That's the kinda of terrorist that gives government folks real nightmares. There is no way to stop that kinda of individual.
Which kind of makes the HR guy for the companies that maintain these links kinda important. You don't want some guy recruiting H1B fiber techs from Pakistan for this gig.
If the above list reflects how badly they treat they customers, before you get upset at the people working there you should probably consider that AT&T is not treating its workers well.
Is it true they just up and fired all the directory assistance people? And the operators who help connect your calls? And the lady that reads the time? I read that somewhere. The bastards!
Well at least they're not a national price fixing market abusing company like that old monopoly we used to have that was broken up into "baby bells". I wish I could remember the name of that monster. You definitely didn't want to do business with them, but you had no choice.
Ordinarily Joe the Copper Thief would make two cuts in his desired scrap material and take the length in between. If he climbs down a hole and cuts one, finding nothing of value to take and abandoning his plan, he's not going to go over a few blocks and repeat that process an hour later. It's too easy to wander around looking for a car with an iPod Touch or similarly negotiable object in plain view.
Somewhere there are lawyers sitting around a bottle of scotch thinking up ways to use words for the exact opposite of what they mean. They are the Drunken Idiot Attorney Forum (DIAF) working group. Clearly this license is a draft version of their proposal for an international Patented Open Software (POS) standard to be pushed through the ISO fast track process next year despite the determined opposition of just about everybody involved.
Fortunately for all of us this endeavor violates at least three Microsoft business process patents.
Oh, come on! The guy that's always claiming this is a population density problem hasn't replied yet. I always like making fun of him. Where are you, Mr. Density guy?
How many terabytes to these "tapes" hold? The Wikipedia article must be really old, because they're talking about storage of 80GB. That's like not even two high def movies. If I can get 60 TB on a tape that would be sweet. I don't think it would be practical at less than 1TB. After all, does it matter how long the data stays on the tape if it won't fit in the first place?
HP launched their new Z series workstation line (Nehalem) a week ago. Almost all of them are pre-downgraded to XP. It will be interesting to watch all the "We're a MS shop", "Linux has no support" people buy an unsupported OS.
Really, what would happen if some innocent person posted some question that was offensive to the powers that be here on slashdot? Would it attract the moderation of astroturf accounts? Would nobody find it interesting or insightful? Or would it disappear into the -1 zone where nobody would read it? If it was funny, would people moderate it interesting instead because funny gives no karma against the detractors who subtract? We shall see.
The best thing you can do to promote your ideals is outlive the opponents of them. The next best thing is to die well. Either way it goes, good luck to you.
We have build an elaborate system of punishments and rewards to heard ourselves though life like cattle.
I wrote:
"An it harm none do what you will" shall be the whole of the law.
The words aren't mine and they're not new as the obsolete use of "an" for "if" would lead one to infer. The idea itself tracks back at least to BCE Greece. Aleister Crowley in his work left out the "An it harm none" part, because that's the way he was. He had his fans, but I disagree with his omission. Despite AC's assertion, the idea has been tried many times as public policy and succeeded for far longer than the experimental federal republic that I live in. Generally speaking the failures have been from failure to provide for the common defense. As a point of philosophy one might assert that a decision to neglect the common defense in the context of "do what you will" is a decision to submit to a foreign aggressor and so abandon the system for another - which doesn't invalidate the system.
Nevertheless, the AC is socially right and personally wrong. The common man is a crowd distracted by fireworks and glitter and he needs the comfort of a shepherd and myriad inconsistent rules to make him uncertain of the correct course and so submit readily to charismatic leadership. He prefers forceful misdirection so he can go wrong with confidence. For individual free thinking Men, there are only three rules. That quote is one. Another is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The third is "Survive." I've put them in reverse order of precedence.
Lifting up the average man to self awareness, personal responsibility and healthy skepticism is an Herculean task. As for me, you're welcome to it.
He's still Chairman of the Board. The rest of the board is probably people who agreed to rubber stamp whatever he wants. He still draws a salary, benefits and options. He still gets royalties on the myriad patents and copyrights he's glommed onto over the decades, including BASIC (grandfathered into Visual Studio no doubt). He still sets policy. He stars in their advertising. How retired is he, exactly?
I have seen it. Don't install Adobe's flash if you can avoid it. It bites. I did get it right this weekend for grandma on Ubuntu by installing the Ubuntu restricted extras, which includes flash and a bunch of other stuff. If you want to play the encrypted DVDs you'll need the decss package as well. Google around and you'll find it. YMMV. Offer void in some locales.
Won't you please support Ogg, theora, flv, FLAC, quicktime and h.264? Please? Pretty please? I thought not. I didn't want it from you anyway. You have cooties.
And really, quit anthropomorphizing proprietary communication protocols. They're not people. You can't ask them for stuff. And stop being surprised that Microsoft's online video format supports WMV: "Windows Media Video".
Slashdot Mirror
But for Windows, Gordian Knot (or for beginners, AutoGK) might have what you need. Or so I heard.
And if you get a zero loss link you can still snap it and try again 'till you get enough leakage for your vampire tap.
That's the kinda of terrorist that gives government folks real nightmares. There is no way to stop that kinda of individual.
Which kind of makes the HR guy for the companies that maintain these links kinda important. You don't want some guy recruiting H1B fiber techs from Pakistan for this gig.
The internet routes around damage.
Unless of course it's carefully damaged by someone who knows those routes and you can't get there from here.
Oops.
If the above list reflects how badly they treat they customers, before you get upset at the people working there you should probably consider that AT&T is not treating its workers well.
Is it true they just up and fired all the directory assistance people? And the operators who help connect your calls? And the lady that reads the time? I read that somewhere. The bastards!
Well at least they're not a national price fixing market abusing company like that old monopoly we used to have that was broken up into "baby bells". I wish I could remember the name of that monster. You definitely didn't want to do business with them, but you had no choice.
Ordinarily Joe the Copper Thief would make two cuts in his desired scrap material and take the length in between. If he climbs down a hole and cuts one, finding nothing of value to take and abandoning his plan, he's not going to go over a few blocks and repeat that process an hour later. It's too easy to wander around looking for a car with an iPod Touch or similarly negotiable object in plain view.
Somewhere there are lawyers sitting around a bottle of scotch thinking up ways to use words for the exact opposite of what they mean. They are the Drunken Idiot Attorney Forum (DIAF) working group. Clearly this license is a draft version of their proposal for an international Patented Open Software (POS) standard to be pushed through the ISO fast track process next year despite the determined opposition of just about everybody involved.
Fortunately for all of us this endeavor violates at least three Microsoft business process patents.
Oh, come on! The guy that's always claiming this is a population density problem hasn't replied yet. I always like making fun of him. Where are you, Mr. Density guy?
Many new servers (and desktops!) come with internal USB for this, ESXi, and other reasons. Even blade servers.
How many terabytes to these "tapes" hold? The Wikipedia article must be really old, because they're talking about storage of 80GB. That's like not even two high def movies. If I can get 60 TB on a tape that would be sweet. I don't think it would be practical at less than 1TB. After all, does it matter how long the data stays on the tape if it won't fit in the first place?
HP has this technology in a Mezzanine adapter for blades. It's called "IO Accelerator".
HP launched their new Z series workstation line (Nehalem) a week ago. Almost all of them are pre-downgraded to XP. It will be interesting to watch all the "We're a MS shop", "Linux has no support" people buy an unsupported OS.
Really, what would happen if some innocent person posted some question that was offensive to the powers that be here on slashdot? Would it attract the moderation of astroturf accounts? Would nobody find it interesting or insightful? Or would it disappear into the -1 zone where nobody would read it? If it was funny, would people moderate it interesting instead because funny gives no karma against the detractors who subtract? We shall see.
The best thing you can do to promote your ideals is outlive the opponents of them. The next best thing is to die well. Either way it goes, good luck to you.
Damn! I meant that to be AC. Oh Well.
We could never give Microsoft enough money? Do you have an answer for us? And don't say ghost seats. Our CIO is wise to that one now.
Forget::Repeat
We have build an elaborate system of punishments and rewards to heard ourselves though life like cattle.
I wrote:
"An it harm none do what you will" shall be the whole of the law.
The words aren't mine and they're not new as the obsolete use of "an" for "if" would lead one to infer. The idea itself tracks back at least to BCE Greece. Aleister Crowley in his work left out the "An it harm none" part, because that's the way he was. He had his fans, but I disagree with his omission. Despite AC's assertion, the idea has been tried many times as public policy and succeeded for far longer than the experimental federal republic that I live in. Generally speaking the failures have been from failure to provide for the common defense. As a point of philosophy one might assert that a decision to neglect the common defense in the context of "do what you will" is a decision to submit to a foreign aggressor and so abandon the system for another - which doesn't invalidate the system.
Nevertheless, the AC is socially right and personally wrong. The common man is a crowd distracted by fireworks and glitter and he needs the comfort of a shepherd and myriad inconsistent rules to make him uncertain of the correct course and so submit readily to charismatic leadership. He prefers forceful misdirection so he can go wrong with confidence. For individual free thinking Men, there are only three rules. That quote is one. Another is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The third is "Survive." I've put them in reverse order of precedence.
Lifting up the average man to self awareness, personal responsibility and healthy skepticism is an Herculean task. As for me, you're welcome to it.
And Bill G is no longer at Microsoft.
He's still Chairman of the Board. The rest of the board is probably people who agreed to rubber stamp whatever he wants. He still draws a salary, benefits and options. He still gets royalties on the myriad patents and copyrights he's glommed onto over the decades, including BASIC (grandfathered into Visual Studio no doubt). He still sets policy. He stars in their advertising. How retired is he, exactly?
I have seen it. Don't install Adobe's flash if you can avoid it. It bites. I did get it right this weekend for grandma on Ubuntu by installing the Ubuntu restricted extras, which includes flash and a bunch of other stuff. If you want to play the encrypted DVDs you'll need the decss package as well. Google around and you'll find it. YMMV. Offer void in some locales.
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Java will live on. Perhaps when SCO gets their Arab white knight they'll buy it in the estate sale.
Additionally, you make WMV sound like it is the old closed WMV of 10 years ago.
Was there ever a more fertile field to plant patent landmines in than video codecs? I think not. No thanks.
Won't you please support Ogg, theora, flv, FLAC, quicktime and h.264? Please? Pretty please? I thought not. I didn't want it from you anyway. You have cooties.
And really, quit anthropomorphizing proprietary communication protocols. They're not people. You can't ask them for stuff. And stop being surprised that Microsoft's online video format supports WMV: "Windows Media Video".
They were counting on the massive market share of Vista to put it over.
Oops.