Riley Martin has had an awareness of this since 1953, and has been a source of contact every 11 years since. He freely takes questions about it on his radio show. He never fails to have an answer.
This may be just like when MS Put money in to Apple. Keep them from going under to ensure you can never be hit with a monopoly case. then keep it barely floating in the user base at a very low manageable percentage. control without controling.
At the organization where I work, 500+ user systems run Win2K(few XP) and all our servers run NT4. when an oddball virus hit about a year ago that we actually sent samples of to Trend Micro because no one had seen the thing yet (some new variant of rbug or something) it was killing network ability on everything, as well as crashing explorer.exe on many systems. the only systems it didnt hurt were the NT4 ones. had those serves been upgraded to 2K/2003, we probably would have had a total failure.
I also have to hand it to MS though for making (for the most part) Win2K as good as they did... and in doing so, I think they view it as a mistake. it runs better on old hardware than XP does, it seems quite a bit more stable than all the other versions minus NT4, and it has a nice non-doofy (eg green start button, rough edge graphics) look to it. which I think is why they are so eager to stop people from using it. I find it incredible when I buy a new PC for the business that I can go to the manufacturers site and find all the XP drivers I want but no 2K ones... or only ones for about a quarter of the hardware in the system... with the 2 OS's so close that most drivers usually work in both, I find more and more that tell you that it wont allow install to 2K. I almost feel as if MS is paying off companies that make hardware to not release 2K drivers anymore so they can get people all on XP. Its like they want you the least secure environment you can be in so they can get a kickback form the higher sales of the antivirus companies that have their own programmers writing viruses so theres something to protect against.
Im sure they play it up to sell more product... and additionally as Ive been thinking for years.. I wouldnt be surprised if some of the larger anti-virus companies were directly responsible for some of what gets circulating out there.
Ive been saying for years computers and internet should be like driving a car. people should be required to take a test and get a license before being allowed to own and operate one online.
I highly doubt they care as much about using this to stop malware as they say,.. but rather use it as a way to control product activations from being redirected.
Usually prompted by e-mails, I know youve revisited myths in the past, which I think included the cell phone gas station explosion. I dont recall any of the revisiting reasons for this one actually pertaining to what I think is the true danger spot of this situation, which is vibrate mode. Since vibrate is nothing more than a small motor with an offset weight on it, and motors work by magnets and brushes which often make sparks, I think its quite possible this myths outcome could happen. Did you receive any e-mails with this theroy, and if so is it possible to revisit the myth a third time? seeing as theres a potential explosion, Id think youd jump at the chance. - love the show, I hope its on for a long time. thanks for all the quality entertainment.
Id believe devolving.. based on the random thoughtless acts fueled by lack of common sense I see on a daily basis....
Computers might be evolving... perhaps human looking machines may be an evolution... judgement day is right around the corner.
what we need to do is build LESS capable servers than we have now so spammers cant get as much through.. and use that slow time to both track down the persistent ones and develop better filters, not faster servers.
better technology = better abuse of technology.
theres got to be more to it than a public service..
Im sure next week on slashdot we will see the article about how MS-Antispyware has spyware of its own collecting and sending all sorts of stuff that even the spyware people never thought of.. for MS OS and App tracking this is an easy in to your system for them...
doing a plain google search for "maps" brings back mapquest as the first result. I find that interesting because if this were a MS sort of company, not only could they have been sure to get themselves as the number 1 return, but it would have been there as a first result for about 3 weeks before the product was even available at all.
had a problem with a cell driver on my way home just last night... I didnt know what was wrong with this person, I swore they were drunk, constantly losing control and swirving back to avoid going in the other lane on the highway. as soon as there were no cars, theyd drive on the line in the middle so no one could pass. almost hit 2 different people, and horn blowing had no effect on this dope. I finally got to where the highway splits to 3 lanes and exercised the SHO a little to get up past them.. look over, some dopey woman on the phone, looking down as if shes reading something.... I promptly flipped the bird, and went on my way.
I had all the rubiks toys and the magics were my favorite. I could link the 3 rings in about 4 seconds (black puzzle), and unlink the 5 rings in about 6 seconds (silver puzzle). could do it with 1 hand, behind my back, blindfolded, etc.. I also had the magic create the cube.. was 8 tiles with colored corners that you had to force in to a 3D cube with the 2 remaining tiles as a stand. I used to fix them for kids in school when they would fall apart, and I eventually made my own with a garfield comic inside. (NOW 14 years later they sell a creation kit, lol).. had the rubiks clock, and to this day I still play with my cube.. Im down to 75 seconds on that one.. trying to improve.
I was going to point out the same thing, but thought I should check to see if anyone else did.. sure enough, first message. why people dont see the humor in this observation, I dont know,.. but I bet most of them use "NIC Cards" too.
wasnt it Microsoft themselves that switch on every singles users "share my personal information" without telling them? Didnt this act pretty much start most of those users getting all the spam?
Yes my good cousin (he really is my cousin, lol) the entire technology field (IT related specifically) Blows.. and theres not much thats going to be done about it. Ive been through countless jobs where know-nothings get the higher pay just because they have a paper.. and hands on experience guys are tossed. though, once in a while it works the other way, and if you find yourself in a situation like that, try to make it work. having the ability to adapt to the IT changes as they come can make you very valuable, yet is rarely noticed. Every field has its level of BS,.. but IT is definately the worst.
I remember my 2x would do a full CD in 17.x minutes... then my 4x did them in 8.x... which made perfect mathmatic sense.. then my 12x did it in 3.x which was still close to making sense... now knowing that these "faster" drives speed up and slow doen depending on what area of the CD its on... and a 52x doing a full CD in 2.5 minutes... is that 1 minute worth the instability and chance of a bad burn? especially since for audio you should really keep it at 4 to make sure it works in all new and old players. its much like a VCR... SLP or EP gave you more time, but the quality was worse.... on the CDs... the faster it blows over that area, the less of a job it can be doing.. all its doing it trying to make dark spots.. doo it too fast, and they may not be dark enough, and your audio will skip more often than not.. for 1 week archives of data... its ok... but then of course on the job, the faster you do it, the more time you have for more work.. and who wants that? lol tell your manager that for data integrity sakes.. you need to burn at 1x and ensure that you watch it for 30 minutes to get a good burn. hehe.
This is why I finally just shut the ringer off on my phones last year for about 2 months.. I deal with the BS ALLLLL year, I DONT need to listen to why everyones USB stuff wont work and fix it as if I have nothing else to do (actually I dont, but thats besides the point lol)
any anime Ive ever seen is like minimal frames of actual annimation... throw up a still of a guy in a fighting position and have some cheesy lines behind them moving around... I think the difficult part to making this move will be finding old enough hollywood technology to keep it from looking too good.
I find it funny how americans go so nutty for anime... when you know over in japan they are going just as nutty for the simpsons.
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Riley Martin has had an awareness of this since 1953, and has been a source of contact every 11 years since. He freely takes questions about it on his radio show. He never fails to have an answer.
Laserjet 4 Plus... a little boxy, but Ill take it over any new piece of crap they put out any day. that was a product that lasted.
thats right. exactly who I was going to post as a reminder. btw.. I recently updated that profile page for her.. just in time. lol.
This may be just like when MS Put money in to Apple. Keep them from going under to ensure you can never be hit with a monopoly case. then keep it barely floating in the user base at a very low manageable percentage. control without controling.
At the organization where I work, 500+ user systems run Win2K(few XP) and all our servers run NT4. when an oddball virus hit about a year ago that we actually sent samples of to Trend Micro because no one had seen the thing yet (some new variant of rbug or something) it was killing network ability on everything, as well as crashing explorer.exe on many systems. the only systems it didnt hurt were the NT4 ones. had those serves been upgraded to 2K/2003, we probably would have had a total failure. I also have to hand it to MS though for making (for the most part) Win2K as good as they did... and in doing so, I think they view it as a mistake. it runs better on old hardware than XP does, it seems quite a bit more stable than all the other versions minus NT4, and it has a nice non-doofy (eg green start button, rough edge graphics) look to it. which I think is why they are so eager to stop people from using it. I find it incredible when I buy a new PC for the business that I can go to the manufacturers site and find all the XP drivers I want but no 2K ones... or only ones for about a quarter of the hardware in the system... with the 2 OS's so close that most drivers usually work in both, I find more and more that tell you that it wont allow install to 2K. I almost feel as if MS is paying off companies that make hardware to not release 2K drivers anymore so they can get people all on XP. Its like they want you the least secure environment you can be in so they can get a kickback form the higher sales of the antivirus companies that have their own programmers writing viruses so theres something to protect against.
Im sure they play it up to sell more product... and additionally as Ive been thinking for years.. I wouldnt be surprised if some of the larger anti-virus companies were directly responsible for some of what gets circulating out there.
Ive been saying for years computers and internet should be like driving a car. people should be required to take a test and get a license before being allowed to own and operate one online.
I highly doubt they care as much about using this to stop malware as they say,.. but rather use it as a way to control product activations from being redirected.
look at that little spinning blue LOADING circle at the bottom of the page... looks like they stole it from Firefox. lol.
Usually prompted by e-mails, I know youve revisited myths in the past, which I think included the cell phone gas station explosion. I dont recall any of the revisiting reasons for this one actually pertaining to what I think is the true danger spot of this situation, which is vibrate mode. Since vibrate is nothing more than a small motor with an offset weight on it, and motors work by magnets and brushes which often make sparks, I think its quite possible this myths outcome could happen. Did you receive any e-mails with this theroy, and if so is it possible to revisit the myth a third time? seeing as theres a potential explosion, Id think youd jump at the chance. - love the show, I hope its on for a long time. thanks for all the quality entertainment.
Id believe devolving.. based on the random thoughtless acts fueled by lack of common sense I see on a daily basis.... Computers might be evolving... perhaps human looking machines may be an evolution... judgement day is right around the corner.
what we need to do is build LESS capable servers than we have now so spammers cant get as much through.. and use that slow time to both track down the persistent ones and develop better filters, not faster servers. better technology = better abuse of technology.
its all about the pentiums baby....
theres got to be more to it than a public service.. Im sure next week on slashdot we will see the article about how MS-Antispyware has spyware of its own collecting and sending all sorts of stuff that even the spyware people never thought of.. for MS OS and App tracking this is an easy in to your system for them...
doing a plain google search for "maps" brings back mapquest as the first result. I find that interesting because if this were a MS sort of company, not only could they have been sure to get themselves as the number 1 return, but it would have been there as a first result for about 3 weeks before the product was even available at all.
had a problem with a cell driver on my way home just last night... I didnt know what was wrong with this person, I swore they were drunk, constantly losing control and swirving back to avoid going in the other lane on the highway. as soon as there were no cars, theyd drive on the line in the middle so no one could pass. almost hit 2 different people, and horn blowing had no effect on this dope. I finally got to where the highway splits to 3 lanes and exercised the SHO a little to get up past them.. look over, some dopey woman on the phone, looking down as if shes reading something.... I promptly flipped the bird, and went on my way.
typical verizon.... creating bills for services no one ever asked for. can you pay me now?.... good.
I had all the rubiks toys and the magics were my favorite. I could link the 3 rings in about 4 seconds (black puzzle), and unlink the 5 rings in about 6 seconds (silver puzzle). could do it with 1 hand, behind my back, blindfolded, etc.. I also had the magic create the cube.. was 8 tiles with colored corners that you had to force in to a 3D cube with the 2 remaining tiles as a stand. I used to fix them for kids in school when they would fall apart, and I eventually made my own with a garfield comic inside. (NOW 14 years later they sell a creation kit, lol).. had the rubiks clock, and to this day I still play with my cube.. Im down to 75 seconds on that one.. trying to improve.
I was going to point out the same thing, but thought I should check to see if anyone else did.. sure enough, first message. why people dont see the humor in this observation, I dont know,.. but I bet most of them use "NIC Cards" too.
this thing is what I was remembering... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/16/233821 2&mode=thread
wasnt it Microsoft themselves that switch on every singles users "share my personal information" without telling them? Didnt this act pretty much start most of those users getting all the spam?
Yes my good cousin (he really is my cousin, lol) the entire technology field (IT related specifically) Blows.. and theres not much thats going to be done about it. Ive been through countless jobs where know-nothings get the higher pay just because they have a paper.. and hands on experience guys are tossed. though, once in a while it works the other way, and if you find yourself in a situation like that, try to make it work. having the ability to adapt to the IT changes as they come can make you very valuable, yet is rarely noticed. Every field has its level of BS,.. but IT is definately the worst.
I remember my 2x would do a full CD in 17.x minutes... then my 4x did them in 8.x... which made perfect mathmatic sense.. then my 12x did it in 3.x which was still close to making sense... now knowing that these "faster" drives speed up and slow doen depending on what area of the CD its on... and a 52x doing a full CD in 2.5 minutes... is that 1 minute worth the instability and chance of a bad burn? especially since for audio you should really keep it at 4 to make sure it works in all new and old players. its much like a VCR... SLP or EP gave you more time, but the quality was worse.... on the CDs... the faster it blows over that area, the less of a job it can be doing.. all its doing it trying to make dark spots.. doo it too fast, and they may not be dark enough, and your audio will skip more often than not.. for 1 week archives of data... its ok... but then of course on the job, the faster you do it, the more time you have for more work.. and who wants that? lol tell your manager that for data integrity sakes.. you need to burn at 1x and ensure that you watch it for 30 minutes to get a good burn. hehe.
This is why I finally just shut the ringer off on my phones last year for about 2 months.. I deal with the BS ALLLLL year, I DONT need to listen to why everyones USB stuff wont work and fix it as if I have nothing else to do (actually I dont, but thats besides the point lol)
any anime Ive ever seen is like minimal frames of actual annimation... throw up a still of a guy in a fighting position and have some cheesy lines behind them moving around... I think the difficult part to making this move will be finding old enough hollywood technology to keep it from looking too good. I find it funny how americans go so nutty for anime... when you know over in japan they are going just as nutty for the simpsons.