seems to be a perfect example of a useless comment.
Pretty much unreadable, distracting, unmaintainable, tells you nothing that the prototype doesn't tell you, and neglects to mention anything that might be useful, such as assumptions about the buffer's state prior to calling...
I think you'll find he mis-remembered "taking coal to Newcastle" - Newcastle used to be a large source of coal in the UK, and hence transporting coal to there from somewhere else was a questionable business practice.
>> If a company goes out of businesses because it isn't competitive, too bad.
The point being made is that MS ilegally used their monopoly in the OS market to gain an unfair advantage in other arenas; It has nothing to do with wether or not their rivals are actually competative, since they don't even get a chance to compete in the first place.
I don't like Real or Quicktime and I hope someone else comes up with something popular - and I don't want MS gaining a monopoly on the server side because there are no client side alternatives.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing; it will give great visibility to the perils of software patents - when all the descision makers have to switch to the patched version of IE and then find that they have to click a dialog box whenever they visit pages that used to load without prompting, they're bound to ask more technically minded people what's going on - and eventually that will come down to "software patents". Hopefully they'll think a bit more carefully in the future.
The other advantage being, presumably, a boost in the popularity of alternative browsers.
>>For 3 Euros more that means that you get all the coolness of having 2 phone lines instead of one.
Agreed, however you have the hassel of having the extra ISDN boxes (which I understand you'd have to install yourself, which might be an issue, and which certainly take up a fair amount of space), and speaking for myself, I don't use the one phone line I have, never mind two.
Might be different for a german national (? - with friends/family etc. also with landlines), but if Steve is anything like me, he'll be using email for most contact with friends and family, and won't use the phone much at all (unless it's to order pizza) - a mobile phone would probably be more useful, though more expensive, obviously.
>> However, it is a bit of pain to get the parts (three separate boxes)
sounds like you got ISDN too (?). It took me a long time to convince them that I didn't really need T-ISDN in order to get T-DSL; It seems as though a lot of their sales staff don't understand this either, and may not believe you for a while - keep at it - you really don't want ISDN:)
That 55euro tarrif rings a bell r.e. ISDN too; I'm reasonably sure I pay around 49euro, and I don't have ISDN (or the 3 extra boxes you see in most houses - my DSL plugs in the phone socket, as you'd expect).
Note that you buy DSL from your telco, and then an account (which needs to be a DSL account if you want DSL) from your ISP; this is different to the UK, no idea how it compares to USA.
They have a confusing list of available taffifs - you can easily end up paying per minute if you're not careful; flat rate is almost certainly the best option, IMO, unless you have very low useage.
I also think the service is very reliable, and have been happy with them so far (I'm a brit, been here about 7 months now).
Either T-Online or T-DSL drop the line every 24 hours as well, if this is a problem you'll need to check other suppliers.
T-Online is anoying in that it won't let you use a "From" address other than your t-online one (it will replace whatever you put with a long string of numbers at t-online.de; I presume these numbers are my account number or something) - it doesn't strip "reply to", but it's damn anoying. Might be worth checking out other ISPs if this would anoy you too, unless someone here knows a way around this.
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seems to be a perfect example of a useless comment. Pretty much unreadable, distracting, unmaintainable, tells you nothing that the prototype doesn't tell you, and neglects to mention anything that might be useful, such as assumptions about the buffer's state prior to calling...
See "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, explores the human part of your post.
The original poster said "us", seems to me that large corporations are very much "them" these days.
I think you'll find he mis-remembered "taking coal to Newcastle" - Newcastle used to be a large source of coal in the UK, and hence transporting coal to there from somewhere else was a questionable business practice.
maybe the girls do - afterall we get to see enough of them...
oops, should be carriage return between "too bad." and "The point"...
>> If a company goes out of businesses because it isn't competitive, too bad. The point being made is that MS ilegally used their monopoly in the OS market to gain an unfair advantage in other arenas; It has nothing to do with wether or not their rivals are actually competative, since they don't even get a chance to compete in the first place. I don't like Real or Quicktime and I hope someone else comes up with something popular - and I don't want MS gaining a monopoly on the server side because there are no client side alternatives.
Connie Willis - try reading "To Say Nothing of the Dog", great fun
I think it was Samual Johnson who said "Time you enojoy wasting wasn't wasted"...
This isn't necessarily a bad thing; it will give great visibility to the perils of software patents - when all the descision makers have to switch to the patched version of IE and then find that they have to click a dialog box whenever they visit pages that used to load without prompting, they're bound to ask more technically minded people what's going on - and eventually that will come down to "software patents". Hopefully they'll think a bit more carefully in the future. The other advantage being, presumably, a boost in the popularity of alternative browsers.
>>For 3 Euros more that means that you get all the coolness of having 2 phone lines instead of one.
Agreed, however you have the hassel of having the extra ISDN boxes (which I understand you'd have to install yourself, which might be an issue, and which certainly take up a fair amount of space), and speaking for myself, I don't use the one phone line I have, never mind two.
Might be different for a german national (? - with friends/family etc. also with landlines), but if Steve is anything like me, he'll be using email for most contact with friends and family, and won't use the phone much at all (unless it's to order pizza) - a mobile phone would probably be more useful, though more expensive, obviously.
>> However, it is a bit of pain to get the parts (three separate boxes)
:)
sounds like you got ISDN too (?). It took me a long time to convince them that I didn't really need T-ISDN in order to get T-DSL; It seems as though a lot of their sales staff don't understand this either, and may not believe you for a while - keep at it - you really don't want ISDN
That 55euro tarrif rings a bell r.e. ISDN too; I'm reasonably sure I pay around 49euro, and I don't have ISDN (or the 3 extra boxes you see in most houses - my DSL plugs in the phone socket, as you'd expect).
Note that you buy DSL from your telco, and then an account (which needs to be a DSL account if you want DSL) from your ISP; this is different to the UK, no idea how it compares to USA.
They have a confusing list of available taffifs - you can easily end up paying per minute if you're not careful; flat rate is almost certainly the best option, IMO, unless you have very low useage.
I also think the service is very reliable, and have been happy with them so far (I'm a brit, been here about 7 months now).
Either T-Online or T-DSL drop the line every 24 hours as well, if this is a problem you'll need to check other suppliers.
T-Online is anoying in that it won't let you use a "From" address other than your t-online one (it will replace whatever you put with a long string of numbers at t-online.de; I presume these numbers are my account number or something) - it doesn't strip "reply to", but it's damn anoying. Might be worth checking out other ISPs if this would anoy you too, unless someone here knows a way around this.