I agree. Nokia IS right; if they don't want the public on their network, then anyone who uses it is stealing. It's the same as saying a house deserves to be broken into because the door is unlocked, or has a weak lock (WEP).
In essence, it is up to the company. I am moving my business next month to a location where I can get a fat DSL for a reasonable price. I'm setting up a WAP router, and I'm putting a Warchalk symbol on a sign in the window. I have a VPN/Firewall behind the WAP; no one will be able to get to my servers but they'll be able to get to the Internet if they want to check their E-mail. But, I am the one inviting the use, and implying consent - no one else has the right to do it for me.
Not necessarily a bad idea. If can't afford the 4 grand, do it yourself, and botch the job, then you get nothing. The difference isn't between spending $4000 and losing 10%, it's between getting NOTHING, and losing 10%.
A foundation that will give money to people who end up buying his products for a long time.
I hope you didn't strain your back, stretching for that conclusion... Just because he saves the lives of countless people, world-wide, with his TWENTY THREE BILLION DOLLAR foundation endowment - Well, that's not charity because they might buy Microsoft Streets & Trips 2024 someday!
I was thinking that nothing would keep me from seeing the movie... but Hugh Grant just might do it:-P
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He funded the foundation with $24 Billion... depending on whose numbers you look at, anywhere from 30% to 50% of his net worth. As another poster said, apparently the 3rd largest philanthropist in terms of percentage of worth... but the LARGEST in sheer dollars, by several billions (according to Newsweek, Feb 4, 2002). I don't know about you, but that scales to a bit more than $3.00 out of my wallet.
I've never been a Gates basher (don't bite the hand that feeds you - I don't work for M$, but I make a living as a programmer in ASP/COM+). I have a lot of respect for a guy who can start out as a simple millionaire's son with 3 years of Harvard behind him and become the richest man in the world.
That said, the Newsweek 02/04/02 article is still worth a read (even for those pre-disposed against Mr. Bill) - the logic behind his endowments is excellent, he's not just dumping money and hoping for the best. He's requiring that the countries receiving funds invest in themselves as well, and he pulls funding if they fail to keep their end of the bargain.
I think it would be interesting to track down some of the participants from this thread (particularly Spencer L. Bolles, the originator) and get their viewpoints 17 years later.
Rotational speed would be the only issue I see. Last I knew hard disks used CLV (constant linear velocity), not CAV (constant angular velocity). That means that the drive spins more slowly when reading/writing the outer tracks. So, you wouldn't be able to read & write simultaneously from different areas of the disk without some trickery regarding platter speed. I haven't kept up with the inner workings of disks for the past decade or so, so I might be speaking out of my @ss.
When this was a "new trick", we used to call them RLE (Run-Length Encoded) controllers... back when, we could turn our 20MB disks into 30MB by just swapping out a standard ST-506 for an RLE controller.
I've read that a common tactic for telemarketers now is to use equipment that is designed to hang up if a live person answers. They want to talk only to your answering machine or voice mail. I guess the theory is that you might be inclined to listen to the whole message.
Expanding on the talk radio focus... If you want to listen to music in your car, get a CD or MP3 player. Why on Earth would you want to listen to music someone else picked out for you? For my money, music on the radio is worthless... the only reason I would own a radio is to hear talk.
I listen to talk radio for the most part... Sirius has more talk, but Bob & Tom are Clear Channel properties, and I'd love to be able to listen to them without the gaps between affiliate stations.
Ideal would be XM with B&T, Rush, Liddy, & Art Bell;-) As soon as they come up with that lineup, I'll buy a unit the next day.
Interesting idea. If the dongle is serialized, anyone who does manage to hack it (either to not require the dongle per se, or to still pull off a cheat) can be banned from the server by serial #. That would take care of both the cheats and the pirates!
Are you serious? It isn't the writing of the code, it's the testing! If you've ever written a major Web-enabled application, you know that nearly as many hours are spent testing as coding... and every platform that you want to try to support means virtually the entire test plan gets run again!
I write two kinds of Web code. The "For Pay" stuff is written specifically to blow up when the end-user isn't using IE. The company doesn't even want users to TRY any other browser, it's a support nightmare. I'm not sure I'd have made that decision, but I understand the reasoning behind it.
"My" Web stuff is written to render in any browser, but there are lots of extra features that I've coded in to make navigation, etc. easier for IE users. NetScrape users can buy stuff, but IE users get some helpful DHTML tools to make it easier.
These tools are hidden to all other browsers & those just render the normal static content, because I don't have time to debug them on other browsers that represent 3% - 4% of my customers.
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The Joke List on the "Young Democrats of CSU" Web site? I'm not sure I would consider that a "Source" any more reliable than an E-mail warning me about messages with the subject of "Good Times".
My Euro customers do pay the VAT. I don't collect it for them, the post office or UPS does. I have no business presence in Europe, so the EU has zero, zilch, nada legal authority to have me collect a tax for them.
In fact, here in the US, I charge state sales tax only in Indiana (where I am located). Michigan is only 30 miles away, but again... My company has no presence, they have no authority to make me collect their taxes!
The EU wants citizens to pay VAT on downloads, fine... I'm sure they can force European companies to do that. No way, no how do they have the authority to have non-Euro companies do so. And as for physical goods, they already get their VAT when it hits customs.
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Depends on how tall it was - the Saguaro cactus can grow to 50 feet tall.
In essence, it is up to the company. I am moving my business next month to a location where I can get a fat DSL for a reasonable price. I'm setting up a WAP router, and I'm putting a Warchalk symbol on a sign in the window. I have a VPN/Firewall behind the WAP; no one will be able to get to my servers but they'll be able to get to the Internet if they want to check their E-mail. But, I am the one inviting the use, and implying consent - no one else has the right to do it for me.
Not necessarily a bad idea. If can't afford the 4 grand, do it yourself, and botch the job, then you get nothing. The difference isn't between spending $4000 and losing 10%, it's between getting NOTHING, and losing 10%.
No kidding... they only allocated $137 Million for that? They might be able to bail out a small midwestern archdiocese, but no WAY the whole Church!
I hope you didn't strain your back, stretching for that conclusion... Just because he saves the lives of countless people, world-wide, with his TWENTY THREE BILLION DOLLAR foundation endowment - Well, that's not charity because they might buy Microsoft Streets & Trips 2024 someday!
This guy should be a writer for the X-files :-)
Love Denis, but how about Mike Meyers a 'la "Fat Bastard"? :-D
I was thinking that nothing would keep me from seeing the movie... but Hugh Grant just might do it :-P
I've never been a Gates basher (don't bite the hand that feeds you - I don't work for M$, but I make a living as a programmer in ASP/COM+). I have a lot of respect for a guy who can start out as a simple millionaire's son with 3 years of Harvard behind him and become the richest man in the world.
That said, the Newsweek 02/04/02 article is still worth a read (even for those pre-disposed against Mr. Bill) - the logic behind his endowments is excellent, he's not just dumping money and hoping for the best. He's requiring that the countries receiving funds invest in themselves as well, and he pulls funding if they fail to keep their end of the bargain.
eDrugTrader said it pretty well yesterday.
LOTR = 3 hours of my life that I can never get back :-(
You'd lose.
I think it would be interesting to track down some of the participants from this thread (particularly Spencer L. Bolles, the originator) and get their viewpoints 17 years later.
When this was a "new trick", we used to call them RLE (Run-Length Encoded) controllers... back when, we could turn our 20MB disks into 30MB by just swapping out a standard ST-506 for an RLE controller.
I've read that a common tactic for telemarketers now is to use equipment that is designed to hang up if a live person answers. They want to talk only to your answering machine or voice mail. I guess the theory is that you might be inclined to listen to the whole message.
Here in Indiana, we are quite solidly on EST year-round. Apparently it would confuse the cows to use Daylight Savings.
Expanding on the talk radio focus... If you want to listen to music in your car, get a CD or MP3 player. Why on Earth would you want to listen to music someone else picked out for you? For my money, music on the radio is worthless... the only reason I would own a radio is to hear talk.
Ideal would be XM with B&T, Rush, Liddy, & Art Bell ;-) As soon as they come up with that lineup, I'll buy a unit the next day.
Interesting idea. If the dongle is serialized, anyone who does manage to hack it (either to not require the dongle per se, or to still pull off a cheat) can be banned from the server by serial #. That would take care of both the cheats and the pirates!
I write two kinds of Web code. The "For Pay" stuff is written specifically to blow up when the end-user isn't using IE. The company doesn't even want users to TRY any other browser, it's a support nightmare. I'm not sure I'd have made that decision, but I understand the reasoning behind it.
"My" Web stuff is written to render in any browser, but there are lots of extra features that I've coded in to make navigation, etc. easier for IE users. NetScrape users can buy stuff, but IE users get some helpful DHTML tools to make it easier.
These tools are hidden to all other browsers & those just render the normal static content, because I don't have time to debug them on other browsers that represent 3% - 4% of my customers.
Is BackSlashDot the "News for DOS Nerds?"
The Joke List on the "Young Democrats of CSU" Web site? I'm not sure I would consider that a "Source" any more reliable than an E-mail warning me about messages with the subject of "Good Times".
My Euro customers do pay the VAT. I don't collect it for them, the post office or UPS does. I have no business presence in Europe, so the EU has zero, zilch, nada legal authority to have me collect a tax for them. In fact, here in the US, I charge state sales tax only in Indiana (where I am located). Michigan is only 30 miles away, but again... My company has no presence, they have no authority to make me collect their taxes! The EU wants citizens to pay VAT on downloads, fine... I'm sure they can force European companies to do that. No way, no how do they have the authority to have non-Euro companies do so. And as for physical goods, they already get their VAT when it hits customs.