I have a small business that has some "sticky" IP addresses (rather, they are hacked so that they stay the same). My netblock is listed as a dynamic IP address block.
I recently tried to contact Rockwell Collins about manufacturing a part, however I ran into their spam blocker. Apparently, anyone who does not own their own netblock gets marked as a spammer. This means that small businesses, like mine, have problems contacting companies like this.
I managed to get around the issue by routing my email through my ISP's email server (which is static), although it was very annoying to have to do that.
I received an email from the company that blocked my email stating that I was probably spam and that I was not allowed in to their email system. I have a registered company, so I did not take this very well. Very easily the technicians at the spam-blocking business could have gone to netcraft and looked up my DNS information to verify that I was who I said I was. Still, it was very insulting to receive a message that essentially states "You are probably a spammer, so we're not going to relay your email."
Spam has become so pervasive that some companies are completely paranoid about that. As for Rockwell Collins, I can understand them not wanting to get a visus that compromised a sensitive project on their network. But this brings up the crux of the problem: should companies assume that any IP in a dynamic range is a spammer email?
Actually, I don't know what the shape is, so the I could equal 1/12(r^2) or 1/3(r^2). Hard to see the shape of what it is using to take out the missiles from the picture in the article.
If the original bill was passed by the US House and Senate and signed into law, a state has no right to nullify that law. This is because of the federal supremacy clause in the US Constitution. Here's a link with the details.
I am not totally sure how this legislation got passed in the first place, but if it was legally made by Congress Maine stands no chance in court.
Interestingly enough, when ITMS was a year or two old, I was able to buy Frank Zappa music on the store. I got a couple of great albums, so I went back a few months later and did a search for "Frank Zappa." The entire 50 something album collection that was available is not available anymore- at least not in the US.
Many engineers today have to use C, Fortran, Python, or some language of MATLAB to come up with mathematical models for what they use. The requirement of knowledge in a specific area is so high very few people posess the talent and insight needed to write a really good engineering application.
It is possible, though, to be a software engineer in this respect- if you are in Engineering and you have a genuine interest and ability to program, then you can be a "Software Engineer" if you choose to learn more about programming.
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday sued Apple Inc., claiming that the maker of computers and media players doesn't have permission to name its newest device the iPhone.
Cisco (CSCO) has owned the trademark for "iPhone" since 2000, the result of its purchase of InfoGear, which owned the trademark previously. Since December, Cisco's wireless division, Linksys, has been shipping a family of cordless and wireless phones under the iPhone brand.
"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," said Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman.
Several companies already use the name "iPhone" for Voice-over-Internet products, Kerris said.
"Apple is the first company to ever use the 'iPhone' name for a cell phone," she said. "We believe that Cisco's trademark registration is tenuous at best."
Kerris added: "If Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we are very confident we would prevail."
Late Wednesday, Cisco asked a U.S. district judge for Northern California to order Apple not to use the name for a device that it introduced on Tuesday during an annual trade show.
Apple intends to begin selling its iPhone sometime in June, which provides a five-month cushion for both sides to reach some kind of settlement. Should that not happen, the suit could impact sales of the device.
The lawsuit follows years of negotiations between the two companies, which continued even as Apple (AAPL) Chief Executive Steve Jobs was introducing the iPhone Tuesday during the Macworld show in San Francisco.
Cisco took the iPhone's introduction as a sign that Apple had agreed to Cisco's terms for use of the trademark. In a statement issued Tuesday, Cisco said that it suspected Apple had agreed to terms, and was expecting to hear from the company later that day.
But the paperwork never arrived, a Cisco spokesman said Wednesday.
"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," Mark Chandler, Cisco's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without permission."
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
01-11-070537ET
Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
[sarcasm] Yes, and we all know that Steve needs those stock options to stay afloat with his $1 salary. [/sarcasm]
Jobs is a billionaire, what motive coud he possibly have for getting that money. He is the largest share-holder in Disney, he could easily sell some of that stock and make a LOT of money.
I don't see any possible motive for Jobs to do this other than to see just how well the Reality Distortion Field(tm) works.
You will need Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition This book is absolutely must-have for anyone who wants to learn anything about *NIX systems.
This book is so important that several ComS professors recommended it for their students who use Linux. You may not use many of the commands in there now, but soon enough you will be plugging away and you will want to know how to add things to your $PATH, etc. This book is a great starting reference for such learning material.
I saw this "SuperFetch" idea and it is a total rip off of NeXT's "prebinding" system. Often, when you install something on Mac OS X (since version 10.0), there is a little status message in the installer that says "Optimizing System Performance...". This command calls a program that sits in "/usr/bin" that loads memory addresses of each program in a cache for faster launch times. After prebinding, applications load faster at startup.
There is also a daemon on Mac OS X that dynamically prebinds applications that have not been prebound. One condition of prebinding is that all the Libraries must be dynamically linked and prebound themselves. If one dependant library is not prebound, then the whole thing gets marked as something "not to prebind."
To see the actual programs on Mac OS X, do a
ls/usr/bin | grep prebinding
I have a first generation MacBook Pro that does much the same thing, only it takes 20-25 seconds to boot up. But there are other reasons that things do and do not boot up slowly.
One think people fail to realize is that the system, every time it boots up, has to count the amount of RAM available to it. Remember those IBM's with 892K of RAM that slowly counted up during system start up-- Imagine that with a computer that has gigabytes of RAM. Now I know memory is counted faster now, but if you compare a machine with 1GB in it to a machine with 8GB at the same processor speed and 64-bit you will notice a sizable lag in the 8GB machine.
One other point to mention is that if you have a lot of PCI expansion cards, those have to register themselves with the system too. This includes any type of RAID card, which requires that all hard drives spin before it can proceed. If a drive is down, the computer waits a finite time and you find out that you have to overnight a new HDD. Bluetooth, modems, USB, Firewire-- each controller gets its spot in the memory and they often load from flash memory that is physically on the card/chipset (the NVRAM). Each additional service adds to the boot time.
The moral is you can have one heck of a system, but it can take forever to boot.
So Apple is supposed to license an API/environment from Microsoft without the guarantee that Mac Office apps will be supported in said API/environment ?
There are actually a lot of kids interested in science, the problem is that when they get to the University level and try to be Math/Physics/Engineering majors there is a whole host of classes waiting to fail them. I go to a well-respected major state university and both our Physics and Chemistry classes weed more than 60% of young prospects out.
That's not to say these people are dumb. Often times they are right out of high school and they don't know how to study. Given a little time, they could probably do very well.
It is very discouraging to kids when their GPA is terrible and they think they have a future working in a cubicle.
One note: The Physics class I mentioned is failing about 60% of its students this semester. One looks at these numbers and it's not hard to imagine why someone would choose a degree in the arts rather than in the sciences.
Seeing as the "iTV" has not even been released and gone through a few revisions, I can't possibly see this happening in even a year. It could happen, though, as many games are written with OpenGL (as opposed to DirectX)- and it could be totally cool, since if you have a broadband connection and a wireless card, you can play games in your 7.1 THX certified 45" LCD home theater setup wirelessly over the Internet (Read: CmdrTaco's ultimate WoW fantasy).
Only problem is getting people in that particular age group and price point. But, one man told me, "Parents buy things. That's what they're for." [Insert inflamitory jokes about Paris Hilton here]
David McGuire, whose Overhead Door Co. received more than 400 calls for help, said the Air Force may be able to slightly adjust the transmission frequency to solve the problem. If not, it will cost homeowners about $250 to have new units installed.
How do I buy stock in Overhead Door Co.? That guy stands to make a lot of money.
From the article description: "Insofar as SCO's proposed expert reports exceed the Final Disclosures, they should be stricken."
This essentially says that, since SCO tried to sneak some evidence at the end, without going through the proper legal process before hand, that this evidence should be removed and not considered by the court/judge/jury.
In an appeals process, these documents would not show up in a new case should SCO try to sue IBM in a higher court. SCO would have to try to re-enter that testemony.
Capacitors are NOT batteries!!! My God, please use the correct unit of charge. You can use either the Coulomb or the Farad, they are slightly different. An amp is not used to measure capacitance, please do not confuse it with the real units.
The main point I want to make is that capacitors are not batteries (Did I mention that?)
Capacitors store energy in an electric field.
Batteries store chemical potential energy and have electrons (kenetic energy) flowing from anode to cathode.
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It's 5V and 1000mA. 1000mV is simply 1V- that's like saying you have a plug on the plane that has extra prongs for 5V and 1V applications.
Wanted to clear that up in case anyone was confused by it. We know what the parent meant, but some people replying to the parent certainly did not.
I recently tried to contact Rockwell Collins about manufacturing a part, however I ran into their spam blocker. Apparently, anyone who does not own their own netblock gets marked as a spammer. This means that small businesses, like mine, have problems contacting companies like this.
I managed to get around the issue by routing my email through my ISP's email server (which is static), although it was very annoying to have to do that.
I received an email from the company that blocked my email stating that I was probably spam and that I was not allowed in to their email system. I have a registered company, so I did not take this very well. Very easily the technicians at the spam-blocking business could have gone to netcraft and looked up my DNS information to verify that I was who I said I was. Still, it was very insulting to receive a message that essentially states "You are probably a spammer, so we're not going to relay your email."
Spam has become so pervasive that some companies are completely paranoid about that. As for Rockwell Collins, I can understand them not wanting to get a visus that compromised a sensitive project on their network. But this brings up the crux of the problem: should companies assume that any IP in a dynamic range is a spammer email?
Actually, I don't know what the shape is, so the I could equal 1/12(r^2) or 1/3(r^2). Hard to see the shape of what it is using to take out the missiles from the picture in the article.
Don't forget about rotational kenetic energy- 1/2(I)w^2
Where I is the moment of intertia (in this case 2/5(mr^2) for a solid sphere)
KE(translation) = 1/2(m)v^2
KE(rotation) = 1/2(I)w^2
So, KE(total) = KE(translation) + KE(rotation)
I am not totally sure how this legislation got passed in the first place, but if it was legally made by Congress Maine stands no chance in court.
Interestingly enough, when ITMS was a year or two old, I was able to buy Frank Zappa music on the store. I got a couple of great albums, so I went back a few months later and did a search for "Frank Zappa." The entire 50 something album collection that was available is not available anymore- at least not in the US.
Many engineers today have to use C, Fortran, Python, or some language of MATLAB to come up with mathematical models for what they use. The requirement of knowledge in a specific area is so high very few people posess the talent and insight needed to write a really good engineering application.
It is possible, though, to be a software engineer in this respect- if you are in Engineering and you have a genuine interest and ability to program, then you can be a "Software Engineer" if you choose to learn more about programming.
That, sir, depends directly on what they are smoking.
I found this update on NASDAQ.com:
AAPL
Apple Inc. NASDAQ-GS
UPDATE: Cisco Sues Apple Over Use Of IPhone Name
By Ben Charny
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday sued Apple Inc., claiming that the maker of computers and media players doesn't have permission to name its newest device the iPhone.
Cisco (CSCO) has owned the trademark for "iPhone" since 2000, the result of its purchase of InfoGear, which owned the trademark previously. Since December, Cisco's wireless division, Linksys, has been shipping a family of cordless and wireless phones under the iPhone brand.
"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," said Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman.
Several companies already use the name "iPhone" for Voice-over-Internet products, Kerris said.
"Apple is the first company to ever use the 'iPhone' name for a cell phone," she said. "We believe that Cisco's trademark registration is tenuous at best."
Kerris added: "If Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we are very confident we would prevail."
Late Wednesday, Cisco asked a U.S. district judge for Northern California to order Apple not to use the name for a device that it introduced on Tuesday during an annual trade show.
Apple intends to begin selling its iPhone sometime in June, which provides a five-month cushion for both sides to reach some kind of settlement. Should that not happen, the suit could impact sales of the device.
The lawsuit follows years of negotiations between the two companies, which continued even as Apple (AAPL) Chief Executive Steve Jobs was introducing the iPhone Tuesday during the Macworld show in San Francisco.
Cisco took the iPhone's introduction as a sign that Apple had agreed to Cisco's terms for use of the trademark. In a statement issued Tuesday, Cisco said that it suspected Apple had agreed to terms, and was expecting to hear from the company later that day.
But the paperwork never arrived, a Cisco spokesman said Wednesday.
"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," Mark Chandler, Cisco's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without permission."
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
01-11-070537ET
Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Jobs is a billionaire, what motive coud he possibly have for getting that money. He is the largest share-holder in Disney, he could easily sell some of that stock and make a LOT of money.
I don't see any possible motive for Jobs to do this other than to see just how well the Reality Distortion Field(tm) works.
This book is so important that several ComS professors recommended it for their students who use Linux. You may not use many of the commands in there now, but soon enough you will be plugging away and you will want to know how to add things to your $PATH, etc. This book is a great starting reference for such learning material.
By the time I get $15000 Duke Nuke'em Forever will be out, and I can play it on my obscenely expensive menagerie of Best Buy consumables.
There is also a daemon on Mac OS X that dynamically prebinds applications that have not been prebound. One condition of prebinding is that all the Libraries must be dynamically linked and prebound themselves. If one dependant library is not prebound, then the whole thing gets marked as something "not to prebind."
To see the actual programs on Mac OS X, do a /usr/bin | grep prebinding
ls
One think people fail to realize is that the system, every time it boots up, has to count the amount of RAM available to it. Remember those IBM's with 892K of RAM that slowly counted up during system start up-- Imagine that with a computer that has gigabytes of RAM. Now I know memory is counted faster now, but if you compare a machine with 1GB in it to a machine with 8GB at the same processor speed and 64-bit you will notice a sizable lag in the 8GB machine.
One other point to mention is that if you have a lot of PCI expansion cards, those have to register themselves with the system too. This includes any type of RAID card, which requires that all hard drives spin before it can proceed. If a drive is down, the computer waits a finite time and you find out that you have to overnight a new HDD. Bluetooth, modems, USB, Firewire-- each controller gets its spot in the memory and they often load from flash memory that is physically on the card/chipset (the NVRAM). Each additional service adds to the boot time.
The moral is you can have one heck of a system, but it can take forever to boot.
So Apple is supposed to license an API/environment from Microsoft without the guarantee that Mac Office apps will be supported in said API/environment ?
That's not to say these people are dumb. Often times they are right out of high school and they don't know how to study. Given a little time, they could probably do very well.
It is very discouraging to kids when their GPA is terrible and they think they have a future working in a cubicle.
One note: The Physics class I mentioned is failing about 60% of its students this semester. One looks at these numbers and it's not hard to imagine why someone would choose a degree in the arts rather than in the sciences.
Only problem is getting people in that particular age group and price point. But, one man told me, "Parents buy things. That's what they're for." [Insert inflamitory jokes about Paris Hilton here]
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Seriously, my sig has been that way for months :)
How do I buy stock in Overhead Door Co.? That guy stands to make a lot of money.
BTW we are all lawyers too, although some of us do know some cool HTML tricks :-)
This essentially says that, since SCO tried to sneak some evidence at the end, without going through the proper legal process before hand, that this evidence should be removed and not considered by the court/judge/jury.
In an appeals process, these documents would not show up in a new case should SCO try to sue IBM in a higher court. SCO would have to try to re-enter that testemony.
It was "whaleziak," kind of like Wozniak, but without the technical coolness. South Park Trivia :-)
C'est forte intelligente!
Capacitors are NOT batteries!!! My God, please use the correct unit of charge. You can use either the Coulomb or the Farad, they are slightly different. An amp is not used to measure capacitance, please do not confuse it with the real units.
The main point I want to make is that capacitors are not batteries (Did I mention that?)
Pay attention in Physics!