Besides, XP let's you mount an FTP site as a drive (I used a program called FTPNetDrive years ago under Windows '98 that did the same thing.) But you're right, it's slow as molasses.
Ha... I have 8 mbit/768 kbit from Comcastoff. Hurray for the $55/month bill. Seriously, I've been considering some of Speakeasy's packages. Only 1.5 mb/sec, but it's symmetric which would be helpful since I run a game server, and the people I know that use Speakeasy tell me that they don't care what the hell you do with your connection. It's your money, and your fat pipe.
shut down peer-to-peer (or simply make people too afraid to use it), I predict that file-sharing will continue unabated as social networks form around these vast online storage facilities. Rather than having to download my music piecemeal, I can just grab someone's entire "g" or "i" or "m" or whatever drive full of gigabytes of tunes. A couple of online swaps and that 60 Gb iPod is going to seem a tad cramped.
Most people don't know that a Russian fur trapper pointed two mirrors at each other, inadvertently causing the Tunguska Event of 1908. In 1954, a crew filming a TV show accidentally pointed a video camera at the monitor it was connected to: they and the rest of the Bikini Atoll disappeared. The cover story was something about a hydrogen bomb but don't you believe it. Consequently, I don't think it would be wise to do as you suggest.
Ha. Don't even get me started on that. About half of my yearly property tax bill goes to what passes for education in this county. There's more than enough funds to educate students (including all the illegal ones) if it wasn't being misdirected to build private empires. Sorry... the state of the educational system in this country is a bit of a sore point with me. I get fed up with schools crying "we're sorry your kids are ignorant fucks that can't get a job, but if you just give us even more of your hard-earned cash we're just so totally certain we can fix the problem." Phooey. Cut out the football and the basketball and plush offices and mahogany conference tables and the private secretaries with big salaries and bigger tits and spend some bucks on hiring *good* teachers and providing a good place to learn. Like most things run by the government, there's a Texas shitload of waste in the school system, but I see no way to remove the entrenched bureacracy.
But you're right... the tax burden in the past thirty years or so seems to have shifted from the corporate world to the middle class. I'm not sure how the IRS is valuing "intellectual property" (I'm not sure how anyone values something that exists solely in someone's head) but I'm not feeling too badly about Symantec getting hit up for some more taxes. Sure, they'll pass the cost on to the consumer, but nobody with functioning cognitive areas in their brain should be buying their stuff anyway.
People actually have to pay to receive texts in the US (utterly idiotic at best) - is this how they are going to generate (even more) revenue from users? Will we see tiered text pricing from operators as they are able to effectively tax users?
Yes, or if not that then something equally ridiculous.
Guy: "Hi, sir, Could you help a poor man out and let me borrow your cell phone for a quick moment to call my family? I'm going to be late for my daughter's birthday."
Me: "Sure. Just put this bluetooth headset on... now, what's your phone number? I'll dial it for you."
Guy: "Uh, I have a meeting to get to... sorry to have bothered you!"
Or the thief can use the cell phone to buy something, then throw it away under the back seat in a bus.
Where another person picks it up, says, "Hey, cool! It's got a couple hundred bucks still on it!" and proceeds to buy something else, and then leaves it in the back of a cab, where somebody else finds it and...
Hint to Roscoe: Larry, IBM, HP, Novell and all the others have been in bed with Microsoft at one time or another. Whether it was profitable is another question... probably not, since they seem to be sleeping in separate rooms nowadays..
This simplifies EULA terms in a consumer friendly way similar to care labels on clothing, nutrition facts on food and warnings on hazardous materials.
And nobody will bother to implement any of those things because it isn't in their perceived benefit to do so. I mean, food products have been labelled in a consistent, informative manner for over a century, right? Oh, I forgot... it wasn't until they were forced to by Federal regulation. I see the same thing being necessary here, but I'm not holding my breath.
Or is this a sinister plan to make companies throw out old hardware to buy new so they buy new faster stuff to run Vista. That's it! It's all Microsoft's fault. Amazing how fast we can go do the jump off the bridge path.
Maybe... but that doesn't make you wrong. The beauty of FUD is that, while it is ignored by knowledgeable people, a little of it can go a long way in convincing a PHB to change his budget priorities. It really doesn't take much: the old "nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" mentality coupled with a bit of relevant FUD can result in the sale of a lot of new equipment.
General Electric was also big in time-sharing during the sixties. My father used to run simulator programs on a big GE mainframe: he had a teletype in his office. Really, at the time it was the peak of high-tech.
Anything concentrated is potentially dangerous: chemical fuels, fissionable materials, money, political power. It is that high concentration that makes them useful, you just have to watch your step.
Nothing is undeniable, nothing is certain. What you think true today can be positively wrong tomorrow. Earth is not flat, earth is not the center of the universe.
True, but if I drop this hammer on my foot I can pretty positively guarantee that I'm going to say, "Ow! Son of a BITCH!"
I've also noticed a number of outfits promoting "software as a service" with phrases such as "upgrades are painless and free!" The problem with that is that I generally don't want my applications to update themselves without my consent. Maybe I like to wait until the bugs are worked out of a new version, or maybe I just like what I have because it works and I'm used to it. Either way, software as a service is simply placing too much control over the way I work and do business in the hands of a third party. Whether you call it "software as a service" or "the network is the computer" or any of the other slogans tossed out there over the years, the reality is that software vendors a. want individuals and businesses to cough up a neverending flow of juice ("own" your software? Hah!) and b. want absolute control over when and how we use said applications, and c. see this as the perfect method to eliminate software "piracy" once and for all. In that, they aren't very different from the big media companies, who are pushing for the same sort of world. In fact, this is worse because if your data is kept on some remote server by your "software provider" your hostage-taking scenario is a real possibility. Particularly if sleazy outfits like SBC or any of the cell phone providers get involved, and they will. And that's not counting Microsoft, whose impact in this market will be huge and will, as always, cause problems for consumers.
Yes, particularly when you don't disable unnecessary software disservices from the disservices panel of Administrative Tools. Of course, what you're really talking about is Software As a Disservice... S.A.D.
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Besides, XP let's you mount an FTP site as a drive (I used a program called FTPNetDrive years ago under Windows '98 that did the same thing.) But you're right, it's slow as molasses.
How about "oligopoly".
Ha ... I have 8 mbit/768 kbit from Comcastoff. Hurray for the $55/month bill. Seriously, I've been considering some of Speakeasy's packages. Only 1.5 mb/sec, but it's symmetric which would be helpful since I run a game server, and the people I know that use Speakeasy tell me that they don't care what the hell you do with your connection. It's your money, and your fat pipe.
No, you mean it's to be unpublicly announced. Or something like that. I guess.
shut down peer-to-peer (or simply make people too afraid to use it), I predict that file-sharing will continue unabated as social networks form around these vast online storage facilities. Rather than having to download my music piecemeal, I can just grab someone's entire "g" or "i" or "m" or whatever drive full of gigabytes of tunes. A couple of online swaps and that 60 Gb iPod is going to seem a tad cramped.
Cool.
Most people don't know that a Russian fur trapper pointed two mirrors at each other, inadvertently causing the Tunguska Event of 1908. In 1954, a crew filming a TV show accidentally pointed a video camera at the monitor it was connected to: they and the rest of the Bikini Atoll disappeared. The cover story was something about a hydrogen bomb but don't you believe it. Consequently, I don't think it would be wise to do as you suggest.
Actually, the whole point of the article is that the OneBox got adaption.
And, as we all know, Google is about nothing if not relevance.
what will that mean for corporate report developers and business intelligence staff?
Well, at a guess I'd say yet another round of "rightsizing".
And besides ... if he backslides we can beat the crap out of him with a stainless-steel cluebat.
Ha. Don't even get me started on that. About half of my yearly property tax bill goes to what passes for education in this county. There's more than enough funds to educate students (including all the illegal ones) if it wasn't being misdirected to build private empires. Sorry ... the state of the educational system in this country is a bit of a sore point with me. I get fed up with schools crying "we're sorry your kids are ignorant fucks that can't get a job, but if you just give us even more of your hard-earned cash we're just so totally certain we can fix the problem." Phooey. Cut out the football and the basketball and plush offices and mahogany conference tables and the private secretaries with big salaries and bigger tits and spend some bucks on hiring *good* teachers and providing a good place to learn. Like most things run by the government, there's a Texas shitload of waste in the school system, but I see no way to remove the entrenched bureacracy.
... the tax burden in the past thirty years or so seems to have shifted from the corporate world to the middle class. I'm not sure how the IRS is valuing "intellectual property" (I'm not sure how anyone values something that exists solely in someone's head) but I'm not feeling too badly about Symantec getting hit up for some more taxes. Sure, they'll pass the cost on to the consumer, but nobody with functioning cognitive areas in their brain should be buying their stuff anyway.
But you're right
No, that was the "Reverse Algorithmic" on that the video technician on CSI uses to sharpen blurry images.
People actually have to pay to receive texts in the US (utterly idiotic at best) - is this how they are going to generate (even more) revenue from users? Will we see tiered text pricing from operators as they are able to effectively tax users?
Yes, or if not that then something equally ridiculous.
Or, in my case:
... now, what's your phone number? I'll dial it for you."
... sorry to have bothered you!"
Guy: "Hi, sir, Could you help a poor man out and let me borrow your cell phone for a quick moment to call my family? I'm going to be late for my daughter's birthday."
Me: "Sure. Just put this bluetooth headset on
Guy: "Uh, I have a meeting to get to
Or the thief can use the cell phone to buy something, then throw it away under the back seat in a bus.
...
Where another person picks it up, says, "Hey, cool! It's got a couple hundred bucks still on it!" and proceeds to buy something else, and then leaves it in the back of a cab, where somebody else finds it and
Me, I'd call it LayPal, or maybe PayGal.
Hint to Roscoe: Larry, IBM, HP, Novell and all the others have been in bed with Microsoft at one time or another. Whether it was profitable is another question ... probably not, since they seem to be sleeping in separate rooms nowadays..
This simplifies EULA terms in a consumer friendly way similar to care labels on clothing, nutrition facts on food and warnings on hazardous materials.
... it wasn't until they were forced to by Federal regulation. I see the same thing being necessary here, but I'm not holding my breath.
And nobody will bother to implement any of those things because it isn't in their perceived benefit to do so. I mean, food products have been labelled in a consistent, informative manner for over a century, right? Oh, I forgot
Or is this a sinister plan to make companies throw out old hardware to buy new so they buy new faster stuff to run Vista. That's it! It's all Microsoft's fault. Amazing how fast we can go do the jump off the bridge path.
... but that doesn't make you wrong. The beauty of FUD is that, while it is ignored by knowledgeable people, a little of it can go a long way in convincing a PHB to change his budget priorities. It really doesn't take much: the old "nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" mentality coupled with a bit of relevant FUD can result in the sale of a lot of new equipment.
Maybe
General Electric was also big in time-sharing during the sixties. My father used to run simulator programs on a big GE mainframe: he had a teletype in his office. Really, at the time it was the peak of high-tech.
Anything concentrated is potentially dangerous: chemical fuels, fissionable materials, money, political power. It is that high concentration that makes them useful, you just have to watch your step.
Nothing is undeniable, nothing is certain. What you think true today can be positively wrong tomorrow. Earth is not flat, earth is not the center of the universe.
True, but if I drop this hammer on my foot I can pretty positively guarantee that I'm going to say, "Ow! Son of a BITCH!"
I've also noticed a number of outfits promoting "software as a service" with phrases such as "upgrades are painless and free!" The problem with that is that I generally don't want my applications to update themselves without my consent. Maybe I like to wait until the bugs are worked out of a new version, or maybe I just like what I have because it works and I'm used to it. Either way, software as a service is simply placing too much control over the way I work and do business in the hands of a third party. Whether you call it "software as a service" or "the network is the computer" or any of the other slogans tossed out there over the years, the reality is that software vendors a. want individuals and businesses to cough up a neverending flow of juice ("own" your software? Hah!) and b. want absolute control over when and how we use said applications, and c. see this as the perfect method to eliminate software "piracy" once and for all. In that, they aren't very different from the big media companies, who are pushing for the same sort of world. In fact, this is worse because if your data is kept on some remote server by your "software provider" your hostage-taking scenario is a real possibility. Particularly if sleazy outfits like SBC or any of the cell phone providers get involved, and they will. And that's not counting Microsoft, whose impact in this market will be huge and will, as always, cause problems for consumers.
Yes, particularly when you don't disable unnecessary software disservices from the disservices panel of Administrative Tools. Of course, what you're really talking about is Software As a Disservice ... S.A.D.
Or maybe I'm just wrong ... and they aren't that good.