Yes indeed you're correct:(. But they would at least be able to interrupt the opposition's lawyers with the phrase "patent pending" at every opportunity given the length of time a patent takes to process;).
dammed good point. Its prior IP and as such public domain. I suggest they get the most expensive lawyer they can coz they airn't goona pay the costs when the case fails.
Couldn't they just patent a way of using legal systems too extortion monies from small companies via use of patents. Then sue them for infringement of their patent to sue companies that infringes patents. It would make life easier. But like celebrities copywriting/patenting there faces so they don't get harassed by the paparazzi as they could instantly sue for breach of copyright and therefore no publishers would dare touch the pictures. Naaaaaaa they love being victims.
Anyhow who said they were using a computer screen - that's the users of the site that are doing that so are they to be sued next?
Lets not forget that anything standard that M$ adopts then they'll change it and perversify it. AD LDAP - why, well they thought ew thats a standard - peeps can well interoperate with our kit - we'll have none of that here. Soooo they non-standised there LDAP scheame to be non-standard and therfore borked from birth. Kerberous - yip - you guessed it - thats a standard - so they just tweaked it and guess what. Arrrgggghhhhhhh. Why dont you explore using M$'s unix services for windows and use NIS - there's a chance that it might just work. Samba - lol, come back in a couple of years for AD stuff. Unless of course your AD is running in mixed mode then you could winbind away and also stand a chance. Good luck and may the force be with you to balance out the pressure:D
Given the model they are proposing - would it not be fair for you to demand refunds on any code that is faulty that they supply. So if I could pay per yearly period for every CPU unit used which is not effected by a PTF or patch/fix mandated for support complience or support then I'd have a couple at home - hell make it 2. Would be handy for the odd lan party I suppose:D.
Any chance they would sell me one of those sexy flat screen monitors that they do - 22" with stupid resolutions. I'd pay per pixel per view - yeah:D.
IBM have for the past 2 years iirc selling at least there rs6000/p-series high end HA and SP kit with extra processors already installed but not enabled. Why when the customer might not purchase them. Well its simple really - it's actually cheaper for IBM. Given that blank processor cards would have to be installed into the CPU expansion slots they avoid the extra production costs of producing blanks. They also cut down on support as in the case of a failing processor there redundant spares kick in. This in itself helps to sell kit, save engineer callouts and generally gives the customer automated support regarding CPU failure. The cost of the actually CPU's whilst expensive is hardly going to mount up to a huge loss to IBM when you offset the plus points such a policy gives them. Let's not forget the potential/eventual sale of extra processors; or seasonal accounts run leasing of CPU's. I'm sure even Intel see this as a potential selling point of there hyperthreading in that nearly 50% of the CPU can fail and yet still run.
Whilst they already do this what is new is that there proposing a more granular scale of costs. Which given lessons learned in the telecoms market and still being learned by fixed cost broadband providers would seem the more logical business model to adapt. Only problem is that the customer has had a taste of fixed cost models for so long that you just have to look at the struggle being had by the software industry in there hampered lust to also adopt this. Strangely enough the only players that have the damnedest chance of providing such a model to the customer in a way that they except is the mobile telecoms providers. Now if they play there cards right - well they could be the service portal providers for the other industries. Remember billing can be expensive also. This brings us back to the current model of batch/block jumps on demand. Still - a fairly sane move by the new chap at the top. Lets hope they don't go thru all there old patents - I swear IBM owns more IP than I'm allowed to even think about without violating copyrights somehow:-)
Ummmm, your reading what I write. I don't think I even mentioned my sexual preference but its strictly hetrosexual - unless you count sheep, but that's more for the hare-brained insomniacs:-)
I plan to over the winter build a PC into the base of a sofa - iwill act as main file server for mp3's. Makes alot of sence as there is plenty of space and any heat would only act as a heated seat:D. There is also the aspect of having one hell of a noise sepretion unit aka the sofa itself. Of coarse one vigarous romantic fling on said sofa would risk the chance of actualy crashing the server, so a strong sofa will be procured forsafty reasons. I appreciate that it wont have many flashing blueled fans and the like with disco lighting extreme inside but it does pose a pratical use of space and natural sound proofing without excessive costs in uber expensive magneto electro fans with climate controlled RPM and in built drivers for most games - but thats half the fun isn't it.
Data is just as inmportant as the code itself. FOr example if the french had told the British intelligence agency that they had sold excocepts to the Argitinians during the Falkland war then when the radar systems were being programmed by marconi would have gone ew an excocept - hmmm we have them - yeah do they have them - yes - ok possible target. Intead the data told the code that only the British had excocepts and as such flagged the newly aquired target that was 20 miles away as friendly. It wasn;t until the ship collision code flagged it up that the comuter even considered it a threat. So in this case you end up with the program failing - not due to the program, but due to the data fed into the program. End of the day all users are virus's and virus's kill hosts:D.
PS forgot to add that in those days systems were not exactly at there MTBF as they are now. Cyclying the load of placment of logs on diskpacks was common to spread the load on the actual disks. Mainframes arn't as reliable as they are made out too be - they just except the fact that things go wrong in not only software (OS) but in the hardware as well. That and operator/administrators (same thing realy on the context of admins in those days;) actualy worked for there money having to do alot of things that have been automated not thru software but thru the reliability of hardware itself.
Very nice [anybody/company with Level6/DPS6 or higher like a DPS9+ - this is your man if you want too see your old kit put too good use].
Is there anywere that offers old mainframe shell's - personly I fancy playing with George III on ICL kit again. If only to use the term buckets again and relive my 1st ever hack (pre hack) wich actualy involved recreating a garbage file - seriously. as a user you could create files and not zero-fill them, and as such got the previous contents. Now with some fishing you can get the console journal logs and the admins password. God it was easy in those days - seriously }->.
*runs of back too the safty of his BSD based platforms*
I bet its all down to that lovely GCOS field and what to do with it these days (reas/etc/passwd format if you want too know more on this lovely field and no it has no relationship to that lovely OS in the 80's called GCOS that ran on DPS hardware). You can bet this would never have happened with good old COBOL/TDS and a cluster of level 66's.
So we as individuals have to provide and have our info available but large goverments that represent the public and are more than able to defend themselfs unlike an individual who relies upon said goverments; are able to do this and hide.
Security thru obscurity does not work and only goes to lend an air of arragance about the whole issue.
If there is a problem fix the problem not hide it away - but there again this is the paracetamol/asprin generation and when the brain goes I'm tired or hungry or get this crap outa my system we go - naaaa go away pill time.
So narrow minded that they seem to have a longterm goal of it:-/
Yes, yes - I see it now. Every startrek has a main enemy they introduce round season 2. How about (and given the time-frame here) we have the mafia. Lets face it there organised - why wouldn't they be out there with there space pirate henchmen and of course they will have the HQ on mars as per the standard draft of shit happens around mars [sci-fi rule #101]. O the potential is fantastic and not forgetting given the current trend in movies a lot of good gangster/mafia stereotyped actors are loosing out and not working. Such a move by the paramount studios would not only spice up Enterprise a bit (perhaps interject some humour) and get some cheap labour too boot:D.
I'll sleep well tonight knowing that somebody is prepared to stand up and insult people for an historical deed that they did in the name of international law and treaty and then spit on the graves of there collegues -- Sir, you should be scalped.
The A-Bomb was indeed both a great and sad day on this planet as it marked one of mans greatest achievments and one of its most destructivity. Now not saying it was right but it was better to have learned that leason early on than to have learned it say even 10 years later on from there. We are talking about a leason that given mans history would eventualy have been played out and better on the scale that it was than would have unfolded with the technology shortly afterwards. Given the scale back then we still today remember what descructive forces it is that we have unleashed.
--Democracy is indeed an hypocracy - I vote democratic-communism with added free speach--
free speech is a religion in its own right these day's and like Jedi's is yet to be fully recognised. As for onces soul I fear that it is not index-linked and as such holds no monetary value whatsoever. Which given the amount of grief that gives then I'd have to say lets all go back to the barter system without religion cutting in and wanting its cut and forcing us back to a money based system.
So simply - ban money - ban religion. Force everybody to except free speach and that the sun is just a young planet cooling down and that the planet is round and spins around every day. But there again that relegion holding us back. War cuts thru technological achievments coz nobody has time for religion as there to busy saving there ass's. So ban religion - well cept the buddist's - bout the only religion thats not started any trouble from what I know.
Dont forget we paid the americans there blood money from a rather large cut in north sea oil. Oil - funny stuff - some peeps fight at any excuse to claim more.
R.I.P. all those who have died in the words of others vanities.
and if you realy want World peace - BAN RELIGION - its for weak-minded idjiots who start wars when they come together - organised idjiots are Hmmmm bad;(
It is indeed Kellar Autumn (http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/People/Kellar.html) .
Though the BBC do redeem themselfs on the credits for the images "SEM images by Kellar Autumn & Ed Florance" and the fact they were 2 years ahead of CNN. I assume the movie rights for the story were lacking in explosions for CNN's taste at the time:-)
This would imply that "Spiderman the early years" would be rated beyond the scope of most audiences. I mean, how else did he manage to get such hairy hands:-)
1) has the effect upon natural predators and the knock on effect top the food chain?
2) Given that the reasoning is that these mutants will outnumber the general population is somewhat lacking in reasoning given that the mutant's cannot reproduce and will only serve as decoy's for the breading general species that will only grow in population the following season as a result.
3) Not enough research. hell were still studing our current enviroment in biospheres so wouldn't it be prodent to create and study this in a more controled enviroment; Like a biospher perhaps!
-- we have a bug with our product - lets relase a patch - have we tested the patch to see if it fix's the bug IRL - heh -thats why we relase the patch!--
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Yes indeed you're correct :(. But they would at least be able to interrupt the opposition's lawyers with the phrase "patent pending" at every opportunity given the length of time a patent takes to process ;).
dammed good point. Its prior IP and as such public domain. I suggest they get the most expensive lawyer they can coz they airn't goona pay the costs when the case fails.
Couldn't they just patent a way of using legal systems too extortion monies from small companies via use of patents. Then sue them for infringement of their patent to sue companies that infringes patents. It would make life easier. But like celebrities copywriting/patenting there faces so they don't get harassed by the paparazzi as they could instantly sue for breach of copyright and therefore no publishers would dare touch the pictures. Naaaaaaa they love being victims. Anyhow who said they were using a computer screen - that's the users of the site that are doing that so are they to be sued next?
Lets not forget that anything standard that M$ adopts then they'll change it and perversify it. AD LDAP - why, well they thought ew thats a standard - peeps can well interoperate with our kit - we'll have none of that here. Soooo they non-standised there LDAP scheame to be non-standard and therfore borked from birth. Kerberous - yip - you guessed it - thats a standard - so they just tweaked it and guess what. Arrrgggghhhhhhh. Why dont you explore using M$'s unix services for windows and use NIS - there's a chance that it might just work. Samba - lol, come back in a couple of years for AD stuff. Unless of course your AD is running in mixed mode then you could winbind away and also stand a chance. Good luck and may the force be with you to balance out the pressure :D
Given the model they are proposing - would it not be fair for you to demand refunds on any code that is faulty that they supply. So if I could pay per yearly period for every CPU unit used which is not effected by a PTF or patch/fix mandated for support complience or support then I'd have a couple at home - hell make it 2. Would be handy for the odd lan party I suppose :D.
Any chance they would sell me one of those sexy flat screen monitors that they do - 22" with stupid resolutions. I'd pay per pixel per view - yeah :D.
I'm sure IBM will love coding error's. Recursive loop - that will do nicely Sir.
IBM have for the past 2 years iirc selling at least there rs6000/p-series high end HA and SP kit with extra processors already installed but not enabled. Why when the customer might not purchase them. Well its simple really - it's actually cheaper for IBM. Given that blank processor cards would have to be installed into the CPU expansion slots they avoid the extra production costs of producing blanks. They also cut down on support as in the case of a failing processor there redundant spares kick in. This in itself helps to sell kit, save engineer callouts and generally gives the customer automated support regarding CPU failure. The cost of the actually CPU's whilst expensive is hardly going to mount up to a huge loss to IBM when you offset the plus points such a policy gives them. Let's not forget the potential/eventual sale of extra processors; or seasonal accounts run leasing of CPU's. I'm sure even Intel see this as a potential selling point of there hyperthreading in that nearly 50% of the CPU can fail and yet still run. Whilst they already do this what is new is that there proposing a more granular scale of costs. Which given lessons learned in the telecoms market and still being learned by fixed cost broadband providers would seem the more logical business model to adapt. Only problem is that the customer has had a taste of fixed cost models for so long that you just have to look at the struggle being had by the software industry in there hampered lust to also adopt this. Strangely enough the only players that have the damnedest chance of providing such a model to the customer in a way that they except is the mobile telecoms providers. Now if they play there cards right - well they could be the service portal providers for the other industries. Remember billing can be expensive also. This brings us back to the current model of batch/block jumps on demand. Still - a fairly sane move by the new chap at the top. Lets hope they don't go thru all there old patents - I swear IBM owns more IP than I'm allowed to even think about without violating copyrights somehow :-)
Ummmm, your reading what I write. I don't think I even mentioned my sexual preference but its strictly hetrosexual - unless you count sheep, but that's more for the hare-brained insomniacs :-)
I plan to over the winter build a PC into the base of a sofa - iwill act as main file server for mp3's. Makes alot of sence as there is plenty of space and any heat would only act as a heated seat :D. There is also the aspect of having one hell of a noise sepretion unit aka the sofa itself. Of coarse one vigarous romantic fling on said sofa would risk the chance of actualy crashing the server, so a strong sofa will be procured forsafty reasons. I appreciate that it wont have many flashing blueled fans and the like with disco lighting extreme inside but it does pose a pratical use of space and natural sound proofing without excessive costs in uber expensive magneto electro fans with climate controlled RPM and in built drivers for most games - but thats half the fun isn't it.
Data is just as inmportant as the code itself. FOr example if the french had told the British intelligence agency that they had sold excocepts to the Argitinians during the Falkland war then when the radar systems were being programmed by marconi would have gone ew an excocept - hmmm we have them - yeah do they have them - yes - ok possible target. Intead the data told the code that only the British had excocepts and as such flagged the newly aquired target that was 20 miles away as friendly. It wasn;t until the ship collision code flagged it up that the comuter even considered it a threat. So in this case you end up with the program failing - not due to the program, but due to the data fed into the program. End of the day all users are virus's and virus's kill hosts :D.
PS forgot to add that in those days systems were not exactly at there MTBF as they are now. Cyclying the load of placment of logs on diskpacks was common to spread the load on the actual disks. Mainframes arn't as reliable as they are made out too be - they just except the fact that things go wrong in not only software (OS) but in the hardware as well. That and operator/administrators (same thing realy on the context of admins in those days ;) actualy worked for there money having to do alot of things that have been automated not thru software but thru the reliability of hardware itself.
Very nice [anybody/company with Level6/DPS6 or higher like a DPS9+ - this is your man if you want too see your old kit put too good use]. Is there anywere that offers old mainframe shell's - personly I fancy playing with George III on ICL kit again. If only to use the term buckets again and relive my 1st ever hack (pre hack) wich actualy involved recreating a garbage file - seriously. as a user you could create files and not zero-fill them, and as such got the previous contents. Now with some fishing you can get the console journal logs and the admins password. God it was easy in those days - seriously }->. *runs of back too the safty of his BSD based platforms*
I bet its all down to that lovely GCOS field and what to do with it these days (reas /etc/passwd format if you want too know more on this lovely field and no it has no relationship to that lovely OS in the 80's called GCOS that ran on DPS hardware). You can bet this would never have happened with good old COBOL/TDS and a cluster of level 66's.
As a roll your own browser based upon mozila it should be called MoRizla or MaRizla - a smokingly fast web browser by any standards.
So we as individuals have to provide and have our info available but large goverments that represent the public and are more than able to defend themselfs unlike an individual who relies upon said goverments; are able to do this and hide. Security thru obscurity does not work and only goes to lend an air of arragance about the whole issue. If there is a problem fix the problem not hide it away - but there again this is the paracetamol/asprin generation and when the brain goes I'm tired or hungry or get this crap outa my system we go - naaaa go away pill time. So narrow minded that they seem to have a longterm goal of it :-/
Yes, yes - I see it now. Every startrek has a main enemy they introduce round season 2. How about (and given the time-frame here) we have the mafia. Lets face it there organised - why wouldn't they be out there with there space pirate henchmen and of course they will have the HQ on mars as per the standard draft of shit happens around mars [sci-fi rule #101]. O the potential is fantastic and not forgetting given the current trend in movies a lot of good gangster/mafia stereotyped actors are loosing out and not working. Such a move by the paramount studios would not only spice up Enterprise a bit (perhaps interject some humour) and get some cheap labour too boot :D.
I'll sleep well tonight knowing that somebody is prepared to stand up and insult people for an historical deed that they did in the name of international law and treaty and then spit on the graves of there collegues -- Sir, you should be scalped. The A-Bomb was indeed both a great and sad day on this planet as it marked one of mans greatest achievments and one of its most destructivity. Now not saying it was right but it was better to have learned that leason early on than to have learned it say even 10 years later on from there. We are talking about a leason that given mans history would eventualy have been played out and better on the scale that it was than would have unfolded with the technology shortly afterwards. Given the scale back then we still today remember what descructive forces it is that we have unleashed. --Democracy is indeed an hypocracy - I vote democratic-communism with added free speach--
free speech is a religion in its own right these day's and like Jedi's is yet to be fully recognised. As for onces soul I fear that it is not index-linked and as such holds no monetary value whatsoever. Which given the amount of grief that gives then I'd have to say lets all go back to the barter system without religion cutting in and wanting its cut and forcing us back to a money based system. So simply - ban money - ban religion. Force everybody to except free speach and that the sun is just a young planet cooling down and that the planet is round and spins around every day. But there again that relegion holding us back. War cuts thru technological achievments coz nobody has time for religion as there to busy saving there ass's. So ban religion - well cept the buddist's - bout the only religion thats not started any trouble from what I know.
Dont forget we paid the americans there blood money from a rather large cut in north sea oil. Oil - funny stuff - some peeps fight at any excuse to claim more. R.I.P. all those who have died in the words of others vanities. and if you realy want World peace - BAN RELIGION - its for weak-minded idjiots who start wars when they come together - organised idjiots are Hmmmm bad ;(
nods - its got so bad that even the MTV generation will start to notice the repeats.
:-/
what next "old story #511 XP edition"
It is indeed Kellar Autumn (http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/People/Kellar.html) .
Though the BBC do redeem themselfs on the credits for the images "SEM images by Kellar Autumn & Ed Florance" and the fact they were 2 years ahead of CNN. I assume the movie rights for the story were lacking in explosions for CNN's taste at the time :-)
This would imply that "Spiderman the early years" would be rated beyond the scope of most audiences. I mean, how else did he manage to get such hairy hands :-)
1) has the effect upon natural predators and the knock on effect top the food chain?
2) Given that the reasoning is that these mutants will outnumber the general population is somewhat lacking in reasoning given that the mutant's cannot reproduce and will only serve as decoy's for the breading general species that will only grow in population the following season as a result.
3) Not enough research. hell were still studing our current enviroment in biospheres so wouldn't it be prodent to create and study this in a more controled enviroment; Like a biospher perhaps!
-- we have a bug with our product - lets relase a patch - have we tested the patch to see if it fix's the bug IRL - heh -thats why we relase the patch!--