Sometimes a BIOS won't boot off an IDE drive unless the entire drive is below a certain size. That's what older drives are kept around for. I used to keep old 40MB IDE drives (the smallest in the WD Caviar series) around for use as the first drive in a Linux machine. It's an excellent use for old hoary stuff like that to make it your boot partition.
There is no Office Furniture Alliance. Furthermore, office furniture is not 'licensed' in a way that would necessitate such an enforcement body. If there were, it would be prudent to manage furniture inventories that way.
As it stands, you just make yourself look ridiculous with your contrived example.
What about the risk of getting busted? Some part-time employee installing pirated software can cause the company to pay huge fines or even go under.
The BSA is in the business of doing business. Part of doing business is establishing reasonable guidelines and not eradicating your customer's customers. In the case of a rogue employee installing pirated software, an investigation would ensue. The rogue employee would be fired and possibly sued for damages. People who sanctioned or ignored the actions of the rogue employee would be disciplined in some fashion. Businesses pay their administration staff good money to keep things under control. The BSA and similar agencies help with that, believe it or not. Think of them as free unpaid 'cops' for the suits to use to keep the geeks in line.
I know the above sounds outrageous, and I'm not wholly in favor of it. But it's reality. Let's try to deal with it realistically, kay?
Now you just have to convince the majority of the population who will disagree with your assertion. Language is a process of consensus, not one where words are defined formally and issued to the public. That's the old hacker/cracker thing all over again.
The CIO will instead start each day by saying 'what can we do today to identify and fire more of those people who mess around with the innards of their computer, installing illegal software without approval, that increases our liability?'
Why would we 'apprciate' that greasy little dork? He hasn't changed the toner cartridge in the LJ4 up on third floor yet! Hop to it, 'admin' boy! Then Doris needs you to defrag her drive again and you can help Nancy get her machine back on the LAN.
If you get it all done by noon we'll pool our money and buy you a Hostess DingDong.
The most stable machine on my home network is my Teletype ASR-33. It's almost entirely metal and all electromechanical. It's a bit out of date but I can use it to log onto the Vax now that I have the termcap set up for it.
I like to stick with older, stable releases, too. I heard something recently about this thing called a 'glass teletype' where they use a TV monitor in a box. If I went to using something like that I could edit with vi and all the new tools. But I like my trusty line editor ex just fine for most purposes.
Hell, my mom thought that when you shut the car off, the pseudo-tape that connects portable CD players into the cassette deck would automagically turn off the CD player, too.
It does, except with certain brands of the cassete adapter that you plug into the 8-Track player. The 8-Track to cassette to CD linkup fails somewhere in the middle but we haven't figured it out yet. Your mother really needs to trade that '73 Cordoba in, even if she *does* like the color of the trim.
Your refrigerator, air conditioning, heat, etc. will be on the net (some network, not necessarily the Internet) so that power management can be directed by the Utilities. They can time motor startups, etc. to smooth out peak demands and such.
why WOULDNT you want to record something that is twice the clarity and fidelity of even the best DVD right now?
Because that would mean it was x^2 the size? Sorry, there isn't a TV program on right now (except the Simpsons, and that's just.... a low-res cartoon) that warrants that kind of data storage. I am not interested in having to change writable media twice while playing an hour of program.
It wouldn't be that hard for binary attachments to be banned from Usenet. They already are (thank goodness!) at the newsgroups I frequent regularly.
Check out the ratio of binary to non-binary bandwidth usage. A picture is definitely NOT worth a thousand words on Usenet. (your results may vary, depending on newsgroup and your topic of interest)
I know of a team developing a prodcut to do remote pacemaker reading over IP work right now. It's not a loose free-for-all where anybody can plug their implant into a USB slot and use AOL to transfer event data, but it is using a standard PPP internet connection to a regular data center. More and more of this kind of thing will be developed.
This hearkens back to the old days of the cheap reliable Seagate 20 meg MFM drives. All the Americans were using the Seagate drives. For reasons of national pride, the Japanese PC users predominantly used slower, bigger, less reliable NEC drives. I at one point actually had an NEC drive of that era. God, was it slow! The Seagate drives (ST-220) had a pitiful, slow 65 mSec access time. The NEC drive had an even slower 80 mSec access time. Nothing else on the market was that S.L.O.W.
Them were the days, when you could shim the head encoder out just a tad (a wheel on the stepper motor spindle) to offset track zero and low level format to make a non-bootable drive bootable again....
You mistyped the last paragraph. It's not consistent with the paragraph before it:
Win2k/Linux/BSD responding to a fault with an engine spinning at extreme rpms? No thanks.
Of course, you neglect to mention nobody would credibly assert that any of these 'interactive user-oriented' OSes are suited for that kind of high speed real time operation. That's what embedded controllers are in the mix for. Often tightly interfaced to a slower responding system that supervises everything.
You are making that erroneous assumption, that many people make, that he's talking about a server that faces the world, on the Internet. Many companies use servers running IIS for all sorts of internal tasks. Think of it kind of like a copying machine: the copying machine at most companies doesn't have to be 'hardened' in the same manner as the coin-fed ones out in the middle of the lobby of a shopping mall. At a company where the clients are semi-locked down and people are just running Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access to do their daily jobs, and grabbing and updating docs to the IIS server, there aren't script kiddies scratching around. There are security concerns, but not of the same nature as with a public machine shared out to the Internet as a whole.
And Microsoft is very strong in this Workgroup Server market. It's what they sell, it's what Netscape hyped that got Microsoft motivated to crush them.
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It's a conspiracy man. The 'Content Cartel,' who keep their army of plants informed through daily encrypted email, are trying to keep us down!
Sometimes a BIOS won't boot off an IDE drive unless the entire drive is below a certain size. That's what older drives are kept around for. I used to keep old 40MB IDE drives (the smallest in the WD Caviar series) around for use as the first drive in a Linux machine. It's an excellent use for old hoary stuff like that to make it your boot partition.
There is no Office Furniture Alliance. Furthermore, office furniture is not 'licensed' in a way that would necessitate such an enforcement body. If there were, it would be prudent to manage furniture inventories that way.
As it stands, you just make yourself look ridiculous with your contrived example.
What about the risk of getting busted? Some part-time employee installing pirated software can cause the company to pay huge fines or even go under.
The BSA is in the business of doing business. Part of doing business is establishing reasonable guidelines and not eradicating your customer's customers. In the case of a rogue employee installing pirated software, an investigation would ensue. The rogue employee would be fired and possibly sued for damages. People who sanctioned or ignored the actions of the rogue employee would be disciplined in some fashion. Businesses pay their administration staff good money to keep things under control. The BSA and similar agencies help with that, believe it or not. Think of them as free unpaid 'cops' for the suits to use to keep the geeks in line.
I know the above sounds outrageous, and I'm not wholly in favor of it. But it's reality. Let's try to deal with it realistically, kay?
Now you just have to convince the majority of the population who will disagree with your assertion. Language is a process of consensus, not one where words are defined formally and issued to the public. That's the old hacker/cracker thing all over again.
The CIO will instead start each day by saying 'what can we do today to identify and fire more of those people who mess around with the innards of their computer, installing illegal software without approval, that increases our liability?'
Why would we 'apprciate' that greasy little dork? He hasn't changed the toner cartridge in the LJ4 up on third floor yet! Hop to it, 'admin' boy! Then Doris needs you to defrag her drive again and you can help Nancy get her machine back on the LAN.
If you get it all done by noon we'll pool our money and buy you a Hostess DingDong.
The most stable machine on my home network is my Teletype ASR-33. It's almost entirely metal and all electromechanical. It's a bit out of date but I can use it to log onto the Vax now that I have the termcap set up for it.
I like to stick with older, stable releases, too. I heard something recently about this thing called a 'glass teletype' where they use a TV monitor in a box. If I went to using something like that I could edit with vi and all the new tools. But I like my trusty line editor ex just fine for most purposes.
Forth programmers don't have 'jobs.'
What is this 'job' word anyway??
Just as long as we don't follow the idea of using the same kernal, C compiler, and toolchain for everything electronic we should be OK.
Hell, my mom thought that when you shut the car off, the pseudo-tape that connects portable CD players into the cassette deck would automagically turn off the CD player, too.
It does, except with certain brands of the cassete adapter that you plug into the 8-Track player. The 8-Track to cassette to CD linkup fails somewhere in the middle but we haven't figured it out yet. Your mother really needs to trade that '73 Cordoba in, even if she *does* like the color of the trim.
Will get back to you when we do.
Wow. Somebody who actually thinks there's an FPGA in a pacemaker.
Wow.
Your refrigerator, air conditioning, heat, etc. will be on the net (some network, not necessarily the Internet) so that power management can be directed by the Utilities. They can time motor startups, etc. to smooth out peak demands and such.
why WOULDNT you want to record something that is twice the clarity and fidelity of even the best DVD right now?
Because that would mean it was x^2 the size? Sorry, there isn't a TV program on right now (except the Simpsons, and that's just.... a low-res cartoon) that warrants that kind of data storage. I am not interested in having to change writable media twice while playing an hour of program.
Otherwise they need to stay the hell out of my equipment, because it belongs to me.
I would recommend you look into getting a Faraday Cage for 'your equipment' to be housed in.
It wouldn't be that hard for binary attachments to be banned from Usenet. They already are (thank goodness!) at the newsgroups I frequent regularly.
Check out the ratio of binary to non-binary bandwidth usage. A picture is definitely NOT worth a thousand words on Usenet. (your results may vary, depending on newsgroup and your topic of interest)
You can get a digital back for a good camera. Say for your Hasselblad or your Nikon.
They start somewhere around $30,000.
Low frequency telemetry. Usually electromagnetic, with the carrier under 100 KHz.
Yeah, I know you were just trying to be funny....
I know of a team developing a prodcut to do remote pacemaker reading over IP work right now. It's not a loose free-for-all where anybody can plug their implant into a USB slot and use AOL to transfer event data, but it is using a standard PPP internet connection to a regular data center. More and more of this kind of thing will be developed.
It's such a Japanese solution to the problem.
'We need more heads! Add a head!'
This hearkens back to the old days of the cheap reliable Seagate 20 meg MFM drives. All the Americans were using the Seagate drives. For reasons of national pride, the Japanese PC users predominantly used slower, bigger, less reliable NEC drives. I at one point actually had an NEC drive of that era. God, was it slow! The Seagate drives (ST-220) had a pitiful, slow 65 mSec access time. The NEC drive had an even slower 80 mSec access time. Nothing else on the market was that S.L.O.W.
Them were the days, when you could shim the head encoder out just a tad (a wheel on the stepper motor spindle) to offset track zero and low level format to make a non-bootable drive bootable again....
Why not just do it with diode arrays, constructed of grids 1N914 diodes on some vector board?
E. Very fast and at least as ridiculous as the EPROM idea. And even more expensive (and not going to be cheap anytime soon, just like the EPROM idea)
Besides, there doesn't need to be a law made... What was done is already illegial. It's the overly light punishment that I disagree with.
The President doesn't determine the punishment, either.
Politicians are not responsible for our economy.
If you want to live in a country where the politicians have that much power...
oh, wait... they're all (mostly) gone..
You mistyped the last paragraph. It's not consistent with the paragraph before it:
Win2k/Linux/BSD responding to a fault with an engine spinning at extreme rpms? No thanks.
Of course, you neglect to mention nobody would credibly assert that any of these 'interactive user-oriented' OSes are suited for that kind of high speed real time operation. That's what embedded controllers are in the mix for. Often tightly interfaced to a slower responding system that supervises everything.
You are making that erroneous assumption, that many people make, that he's talking about a server that faces the world, on the Internet. Many companies use servers running IIS for all sorts of internal tasks. Think of it kind of like a copying machine: the copying machine at most companies doesn't have to be 'hardened' in the same manner as the coin-fed ones out in the middle of the lobby of a shopping mall. At a company where the clients are semi-locked down and people are just running Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access to do their daily jobs, and grabbing and updating docs to the IIS server, there aren't script kiddies scratching around. There are security concerns, but not of the same nature as with a public machine shared out to the Internet as a whole.
And Microsoft is very strong in this Workgroup Server market. It's what they sell, it's what Netscape hyped that got Microsoft motivated to crush them.