When HP bought Compaq/Digital they got their class A address as well. So now HP has two of the things. They should turn one of them back at least. Gessh.
I sure hope someone told Mitt that if he didn't buy all of that music from an online music store and instead ripped a few CDs he purchased, he is guilty of making unauthorized copies -- according to the RIAA.
The article's comments talk about people freely giving out their MSN account passwords. This practice of giving away your credentials began way back in the 90s when certain webmail websites would offer to "collect" your pop or imap mail and aggregate it into their own mail. We used to lock the accounts of anyone we caught doing this because it violated our AUP about revealing your account credentials to third parties. Eventually we just gave up and simply removed access that that id/password would give to anything but email (e.g., no more unix shell accounts although no one really cares anymore).
It's scary how easily people will type in their account info into any ole website.
I almost crashed the car when Rush claimed several weeks ago that all of the carbon-credit trees Gore had planted burned down in the SoCal fires late last year.
I own a Nokia N95 *AND* an Iphone (using t-mobile and at&t respectively), so I think I can judge these fairly.
First, I love the iphone in so many ways. The user interface rocks, web is better than the Symbian one (although they both do real web pages, unlike Apple's claims to be first), and the iphone's email app is much, much faster than that crap on Symbian (I have an inbox of several thousand messages so that might be part of it, but the iphone handles it like a breeze, and quickly)
With that said, I really like how I can do what I want with my unlocked Nokia. I use gizmoproject to do VOIP on it, I can pop in a prepaid overseas SIM when I travel, I can even load putty on it for pete's sake. Bluetooth options are endless including tethering with a data plan.
iphone is crippled in many unforgiveable ways, like crappy bluetooth support (what, I can't send a photo over bluetooth or tether my laptop?), no MMS, lack of WPA enterprise WIFI support (horrible), email app "helpfully" scales down the pics for you to VGA, and on and on.
These are all software design issues, which makes it even more intolerable.
Hopefully Nokia learns some lessons and adapts its software and Apple addresses the shortcomings in a future software update. At least let me use the iphone at work on the wifi network there. Sigh...
My father-in-law is the same age, but lives in a fringe area. His TV channels are all partially snow and he has a decent aerial on the roof. Digital doesn't work partially. He's going to be cut off. Too far out to get cable and satellite is not a possibility due to being buried in the middle of a forrest.
It's safeR compared to the flimsy motorbikes they know ride. Getting t-boned by a small motorcycle while in this vehicle won't be too bad. Now of course eventually they'll graduate to loads of SUVs on the roads that would cream this thing, but for now, it's safer.
Yes. I bought a car last month based on a banner ad. A Honda Fit. I had never heard of one before, rarely watch TV, and the ad caught my eye. I looked at the page, then dug further and further into the site researching it, then went hunting for reviews and opinions online. After a few days of this I was convinced and went and purchased the car.
Of course not everybody gets SL, just not like everybody gets the web. If you asked my parents they wouldn't have a clue why there are so many people posting here, for them it's not "real" and completely pointless.
A pretty good summary. I've wonder that as well. I see a lot of parallels in SL compared to the web back around 1994. Some companies tested the waters a bit, a lot of ugly web sites were up, most of it was a novelty. Like I went into the Sears and Circuit City "stores" in the IBM island and they were deserted, not very useful, and lacking in content, but it made me wonder if I was looking at an early Web 3D basically.
What will limit it is that it's privately run and competing services will pop up dividing the population. Until there is some way to have the SL grid interact with the other virtual words, like the upcoming one from Sony for their PS3 for example, I can't see it going anywhere fast. Most companies will not create virtual presences in every virtual world out there, and I doubt there will be RL advertisements listing grid locations in numerous virtual worlds.
"You need puzzles and monsters" eh? Explain Second Life then.
I don't "get it" (SL) and actually remarked to a co-worker after trying it for a while that it wasn't any fun because you don't kill anything, but lots of people spend a lot of time there.
"It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person
so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such
knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense."
-- Miller, W. I. (1993).
Humiliation. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
I think it's important to teach children that they are NOT special, that they can't do everything necessarily, to be cool with that, and that they have to be aware of their areas of lack of knowledge and work further towards improving them. The more you learn and the more you understand, leads to greater appreciation of how much you still don't know. Know that there are others who have skills and knowledge you don't have and suck up to them to learn from them.
The power of intelligence rests on understanding your own limitations and working hard to overcome them. Adults who think they know it all are most often idiots, and unfortunately many are also raising children.
Which leads me to another fave quote:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
-- Darwin, C. (1871). The descent of man. (London: John Murray)
Er, no, I'm not confident I know everything about this topic!;-)
Speaking as one of those alleged incompetent educational IT directors, I'm not seeing a lot of value in this. Email costs us next to nothing now. Let's see, I have 40,000 active accounts now on one server, using Cyrus, dspam, clam-av, and policyd. All the software is free so the cost is basically a new server every three years and some storage space on the SAN (email is a very small portion of space on the SAN so freeing it up won't buy us much).
Yeah, if I had an Exchange farm and a dedicated staff to manage it, then outsourcing it would be enticing. As it is now, it'd be more work to figure out how to migrate people away from a tried-and-true solution as well as the privacy and FERPA issues than it is to let it ride as is, and if people do something stupid like delete a folder, we can easily restore it from backup in short order.
In-house also means being able to use a single-sign on solution for all campus services. Same ID, sign in once using CAS (Central Auth Service -- another freebie package)
(We do provide an interface for users to forward their emails to their preferred provider. No one is forcing them to use us.)
Now what I would like to do is outsource shared calendaring service with seamless syncing to a plethora of mobile devices. That's a need that hasn't been adequately addressed in-house. ie, before fixing stuff that's not broken, how about helping with services that fix what *is* broken!
btw, news flash, people under 20 don't use email much anyway. It's basically the tool of "old people." Email is busted in many ways and will probably die as a platform in the future anyway. I say let it ride as is until then.
With multiple carriers I can shop for the best price I can, on both received and sent calls. If all incoming calls are charged to the caller, then the person calling you has to be charged whatever the telco wants. There's no economic incentive to drop the cost. The caller to a mobile number can't shop for a better rate.
In the U.S. buckets of minutes are so cheap it's not really an issue.
Back in the early 90s usenet was "safe" because everyone knew that it got expired after a week or two. We all used our real names and email addresses too. Then someone found some old backup tapes 10 years later and handed them over to Google.
A friend of mine was quite a good troll back then, but now it haunts him due to his unique name. He's written Google and gotten them to delete his posts, but they won't delete other people's posts that quote him, so he's a bit screwed. I advised him to start posting lots of technical stuff to hopefully flood out the bad crap, and then write off the rest as youthful indiscretion.
Another friend who is now in his 40s got busted and convicted for dealing drugs when he was a teenager and spent a few years in jail. He's absolutely reformed now and eventually got a pardon from the governor of the state he was convicted in. He has no trouble getting a tech job these days -- except for banks. He doesn't even bother applying there.
Also, doing drugs won't stop you from being President these days, saying the wrong thing 20 years ago will.
Moral of the story, do drugs, don't talk shit on the net.
(Gawd, this tongue-in-cheek post is going to come back to haunt me someday I bet...)
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I got lazy last week and just paid the 99 cents to watch an episode of The Office that I missed on Comcast's "On Demand" service.
IT HAD COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS
At each normal commercial point they showed a 30 second ad for some NBC show.
Ah yes, but you know, when I go into a store now, there's only like six games for the PC too. Everything is for consoles now days. Gaming on the PC seems to be dying.:(
My users often steal dongles, sometimes just to be pricks.
As for servers, I try to virtualize as much as possible. Dongles complicate that, or often don't work in that situation.
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When HP bought Compaq/Digital they got their class A address as well. So now HP has two of the things. They should turn one of them back at least. Gessh.
He also hates his own dog.
Read that linked story made me ill.
I sure hope someone told Mitt that if he didn't buy all of that music from an online music store and instead ripped a few CDs he purchased, he is guilty of making unauthorized copies -- according to the RIAA.
The article's comments talk about people freely giving out their MSN account passwords. This practice of giving away your credentials began way back in the 90s when certain webmail websites would offer to "collect" your pop or imap mail and aggregate it into their own mail. We used to lock the accounts of anyone we caught doing this because it violated our AUP about revealing your account credentials to third parties. Eventually we just gave up and simply removed access that that id/password would give to anything but email (e.g., no more unix shell accounts although no one really cares anymore).
It's scary how easily people will type in their account info into any ole website.
I remember rolling over the one byte wave number in Robotron 2084 (the original arcade game)
I almost crashed the car when Rush claimed several weeks ago that all of the carbon-credit trees Gore had planted burned down in the SoCal fires late last year.
I own a Nokia N95 *AND* an Iphone (using t-mobile and at&t respectively), so I think I can judge these fairly.
First, I love the iphone in so many ways. The user interface rocks, web is better than the Symbian one (although they both do real web pages, unlike Apple's claims to be first), and the iphone's email app is much, much faster than that crap on Symbian (I have an inbox of several thousand messages so that might be part of it, but the iphone handles it like a breeze, and quickly)
With that said, I really like how I can do what I want with my unlocked Nokia. I use gizmoproject to do VOIP on it, I can pop in a prepaid overseas SIM when I travel, I can even load putty on it for pete's sake. Bluetooth options are endless including tethering with a data plan.
iphone is crippled in many unforgiveable ways, like crappy bluetooth support (what, I can't send a photo over bluetooth or tether my laptop?), no MMS, lack of WPA enterprise WIFI support (horrible), email app "helpfully" scales down the pics for you to VGA, and on and on.
These are all software design issues, which makes it even more intolerable.
Hopefully Nokia learns some lessons and adapts its software and Apple addresses the shortcomings in a future software update. At least let me use the iphone at work on the wifi network there. Sigh...
I should sue them for profiting from my good name, damaging my reputation and causing confusion among the masses.
My father-in-law is the same age, but lives in a fringe area. His TV channels are all partially snow and he has a decent aerial on the roof. Digital doesn't work partially. He's going to be cut off. Too far out to get cable and satellite is not a possibility due to being buried in the middle of a forrest.
It's safeR compared to the flimsy motorbikes they know ride. Getting t-boned by a small motorcycle while in this vehicle won't be too bad. Now of course eventually they'll graduate to loads of SUVs on the roads that would cream this thing, but for now, it's safer.
Yes. I bought a car last month based on a banner ad. A Honda Fit. I had never heard of one before, rarely watch TV, and the ad caught my eye. I looked at the page, then dug further and further into the site researching it, then went hunting for reviews and opinions online. After a few days of this I was convinced and went and purchased the car.
Intelligent design
Er, idiot, Redhat sued SCO, not visa-versa.
If he can't understand the difference between plaintiff and defendant, why should I consider any of his other opinions?
A pretty good summary. I've wonder that as well. I see a lot of parallels in SL compared to the web back around 1994. Some companies tested the waters a bit, a lot of ugly web sites were up, most of it was a novelty. Like I went into the Sears and Circuit City "stores" in the IBM island and they were deserted, not very useful, and lacking in content, but it made me wonder if I was looking at an early Web 3D basically.
What will limit it is that it's privately run and competing services will pop up dividing the population. Until there is some way to have the SL grid interact with the other virtual words, like the upcoming one from Sony for their PS3 for example, I can't see it going anywhere fast. Most companies will not create virtual presences in every virtual world out there, and I doubt there will be RL advertisements listing grid locations in numerous virtual worlds.
"You need puzzles and monsters" eh? Explain Second Life then.
I don't "get it" (SL) and actually remarked to a co-worker after trying it for a while that it wasn't any fun because you don't kill anything, but lots of people spend a lot of time there.
"It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense."
-- Miller, W. I. (1993).
Humiliation. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
I think it's important to teach children that they are NOT special, that they can't do everything necessarily, to be cool with that, and that they have to be aware of their areas of lack of knowledge and work further towards improving them. The more you learn and the more you understand, leads to greater appreciation of how much you still don't know. Know that there are others who have skills and knowledge you don't have and suck up to them to learn from them.
The power of intelligence rests on understanding your own limitations and working hard to overcome them. Adults who think they know it all are most often idiots, and unfortunately many are also raising children.
Which leads me to another fave quote:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
-- Darwin, C. (1871). The descent of man. (London: John Murray)
Er, no, I'm not confident I know everything about this topic! ;-)
Speaking as one of those alleged incompetent educational IT directors, I'm not seeing a lot of value in this. Email costs us next to nothing now. Let's see, I have 40,000 active accounts now on one server, using Cyrus, dspam, clam-av, and policyd. All the software is free so the cost is basically a new server every three years and some storage space on the SAN (email is a very small portion of space on the SAN so freeing it up won't buy us much).
Yeah, if I had an Exchange farm and a dedicated staff to manage it, then outsourcing it would be enticing. As it is now, it'd be more work to figure out how to migrate people away from a tried-and-true solution as well as the privacy and FERPA issues than it is to let it ride as is, and if people do something stupid like delete a folder, we can easily restore it from backup in short order.
In-house also means being able to use a single-sign on solution for all campus services. Same ID, sign in once using CAS (Central Auth Service -- another freebie package)
(We do provide an interface for users to forward their emails to their preferred provider. No one is forcing them to use us.)
Now what I would like to do is outsource shared calendaring service with seamless syncing to a plethora of mobile devices. That's a need that hasn't been adequately addressed in-house. ie, before fixing stuff that's not broken, how about helping with services that fix what *is* broken!
btw, news flash, people under 20 don't use email much anyway. It's basically the tool of "old people." Email is busted in many ways and will probably die as a platform in the future anyway. I say let it ride as is until then.
Now get off my lawn.
Makes sense to me.
With multiple carriers I can shop for the best price I can, on both received and sent calls. If all incoming calls are charged to the caller, then the person calling you has to be charged whatever the telco wants. There's no economic incentive to drop the cost. The caller to a mobile number can't shop for a better rate.
In the U.S. buckets of minutes are so cheap it's not really an issue.
Back in the early 90s usenet was "safe" because everyone knew that it got expired after a week or two. We all used our real names and email addresses too. Then someone found some old backup tapes 10 years later and handed them over to Google.
A friend of mine was quite a good troll back then, but now it haunts him due to his unique name. He's written Google and gotten them to delete his posts, but they won't delete other people's posts that quote him, so he's a bit screwed. I advised him to start posting lots of technical stuff to hopefully flood out the bad crap, and then write off the rest as youthful indiscretion.
Another friend who is now in his 40s got busted and convicted for dealing drugs when he was a teenager and spent a few years in jail. He's absolutely reformed now and eventually got a pardon from the governor of the state he was convicted in. He has no trouble getting a tech job these days -- except for banks. He doesn't even bother applying there.
Also, doing drugs won't stop you from being President these days, saying the wrong thing 20 years ago will.
Moral of the story, do drugs, don't talk shit on the net.
(Gawd, this tongue-in-cheek post is going to come back to haunt me someday I bet...)
I got lazy last week and just paid the 99 cents to watch an episode of The Office that I missed on Comcast's "On Demand" service.
IT HAD COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS
At each normal commercial point they showed a 30 second ad for some NBC show.
Never again. I was steaming.
Hahaha, you scored a direct hit on that. I *was* thinking about Gamestop/EB/whatever when I wrote that!
Ah yes, but you know, when I go into a store now, there's only like six games for the PC too. Everything is for consoles now days. Gaming on the PC seems to be dying. :(
Good example about winzip since when I took over a site a long time ago, that was everywhere and I had to force them to uninstall or pay for it.
A lot of people equate "free to download" as free to do whatever. :(
That's more an education issue than a problem needing a technical solution IMO.
My users often steal dongles, sometimes just to be pricks. As for servers, I try to virtualize as much as possible. Dongles complicate that, or often don't work in that situation.
I have meetings most of the day, I'll look for it and comment later today.