I notice that my service remains the same regardless of all the different offerings, incentives, and other initiatives that Verizon has (such as the one currently being discussed). Then, there's the little matter of all these "fees and surcharges", effectively inflating a $30USD monthly bill for a local landline up to $70USD...
Too bad my dial-up/land line here in Niagara Falls NY is verizon... they dominate the area. Sure telcos a required to open up their lines to others, much like the way the railroads work. Unfortunately, "others" don't seem to get much mention, and it certainly doesn't include individuals. As far as privacy goes, some 90% of my line usage is for data; I wonder what they would do if all of that was IPsec traffic?
er, regarding the age of UNIX: it was originally a project started at AT&T/Bell Labs about 1969-1970 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, primarily. Originally it was billed as a multi-user time sharing system, mainly used internally by the company for document processing. Technically the birthdate of UNIX is New Year's Day (a leap-second at midnight, 1969-1970) known as the "epoch"... all time-keeping in UNIX is in reference to this date/time as expressed in seconds, to the best of my knowledge.
The only major breaks within UNIX as I see it is the split between the AT&T variants and the BSD variants... the vendors all added their own extensions, too, leading to a belated attempt at standardization known as the POSIX specification (http://www.opengroup.org) during the late 1970's and onward. HTH
Last time I saw Clippy, I un-bent one end in order to clean certain body parts. Bob had already gone on to found a major religion for normal (L)users, and wasn't available to comment on my activities
I really think this is the bleeding edge of the whole "embrace, extend, and extinguish" thing. The question that comes into my mind after reading your insightful post is this: Is MS a technology or an economy? ("...economically speaking they're doing the right thing.")
Are they *both* a technology and an economy? Where is the line between the two? and what determines the dominant attitude? I honestly think that BillG is as passionate about his codebase as the Linux folks (such as myself) are. So why is his company always such the economic asshole? Can't they succeed some other way? Or do they just *think* they can't?
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mostly a great discussion here, but I have one caveat to your arguments about pattern matching: How do I account for the imagery and/or sensations in my dreams which do not match any pattern I currently know of or have experienced? How do I account for emotions in those dreams? Or the simple fact of dreaming all by itself?
has nothing to do with the machinery, technologies, protocols, etc. It has everything to do with people. Even if the DRM technologies were perfected right now, people would still find a way around it. Why? Because they want to. IMHO we all need to remember that a system isn't just the hardware, software, and logical bits. The system also includes the people; people who create the hardware and software; people who manage and use it; people who create content, etc. People who give it all a purpose. I've never seen any hardware or software that has a purpose by itself; people give it that purpose, and it is reflected in the design. If someone's purpose is to crack DRM schemes, they will probably do so.
good point... however, a better question might be "How many consumers even know these laws exit?"
It sure seems to me that as long as someone can just plug a machine in, turn it on, and it works, they're happy.
Very true about people *feeling* that they don't have a choice. There's another factor at work here too, I think: strictly thru informal conversation over the last few years, etc. I have come to the conclusion that most people don't *want* a choice. In a similarly irritating way, it's one thing to be ignorant and it's another thing to have no desire whatsoever to learn.
Excellent points you make, IMHO. The key phrase from your post is "short term revenue"... I believe we need some more "long term" thinking around here, especially during the initial design stages of any major software project. This especially applies to those products intended for the mass market, as opposed to in-house tools and apps.
I wonder which apps of mine might break because of the recently descovered trojans in libpcap and tcpdump? *sigh* Gonna have to re-compile a few things, I bet. Nobody's perfect, but I'll bet that my box is much more secure than the usual thing. The key is to never accept the installed defaults. The important point for me is that I actually *can* re-compile as necessary in order to fix problems when they arise.
Weird thing I've noticed: I've used Windows Media Player under linux with the Crossover plugin (http://www.codeweavers.com) and guess what? The windows executable is called "mplayer.exe" Go figure...
I recall an article in the Sept. 2002 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology (hard copy) which possibly explains a lot about the situation.
It seems that all the major manufacturers (including Boeing) have gotten into the habit of carrying the financing themselves, at favorable rates especially for smaller customers such as start-ups and developing nations. Problem is, they often carry greater than 90% of the debt load, and when you're dealing in hundreds of millions USD, it's only going to take a couple of deadbeats to give you some very real problems. Investors are fully aware of all this, I'm sure. The situation applies across a wide range of goods and services, since Boeing is an integrated one-stop shop like IBM is to the computer world.
Even if such a site or group wasn't under aussie jurdistiction, the same effect can be accomplished through political and/or fiscal channels, no doubt. Have you ever heard of a polititian desiring to have a politically embarrrassing situation on his or her watch? What about companies and individuals losing money due to political uncertainties and pressures? It happens all the time. Just look at the way the stock market has responded to things like the recent MSFT judgement.
Either way, it's a potentially damaging scenario, IMO
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Funny thing, I just realized that I don't own a *single* sony producy whatsoever. In fact, I can't remember if I ever did. Coincidence? Naaaaah....
I notice that my service remains the same regardless of all the different offerings, incentives, and other initiatives that Verizon has (such as the one currently being discussed). Then, there's the little matter of all these "fees and surcharges", effectively inflating a $30USD monthly bill for a local landline up to $70USD...
Too bad my dial-up/land line here in Niagara Falls NY is verizon... they dominate the area. Sure telcos a required to open up their lines to others, much like the way the railroads work. Unfortunately, "others" don't seem to get much mention, and it certainly doesn't include individuals. As far as privacy goes, some 90% of my line usage is for data; I wonder what they would do if all of that was IPsec traffic?
er, regarding the age of UNIX: it was originally a project started at AT&T/Bell Labs about 1969-1970 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, primarily. Originally it was billed as a multi-user time sharing system, mainly used internally by the company for document processing. Technically the birthdate of UNIX is New Year's Day (a leap-second at midnight, 1969-1970) known as the "epoch"... all time-keeping in UNIX is in reference to this date/time as expressed in seconds, to the best of my knowledge. The only major breaks within UNIX as I see it is the split between the AT&T variants and the BSD variants... the vendors all added their own extensions, too, leading to a belated attempt at standardization known as the POSIX specification (http://www.opengroup.org) during the late 1970's and onward. HTH
Last time I saw Clippy, I un-bent one end in order to clean certain body parts. Bob had already gone on to found a major religion for normal (L)users, and wasn't available to comment on my activities
I really think this is the bleeding edge of the whole "embrace, extend, and extinguish" thing. The question that comes into my mind after reading your insightful post is this: Is MS a technology or an economy? ("...economically speaking they're doing the right thing.") Are they *both* a technology and an economy? Where is the line between the two? and what determines the dominant attitude? I honestly think that BillG is as passionate about his codebase as the Linux folks (such as myself) are. So why is his company always such the economic asshole? Can't they succeed some other way? Or do they just *think* they can't?
Are you having difficulty urinating?
mostly a great discussion here, but I have one caveat to your arguments about pattern matching: How do I account for the imagery and/or sensations in my dreams which do not match any pattern I currently know of or have experienced? How do I account for emotions in those dreams? Or the simple fact of dreaming all by itself?
has nothing to do with the machinery, technologies, protocols, etc. It has everything to do with people. Even if the DRM technologies were perfected right now, people would still find a way around it. Why? Because they want to. IMHO we all need to remember that a system isn't just the hardware, software, and logical bits. The system also includes the people; people who create the hardware and software; people who manage and use it; people who create content, etc. People who give it all a purpose. I've never seen any hardware or software that has a purpose by itself; people give it that purpose, and it is reflected in the design. If someone's purpose is to crack DRM schemes, they will probably do so.
good point... however, a better question might be "How many consumers even know these laws exit?" It sure seems to me that as long as someone can just plug a machine in, turn it on, and it works, they're happy.
Very true about people *feeling* that they don't have a choice. There's another factor at work here too, I think: strictly thru informal conversation over the last few years, etc. I have come to the conclusion that most people don't *want* a choice. In a similarly irritating way, it's one thing to be ignorant and it's another thing to have no desire whatsoever to learn.
might as well... even with the tinfoil hat, it's still the best a man can get
near the bottom of /etc/X11/XF86Config there should be a line called VideoRam... make sure it is uncommented
"... and everything under the Sun is in tune..."
(Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon)
Excellent points you make, IMHO. The key phrase from your post is "short term revenue"... I believe we need some more "long term" thinking around here, especially during the initial design stages of any major software project. This especially applies to those products intended for the mass market, as opposed to in-house tools and apps.
one app that I use daily was written for 2.0 on slackware 3.1... and my current setup is a home-brew 2.4.19 on a pIII smp box. No problems, either.
I wonder which apps of mine might break because of the recently descovered trojans in libpcap and tcpdump? *sigh* Gonna have to re-compile a few things, I bet. Nobody's perfect, but I'll bet that my box is much more secure than the usual thing. The key is to never accept the installed defaults. The important point for me is that I actually *can* re-compile as necessary in order to fix problems when they arise.
good to see you here... and thank you
Weird thing I've noticed: I've used Windows Media Player under linux with the Crossover plugin (http://www.codeweavers.com)
and guess what?
The windows executable is called "mplayer.exe"
Go figure...
I recall an article in the Sept. 2002 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology (hard copy) which possibly explains a lot about the situation.
It seems that all the major manufacturers (including Boeing) have gotten into the habit of carrying the financing themselves, at favorable rates especially for smaller customers such as start-ups and developing nations. Problem is, they often carry greater than 90% of the debt load, and when you're dealing in hundreds of millions USD, it's only going to take a couple of deadbeats to give you some very real problems. Investors are fully aware of all this, I'm sure. The situation applies across a wide range of goods and services, since Boeing is an integrated one-stop shop like IBM is to the computer world.
Do you still have to manually re-inflate the autopilot?
My friend Spock might be able to help you with that... I think he took too much LDS back in the 60's.
Even if such a site or group wasn't under aussie jurdistiction, the same effect can be accomplished through political and/or fiscal channels, no doubt. Have you ever heard of a polititian desiring to have a politically embarrrassing situation on his or her watch? What about companies and individuals losing money due to political uncertainties and pressures? It happens all the time. Just look at the way the stock market has responded to things like the recent MSFT judgement.
Either way, it's a potentially damaging scenario, IMO
you gotta be kidding! I wanna see this!
yes, I remember all of it.
Asta la Vista. baby!