I went to a lecture by J. W. Forester once where he said that one of the ideas that came up before the invention of core memory was to use long microwave loops as a storage medium. Sounds like bad ideas never fade away.
I once saw Amdhals version of Unix running on a mainframe at New England Telephone. The ps command yielded about 20,000 running processes and the guy I knew told me that it was just one of 6 VM systems running on the same hardware.
Way back in the dark age circa 1993 there was an IRC server written in postscript. It was at MIT and could handle about 5 connections... if you typed really slow and all five of you were in the same room. I never net the author but I truely marveled at the concept.
I happen to work for a cable company.
The harsh truth is that you have to pay big money to get carriage. Fox News set the mark by paying $10US per household to get on to the analog tier. Digital channels like the golf channel are paying $2-4 per household.
On the flip side they may get $.10 - $2.00 in subscriber fees over the life of the contract so the net result is very profitable. Do an NPV analysis on a 7 year cash flow and you'll see what I mean.
Still the barrier to entry is high and no ammount of letter writing is going to force a system operator to give away what they have always sold.
I just created a 2 word MS/Word 2000 file - it was 20K too. MS products have been bloated for years and you just noticed it? If you want to see bloat try compiling "hello world" with Visual C++. I am sure Bill Gates owns lots of DRAM companies. By the way the record as far as I know is for a stripped gcc binary on an HPUX system - 903 bytes.
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How about irc? I think all of todays IM products got their start as IRC clients. I know Microsoft's did.
A nameless company once hired me to perform some network magic. I did and was informed that they were going to patent the process I had demonstrated. It was totally prior art and I had prior knowledge of the so called Intelectual Property. I brought it to the table. They know it yet they have gone ahead and filed for world wide patents.
At the very least I am embarassed to have my name associated with the patent and have refused to cooperate. What can be done? I would hate to see the public domain pass into private hands.
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I went to a lecture by J. W. Forester once where he said that one of the ideas that came up before the invention of core memory was to use long microwave loops as a storage medium. Sounds like bad ideas never fade away.
I think netsol already did with their *.com A records in the DNS system.
I once saw Amdhals version of Unix running on a mainframe at New England Telephone. The ps command yielded about 20,000 running processes and the guy I knew told me that it was just one of 6 VM systems running on the same hardware.
I was impressed.
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I looked through the changelog and didn't find the SCO code that was added. Does anyone know where it went?
Way back in the dark age circa 1993 there was an IRC server written in postscript. It was at MIT and could handle about 5 connections ... if you typed really slow and all five of you were in the same room. I never net the author but I truely marveled at the concept.
I happen to work for a cable company. The harsh truth is that you have to pay big money to get carriage. Fox News set the mark by paying $10US per household to get on to the analog tier. Digital channels like the golf channel are paying $2-4 per household. On the flip side they may get $.10 - $2.00 in subscriber fees over the life of the contract so the net result is very profitable. Do an NPV analysis on a 7 year cash flow and you'll see what I mean. Still the barrier to entry is high and no ammount of letter writing is going to force a system operator to give away what they have always sold.
I just created a 2 word MS/Word 2000 file - it was 20K too. MS products have been bloated for years and you just noticed it? If you want to see bloat try compiling "hello world" with Visual C++. I am sure Bill Gates owns lots of DRAM companies. By the way the record as far as I know is for a stripped gcc binary on an HPUX system - 903 bytes.
How about irc? I think all of todays IM products got their start as IRC clients. I know Microsoft's did.
A nameless company once hired me to perform some network magic. I did and was informed that they were going to patent the process I had demonstrated. It was totally prior art and I had prior knowledge of the so called Intelectual Property. I brought it to the table. They know it yet they have gone ahead and filed for world wide patents. At the very least I am embarassed to have my name associated with the patent and have refused to cooperate. What can be done? I would hate to see the public domain pass into private hands.