I know I pay my ISP every month, and they have to pay the telco for lines for subscribers to dial in on, but who else do they have to pay every month that any other kind of business wouldn't? Who pays for IRC? Who gets paid? Who pays for newsgroups? Who gets paid? Who pays for all those fat pipes and the electronics that tie it all together and gets the electrons where they're supposed to go? Who gets paid? Does my "$19.95 a month, all you can eat up to 56K" fully cover the costs of browsing, e-mail, IRC if I ever try it again, ftp, etc., or am I being subsidized somewhere along the line?
Do you mean Alan Turing by any chance? There was no NSA or CIA during WWII, by the way, but there was the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Recommended reading, if you can find them "The Black Chamber" and "Piercing the Reich". Don't remember author or publisher names of either at the moment, sorry.
I know Intel makes motherboards to sell under their own name and to OEM, but does AMD? I'd think that AMD would want their processors to work as well as Intel's, if not better, in as many different places as possible, to increase demand for them, so why wouldn't they bend over backwards to help motherboard makers bring boards to the market that help sell AMD processors?
Once I stopped laughing long enough to breath, you got me started thinking. Anybody tried doing it this way under the Evil OS from Redmond? I'm runnig 64M of ram and it seems like it worked better when I only had 32.
Maybe you already tried it this way, but I've found that if I use ez-bios first, before partitioning, I can boot the drive, hit CTRL or CTRL+A or whatever it is, insert a boot floppy with the text version of PartionMagic, and do anything I could without ez-bios.
200 posts and more after I wrote the above it's getting responses and some of the responses are getting attention from the moderators, but if I'd submitted it as a story when it came out last Thursday (Mar 30) what do you suppose its chances would have been?
Actually, I didn't know that about one's own posts always being visible, but, as I have said elswhere, I actually browse at an excrutiating -1, and the sig is merely self-deprecating humor.
The latest Cringely has a very interesting take on the vast difference between the judge's way of looking at things and Microsoft's, and how that explains the failure to reach any agreement.
I don't suppose there's an objective, unbiased account of the difficulties between Poag and VALinux anywhere for those of us who missed all the previous episodes of this particular melodrama and would prefer something a little more comprehensive and coherent than is likely to be found wading through a bunch of old Slashdot posts?
Did you think of that Morse code thing all on your own? If so, I think you must be a very frightening person.:-) I'm surprised Skinner didn't think to do that.
"Do you think the exploding CDs story is fake too? " That one said that the CIA was willing to pay 3.5 million dollars for 50 thousand of them ($70 each) but not 1.5 million for 100 thousand ($15 each). Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
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I know I pay my ISP every month, and they have to pay the telco for lines for subscribers to dial in on, but who else do they have to pay every month that any other kind of business wouldn't?
:-)
Who pays for IRC? Who gets paid?
Who pays for newsgroups? Who gets paid?
Who pays for all those fat pipes and the electronics that tie it all together and gets the electrons where they're supposed to go? Who gets paid?
Does my "$19.95 a month, all you can eat up to 56K" fully cover the costs of browsing, e-mail, IRC if I ever try it again, ftp, etc., or am I being subsidized somewhere along the line?
Best answer should rake in big karma
The Register just added a story about long-time Intel-centric Dell buying 100,000 AMD Spitfire chips for desktop boxes. Maybe.
Do you mean Alan Turing by any chance?
There was no NSA or CIA during WWII, by the way, but there was the OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
Recommended reading, if you can find them "The Black Chamber" and "Piercing the Reich". Don't remember author or publisher names of either at the moment, sorry.
I know Intel makes motherboards to sell under their own name and to OEM, but does AMD? I'd think that AMD would want their processors to work as well as Intel's, if not better, in as many different places as possible, to increase demand for them, so why wouldn't they bend over backwards to help motherboard makers bring boards to the market that help sell AMD processors?
Yeah, it was funny 20 or 25 years ago when it got published.
Nah, that's "Geek dammit!".
Maybe the magic trick is to provide a mirror.
Looks like they changed it to the Be logo while they thought no one was watching.
Once I stopped laughing long enough to breath, you got me started thinking. Anybody tried doing it this way under the Evil OS from Redmond? I'm runnig 64M of ram and it seems like it worked better when I only had 32.
Maybe you already tried it this way, but I've found that if I use ez-bios first, before partitioning, I can boot the drive, hit CTRL or CTRL+A or whatever it is, insert a boot floppy with the text version of PartionMagic, and do anything I could without ez-bios.
To get re-elected for another four years...
200 posts and more after I wrote the above it's getting responses and some of the responses are getting attention from the moderators, but if I'd submitted it as a story when it came out last Thursday (Mar 30) what do you suppose its chances would have been?
Sometimes I think anyone who browses lower is a masochist.
If we wanted a representation of your face, then yes, but I don't think it's suitable for the use under discussion.
Give this 'dot denizen a +1, funny!
Actually, I didn't know that about one's own posts always being visible, but, as I have said elswhere, I actually browse at an excrutiating -1, and the sig is merely self-deprecating humor.
Isn't it time Katz had his own icon.
And there I was all set to raise a stink about re-runs.
I can't believe how many people take my sig seriously and don't see the joke in it.
The latest Cringely has a very interesting take on the vast difference between the judge's way of looking at things and Microsoft's, and how that explains the failure to reach any agreement.
I don't suppose there's an objective, unbiased account of the difficulties between Poag and VALinux anywhere for those of us who missed all the previous episodes of this particular melodrama and would prefer something a little more comprehensive and coherent than is likely to be found wading through a bunch of old Slashdot posts?
Did you think of that Morse code thing all on your own? If so, I think you must be a very frightening person. :-) I'm surprised Skinner didn't think to do that.
"Do you think the exploding CDs story is fake too? "
That one said that the CIA was willing to pay 3.5 million dollars for 50 thousand of them ($70 each) but not 1.5 million for 100 thousand ($15 each). Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
Mid 80's? More like mid 50's. And it might have been farther back than that.
It's worth readng the Register just for BOFH, but it's got plenty of other good stuff too.