My first thought after reading "in favor of a regimen of close, constant surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine" was 1993's Demolition Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/).
Too much of what I see with people talking about VoIP is a focus only on the phone at your house being a VoIP phone. That's not where VoIP is going to have it's biggest impact, at least not in the short term. In the short term, VoIP is going to have it's impact at the major telephone companies, who are currently overlaying two networks (one voice and one data) to provide you with both phone and internet services. They're interested in VoIP because: the more voice traffic they can move into their data network, the less equipment they have to maintain and the fewer employees they'll need to maintain it. So:
1. Add VoIP to network
2. Eliminate equipment and jobs
3....
4. Profit!
That "last mile" may or may not get converted to pure data, but either way, the telcos will save just by having the single data network at the core.
While reading the article, I suddenly become hyper-aware about how I was reading the article.:-)
Don't let the Microsoft name scare you off - the article makes for a fascinating look (pun intended) into how we read. I wonder, though, if these findings are duplicated with written Oriental languages.
Anyone else ever notice how this group and other groups promoting anarchy of one form or another seem to always align themselves with the Democrats and against Republicans? It's not, as some might try to portray it, a matter of whoever is in power. It always seems to boil down to: anarchy loves the Democrats.
Just curious as to why that might be...
What does "no more IE" solve? It will simply move the problem into those other browsers. It's all about "what can make the biggest impact?"
Sure, I could write a virus for a Commodore 64, but their use nowadays is so insignificant, what would be the point?
The virus writers are always going to write viruses targeting the most clueless that can have the biggest impact. Today that means your typical at-home user running Microsoft products. If you could pull a switch today and Unix with Mozilla had a 90% market share, the virus writers would target Unix with Mozilla.
Dunno, sounded like this was saying:
Global warming causes ice to melt causing more water which is going to get rid of more of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
Sounds like a problem that begat it's own solution to me.
Anyone have any idea how much snail mail is "spam"? Looking at my mailbox, I'd be willing to believe the 40% for e-mail spam in comparison is low.
We worry about bandwidth and lost productivity when it comes to E-mail spam. Why don't we worry as much about the post office system and how much time and money gets wasted every day mailing me this unwanted stuff? Is E-mail spam costing us more than snail mail spam?
I'm curious - just how practical is this going to be in terms of the power required? Is this going to be one of those things that takes so much power consumption to work on a large scale that it's impractical?
Want them cheap? Let the GOVERNMENT handle SSL certs! After all, they're already handling drivers licenses, social security numbers, and ten kazillion other things that are supposed to prove that you are you, why not just give you a cert, too? For a small government fee, of course.
For those of you just saying, Hey, just change the name of the site, you're missing the point.
It wasn't that they asked him to change the site.
It was HOW he was asked - under threat of litigation. Why couldn't someone E-mail him and just say, hey, this is a great site but please don't use our trademark? Or even say, hey, this has been a real help, but lets even just talk about your use of the trademark.
And then to say, don't even use the term Pee-See-Eye (don't want to infringe!). That would be like you having an informative site about Linux, BSD, or Microsoft but not being able to use the names. For one, how does anyone search for your site? They can't search using "PCI" because *they won't find your site any more!*
You tend to get what you paid for. In particular, I've been with companies that have outsourced work to Wipro, and that experience was not a good one. Obviously, mine is just one experience, and their success to-date must mean that they're doing at least something right. Still, I have found that, if you're working in the US at least, you can find the right people here at home without the logistical nightmares of working with companies 12 time zones away.
who listened to this and decided, hmmm.
To make mode to Speak and Spell as described here,
1. Follow complicated instructions from Web site.
or
2. Drop Speak and Spell into water while on.
And was it just me, or did most of these sounds seem like what happens when your audio card conflicts with some other interrupt on your PC?
I was getting the same impression. It seemed like a lot of, "uh, yeah, we think it'll be this good, and we think we'll have it supported" that sounded like S3's problems discussed at the *beginning* of the article.
That said, it would be nice to have another competitor solidly in the market.
20 years isn't necessarily ALWAYS the sentence received - it's simply a maximum. If you're a prosecutor, don't you want to have something more serious than 6 months to 2 years to throw at someone for what *can possibly be* a major cyber crime, and not just a script kiddie having fun changing index.html?
No, it's not that bandwidth is capped by law, it's capped because of the design of the US phone network. You can only get 56K because that's how much bandwidth is allocated for any individual call as it goes digitally through the phone network. DSL uses overlay networks to get you more bandwidth, and ISDN uses multiple 56K lines to make it work.
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My first thought after reading "in favor of a regimen of close, constant surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine" was 1993's Demolition Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/).
With a little duct tape, you turn it into a HUGE stir-fry. I'd suggest using vegetable oil instead of motor oil, though.
Too much of what I see with people talking about VoIP is a focus only on the phone at your house being a VoIP phone. That's not where VoIP is going to have it's biggest impact, at least not in the short term. In the short term, VoIP is going to have it's impact at the major telephone companies, who are currently overlaying two networks (one voice and one data) to provide you with both phone and internet services. They're interested in VoIP because: the more voice traffic they can move into their data network, the less equipment they have to maintain and the fewer employees they'll need to maintain it. So: 1. Add VoIP to network 2. Eliminate equipment and jobs 3. ...
4. Profit!
That "last mile" may or may not get converted to pure data, but either way, the telcos will save just by having the single data network at the core.
While reading the article, I suddenly become hyper-aware about how I was reading the article. :-)
Don't let the Microsoft name scare you off - the article makes for a fascinating look (pun intended) into how we read. I wonder, though, if these findings are duplicated with written Oriental languages.
Anyone else ever notice how this group and other groups promoting anarchy of one form or another seem to always align themselves with the Democrats and against Republicans? It's not, as some might try to portray it, a matter of whoever is in power. It always seems to boil down to: anarchy loves the Democrats. Just curious as to why that might be...
"Is he drinking coffee or is he getting off looking at child porn?" The answer, of course, is: Yes.
See it here.
What does "no more IE" solve? It will simply move the problem into those other browsers. It's all about "what can make the biggest impact?" Sure, I could write a virus for a Commodore 64, but their use nowadays is so insignificant, what would be the point? The virus writers are always going to write viruses targeting the most clueless that can have the biggest impact. Today that means your typical at-home user running Microsoft products. If you could pull a switch today and Unix with Mozilla had a 90% market share, the virus writers would target Unix with Mozilla.
Not "mail": read it again, it says "mall"
Dunno, sounded like this was saying: Global warming causes ice to melt causing more water which is going to get rid of more of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Sounds like a problem that begat it's own solution to me.
Should we send congratulations to Al Gore, too? He did invent the Internet, after all.
Anyone have any idea how much snail mail is "spam"? Looking at my mailbox, I'd be willing to believe the 40% for e-mail spam in comparison is low. We worry about bandwidth and lost productivity when it comes to E-mail spam. Why don't we worry as much about the post office system and how much time and money gets wasted every day mailing me this unwanted stuff? Is E-mail spam costing us more than snail mail spam?
I'm curious - just how practical is this going to be in terms of the power required? Is this going to be one of those things that takes so much power consumption to work on a large scale that it's impractical?
Now all the newbies can send their comments on that "new regulation" where they're going to tax all E-mails sent over the Internet, right?
The funniest part? The hundreds of /. trolls out there who couldn't post "First post!"
Want them cheap? Let the GOVERNMENT handle SSL certs! After all, they're already handling drivers licenses, social security numbers, and ten kazillion other things that are supposed to prove that you are you, why not just give you a cert, too? For a small government fee, of course.
Sounds terrific, but where's my reason to get version 1 when they have multiple versions planned? Why be an early adopter and then have it obsoleted?
For those of you just saying, Hey, just change the name of the site, you're missing the point. It wasn't that they asked him to change the site. It was HOW he was asked - under threat of litigation. Why couldn't someone E-mail him and just say, hey, this is a great site but please don't use our trademark? Or even say, hey, this has been a real help, but lets even just talk about your use of the trademark. And then to say, don't even use the term Pee-See-Eye (don't want to infringe!). That would be like you having an informative site about Linux, BSD, or Microsoft but not being able to use the names. For one, how does anyone search for your site? They can't search using "PCI" because *they won't find your site any more!*
You tend to get what you paid for. In particular, I've been with companies that have outsourced work to Wipro, and that experience was not a good one. Obviously, mine is just one experience, and their success to-date must mean that they're doing at least something right. Still, I have found that, if you're working in the US at least, you can find the right people here at home without the logistical nightmares of working with companies 12 time zones away.
Is the software open-source? Then we could all write apps to drill into other various body parts. Sounds like fun!
who listened to this and decided, hmmm. To make mode to Speak and Spell as described here, 1. Follow complicated instructions from Web site. or 2. Drop Speak and Spell into water while on. And was it just me, or did most of these sounds seem like what happens when your audio card conflicts with some other interrupt on your PC?
The worst vulnerability of all: the users themselves.
I was getting the same impression. It seemed like a lot of, "uh, yeah, we think it'll be this good, and we think we'll have it supported" that sounded like S3's problems discussed at the *beginning* of the article. That said, it would be nice to have another competitor solidly in the market.
20 years isn't necessarily ALWAYS the sentence received - it's simply a maximum. If you're a prosecutor, don't you want to have something more serious than 6 months to 2 years to throw at someone for what *can possibly be* a major cyber crime, and not just a script kiddie having fun changing index.html?
No, it's not that bandwidth is capped by law, it's capped because of the design of the US phone network. You can only get 56K because that's how much bandwidth is allocated for any individual call as it goes digitally through the phone network. DSL uses overlay networks to get you more bandwidth, and ISDN uses multiple 56K lines to make it work.