The fastest speed up is not even 10%. That's about an extra 0.01 tits/second. Want more speedup than that.
Are we beyond the fundamental research stage?
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AT&T did contribute a lot to research, but perhaps we're beyond the stage where organisations like AT&T can provide meaningful reasearch.
Like aerospace and military, the telecoms industry did push early days computers. However it has been the industrial sector and since then the consumer sector which has driven the smaller, faster and cheaper computing.
For example, one might argue that modems were a spin off from Rockwell aerospace. However, that would have left us with 300 baud modems the size of a PC. It took the comsumer age to drive us to 56k Compact Flash format modems.
We have a lot to thank the pioneers for, but after a while they get beyond their usefulness/effectiveness.
All this "new economy" stuff is bullshit. The basic factors and economic principles governing any small biz are the same. Hiring family for an IT biz is no different to hiring family for a lawn mowing etc biz.
If you are going to mix biz and pleasure, then do it with the idea that you will disolve the biz relationships in favour of the personal ones. The one relationship that strikes me as being a bit dicey is the girlfriend. If this personal relationship is likely to disolve, then your biz will suffer if she becomes irreplacable and decides to move on.
if M$ doesn't cover their tracks they are done. Nonsense. Nobody cares. People **expect** big corporations to be bent just like they expect politicians to be bent. So long as their shareholders don't get hurt nothing will happen, any more than anything happened when Bush cheated to get Florida and lied to get a war.
.DVD players?. Good thing someone is paying attention. Two scenarios to save my honour:
Documentation, documentation, documentation... I read somewhere that when an aircraft carrier had its paper docs replaced with online docs on a network, the ship floated 6 ft higher in the water. Documentation that helps service planes saves lives.
If you get into a really tight situation, you could always pull out a comedy, turn on the Arabic subtitles and amuse your captors while you sneak away....
Contrary to the popular belief that Microsoft just prints money, they are really sweating in many of their business areas. These "assurance" programs are a nice way to make some more money without having to provide a very definite measurable service (ie. it is damn hard to say you deserve your money back).
The PHBs will likely buy these services as a way of covering/dev/ass: "Well you can't blame me. I used their trusted computing and their assurance programs. I did everything I could to ensure...."
Should have been posted under "Your Rights Online". I bet this RAM disk is being used for non-scientific purposes.
Yes software kills, but there is an upside too
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Sure 28 service-folk got killed by a screwup in the Patriot Missiles. I bet though that thousands of others had their lives saved by big and little electronic gadgets (radar, rescue beacons, GPS, DVD players, two-way radio) that all have software in them.
Warfare is not about certainty, it's about playing the odds.
A very similar case could be constructed for them poor fried cancer patients. SQL databases that manage breast/cervical screening programs save thousands of people from cancer each year.
Take cars as an analogy. If there was complete freedom in how cars were built and operated you'd have complete chaos.
You could choose which side of the road to use each morning. Some on the left and some on the right. You could choose to stop for green and go for red. People could sell diesel as gas. It would be OK to make fuel tanks out of chewing gum.
A society can only function because it has rules. Similarly a 'wired society' can only function if people respect the rules (protocols) and behave responsibly. Unfortunately the internet is not yet real enough and we get huge abuses of the norms that make a society work (stuff like spammers, "improved" protocols and the like).
You really want the sound of traffic (loud) mixed with sex (soft) so you can say something like: "Hey Mike I'm using this new sound cover technology so that it sounds like I'm in the traffic but I'm really having sex."
Of course you blow all credibility if you try convincing anyone you answered or made a call during sex.... especially if it was to/from your girlfriend.
impound all "linux software products" (impounding the hardware would be easier) They'd have problems making impounding of the hardware stick since they are only claiming ownership of the software. Remember SCO fans that this is "pump and dump", the soundbites they're generating don't have to be rational. They just have to sound impressive to Bush-voters types.
The biggest hassle with this is claiming novelty. You can only hold a patent to stuff you claim. Therefore there is going to be a hell of a problem setting up the claim trees...
eg. We claim the following:
1. Data base entry of a person's details.
2. Database entry as in claim 1 where person's name is Joe SixPack.
3. Database entry as in claim 2 where person lives at 15 Dumbass Drive.
4. Database entry as in claim 3 where person's telephone number is 555-12345678.
5 Database entry as in claim 1 where persons name is Susan Sixpack.....
THen the examiner will need to phone up Joe & Susan Sixpack to verify the facts....
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If it took 60 seconds, now it will take 55.8 seconds. You won't notice that without a stopwatch!
Someone has to deliver the Viagra you order.
The fastest speed up is not even 10%. That's about an extra 0.01 tits/second. Want more speedup than that.
Like aerospace and military, the telecoms industry did push early days computers. However it has been the industrial sector and since then the consumer sector which has driven the smaller, faster and cheaper computing.
For example, one might argue that modems were a spin off from Rockwell aerospace. However, that would have left us with 300 baud modems the size of a PC. It took the comsumer age to drive us to 56k Compact Flash format modems.
We have a lot to thank the pioneers for, but after a while they get beyond their usefulness/effectiveness.
Lint left on the lens from giving it a quick wipe before take off would perhaps be less significant.
Maybe lint on the lens? You never know.
If you are going to mix biz and pleasure, then do it with the idea that you will disolve the biz relationships in favour of the personal ones. The one relationship that strikes me as being a bit dicey is the girlfriend. If this personal relationship is likely to disolve, then your biz will suffer if she becomes irreplacable and decides to move on.
... when Intel make the 15 THz Pentium 10.
if M$ doesn't cover their tracks they are done. Nonsense. Nobody cares. People **expect** big corporations to be bent just like they expect politicians to be bent. So long as their shareholders don't get hurt nothing will happen, any more than anything happened when Bush cheated to get Florida and lied to get a war.
Documentation, documentation, documentation... I read somewhere that when an aircraft carrier had its paper docs replaced with online docs on a network, the ship floated 6 ft higher in the water. Documentation that helps service planes saves lives.
If you get into a really tight situation, you could always pull out a comedy, turn on the Arabic subtitles and amuse your captors while you sneak away....
The PHBs will likely buy these services as a way of covering /dev/ass: "Well you can't blame me. I used their trusted computing and their assurance programs. I did everything I could to ensure ...."
Should have been posted under "Your Rights Online". I bet this RAM disk is being used for non-scientific purposes.
Warfare is not about certainty, it's about playing the odds.
A very similar case could be constructed for them poor fried cancer patients. SQL databases that manage breast/cervical screening programs save thousands of people from cancer each year.
There is nothing to say that you need an OS or a bios. Most microprocessor-based device execute code without these.
You could choose which side of the road to use each morning. Some on the left and some on the right. You could choose to stop for green and go for red. People could sell diesel as gas. It would be OK to make fuel tanks out of chewing gum.
A society can only function because it has rules. Similarly a 'wired society' can only function if people respect the rules (protocols) and behave responsibly. Unfortunately the internet is not yet real enough and we get huge abuses of the norms that make a society work (stuff like spammers, "improved" protocols and the like).
Just ask Google
At least Clinton could be made happy with an off-side blowjob. He didn't need to kill people to fulfil his egotrip.
Of course you blow all credibility if you try convincing anyone you answered or made a call during sex.... especially if it was to/from your girlfriend.
impound all "linux software products" (impounding the hardware would be easier) They'd have problems making impounding of the hardware stick since they are only claiming ownership of the software. Remember SCO fans that this is "pump and dump", the soundbites they're generating don't have to be rational. They just have to sound impressive to Bush-voters types.
My man! Can we get together sometime??
You really need to get a bit more kinky and try 86.
eg. We claim the following:
1. Data base entry of a person's details.
2. Database entry as in claim 1 where person's name is Joe SixPack.
3. Database entry as in claim 2 where person lives at 15 Dumbass Drive.
4. Database entry as in claim 3 where person's telephone number is 555-12345678.
5 Database entry as in claim 1 where persons name is Susan Sixpack.....
THen the examiner will need to phone up Joe & Susan Sixpack to verify the facts....
C'mon SCO gimme your best shot.
Autopsy is when you cut up something that is already dead. When you kill something that was living until you cut it is murder/killing.
Farts, belches, who needs bio-brats when you can have one of these for $99 and less than 9 months waiting time.