If I recall correctly, and this is from memory so I'm not claiming it's accurate, but MS was denied twice before the Trademark was granted. Note the Filing date of 1990! That sort of supports my conjecture.
Cat 5 cable - especially shieled cable - isn't likely to radiate. The internal signals are differential, which is a "balanced" transmission line, and isn't going to radiate to much because of that fact.
The more likely concern is picking up other frequencies on the cable itself on the shield!
So - the guy is likely really asking about how to ground the shield - not the transmission lines themselves. At least I hope so - grounding the transmission system itself isn't to good an idea.
The proble with the DBA, i.e. sole-proprietorship is that you need to have multiple gigs per year to make the IRS happy. That's why the corporation is a better answer. I was lucky enough to get a couple gigs that lasted 2-3 years each. This back when the 20 questions weren't as onerous. Now-adays, I would go the incorporation route.
Hokay - this is interesting in that someone finally mentioned all the business paperwork;-)
First my bonafides - I was self-employed for 7 years, and have worked for a contracting company as an employee for 3 years. So I've seen both scenarios described here, i.e. before and after.
The health care arguments others have used is specious. It's expensive, but if you are making that extra $15 an hour the company is getting as a commission on you -that'll take care of health care. You have several choices. One guy mentioned IEEE which would work. There are other places you can join the equivalent of a group health care plan too, you just need to look around. Even then, the cost is going to run you between $6000 and $12000 a year assuming a family of four.
Next let's look at what the contracting company "should" be doing for you. They should be taking care of taxes and sales for you. The tax situation has it's own questions you need to answer - 20 of them actually - as to whether you can get away as self-employed or not. Another issue is that many companies aren't going to want to hire 1099 because of possible tax problems. SO - you probably need to incorporate! Then you become an employee of your own company. So it comes down to - do you want to do the yearly corporate paperwork and tax filings quarterly?
Next, yet VERY important is sales. Likely you'll get a contract that lasts some number of months. What happens at the end of that? You need to constantly be selling your services to prospective clients. How do you get your name out there to them to even get the interviews? If you have an extensive personal network - maybe this isn't a concern. I lasted 7 years without a problem.
I find this funny because of what RAID stands for;-) Redundant Array of In-Expensive Disks. So building them out of IDE if you can meet your speed requirements is what the whole idea was about in the first place!
Amazing;-)
Yep -- Remember the Art Buchwald (sp?) versus Eddie Murphy lawsuit. Buchwald accused Murpy of stealing the idea for "Coming to America" (I think that was the title.) He indeed won the lawsuit and was awarded a percentage of the profits. Only one problem. The way Hollywood does accounting, they NEVER make a profit, but rather loose money. This is actually a VERY OLD stort, i.e. been going on for years.
VHF/UHF transmissions (those used by both digital TV and police) are nominally line-of-site. The time when this changes are due to weather phenomenon, i.e. temperature inversions. It is REAL common to communicate between Santa Barbara and San Diego (better than 200 miles) during the summer on VHF frequencies.
Periodically we also hear Hawaii through tropospheric ducting here on the west coast.
The FCC has set up systems to help keep users apart under normal circumstances. The likely answer is the cops are using an older system that needs to be moved. I'd be interested in finding out the frequency their on!
Look folks - the simple fact is that space travel isn't for tourists yet! Remember the Challenger?!? Rockets blow up ALL THE TIME. We take great care to make sure it doesn't happen, but it does. I saw statistics back in the late 80's that stated a failure rate of something like 1 in 25 launches. Now - that is from a 12 year old memory, but it's in the ballpark.
Consider also that the Soyuz hasn't had any accidents (admittedly - that we know of) for like a decade. They have a pretty good safety record for launches. Their launch success record is to e admired!
First realities - as others have pointed out, you are going to have issues with your allowed upload speed. You need a symetric DSL at the receiver end that can pump a decent rate out. 128kbs probably isn't near sufficient..5Mb/s might do it. Once you've done that - here is a possible technical solution for you.
So you load a Home Computer/TV package like the real magic stuff, or ATI package that gives you TIVO like features on your PC -then get an encrypted link running between the two PC's... maybe a VPN connection. Finally VNC comes to mind! This way you can control your screen remotely and see the results somewhere else.
This seems like it at least has a chance to work, though I expect the delivered bandwidth won't keep up. You're going to see huge delays on packets and I expect you won't be happy with the results. This might work okay over a LAN, but I have my doubts about 10K miles away.
I agree with the above - but would argue the counter situation that kids who don't immediately continue with school are VERY likely to never go back to school. Once you get out of the habbit of doing homework, it is pretty difficult to get back into the saddle.
I suggest doing junior college instead of dropping out all together, even if it were just a couple of classes a quarter. Don't stop completely.
The reason I urge this is that the value of a college education with the right major is summed up as earning power. The earning power of a high school graduate is a small percentage of a college graduate. You're limiting your potential if you have the means and don't pursue college.
I'd also urge you to find the right major when you finally do go. If you are going to spend the next 40 years in a profession, it really ought to be one you like.
If it's Gnu/Linux then it must be Gnu/BSD too- which make JUST as much sense even though BSD predates FSF! The BSD's depend on the GNU tools to literally the same extent.
There is simply NO WAY to justify this, it is merely a Ego trip on RMS's part.
We are not at war with Afghanistan - nor did I say that. We are at war with Al Qaeda. Afghanistan happens to be the first place we had to take military action.
The scale of the attack on the WTC slightly exceeds that of Pearl Harbor. A state of war does exist. We haven't formally declared such a thing for many years (which I think is a mistake) but if it walks like a duck..it's a duck/war.
So - your "knee-jerk" reaction was to talk about something I didn't mention, i.e. Aghanistan, to change the topic of the discussion. However, that won't work here because I wasn't talking about ANYTHING to do with Afghanistan, or Yemen, or Iraq. I was talking about the FACT that these searches are still required to have warrants and that a judge has to approve them.
Try replying to that issue instead of waving your arms in other directions spewing your favorite drivel!
Now - it maybe that the level needed to get a warrant has decreased under the Patriot act (IAMAL) so I'm not sure, but there STILL MUST BE some level of probably cause to get such a warrant. The original poster said that you could get a warrant without evidence...Uhm..HELLO - where do you think the government get's permission to gather personal evidence??? It's through the warrant mechanism. That means a judge has to be pursuaded that the adequate cause under whatever standard the law establishes to allow a search to occur.
So there has to be due process before ANY search can take place.
So - if a Judge says - "Yeah, give them your records" after the Judge is convinced there is a reasonable expectation that something will turn up, then the legal hurdle has been overcome to allow a search of personal property, or some business records. So how is this that different than ANY legal search of personal property or personal records?
Next comes the issue that we are actually at war. I'm not talking Sadam, but OBL who unquestionably hit us first. What I hear from the librarians amongst us is that that they would rather shred documents instead of possibly helping catch a terrorist? Is that what you really mean here? Don't forget that it is a FACT that that Al-Qaeda has used the internet from public locations like libraries and cyber-cafes to communicate. Seems like talking to librarians is a perfectly understandable place to begin such investigations?!?
Instead of having a complete knee-jerk reaction to this like "they are stepping on my rights," try looking at the reasons behind such investingations. You might find the government still has to get warrants just like they always have, and that your rights are still being observed!
Look folks - if you are reading Slashdot, then the odds are REALLY good that you run an alternate OS like Linux. Did you note it's a MS DRM technology??? That means poor folks running MS code will be subject to it - not people intelligently choosing to run Linux, etc.;-)
Hmmm - well we could do like Europe (and most of the rest of the civilized world) and pay a licensee fee for each TV receiver. That is one idea. The thing is that the attitude of the *AA types that we have a contract to watch the commercials is the rediculous part of the conversation. I don't remember signing anything - did you?
You mean it works a bit differently than Office and you had to go learn something!
Consider this take - I hadn't used it either, and my son had a term paper to do. He had never used a word processor in his life before. So he learned on OpenOffice. He thinks that page numbers are fields and that is the way it's suppossed to be! I also went to the trouble of installing OpenOffice on all the PC's in his class room. The teacher thought it was GREAT to get Office software for free!
Now if the rest of the school wasn't covered with old Macs - I'd complete the conversion!
There is nothing wrong about being paranoid about
such things - but they are SO easy to fool! When
I encounter one of these things I merely alter
my signature! Not just a little bit - alot!
So - they may have a copy of my signature, but not
one that would standup under examination, which
beg's the question of what good is the signature
system if the vendor doesn't LOOK at the signature
on the card in the first place!!!
I find this idea interesting - especially since only a few of the kernel hackers actually KNOW morse code. AC and BP have ham licenses. Don't know about the rest of the hackers..
On the other hand, according to the writeup you pointed us too, the doctrine of laches isn't a complete defense! Basically, it can be used to defend against the possiblity of a patentee going after previous earnings, but cannot be used to defend against going after future earnings if the infringing party doesn't cease from violating the patent after the lawsuit is engaged.
Consequently - it's fair to say that a patent doesn't really loose it's force until it expires. Trademarks can loose their protection of not vigorously defended constantly from my understanding.
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If I recall correctly, and this is from memory so I'm not claiming it's accurate, but MS was denied twice before the Trademark was granted. Note the Filing date of 1990! That sort of supports my conjecture.
Cat 5 cable - especially shieled cable - isn't likely to radiate. The internal signals are differential, which is a "balanced" transmission line, and isn't going to radiate to much because of that fact.
The more likely concern is picking up other frequencies on the cable itself on the shield!
So - the guy is likely really asking about how to ground the shield - not the transmission lines themselves. At least I hope so - grounding the transmission system itself isn't to good an idea.
The proble with the DBA, i.e. sole-proprietorship is that you need to have multiple gigs per year to make the IRS happy. That's why the corporation is a better answer. I was lucky enough to get a couple gigs that lasted 2-3 years each. This back when the 20 questions weren't as onerous. Now-adays, I would go the incorporation route.
Hokay - this is interesting in that someone finally mentioned all the business paperwork
First my bonafides - I was self-employed for 7 years, and have worked for a contracting company as an employee for 3 years. So I've seen both scenarios described here, i.e. before and after.
The health care arguments others have used is specious. It's expensive, but if you are making that extra $15 an hour the company is getting as a commission on you -that'll take care of health care. You have several choices. One guy mentioned IEEE which would work. There are other places you can join the equivalent of a group health care plan too, you just need to look around. Even then, the cost is going to run you between $6000 and $12000 a year assuming a family of four.
Next let's look at what the contracting company "should" be doing for you. They should be taking care of taxes and sales for you. The tax situation has it's own questions you need to answer - 20 of them actually - as to whether you can get away as self-employed or not. Another issue is that many companies aren't going to want to hire 1099 because of possible tax problems. SO - you probably need to incorporate! Then you become an employee of your own company. So it comes down to - do you want to do the yearly corporate paperwork and tax filings quarterly?
Next, yet VERY important is sales. Likely you'll get a contract that lasts some number of months. What happens at the end of that? You need to constantly be selling your services to prospective clients. How do you get your name out there to them to even get the interviews? If you have an extensive personal network - maybe this isn't a concern. I lasted 7 years without a problem.
Anyway - good luck!
I find this funny because of what RAID stands for ;-) Redundant Array of In-Expensive Disks. So building them out of IDE if you can meet your speed requirements is what the whole idea was about in the first place!
Amazing ;-)
Yep -- Remember the Art Buchwald (sp?) versus Eddie Murphy lawsuit. Buchwald accused Murpy of stealing the idea for "Coming to America" (I think that was the title.) He indeed won the lawsuit and was awarded a percentage of the profits. Only one problem. The way Hollywood does accounting, they NEVER make a profit, but rather loose money. This is actually a VERY OLD stort, i.e. been going on for years.
Hokay - now for some Radio Reality(tm).
VHF/UHF transmissions (those used by both digital TV and police) are nominally line-of-site. The time when this changes are due to weather phenomenon, i.e. temperature inversions. It is REAL common to communicate between Santa Barbara and San Diego (better than 200 miles) during the summer on VHF frequencies.
Periodically we also hear Hawaii through tropospheric ducting here on the west coast.
The FCC has set up systems to help keep users apart under normal circumstances. The likely answer is the cops are using an older system that needs to be moved. I'd be interested in finding out the frequency their on!
True Story -
I have a friend who serves as a supervisor for a local police department - at a party he related the following story:
"So John, how was your week."
John replies: "Really bad, we had an officer involved shooting and it was embarrasing."
So I ask the obvious. "Why, was he at a donut shop or something."
John moans and says "Yes."
Look folks - the simple fact is that space travel isn't for tourists yet! Remember the Challenger?!? Rockets blow up ALL THE TIME. We take great care to make sure it doesn't happen, but it does. I saw statistics back in the late 80's that stated a failure rate of something like 1 in 25 launches. Now - that is from a 12 year old memory, but it's in the ballpark.
Consider also that the Soyuz hasn't had any accidents (admittedly - that we know of) for like a decade. They have a pretty good safety record for launches. Their launch success record is to e admired!
First realities - as others have pointed out, you are going .5Mb/s might do
to have issues with your allowed upload speed. You need a symetric
DSL at the receiver end that can pump a decent rate
out. 128kbs probably isn't near sufficient.
it. Once you've done that - here is a possible
technical solution for you.
So you load a Home Computer/TV package like the real
magic stuff, or ATI package that gives you TIVO like
features on your PC -then get an encrypted link running
between the two PC's... maybe a VPN connection. Finally
VNC comes to mind! This way you can control your screen
remotely and see the results somewhere else.
This seems like it at least has a chance to work, though
I expect the delivered bandwidth won't keep up. You're
going to see huge delays on packets and I expect you
won't be happy with the results. This might work okay
over a LAN, but I have my doubts about 10K miles away.
Good luck!
I agree with the above - but would argue the counter situation that
kids who don't immediately continue with school are
VERY likely to never go back to school. Once you get
out of the habbit of doing homework, it is pretty difficult
to get back into the saddle.
I suggest doing junior college instead of dropping out
all together, even if it were just a couple of classes a
quarter. Don't stop completely.
The reason I urge this is that the value of a college education
with the right major is summed up as earning power.
The earning power of a high school graduate is a small
percentage of a college graduate. You're limiting your
potential if you have the means and don't pursue college.
I'd also urge you to find the right major when you
finally do go. If you are going to spend the next
40 years in a profession, it really ought to be one you
like.
Good luck!
okay - You first!
This is one place where RMS is full of s*&^...
If it's Gnu/Linux then it must be Gnu/BSD too- which make JUST as much sense even though BSD predates FSF! The BSD's depend on the GNU tools to literally the same extent.
There is simply NO WAY to justify this, it is merely a Ego trip on RMS's part.
We are not at war with Afghanistan - nor did I say that. We are at war
with Al Qaeda. Afghanistan happens to be the first
place we had to take military action.
The scale of the attack on the
WTC slightly exceeds that of Pearl Harbor. A state
of war does exist. We haven't formally declared such
a thing for many years (which I think is a mistake) but
if it walks like a duck..it's a duck/war.
So - your "knee-jerk" reaction was to talk about something
I didn't mention, i.e. Aghanistan, to change the
topic of the discussion. However, that won't work here
because I wasn't talking about ANYTHING to do with
Afghanistan, or Yemen, or Iraq. I was talking about
the FACT that these searches are still required to
have warrants and that a judge has to approve them.
Try replying to that issue instead of waving your arms in
other directions spewing your favorite drivel!
Now - it maybe that the level needed to get a warrant has decreased under the Patriot act (IAMAL) so I'm not sure, but there STILL MUST BE some level of probably cause to get such a warrant. The original poster said that you could get a warrant without evidence...Uhm..HELLO - where do you think the government get's permission to gather personal evidence??? It's through the warrant mechanism. That means a judge has to be pursuaded that the adequate cause under whatever standard the law establishes to allow a search to occur.
So there has to be due process before ANY search can take place.
So - if a Judge says - "Yeah, give them your records" after the Judge is convinced there is a reasonable expectation that something will turn up, then the legal hurdle has been overcome to allow a search of personal property, or some business records. So how is this that different than ANY legal search of personal property or personal records?
Next comes the issue that we are actually at war. I'm not talking Sadam, but OBL who unquestionably hit us first. What I hear from the librarians amongst us is that that they would rather shred documents instead of possibly helping catch a terrorist? Is that what you really mean here? Don't forget that it is a FACT that that Al-Qaeda has used the internet from public locations like libraries and cyber-cafes to communicate. Seems like talking to librarians is a perfectly understandable place to begin such investigations?!?
Instead of having a complete knee-jerk reaction to this like "they are stepping on my rights," try looking at the reasons behind such investingations. You might find the government still has to get warrants just like they always have, and that your rights are still being observed!
Look folks - if you are reading Slashdot, then the odds are REALLY good that you run an alternate OS like Linux. Did you note it's a MS DRM technology??? That means poor folks running MS code will be subject to it - not people intelligently choosing to run Linux, etc. ;-)
MS users - have a nice day - if you can!
Hmmm - well we could do like Europe (and most of the rest of the civilized world) and pay a licensee fee for each TV receiver. That is one idea. The thing is that the attitude of the *AA types that we have a contract to watch the commercials is the rediculous part of the conversation. I don't remember signing anything - did you?
You mean it works a bit differently than Office and you had to go learn something!
Consider this take - I hadn't used it either, and my son had a term paper to do. He had never used a word processor in his life before. So he learned on OpenOffice. He thinks that page numbers are fields and that is the way it's suppossed to be! I also went to the trouble of installing OpenOffice on all the PC's in his class room. The teacher thought it was GREAT to get Office software for free!
Now if the rest of the school wasn't covered with old Macs - I'd complete the conversion!
There is nothing wrong about being paranoid about such things - but they are SO easy to fool! When I encounter one of these things I merely alter my signature! Not just a little bit - alot!
So - they may have a copy of my signature, but not one that would standup under examination, which beg's the question of what good is the signature system if the vendor doesn't LOOK at the signature on the card in the first place!!!
I use gvim on Win2000 and Win98 all day
long and don't have any significant problems
with it? Me thinks the poster was smoking somehting?
I find this idea interesting - especially since only a few of the kernel hackers actually KNOW
morse code. AC and BP have ham licenses. Don't know about the rest of the hackers..
Well- I learned something new today. Thank you.
On the other hand, according to the writeup you
pointed us too, the doctrine of laches isn't a
complete defense! Basically, it can be used to
defend against the possiblity of a patentee going
after previous earnings, but cannot be used to
defend against going after future earnings if
the infringing party doesn't cease from violating
the patent after the lawsuit is engaged.
Consequently - it's fair to say that a patent doesn't
really loose it's force until it expires. Trademarks
can loose their protection of not vigorously
defended constantly from my understanding.
You are mixing Trademark law with Patent law. These are two VERY different animals. What you say is true about Trademarks.
Patents may be defended at the owners choice. They don't expire due to lack of use. Trademarks
do if they aren't defended.
Hey, if they had used Duct tape it would have worked. That stuff lasts forever!
I've tried appletalk - the apps all demand that the
application run from the local CDROM???
Is there a way to spoof that??