"Sex has values and judgments attached to it that eating, for example, doesn't"
Not in any world I've lived in. The choices people make about the food they eat IS frequently judged and valued. The term "fat slob" comes to mind first here, as it's a value judgment about a whole person made from looking at one particular aspect of their behavior - their eating habits. Eating habits are frequently "disgusting" or "tidy", and people's choices of meals are "wholesome" or even "revolting". All of these terms are my attempt to illustrate one important thing: everything about you gets judged. I don't mean this in any religious sense either, it is a simple fact of life though that those around you judge your character constantly and through every action you take (or don't take).
In fact, I bet that if people were truly honest about how often you make value judgments on a person based on a small sample of their behavior (clothes, food, manner of speech, etc), we wouldn't have any room to talk about anything else.
First - Commercial paper is neither shady or immoral. The terms are laid out in black and white, and investors are equally free to accept the deal or walk away.
Second - What if you DID run out and buy a shit load of gear on credit for your business? And then what if all that gear came in handy for, I don't know, extra unexpected work?! And what if the reward of that unexpected extra work was more money than you paid for both the gear and the interest on borrowing?!
Wouldn't you then have actually benefited from borrowing?
By not borrowing though, you've foregone that opportunity, many many times over. In fact, I guarantee you that your business would be bigger if you had borrowed within your ability to pay this whole time.
There is a serious problem, though: text messages may never get to the destination or may get there late, in case the text server is busy or unavailable
You mean like when the TUBES get full on the Internet? Then someone can send you an Internet, and you'd have to wait a few days....
Why not just establish a VPN with them and either secure FTP it or use IPSec? This honestly doesn't seem that hard, especially if you're sending a few gigs of data....
Actually it shouldn't be a sign of that at all. In fact quite the opposite; when a company can sustain losses in certain divisions yet still post an overall profit it sounds like capitalism is working pretty well.
Think of it this way; if Microsoft was some other company and the X Box 360 was a research project, wouldn't the capitalistic system have to be working for them to sink $2 Billion into it in hopes of a return?
Just cause you hate M$, don't try and blame larger forces (the government, capitalism, whatever).
I'm not sure that many of you all remember this, but a while back the US actually sold China a Boeing 767 with at LEAST 27 different spying devices on board. Both China and the US were mostly quiet about this though, which kept things under wrap. The BBC has articles hereand here.
Looks like America has every right to be paranoid, if it expects China to treat it as it has been treated.
Ok, while it's obvious that at some past point in time at least they were using FreeBSD, the more interesting things about this website are it's content, not it's presentation.
1-In addition to using Windows Datacenter, Unisys says that they also will support SCO UNIX. Yep, you just read that right, Unix supported by the 'Unix alternative'. Wow
2-Many, many times in this ( http://www.unisys.com/industry-analyst/doc/big-win dows.pdf ) paper, Unisys cites that 'Windows needs to make inroads' against Oracle in enterprise-level computing.
3-Currently, their RAM is limited to 32 GB. This compares to Sun's SunFire 15k model, with 106 processors and 1/2 a TB of RAM. Even IBM's p690 has a max of 256 GB
4-Unisys quotes their system as having 6.4 GB/s of memory bandwith (I chose their LARGEST figure). Again, Sun's SunFire 15k acheives a (measley!) 174 GB/s....
To quote "The Big Lebowski", "You're out of your element!"
These people are trying to make a case for x86 architecture at an enterprise level, using an operating system that was derived from the '640k is good enough' stream of though. My advice? "Get some of that sweet, sweet IPO!" (not)
I want to jump on the bandwagon a bit and say CONGRADULATIONS, Mozilla is one of the success stories of Open Source. Maybe AOL will use it now for it's intergrated browser;-).
Sorry to burst your bubble on the Generic ODB II Scanner, but alot of times cars don't stick to the specifications. So you'll get a tool-maker who only writes their tool to the ODB II spec, which then ignores a car maker like, say, Suzuki (who is horrible at writing engince controls to spec). How do I know this? Answer: Summer job.
If you really never want to pay a car diagnostic fee again on an ODB II compliant car, get one of these:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?page =k m9040.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
or better yet, this:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?page =k m9620.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
If you have a pre 1996 car, try this:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?page =k m9640.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
These things are hoss, I know, I had to test like 20 different kinds of ODB II scanners. They can be upgraded vial serial port and the help line is actually helpful (ya, I know, wow). They even have an serial port to print stuff out on any standard printer (amazing...)
Car computers are definatly the most complicated part about cars these days, as one controller usually handles all of the eletrical systems, engine monitors, and transmission controls in the whole car. Just a couple of little changes in some of those on-chip values and suddenly you're polluting way more or your gear shift is off. Actually, the biggest difference between cars today is not the size of the engine, but the controler that is timing all of the engine's operations. Think about a Corvette versus a Camero. Same engine, similar specs. But a different engine controller changes alot (ok, that's oversimplified, but it's a good rule).
Car makers actually do like it when people tweak out their own rides, since many engineers in the auto industry are there because they LOVE cars.
While their current products are abyssmal at best, the really important thing here is not the product. It's how they are developing this product. For once, Linux and the Free Software Community can truly claim a victory (even if it is only a moral one) because we have made Almighty M$ change the way they develop software.
They had to listen to their customers, actively participate in discussion with them and (gasp!) even let them see the source code.
M$ for once is trying to emulate US, not the other way around. We are definatly doing something right. Lets just hope that the management will try to kill this behavior, so that the embedded M$ community dies in it's infancy. Because, while Linux does have a head start in this respect, we lack the focus and direction to point at, say, just the emedded market and scream "Go for it!". Linux needs to win in key markets like these for it's eventual world domination to be assured;-)
Obviously notice has been served that, when it comes to mission critical applications, no more of this properity / closed shit will work. The markets that need dependability now know that they have to be able to independantly evaluate whatever it is that they are using.
If this isn't a glaring reflection on how the Open Source movement is succeding, I don't know what is.
I worked at a Mailboxes Etc. this summer (they're a part of UPS now) and let me tell you, the shipping industry is NOT pretty. Nobody really pays as much attention to the packages as you'd think, they're just kinda thrown (literally) around.
Most importantly, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, get the insurance. It's only like $2.00, but man, in cases like this, they would bust their butts if you had the insurance.
As a sidenote, don't blame those who offer services (I mostly mean Mailboxes, that kinda thing) for mistakes that are almost always due to UPS, or FedEX.
Oh, and as a positive (right) afterthought, neither company really is more careful about their shipments. Usually one in every 200 shipments is screwed up, so, you take your chances. Especially with international shipments.
While I know that they are seperate entities of in and of themselves, many of the times I visit Altavista, I'm only going for the Fish. Amazing program. While it's not perfect by a long shot, it makes all the German sites much more readable;-).
Maybe if they get those stupid ads and flashy graphics off of their site people will start coming back. I hope so, if only so that the memory and research of Digital Equiptment Corp lives on. (man those guys were cool!)
Just an open-ended question to all of you who are more in the know.
What current Constitutional (or other) protections are there against this card? What limits could it have? Would I still be a citizen without one say?
We have currently the right to pay for everything in cash (look at a dollar, legal tender for all debts). Could we have similar options with this stupid card?
If this happens, I'm moving to Mexico or something...
Exactly! Maybe the future of DRM should be more of a world wide network with a traveling user profile, kind of like a directory service. "Terminals" to access this network would be everywhere (watches, laptops, palmtops, whatever). Ideally you'd be able to access your roaming profile from any of these and be able to view / listen to / smell? whatever you want, whenever. And when you wanted to get new media, you'd pay the creator DIRECTLY. No more of this middle-man shit.
In a best case scenario, you'd be able to access this network without any personal information being transferred. Maybe a little digital access card / chip that would keep track of your media.
This scheme shouldn't be pay-per-use if possible, or maybe the author of the content could decide it's accessing limitations.
My 2 cents....
Yeah, the DCMA specifically makes an exception that allows for reverse engineering. Check here: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
for some more info and a short (well, 20 pages) summary of the DCMA. Oh, and teh reverse engineering thing is on pg. 4 of that PDF.
Well, much like DeCESS, once (if) the record companies try to implement a Windows Media Player-centric solution, the Open Source community could (in theory) then argue that NO COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE exists. Once that happens, can't we just write our own Windows Media Player compatable?
And did anybody notice that current US Copyright protects the design of ships hulls???!!!
I'm not joking, it's ridiculeous (look on page 16)
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
Maybe it's just me, or did CNN mention this before (read Wednesday)? Guess my submission just wasn't good enough....
Here's CNN's version (put on their site Wednesay...)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/08/10/IBM.ope n. arch.idg/index.html
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I'll disagree about one particular point here:
"Sex has values and judgments attached to it that eating, for example, doesn't"
Not in any world I've lived in. The choices people make about the food they eat IS frequently judged and valued. The term "fat slob" comes to mind first here, as it's a value judgment about a whole person made from looking at one particular aspect of their behavior - their eating habits. Eating habits are frequently "disgusting" or "tidy", and people's choices of meals are "wholesome" or even "revolting". All of these terms are my attempt to illustrate one important thing: everything about you gets judged. I don't mean this in any religious sense either, it is a simple fact of life though that those around you judge your character constantly and through every action you take (or don't take).
In fact, I bet that if people were truly honest about how often you make value judgments on a person based on a small sample of their behavior (clothes, food, manner of speech, etc), we wouldn't have any room to talk about anything else.
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First - Commercial paper is neither shady or immoral. The terms are laid out in black and white, and investors are equally free to accept the deal or walk away.
Second - What if you DID run out and buy a shit load of gear on credit for your business? And then what if all that gear came in handy for, I don't know, extra unexpected work?! And what if the reward of that unexpected extra work was more money than you paid for both the gear and the interest on borrowing?!
Wouldn't you then have actually benefited from borrowing?
By not borrowing though, you've foregone that opportunity, many many times over. In fact, I guarantee you that your business would be bigger if you had borrowed within your ability to pay this whole time.
Don't believe me? Do some finance reading.
There is a serious problem, though: text messages may never get to the destination or may get there late, in case the text server is busy or unavailable
You mean like when the TUBES get full on the Internet? Then someone can send you an Internet, and you'd have to wait a few days....
Why not just establish a VPN with them and either secure FTP it or use IPSec? This honestly doesn't seem that hard, especially if you're sending a few gigs of data....
Growing hemp gets you fuel, food, and fiber.
And munchies.
Actually it shouldn't be a sign of that at all. In fact quite the opposite; when a company can sustain losses in certain divisions yet still post an overall profit it sounds like capitalism is working pretty well.
Think of it this way; if Microsoft was some other company and the X Box 360 was a research project, wouldn't the capitalistic system have to be working for them to sink $2 Billion into it in hopes of a return?
Just cause you hate M$, don't try and blame larger forces (the government, capitalism, whatever).
I'm not sure that many of you all remember this, but a while back the US actually sold China a Boeing 767 with at LEAST 27 different spying devices on board. Both China and the US were mostly quiet about this though, which kept things under wrap. The BBC has articles here and here.
Looks like America has every right to be paranoid, if it expects China to treat it as it has been treated.
Ok, while it's obvious that at some past point in time at least they were using FreeBSD, the more interesting things about this website are it's content, not it's presentation.
n dows.pdf ) paper, Unisys cites that 'Windows needs to make inroads' against Oracle in enterprise-level computing.
1-In addition to using Windows Datacenter, Unisys says that they also will support SCO UNIX. Yep, you just read that right, Unix supported by the 'Unix alternative'. Wow
2-Many, many times in this ( http://www.unisys.com/industry-analyst/doc/big-wi
3-Currently, their RAM is limited to 32 GB. This compares to Sun's SunFire 15k model, with 106 processors and 1/2 a TB of RAM. Even IBM's p690 has a max of 256 GB
4-Unisys quotes their system as having 6.4 GB/s of memory bandwith (I chose their LARGEST figure). Again, Sun's SunFire 15k acheives a (measley!) 174 GB/s....
To quote "The Big Lebowski", "You're out of your element!"
These people are trying to make a case for x86 architecture at an enterprise level, using an operating system that was derived from the '640k is good enough' stream of though. My advice? "Get some of that sweet, sweet IPO!" (not)
Absolutly!
;-).
I want to jump on the bandwagon a bit and say CONGRADULATIONS, Mozilla is one of the success stories of Open Source. Maybe AOL will use it now for it's intergrated browser
Sorry to burst your bubble on the Generic ODB II Scanner, but alot of times cars don't stick to the specifications. So you'll get a tool-maker who only writes their tool to the ODB II spec, which then ignores a car maker like, say, Suzuki (who is horrible at writing engince controls to spec). How do I know this? Answer: Summer job.
e =k m9040.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
e =k m9620.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
e =k m9640.htm&cart_id=32958_13344
If you really never want to pay a car diagnostic fee again on an ODB II compliant car, get one of these:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?pag
or better yet, this:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?pag
If you have a pre 1996 car, try this:
http://www.actron.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?pag
These things are hoss, I know, I had to test like 20 different kinds of ODB II scanners. They can be upgraded vial serial port and the help line is actually helpful (ya, I know, wow). They even have an serial port to print stuff out on any standard printer (amazing...)
Car computers are definatly the most complicated part about cars these days, as one controller usually handles all of the eletrical systems, engine monitors, and transmission controls in the whole car. Just a couple of little changes in some of those on-chip values and suddenly you're polluting way more or your gear shift is off. Actually, the biggest difference between cars today is not the size of the engine, but the controler that is timing all of the engine's operations. Think about a Corvette versus a Camero. Same engine, similar specs. But a different engine controller changes alot (ok, that's oversimplified, but it's a good rule).
Car makers actually do like it when people tweak out their own rides, since many engineers in the auto industry are there because they LOVE cars.
While their current products are abyssmal at best, the really important thing here is not the product. It's how they are developing this product. For once, Linux and the Free Software Community can truly claim a victory (even if it is only a moral one) because we have made Almighty M$ change the way they develop software.
;-)
They had to listen to their customers, actively participate in discussion with them and (gasp!) even let them see the source code.
M$ for once is trying to emulate US, not the other way around. We are definatly doing something right. Lets just hope that the management will try to kill this behavior, so that the embedded M$ community dies in it's infancy. Because, while Linux does have a head start in this respect, we lack the focus and direction to point at, say, just the emedded market and scream "Go for it!". Linux needs to win in key markets like these for it's eventual world domination to be assured
Obviously notice has been served that, when it comes to mission critical applications, no more of this properity / closed shit will work. The markets that need dependability now know that they have to be able to independantly evaluate whatever it is that they are using.
If this isn't a glaring reflection on how the Open Source movement is succeding, I don't know what is.
I worked at a Mailboxes Etc. this summer (they're a part of UPS now) and let me tell you, the shipping industry is NOT pretty. Nobody really pays as much attention to the packages as you'd think, they're just kinda thrown (literally) around.
Most importantly, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, get the insurance. It's only like $2.00, but man, in cases like this, they would bust their butts if you had the insurance.
As a sidenote, don't blame those who offer services (I mostly mean Mailboxes, that kinda thing) for mistakes that are almost always due to UPS, or FedEX.
Oh, and as a positive (right) afterthought, neither company really is more careful about their shipments. Usually one in every 200 shipments is screwed up, so, you take your chances. Especially with international shipments.
While I know that they are seperate entities of in and of themselves, many of the times I visit Altavista, I'm only going for the Fish. Amazing program. While it's not perfect by a long shot, it makes all the German sites much more readable ;-).
Maybe if they get those stupid ads and flashy graphics off of their site people will start coming back. I hope so, if only so that the memory and research of Digital Equiptment Corp lives on. (man those guys were cool!)
Just an open-ended question to all of you who are more in the know.
What current Constitutional (or other) protections are there against this card? What limits could it have? Would I still be a citizen without one say?
We have currently the right to pay for everything in cash (look at a dollar, legal tender for all debts). Could we have similar options with this stupid card?
If this happens, I'm moving to Mexico or something...
Exactly! Maybe the future of DRM should be more of a world wide network with a traveling user profile, kind of like a directory service. "Terminals" to access this network would be everywhere (watches, laptops, palmtops, whatever). Ideally you'd be able to access your roaming profile from any of these and be able to view / listen to / smell? whatever you want, whenever. And when you wanted to get new media, you'd pay the creator DIRECTLY. No more of this middle-man shit.
In a best case scenario, you'd be able to access this network without any personal information being transferred. Maybe a little digital access card / chip that would keep track of your media.
This scheme shouldn't be pay-per-use if possible, or maybe the author of the content could decide it's accessing limitations.
My 2 cents....
Yeah, the DCMA specifically makes an exception that allows for reverse engineering. Check here: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
for some more info and a short (well, 20 pages) summary of the DCMA. Oh, and teh reverse engineering thing is on pg. 4 of that PDF.
Well, much like DeCESS, once (if) the record companies try to implement a Windows Media Player-centric solution, the Open Source community could (in theory) then argue that NO COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE exists. Once that happens, can't we just write our own Windows Media Player compatable? And did anybody notice that current US Copyright protects the design of ships hulls???!!! I'm not joking, it's ridiculeous (look on page 16) http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
Maybe it's just me, or did CNN mention this before (read Wednesday)? Guess my submission just wasn't good enough....e n. arch.idg/index.html
Here's CNN's version (put on their site Wednesay...)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/08/10/IBM.op