No, really, think about it. Operating systems don't actually "die". They kind of gain a cult following. Take a look at Amiga, OS/2, DOS, etc. Granted, they're all on life support....
People have expounded upon Y2K already (with little surprise), but they forgot the conspiracy theories. You know, like sewage backing up into the refrigerator, and the natural gas feed systems (or propane, depending on where you are) sucking all the nitrogen out of the atmosphere when you boil your spagetti.
Then there is the whole joke of "Imminent death of the net predicted!".
And my personal favorite? That one that says that Darl McBride exists. =^_^=
Between her stuff and stuff here on Slashdot, this is probably going to put enough conjecture to make things get interesting for SCO. Now if only the legal teams would start reading this drivel. =)
This shouldn't be regulated for the same reason that data connections (read: your 57.6 kbps modem) over POTS lines are not - because the line is already paid for. The transmission medium can be FO, Cu, or even PVC pipe (if you can get that to carry a signal), but one way or another, the plumbing as it were is covered. Just because you change the content of the signal doesn't mean that the pipes are radically altered. TCP/IP is just part of that hash of stuff that travels over the wire.
To charge just to send VoIP data over a TCP/IP line along with all the other crap that goes with a TCP/IP line is a hearkening back to the "modem tax" proposal from the 1980s.
Consider what you need to do in order to get an analogue voice line: you call the phone company, answer a few questions, wait a short period of time (usually a few hours), and plug in the phone. Bang, you have a phone number and can call your mom. Ludicrously simple, and you don't need a child of five to do this.
(Yes, that's right, the old WC Fields axiom has been reversed - the more complex stuff amongst people who can't figure it out are best left to five year old children.)
Now what do you need for a VoIP line? A broadband TCP/IP connection. On a DSL this is redundant, so the cable companies are left with that option - and unless you are just wanting to blow money (or you really need reliability or uber speed), you probably don't have a T1 or better in the home. More or less simple (a quick rewire of your cabling), turn it on, bang, you have a phone and, again, can call mom.
But wait a moment. What of the twelve-o'clock flashers? You know, the people whose VCRs and similar persistently flash 12:00 because they don't know how to set them, or the people who need the tech support guy to tell them how to turn the computer on. These are people who don't understand the concept of RTFM, so they can't be bothered with how to pull a plug out of one hole and put it in another hole for fear of doing irreversable damage. Yes, you need a child for these people, but these people trust their own children even less with technology. Dead end.
The point of this is that, unless the telephone companies make radical changes in their hardware, VoIP will probably only have a small niche market amongst people who can figure out how to wire their own stereo, which (and this is strictly theory) seems to be the vast minority on the 'net - and then again, many of these people are probably not even *on* the 'net to begin with, thus excluding them from VoIP entirely. But they'll probably ask anyway.
I didn't "need" a computer to learn the notional "three R's" - in fact, the computers when I was in school were largely delegated to elective courses. To this day, my high school still has computers (and Linux, last I checked) delegated as such - it seems that this is a common thing for that particular district, to delegate computers to largely elective courses and internal equipment.
Perhaps if districts who are teaching kids Powerpoint like the article suggests get with the program, no pun intended, and come to realization that maybe Powerpoint won't be the be-all and end-all to computing by the time they're out, maybe they'll get some better ideas.
Except instead of a people personality courtesy of Sirius Cybernetics, I get a user friendly personaity courtesy of their real life clone, Micro$oft. How con-fricking-venient.
I don't think the caffeine will affect the sharks that drastically. Speaking from personal experience, after a while, caffeine will lose its stimulant effects to the extent that you will go to sleep no matter how much caffeine is coursing through your blood.
We here at Chez Vrolet Secret Labs understand your need for cultural
diversity, and we have adjusted our internal structures accordingly.
When selling computers to your governmental organization, we will refer
to what were previously known as "master" and "slave" drives as the
"john" and "whore" drives, respectively as to avoid offending those who
may be offended by "master" and "slave".
If it weren't for a minor detail that these guys are down for the move, I'd link to them.
Anyway, the active color ingredient in Pepto Bismol and its generic equivalents is, if I'm not mistaken, red food coloring - that, and the active ingredient is bismuth subsalycilate, not pure bismuth, whereas the theory here is that it's bismuth and lead.
If nobody really owns the internet, how does one own the internet? I mean, that's why I joined up with OpenNIC earlier this year - is because nobody ever really owned the network.
It's not so much that the algorithim can determine that the song will be a hit, it's that the algorithim picks a song apart and lumps it with similar songs - whether the similar songs were or are hits is what determines whether a given specimen will make it onto the Billboard charts.
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No, really, think about it. Operating systems don't actually "die". They kind of gain a cult following. Take a look at Amiga, OS/2, DOS, etc. Granted, they're all on life support....
Then there is the whole joke of "Imminent death of the net predicted!".
And my personal favorite? That one that says that Darl McBride exists. =^_^=
Between her stuff and stuff here on Slashdot, this is probably going to put enough conjecture to make things get interesting for SCO. Now if only the legal teams would start reading this drivel. =)
...which, had I mod points, I would do. =^^=
Well, wait a moment, I thought that the mormons were all out to steal our precious bodily fluids by fluoridating our beer and coffee.
If one googol is 10^100, would this number be about 6 smeagol?
Or rather, if I have a dumbass attack and do '562227'. It's really like 3 or 4.
Eight occurances for me. Film at eleven.
Imagine the beowulf cluster it took to calculate this!
I guess the moral of your story after mine is simple: "Your mileage may vary". =^_^=
To charge just to send VoIP data over a TCP/IP line along with all the other crap that goes with a TCP/IP line is a hearkening back to the "modem tax" proposal from the 1980s.
Yes, I've said it, and here's my reasoning.
Consider what you need to do in order to get an analogue voice line: you call the phone company, answer a few questions, wait a short period of time (usually a few hours), and plug in the phone. Bang, you have a phone number and can call your mom. Ludicrously simple, and you don't need a child of five to do this.
(Yes, that's right, the old WC Fields axiom has been reversed - the more complex stuff amongst people who can't figure it out are best left to five year old children.)
Now what do you need for a VoIP line? A broadband TCP/IP connection. On a DSL this is redundant, so the cable companies are left with that option - and unless you are just wanting to blow money (or you really need reliability or uber speed), you probably don't have a T1 or better in the home. More or less simple (a quick rewire of your cabling), turn it on, bang, you have a phone and, again, can call mom.
But wait a moment. What of the twelve-o'clock flashers? You know, the people whose VCRs and similar persistently flash 12:00 because they don't know how to set them, or the people who need the tech support guy to tell them how to turn the computer on. These are people who don't understand the concept of RTFM, so they can't be bothered with how to pull a plug out of one hole and put it in another hole for fear of doing irreversable damage. Yes, you need a child for these people, but these people trust their own children even less with technology. Dead end.
The point of this is that, unless the telephone companies make radical changes in their hardware, VoIP will probably only have a small niche market amongst people who can figure out how to wire their own stereo, which (and this is strictly theory) seems to be the vast minority on the 'net - and then again, many of these people are probably not even *on* the 'net to begin with, thus excluding them from VoIP entirely. But they'll probably ask anyway.
Perhaps if districts who are teaching kids Powerpoint like the article suggests get with the program, no pun intended, and come to realization that maybe Powerpoint won't be the be-all and end-all to computing by the time they're out, maybe they'll get some better ideas.
Except instead of a people personality courtesy of Sirius Cybernetics, I get a user friendly personaity courtesy of their real life clone, Micro$oft. How con-fricking-venient.
I don't think the caffeine will affect the sharks that drastically. Speaking from personal experience, after a while, caffeine will lose its stimulant effects to the extent that you will go to sleep no matter how much caffeine is coursing through your blood.
The next Stella award could be given to these jackholes.
When selling computers to your governmental organization, we will refer to what were previously known as "master" and "slave" drives as the "john" and "whore" drives, respectively as to avoid offending those who may be offended by "master" and "slave".
Sincerely,
The Mgt.
Anyway, the active color ingredient in Pepto Bismol and its generic equivalents is, if I'm not mistaken, red food coloring - that, and the active ingredient is bismuth subsalycilate, not pure bismuth, whereas the theory here is that it's bismuth and lead.
Oh yeah, and imagine if it happened in Los Angleles. waitaminit....
Why not just incorporate this into the IPv6 standards?
True, but there's this minor detail that I breathe a standard NO atmosphere, which is severely lacking on venus, not to mention those temperatures...
The landscape must look amazing on this planet. Shame we can't actually live there.
If nobody really owns the internet, how does one own the internet? I mean, that's why I joined up with OpenNIC earlier this year - is because nobody ever really owned the network.
It's not so much that the algorithim can determine that the song will be a hit, it's that the algorithim picks a song apart and lumps it with similar songs - whether the similar songs were or are hits is what determines whether a given specimen will make it onto the Billboard charts.
Does this mean that SMTP is in violation of a patent as well?