..... Texting is still hideously expensive, but if you don't need it, the service is worlds better than AT&T.
As you said, hideously expensive, for text messages sent in the otherwise unused bandwith between voice packets, essentially free for the carriers. Hence the need for investigations. You have 2 options, an overpriced monthly play, or a severly limited pay as you go plan, but nothing in between. With so many carriers, there should be a whole range of plan types to fit everybody's needs, but there's not.
Except that's where the problem lies, in choosing which protocols deserve "quality service" and which don't.
If I'm making a "voice call" through a service they offer, is that a higher priority than your "peer to peer" connection that is in fact a Skype call between yourself and a friend who lives overseas?
If I'm streaming video through their on demand video servers, does that traffic get higher priority than the free video you are streaming from Hulu.com?
If you are encrypting traffic for security reasons, does that get delayed because they fear you are using encryption to circumvent their thrott^H^H^H^H^H^H congestion management?
They want the monopoly rights of a utility provider but then want to promote quality service for their commercial offerings at the expense of traffic they deem less important, just because it doesn't bring them any additional revenue.
But isn't that the reason that Window's Longhorn (now Vista) is so delayed in coming? Because the entire Microsoft corporation was going to stop everything and focus solely on security issues? What, did they just give up on that idea when the bean-counters pointed out it would be better to leave the security issues and charge for "protection"?
"A *much* better way is to fill the pipe with water and freeze it."
That is a good idea. Your best bet is to do it at night, outside, in the dead of winter, unless you have a freezer that will accomodate 25' worth of copper tubing...
Why not just coil the pipe in a spiral that would be small enough to fit into your freezer, and then fill it with water and freeze it?
Yes, and that's how crt's work too, by constantly sweeping electrons across your screen. When they repeatedly sweep across the same area, ie. when your screen is displaying the same image all the time, you get burn in.
This display would be much different than a stray laser sweeping across your eye one time, this would be constant. If the disco laser heats up your receptors for a fraction of a second, they will cool right back down, but if they are being constantly heated, even by a low power laser, could there possibly be long term consequences? I think that's what the parent post is concerned about.
That's why it has a built in screensaver. Just imagine, you're driving, and the virtual monitor is displaying a Heads Up Display, and the screensaver kicks in. Suddenly you're flying through space at warp-speed.
Yes, it was called "Rock 'n' Scroll" and you can read about it here.
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Our local McDonalds has an LCD display outside at the drive-through ordering location, mounted on the box with the microphone and crackly speaker. It displays full color pictures of Big Macs, etc. when you first pull up, and then as you order, shows each item ordered with price and quantity, and a subtotal.
I can't count how many times I haved pulled up and seen "Illegal Operation" dialog boxes on top of a blue screen, and the dialog boxes identify the OS as some Windows CE variant.
While there have been occasions that I have approached an ATM to find it out of order, these have been far less often, and they normally have "This Machine is Temporarily Out of Order" displayed on the monitor, which tells me it is probably a mechanical error, or simply out of money. I have never seen the display screen in an invalid/error state.
So really, this is nothing more than a 100MB Zip disk with a built in smart-card chip. Looking at the illustrations on the web-site, I don't see where the smart-chip really locks out access or autenticates the info on the disk. The smart-chip is only valid if the internal disk has not been modified or replaced.
What would stop somebody from removing the Mylar disk and putting it inside of another case without a restrictive chip, or hacking the reader to ignore the chip. The smart-chip does not appear to control the interface, as the reader is external to the card. The smart-chip only appears to identify the media. Is it anything more than a storage device for encryption keys? How can it actually be performing encryption/decryption if the the reader is external. Maybe the reader is dumb and passes information from the external heads through the smart-chip and then back through the reader interface.
Iomega could do the same thing with their Zip disks. They could even claim that in some future generation they will have 5GB capacity. That doesn't mean it will really happen. Personally I don't see anything to get excited about. If you want small media and access control, use Sony's memory stick thingy.
These are not $30 inkjet cartridges, more like $300+ laser printer toner cartridges. The printer I bought last year is no longer available this year, and guess what, the toner cartridge for this year's model is more expensive, by about $50, even though they look almost identical.
Others have suggested that Lexmark is trying to recoup their losses from selling their printers as a loss leader, but again we aren't talking about $89 inkjet printers. These are $1,100 laser printers. I really can't believe the hardware is sold at a loss.
When the toner runs out, I have 2 choices. I can pay lexmark $300 for a replacement cartridge, or I can take it down the street and have it rebuilt (toner refilled, image drum replaced, wiper blades and other internal parts replaced, etc) for $150 and the print quality is just as good. The guy that refills them for me says that $50 of that cost is for the computer chip that has to be replaced each time. If the print quality is still good, the cartridge can be refilled, without having to be rebuilt, but the chip still has to be replaced.
You see, if you simply refill the cartridge, and try and put it back into the printer, the printer says "wait a minute, last time I saw this cartridge, he was empty, and now he's full. Something fishy is going on here, so I'm not going to let him print".
We have used Lexmark laser printers exclusively for the last 8-10 years, and have been pleased with them from a quality standpoint (we are producing camera ready copy for printing, so quality is important) but over the years, the printers haven't gotten any cheaper but the toner costs have tripled. It's getting hard to justify staying with lexmark when they have such a restrictive business model, not to mention the environmental costs of having to buy a new cartridge each time as opposed to reclycling a perfectly good cartridge.
Then there's their "prebate" program where they charge you an additional $50 for a non-prebate cartridge (with a prebate cartridge you agree to return the empty cartridge to lexmark and not have it refilled). Lexmark's justification is that for the extra $50, you gain unrestricted use of the cartridge, and can refill it if you like, but guess what, now that they are destroying the aftermarket chip suppliers, you won't be able to use the cartridge that you paid extra for, because you won't be able reuse it without a chip. Figure that out. Basically it's a EULA for toner cartridges.
Thank you for pointing to the InfoWorld article. It brings into question the pricing figures used in the IDC study, in particular Win2K's ongoing annual licensing costs, and points out the impact of experience/training on administration expenses.
"Based on my experience, Linux could be more expensive if you don't have employees that are properly trained."
In other words if you have 5 MCSE's trying to admin you Linux boxen, instead of 1 experienced Linux admin, it will cost more.
I thought they really just used a bunch of actors. Of course they didn't REALLY use elves
In fact, the only creatures that aren't cgi are the Trolls. The found that there was such an abundance of them hanging out on a certain on-line news site that it was cheaper to hire them as extras than to render them.
My kids have these guns that shoot foam "flying saucer" disks. They are battery powered and use a spinning wheel inside to launch the disks. I'd love to see something like that for cd's!
Have you ever held a spinning bicycle wheel by the spokes and then tried to tilt it? With the inertia that disk would have at 20,000 rmp, tilt the camera too much and it might fly out of your hands or break your wrist if it's strapped to your hand.
Not such a discovery
Since the man himself had it online online on his website for ages.
Maybe you should read the pages you refer to before posting. The second page you site above links to this page here describing how the original bullitin board logs were retrieved to support his claim.
This was retrieved from the spice vax oct-82 backup tape by Jeff Baird on September 10, 2002.
Since he is quoting work done 3 days ago, I'd hardly say that he's had it on his website for ages.
When I was in the Air Force in the mid 70s, I was stationed at Patrick AFB as a weather tty op. We'd exchange chit-chat with other ops on the wx net and jokes were often punctuated with "
hi hi" or a:)
Isn't it interesting to see how things evolve over the years. So, the original origin of "ha ha" is really "hi hi". Fascinating!
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..... Texting is still hideously expensive, but if you don't need it, the service is worlds better than AT&T.
As you said, hideously expensive, for text messages sent in the otherwise unused bandwith between voice packets, essentially free for the carriers. Hence the need for investigations. You have 2 options, an overpriced monthly play, or a severly limited pay as you go plan, but nothing in between. With so many carriers, there should be a whole range of plan types to fit everybody's needs, but there's not.
Sounds like QOS to me.
Except that's where the problem lies, in choosing which protocols deserve "quality service" and which don't.
If I'm making a "voice call" through a service they offer, is that a higher priority than your "peer to peer" connection that is in fact a Skype call between yourself and a friend who lives overseas?
If I'm streaming video through their on demand video servers, does that traffic get higher priority than the free video you are streaming from Hulu.com?
If you are encrypting traffic for security reasons, does that get delayed because they fear you are using encryption to circumvent their thrott^H^H^H^H^H^H congestion management?
They want the monopoly rights of a utility provider but then want to promote quality service for their commercial offerings at the expense of traffic they deem less important, just because it doesn't bring them any additional revenue.
This is a rather old article but it explains the technology behind this type of 3d display compared to others.
But isn't that the reason that Window's Longhorn (now Vista) is so delayed in coming? Because the entire Microsoft corporation was going to stop everything and focus solely on security issues? What, did they just give up on that idea when the bean-counters pointed out it would be better to leave the security issues and charge for "protection"?
A while back I was watching "Navy NCIS" when a news alert from the CNN network said that a storm at the NASA agency had hit the VAB building.
Yes, and that's how crt's work too, by constantly sweeping electrons across your screen. When they repeatedly sweep across the same area, ie. when your screen is displaying the same image all the time, you get burn in. This display would be much different than a stray laser sweeping across your eye one time, this would be constant. If the disco laser heats up your receptors for a fraction of a second, they will cool right back down, but if they are being constantly heated, even by a low power laser, could there possibly be long term consequences? I think that's what the parent post is concerned about.
That's why it has a built in screensaver. Just imagine, you're driving, and the virtual monitor is displaying a Heads Up Display, and the screensaver kicks in. Suddenly you're flying through space at warp-speed.
.....I tell myself as I read this article on my Treo 600 ... while driving to work.
At least I waited to get to work to type my reply.
Yes, it was called "Rock 'n' Scroll" and you can read about it here.
Our local McDonalds has an LCD display outside at the drive-through ordering location, mounted on the box with the microphone and crackly speaker. It displays full color pictures of Big Macs, etc. when you first pull up, and then as you order, shows each item ordered with price and quantity, and a subtotal.
I can't count how many times I haved pulled up and seen "Illegal Operation" dialog boxes on top of a blue screen, and the dialog boxes identify the OS as some Windows CE variant.
While there have been occasions that I have approached an ATM to find it out of order, these have been far less often, and they normally have "This Machine is Temporarily Out of Order" displayed on the monitor, which tells me it is probably a mechanical error, or simply out of money. I have never seen the display screen in an invalid/error state.
So really, this is nothing more than a 100MB Zip disk with a built in smart-card chip. Looking at the illustrations on the web-site, I don't see where the smart-chip really locks out access or autenticates the info on the disk. The smart-chip is only valid if the internal disk has not been modified or replaced.
What would stop somebody from removing the Mylar disk and putting it inside of another case without a restrictive chip, or hacking the reader to ignore the chip. The smart-chip does not appear to control the interface, as the reader is external to the card. The smart-chip only appears to identify the media. Is it anything more than a storage device for encryption keys? How can it actually be performing encryption/decryption if the the reader is external. Maybe the reader is dumb and passes information from the external heads through the smart-chip and then back through the reader interface.
Iomega could do the same thing with their Zip disks. They could even claim that in some future generation they will have 5GB capacity. That doesn't mean it will really happen. Personally I don't see anything to get excited about. If you want small media and access control, use Sony's memory stick thingy.
These are not $30 inkjet cartridges, more like $300+ laser printer toner cartridges. The printer I bought last year is no longer available this year, and guess what, the toner cartridge for this year's model is more expensive, by about $50, even though they look almost identical.
Others have suggested that Lexmark is trying to recoup their losses from selling their printers as a loss leader, but again we aren't talking about $89 inkjet printers. These are $1,100 laser printers. I really can't believe the hardware is sold at a loss.
When the toner runs out, I have 2 choices. I can pay lexmark $300 for a replacement cartridge, or I can take it down the street and have it rebuilt (toner refilled, image drum replaced, wiper blades and other internal parts replaced, etc) for $150 and the print quality is just as good. The guy that refills them for me says that $50 of that cost is for the computer chip that has to be replaced each time. If the print quality is still good, the cartridge can be refilled, without having to be rebuilt, but the chip still has to be replaced.
You see, if you simply refill the cartridge, and try and put it back into the printer, the printer says "wait a minute, last time I saw this cartridge, he was empty, and now he's full. Something fishy is going on here, so I'm not going to let him print".
We have used Lexmark laser printers exclusively for the last 8-10 years, and have been pleased with them from a quality standpoint (we are producing camera ready copy for printing, so quality is important) but over the years, the printers haven't gotten any cheaper but the toner costs have tripled. It's getting hard to justify staying with lexmark when they have such a restrictive business model, not to mention the environmental costs of having to buy a new cartridge each time as opposed to reclycling a perfectly good cartridge.
Then there's their "prebate" program where they charge you an additional $50 for a non-prebate cartridge (with a prebate cartridge you agree to return the empty cartridge to lexmark and not have it refilled). Lexmark's justification is that for the extra $50, you gain unrestricted use of the cartridge, and can refill it if you like, but guess what, now that they are destroying the aftermarket chip suppliers, you won't be able to use the cartridge that you paid extra for, because you won't be able reuse it without a chip. Figure that out. Basically it's a EULA for toner cartridges.
Oops, is that what the preview button is for. That should be 280 sub-geosync satellites.
Yes, and how much cheaper than 280 geosync satellites. Teledesic
In other words if you have 5 MCSE's trying to admin you Linux boxen, instead of 1 experienced Linux admin, it will cost more.
You may want to choose a better word to rhyme with lose, because use as a noun rhymes with goose, moose, noose, caboose, and yes, loose.
In the future you may want to say that lose rhymes with booze.
Yes, but you can plug it into your USB bus.
In fact, the only creatures that aren't cgi are the Trolls. The found that there was such an abundance of them hanging out on a certain on-line news site that it was cheaper to hire them as extras than to render them.
I don't know about you but if that thing started running in my house at 3 AM it would end up out the window.
My kids have these guns that shoot foam "flying saucer" disks. They are battery powered and use a spinning wheel inside to launch the disks. I'd love to see something like that for cd's!
Have you ever held a spinning bicycle wheel by the spokes and then tried to tilt it? With the inertia that disk would have at 20,000 rmp, tilt the camera too much and it might fly out of your hands or break your wrist if it's strapped to your hand.
Since he is quoting work done 3 days ago, I'd hardly say that he's had it on his website for ages.
Oops, almost forgot