$89CDN, the highest proposed rate, is only $50US... less than I'm paying now for intermittent "flat rate" service from AT&T
and the lowest rate, $23/mo is just $15US.
I was annoyed by this at first, but with the new low rate, Rogers seems to be one of the first companies that's recognized that the ISP business is a numbers game where having more customers is nearly always better than having fewer customers..
All that's really needed is for the in-out points of one person's edits to be circulated... that could be done in a thousand bytes or so... then your software would remove the messy bits for you.
Actually, no... recruiting MIT undergrads for anything is pretty difficult, and they have many interesting opportunities to choose from, when they're not putting in massive hours on problem sets and classwork...
The doctrine of first sale is not a legal right that you can use to force another's hand to compel them to create something that can be resold. In other words, if the good is in some form that CAN be resold (pass along the cd, book, videotape, painting), then good for you. If it's been cleverly made into some form that does not survive a transfer ("rights-controlled media") then that's simply too bad for the buyer.
All copy protection efforts now in widespread use, or threatened, are geared toward using novel technologies to thwart both Fair Use and First Sale privileges that previously we all enjoyed... because they think it will lead to more sales if there's no pass-around.
OK so I sold computers and software during the time that this all went down and this is what happened...
1) WordPerfect for DOS, coded in assembly language, was one damn fast, tight, piece of work. The best word processor for DOS, hands down, no question about it. Everyone used it.
2) MS and IBM announce OS/2. I go out and buy a big fat book about "Programming for OS/2". MS starts pumping the application developers to build OS/2 products. At this time, MS Windows 286 and 386 exist, and MS says they're to be phased out in favor of OS/2, the future of operating systems.
3) Fast forward a couple of years, not too far... MS dumps its OS/2 partnership with IBM and releases new versions of Windows, saying that Windows is now the future of operating systems, and they don't need IBM's help. Shortly after this, Word for Windows 1.0 magically appears. WordPerfect Corp. sends a letter to all its dealers that says (paraphrasing from memory) "MSFT told us that OS/2 was the only OS we needed to code for, we believed them, and consequently we have no Windows product at this time... but we're retrenching and will put out WP for Windows as soon as possible. Oh shit."
So, this game was not lost to assembler EXCEPT in this sense -- if WP for OS/2 was written in assembler lang. instead of something higher up, a quick port from OS/2 code to Windows code would have been impractical or impossible. Would love to hear from some of the WP developers about what actually went down around this event.
Re:What's in a name: DOS
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"dir" and "del" and several other things were not programs that "came with" DOS, but were internal functions of the command interpreter. Some other internal functions included "type", "echo" and "cls". External programs included with DOS covered the more "complex" operations, for example, "format", "fdisk" and of course, "mode"
Uh... i don't know where you're getting your figures but I believe the Globe reported recently that there were only two deals on record EVER over $70/sf (the rumors notwithstanding) and prices are well below $60/sf now with plenty of vacancies. Add to that all the new construction at One Kendall and there's plenty of office space to go around Cambridge just now.
I love my I-ZONE camera. I also own a couple of shelves of digital and traditional cameras... but just being able to make those little stick-on images, especially outdoors where the sky comes out as an awesome deep blue, is really a blast.
Uh... they kick his ass in clear through the film and all the way to the end, dude. Jesus got a whole religious following and his own Book. Luke just got dead. Big win.
I apparently have THREE accounts with them, two through jobs and one personal... and i have to be able to magically match up "user names" that I no longer know, with each of the e-mail addresses.
I don't see how this is a "win" any more than it's a "win" when Congress exempts itself from some bad law that nonetheless binds the rest of us. If they don't feel some of the pain, they can't respond with compassion and comprehension of the effects of things on "ordinary" people.
"Clean rooms" in this country killed people too
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High incidence of cancer, sick kids, etc...
"... Today, the valley is home to more EPA Superfund sites (29) than any other county in the nation, with the most notorious of those sites -- from a leaking tank at a Fairchild Semiconductor fabrication plant -- poisoning a well that served the south San Jose neighborhood of Los Paseos. A subsequent study by the state's Department of Health Services found 2.5 to three times the expected rate of miscarriages and birth defects among pregnant women exposed to the contaminated drinking water, leading to a lawsuit and multimillion-dollar settlement in 1986 with over 250 claimants...."
Full two-part story at Salon, 7/30/01 and 7/31/01:
OK I'm gonna take a stab at this without knowing the facts of the suit. First some facts then the surprise ending.
1 - RS232 ports can handle a lot more than 5 volts, and ordinarily have circuitry just behind the connector to make things all nice-like.
2 - USB ports are made for hot-swaps, and the connector is unlike any other, so they're probably also not the cause of this complaint.
3 - Some Palm docks (like the one for my V) have to be connected inline between the keyboard and the computer.
4 - Some keyboards lock up when the keyboard is plugged and unplugged, and I've seen some CPUs conk out when this happens under power.
Unfounded conclusion: This is related to someone not knowing what can be plugged/unplugged when the box is powered up, that being the keyboard.
Unfounded conclusion 2: or just some idiot attorney who will believe anything he's told if there's a fee attached to it.
The court of public opinion still matters, though courts and in particular this government will do as they please.
I hope that every Slashdot reader also follows the national and regional coverage of this case, and will at least take a moment to write a short letter to their representatives. We don't have a great many tools. However, I was able to explain what's wrong the DMCA to my sister in law in about 2 minutes by giving her some examples of what's around the corner for everyone:
* electronic books that you can't move from your desktop computer to your laptop
* electronic books that blind people can't connect to braille readers or speech devices, unless the book's publisher gives permission (most do not)
* CD's and downloaded music that you couldn't take from home to your car or MP3 player
* electronic books that can't be loaned by a library
* and on and on
Full coverage and portals to all sorts of info will be here until Dmitry is free and home with his family:
Slashdot Mirror
The reviewer has missed the point... the book itself IS the con and the con-tent he's reviewed is just filler.
$89CDN, the highest proposed rate, is only $50US... less than I'm paying now for intermittent "flat rate" service from AT&T
and the lowest rate, $23/mo is just $15US.
I was annoyed by this at first, but with the new low rate, Rogers seems to be one of the first companies that's recognized that the ISP business is a numbers game where having more customers is nearly always better than having fewer customers..
All that's really needed is for the in-out points of one person's edits to be circulated... that could be done in a thousand bytes or so... then your software would remove the messy bits for you.
Actually, no... recruiting MIT undergrads for anything is pretty difficult, and they have many interesting opportunities to choose from, when they're not putting in massive hours on problem sets and classwork...
old news.
http://wherehoo.media.mit.edu/
The doctrine of first sale is not a legal right that you can use to force another's hand to compel them to create something that can be resold. In other words, if the good is in some form that CAN be resold (pass along the cd, book, videotape, painting), then good for you. If it's been cleverly made into some form that does not survive a transfer ("rights-controlled media") then that's simply too bad for the buyer.
All copy protection efforts now in widespread use, or threatened, are geared toward using novel technologies to thwart both Fair Use and First Sale privileges that previously we all enjoyed... because they think it will lead to more sales if there's no pass-around.
1) WordPerfect for DOS, coded in assembly language, was one damn fast, tight, piece of work. The best word processor for DOS, hands down, no question about it. Everyone used it.
2) MS and IBM announce OS/2. I go out and buy a big fat book about "Programming for OS/2". MS starts pumping the application developers to build OS/2 products. At this time, MS Windows 286 and 386 exist, and MS says they're to be phased out in favor of OS/2, the future of operating systems.
3) Fast forward a couple of years, not too far... MS dumps its OS/2 partnership with IBM and releases new versions of Windows, saying that Windows is now the future of operating systems, and they don't need IBM's help. Shortly after this, Word for Windows 1.0 magically appears. WordPerfect Corp. sends a letter to all its dealers that says (paraphrasing from memory) "MSFT told us that OS/2 was the only OS we needed to code for, we believed them, and consequently we have no Windows product at this time... but we're retrenching and will put out WP for Windows as soon as possible. Oh shit."
So, this game was not lost to assembler EXCEPT in this sense -- if WP for OS/2 was written in assembler lang. instead of something higher up, a quick port from OS/2 code to Windows code would have been impractical or impossible. Would love to hear from some of the WP developers about what actually went down around this event.
"dir" and "del" and several other things were not programs that "came with" DOS, but were internal functions of the command interpreter. Some other internal functions included "type", "echo" and "cls". External programs included with DOS covered the more "complex" operations, for example, "format", "fdisk" and of course, "mode"
Uh... i don't know where you're getting your figures but I believe the Globe reported recently that there were only two deals on record EVER over $70/sf (the rumors notwithstanding) and prices are well below $60/sf now with plenty of vacancies. Add to that all the new construction at One Kendall and there's plenty of office space to go around Cambridge just now.
I love my I-ZONE camera. I also own a couple of shelves of digital and traditional cameras... but just being able to make those little stick-on images, especially outdoors where the sky comes out as an awesome deep blue, is really a blast.
Uh... they kick his ass in clear through the film and all the way to the end, dude. Jesus got a whole religious following and his own Book. Luke just got dead. Big win.
I apparently have THREE accounts with them, two through jobs and one personal... and i have to be able to magically match up "user names" that I no longer know, with each of the e-mail addresses.
There is no way to get out of it otherwise.
Dammit to hell.
I don't see how this is a "win" any more than it's a "win" when Congress exempts itself from some bad law that nonetheless binds the rest of us. If they don't feel some of the pain, they can't respond with compassion and comprehension of the effects of things on "ordinary" people.
"... Today, the valley is home to more EPA Superfund sites (29) than any other county in the nation, with the most notorious of those sites -- from a leaking tank at a Fairchild Semiconductor fabrication plant -- poisoning a well that served the south San Jose neighborhood of Los Paseos. A subsequent study by the state's Department of Health Services found 2.5 to three times the expected rate of miscarriages and birth defects among pregnant women exposed to the contaminated drinking water, leading to a lawsuit and multimillion-dollar settlement in 1986 with over 250 claimants...."
Full two-part story at Salon, 7/30/01 and 7/31/01:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/30/almad en1/index.html
1 - RS232 ports can handle a lot more than 5 volts, and ordinarily have circuitry just behind the connector to make things all nice-like.
2 - USB ports are made for hot-swaps, and the connector is unlike any other, so they're probably also not the cause of this complaint.
3 - Some Palm docks (like the one for my V) have to be connected inline between the keyboard and the computer.
4 - Some keyboards lock up when the keyboard is plugged and unplugged, and I've seen some CPUs conk out when this happens under power.
Unfounded conclusion: This is related to someone not knowing what can be plugged/unplugged when the box is powered up, that being the keyboard.
Unfounded conclusion 2: or just some idiot attorney who will believe anything he's told if there's a fee attached to it.
The court of public opinion still matters, though courts and in particular this government will do as they please.
I hope that every Slashdot reader also follows the national and regional coverage of this case, and will at least take a moment to write a short letter to their representatives. We don't have a great many tools. However, I was able to explain what's wrong the DMCA to my sister in law in about 2 minutes by giving her some examples of what's around the corner for everyone:
* electronic books that you can't move from your desktop computer to your laptop
* electronic books that blind people can't connect to braille readers or speech devices, unless the book's publisher gives permission (most do not)
* CD's and downloaded music that you couldn't take from home to your car or MP3 player
* electronic books that can't be loaned by a library
* and on and on
Full coverage and portals to all sorts of info will be here until Dmitry is free and home with his family:
http://freesklyarov.org
http://freedmitry.org