20 years ago: myservice & now: Setup DynDNS account, run DynDNS update daemon, configure port forwarding in the router, change Windows firewall setup, start myservice
NAT really does turn out to be a good thing overall for most home users.
Maybe home consumers, but not users in general. Even less technical users may want to publish a webcam or to play their music from a friend's computer during a party. From the birth of Internet, users with regular UNIX accounts on shared machines could run their own little services on non-privileged ports. That this ability is not available 20 years later is ludicrous.
Why would he care where people immigrate to, as long as they work for Microsoft? Of course, outsourcing laws themselves need to be tightened. If nothing else, outsourced employees are not paying US income taxes and are neither protected by or obligated to any US laws. It's only fair to at least impose duties to cover their use of US public infrastructure that local companies pay for in taxes. Also if, say, Chinese government has any issues with MS software, corporate executables should be extradited to serve time in Chinese re-education camps, or whatever punishment is deemed appropriate by the local government. One should be required to follow SOME country's laws completely.
How do you think astronauts handle descent in landing capsules, long spacewalks or other situation where one might need to pee? What's bizarre to us, might be routine for people who go on unusual missions.
Assuming you meant "$500 computer", Playstation 2 wouldn't be very popular in US if we could get store-bought $327 PCs with decent gaming capabilities.
It's also accurate to say that they make money by charging developers for access to mindshare of their console. Hobbyist games are:
a. Likely to attract more users to the console, especially older, more wealthy users feeling nostaligic about Digger. b. Are not likely to be sellable for $10+ profit c. Are not likely to keep people from buying a professionally developed game.
In the other words, let people develop for PS3, but require them to release their work, including game date, under BSD-style license. This will also accelerate development of commercial games, as they would be able to reuse freely available code.
There are obviously more games and online services for a PC than a Playstation, and these days a PC is cheaper. You can quickly hook up a notebook to an HD TV and a joystick of your choice and have a similar experience to PS3. You can disable net access, uninstall most of built in programs and enable autoplay to run games when a disk is inserted if you are concerned about ease of use.
Game consoles really made sense when they were at least 3 times cheaper than a PC, for people who couldn't afford a regular computer, or a second computer for kids. Perhaps Nintendo Wii is still in that league.
It should be possibly to judge legality of a regular company by observing their actions, no matter what their intentions are
Steve Jobs to Linus: "Hey, lets collude and force Microsoft out of the market" Linus: "Sure, done deal!"
Not much to worry about there.
If a company can break the law just by having specific intentions, we might as well consider them a monopoly and take remedial actions. In case of Intel, they could be required to spin off chip design into a separate company from manufacturing. As Microsoft's judge pointed out, this is better for a company's combined net worth than extensive regulation. It could even improve the bottom line, as chip foundry would get more business by offering its capacity on equal terms.
Can we agree that without World War II, many more people would have died because of lack of scientific advances obtained as a result of the war? Their seems to be no hurry to develop a cure for AIDS these days. With all the African countries with >50% infection rates, number of victims must be approaching WW II already.
Evolution may be trying to clone Outlook, but it's not great as a standalone e-mail program. There is nothing really wrong with Thunderbird. For a calendar, try Palm Desktop. There is a little program to sync it to iPod.
Common hardware may be cheap in common use within developed world. Battery life or ultra light hardware are not so cheap. Even average users would benefit from being able to work at convenient times for a week without worrying about plugging in. For soldiers in the field, backpackers or international travelers it's a deal-breaker. Even OLPC with Linux is too heavy-weight in that it needs a pedal to be pumped regularly to keep it running. They could have slimmed it down enough to use solar power, keyboard press energy or motion charging ala self-winding watch, perhaps running FreeDOS and appropriate 16 bit hardware.
Quickly, prove to me that the life on Earth evolved entirely through random chance, rather than being predetermined by properties of carbon compounds. Crystals and fractals both have complex appearance which appears random if you don't know the reason for their structure.
Who says that God and you agree on definition of good and evil? From your point of view, a relative getting killed is a bummer, but from God's point of view, they are off to some interesting afterlife or reincarnation.
Most of the time, the same event causes both good and evil. World War II killed lots of people, but also brought scientific progress that today possibly keeps half of 6 billion world population from starving.
Would you use Trusted Solaris on a notebook with data that you need secured. I would guess its lack of power management, bloat, complexity and lack of filesystem encryption would be major obstacles. Would you use a realtime OS to run your J2EE server? I don't think so. Current Microsoft's monopoly is obscuring the fact that yes, different users would benefit from operating systems with fundamentally different design. And if you just need to browse web and read e-mail, you could be served by a super-lean OS on solar-powered hardware with e-paper display.
Do you think a consumer even gives a shit? Or - forget consumers. Do you think folk who purchase IBM big iron give a shit about which OS it runs (apart for needing to know what skills to check when filling HR forms for system administrators), as long as their payroll and inventory get done?
Sure they do, in both cases:
An OS that runs decently on a low-power device with a weeklong battery life.
A realtime OS for gaming or music production
A high-security OS for dealing with sensitive data
An OS with good performance tuning features, say dtrace in Solaris
An OS for learning about computers - that is, simple enough to understand how assembler code poking values into DAC plays music
Conversely, an OS for people with no computer knowledge, or desire to acquire the same.
I don't see any of those being good at any of the others' tasks.
There should be a US law that a company should either operate fully inside US or fully outside. If they are not paying US taxes, they shouldn't be taking advantage of US public infrastructure, US education system, US legal and security protection... Countries pass a set of laws that only work together as a whole. A given company should be forced to live with the full set just like a common citizen, rather then cherry picking what they want. If you pay lower taxes, you can not expect as much services from the government, or perhaps some utilities are nationalized. If Apple wants to take advantage of lax labor laws in China, Steve Jobs should also be willing to stand against the wall and get shot if he is (correctly) convicted of non-socialist activities.
You are only considering your own use of gas. The impact of producing your hybrid is amortized by several factors:
Your money is encouraging car manufacturers to make more hybrid models, invest in better technology and even reduce environmental impact of making new cars based on apparent customer attitude.
Other people will see your car on the highway and think of buying one. That's how New Beetle became popular.
Someone is going to buy your 17MPG car and drive it until the end of its useful lifetime. Since its a used car, that someone probably needed to buy a car anyway. Quite possibly, a new cheap non-hybrid would have been his/her other option.
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now: Setup DynDNS account, run DynDNS update daemon, configure port forwarding in the router, change Windows firewall setup, start myservice
Somehow I don't see this as progress
Try to give this interesting exercise to a non-technical friend with DHCP, Windows Firewall and a wireless router.
NAT really does turn out to be a good thing overall for most home users.
Maybe home consumers, but not users in general. Even less technical users may want to publish a webcam or to play their music from a friend's computer during a party. From the birth of Internet, users with regular UNIX accounts on shared machines could run their own little services on non-privileged ports. That this ability is not available 20 years later is ludicrous.
Me too, but do you do in under MacOSX or under Boot Camp?
Why would he care where people immigrate to, as long as they work for Microsoft? Of course, outsourcing laws themselves need to be tightened. If nothing else, outsourced employees are not paying US income taxes and are neither protected by or obligated to any US laws. It's only fair to at least impose duties to cover their use of US public infrastructure that local companies pay for in taxes. Also if, say, Chinese government has any issues with MS software, corporate executables should be extradited to serve time in Chinese re-education camps, or whatever punishment is deemed appropriate by the local government. One should be required to follow SOME country's laws completely.
How do you think astronauts handle descent in landing capsules, long spacewalks or other situation where one might need to pee? What's bizarre to us, might be routine for people who go on unusual missions.
Assuming you meant "$500 computer", Playstation 2 wouldn't be very popular in US if we could get store-bought $327 PCs with decent gaming capabilities.
It means that you can not get a PC capable of running similar games for less than $1800.
It's also accurate to say that they make money by charging developers for access to mindshare of their console. Hobbyist games are:
a. Likely to attract more users to the console, especially older, more wealthy users feeling nostaligic about Digger.
b. Are not likely to be sellable for $10+ profit
c. Are not likely to keep people from buying a professionally developed game.
In the other words, let people develop for PS3, but require them to release their work, including game date, under BSD-style license. This will also accelerate development of commercial games, as they would be able to reuse freely available code.
Playstation 2 launch price was $300 in 2000, dropped to $200 by 2002. Are you saying a PC with 3D graphics and a DVD drive would cost less than $900-$600 during that time period? Part of the problem is that BluRay drive is about as useful as a MiniDisc player.
There are obviously more games and online services for a PC than a Playstation, and these days a PC is cheaper. You can quickly hook up a notebook to an HD TV and a joystick of your choice and have a similar experience to PS3. You can disable net access, uninstall most of built in programs and enable autoplay to run games when a disk is inserted if you are concerned about ease of use.
Game consoles really made sense when they were at least 3 times cheaper than a PC, for people who couldn't afford a regular computer, or a second computer for kids. Perhaps Nintendo Wii is still in that league.
It should be possibly to judge legality of a regular company by observing their actions, no matter what their intentions are
Steve Jobs to Linus: "Hey, lets collude and force Microsoft out of the market"
Linus: "Sure, done deal!"
Not much to worry about there.
If a company can break the law just by having specific intentions, we might as well consider them a monopoly and take remedial actions. In case of Intel, they could be required to spin off chip design into a separate company from manufacturing. As Microsoft's judge pointed out, this is better for a company's combined net worth than extensive regulation. It could even improve the bottom line, as chip foundry would get more business by offering its capacity on equal terms.
Can we agree that without World War II, many more people would have died because of lack of scientific advances obtained as a result of the war? Their seems to be no hurry to develop a cure for AIDS these days. With all the African countries with >50% infection rates, number of victims must be approaching WW II already.
Evolution may be trying to clone Outlook, but it's not great as a standalone e-mail program. There is nothing really wrong with Thunderbird. For a calendar, try Palm Desktop. There is a little program to sync it to iPod.
Common hardware may be cheap in common use within developed world. Battery life or ultra light hardware are not so cheap. Even average users would benefit from being able to work at convenient times for a week without worrying about plugging in. For soldiers in the field, backpackers or international travelers it's a deal-breaker. Even OLPC with Linux is too heavy-weight in that it needs a pedal to be pumped regularly to keep it running. They could have slimmed it down enough to use solar power, keyboard press energy or motion charging ala self-winding watch, perhaps running FreeDOS and appropriate 16 bit hardware.
Quickly, prove to me that the life on Earth evolved entirely through random chance, rather than being predetermined by properties of carbon compounds. Crystals and fractals both have complex appearance which appears random if you don't know the reason for their structure.
I am sorry to say that God wrote in EBCDIC and this amazing revelation has been missed by using misconfigured Kermit. See "glossolalia".
Would you use Trusted Solaris on a notebook with data that you need secured. I would guess its lack of power management, bloat, complexity and lack of filesystem encryption would be major obstacles. Would you use a realtime OS to run your J2EE server? I don't think so. Current Microsoft's monopoly is obscuring the fact that yes, different users would benefit from operating systems with fundamentally different design. And if you just need to browse web and read e-mail, you could be served by a super-lean OS on solar-powered hardware with e-paper display.
Sure they do, in both cases:
I don't see any of those being good at any of the others' tasks.
What religious people seem to fail to comprehend is that atheism is not a religious belief, it is the lack of religious belief.
That would be more of a description of an agnostic. Atheists believe in a lack of supreme being, without any prove that that being doesn't exist.
How it our economy if it doesn't employ our workers, generate our tax revenues or follow our laws?
Just open a gmail account, forward e-mail from Windows Live and use the free POP.
There should be a US law that a company should either operate fully inside US or fully outside. If they are not paying US taxes, they shouldn't be taking advantage of US public infrastructure, US education system, US legal and security protection... Countries pass a set of laws that only work together as a whole. A given company should be forced to live with the full set just like a common citizen, rather then cherry picking what they want. If you pay lower taxes, you can not expect as much services from the government, or perhaps some utilities are nationalized. If Apple wants to take advantage of lax labor laws in China, Steve Jobs should also be willing to stand against the wall and get shot if he is (correctly) convicted of non-socialist activities.
buy a car anyway. Quite possibly, a new cheap non-hybrid would have been his/her other option.