copper helps, silver would help more, although I haven't heard of anyone doing research into silver interconnect.. and with wierd effects like electron tunnelling really coming into full force at this size, and it will be a minor miracle if anyone actually gets this technology to work!
of course, that's what engineering is all about..
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so they are apparently trying to dramatize every possible thing that does not need to be dramatized.
Oh well, at least The X-Files is on...
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fantastic idea!
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offtopic? hardly.. listen to the original song (10 in 2010)
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Ah, but when was the last time you drove down the highway in your Intel system?
yes, indeed, you do have to love embedded systems..
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pretty darn close if you ask me.
.. you can't really see the hair, so I'll hold off judgement. The hand and the sleeve though, are pretty unrealistic. Still, I think that hands are harder to "get right" than faces, so I can understand.
The face is very good, the hair
This is going to be a severely cool movie..
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"I would like a lot more people in the community to be aware of the cost, the difficulty, and the perceived value of having polished software: software that is well tested, well documented, and well supported. To understand that making software that crosses the chasm does take a lot more effort, and that it's by having the software that has crossed the chasm that you're going to attract a lot of people to an alternative way to getting nice software produced. Because I think that is really where UNIX lost out. I think that is why Microsoft now pretty much owns the desktop. UNIX hackers, who have the best system technology, never really made a mental connection with the world of the user. If cooperative software development and free software distribution are going to continue to expand and to start creating a change in mind-set, then there has to be a lot more awareness of that chasm and what it takes to cross it. "
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