I can't stand MSFT products, I see them as cheap rip offs of other peoples ideas for most of their products.
That being said it takes a lot of really smart people to keep windows from cracking all together. The people who keep windows running have to be smart, in order to do some of the hacks and workaround that they do. Those guys could build a kick arse OS if they were allowed to by management and marketing.
net neutrality isn't about an ISP blocking a spam bot, it's about ISP double billing their customers, and then taxing certian traffic at higher rates.
Google has to pay an ISP for service. now that ISP wants to not only charge google for data coming out of there services but also for giving that data premium bandwidth at the cost of something else.
Net neutrality is to prevent the AOL'ing of the Internet. the ISP's want to nickel and dime you to death to increase their revenue. Just like how when AOL, Prodigy and compuserv first came online you couldn't send email between them, unless you were a premium suscriber if at all. Now ISP's want to do that to IM's emails, videos, file transfers. If you want music from itunes but your ISP only supports Zune-live then your screwed and have to pay more per megabyte for a slower transfer.
That way only the rich companies could afford the bandwidth and premium charges to make them popular. Companies like Youtube wouldn't be able to even get started under such a situation.
new Mercedes have a short range radar built into the cruise control. So if you come up behind a car moving slower than yourself it taps the brakes to slow you down to the speed of a car in front of you. it's not perfect if the vechicle is moving to slow or not moving you will sill hit it, but it does work say comingup on someone doing 50 while your doing 70.
In the 1970's Mercedes where one of the first companies shipping air bags standard. now they are shipping smarter cruise controls.
I do the same thing with my powerbook. you put it to sleep and forget. i don't even bother with shutting it down. most of the time I just put it to sleep and travel that way.
Sleep mode. 10 seconds to wake up and connect to a network, and that's stumbling through which network to connect to part. Your dell is probably similar.
I spend more time typing in my password to unlock the system than actually waiting for the machine to be available.
what is it with all these death penalty cases the rest of the world thinks. over 3/4 of the states while having the death penalty have used it less than 8 times in 30 years. . NY hasn't executed anyone since 1976. heck the US government has only executed 3 people for crimes.
The fact is it takes decades to use the death penalty. You sit on death row for 10-20 years before the judicial process is complete. it's just not worth it in most cases.
So the Chinese head towards a european socialist route they still beat us.
Capitalism only works well when the competition is strong. you start creating monopolies even short term ones, and competition dries up. Patents, copyrights are federal backed monopolies for a set term.
The Military does. Business vechiles that are subjected to regular maintenance (like police cars, school buses) get several hundred thousand miles out of each one.
The average owner(myself included) doesn't take care of their vehicles to that extant.
Artists can't dump their labels. Once you sign a contract with a label your pretty signed your life to that label for life. There isn't much you can do to get out of working for them.
A label can dumb an artist. However how many bands do you know have switched labels?
none that I know of maybe someone else knows where to look.
The only thing left to do is to make DRM look bad. Which isn't that hard. heck just look at all the problems they are having trying to get HDCP to work properly.
think about it this way. They have invented the water cooler adaptor for humans. This little device pulls heat out of the blood. That colder blood circulates through out your body cooling you off.
My concern would be celluar damage at the point in which the cold blood enters the body. Cold being relative here. as you only want to lower the body temperature by a couple of degrees.
FTP is the telenet of file transfer protocols. it transmitts passwords as clear text. HTTP isn't designed as large file transfer protocol, it works great on numerous small files, but you can always get a better connection with ftp, or sftp.
Check out plan9. It was created by the same guys who built the orginial Unix to address some of the complaints they had with it.
What I like about plan 9 is that it would work with everything. You could install it on a tv to act just as a remote or local display. it doesn't care.
with plan 9 the network is just another conduit for passing back data. it doesn't matter what physical resource you are using or where on the network it is located. To the OS it is all the same.
I think it would be far simpler to first build new protocols, to replace things like smtp, and pop first. kill off FTP to replace it completely with SFTP.
Once that part is done moving to better hardware will be easier.
i will get out of using sonar, the day someone comes up with something better.
It is the only thing we have for deep water wireless comms, and sensors radio waves don't propagate well. Lasers also don't work very well. Sonar is the best we have. It has been refined so it is not nearly as bad as it was. The Navy has been experimenting with higher power levels to increase resolution. That's where the animal suffering comes in.
Earn your billion dollars and find another way. I personally like microwaves. that way the fish get cooked while we kill them. [/sarcasm]
As the other poster pointed out GPS trackers gather GPS data the send it to a remote location(ie cell tower) where the processing is done , the finished data is then sent to your cell phone company. That is how onstar works, and most GPS cell phones. That way the phone doesn't need the processor to do the math for it.
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i know guys who can work wonders through all that stuff.
proper old work electricians can move through all sorts of crap. I know because i work with those guys every day.
without Aero what's the point of Vista?
Besides compiz/beryl and OSX can do everything aero can with a 64meg video card, half the ram(only 512), and much less processor.
Why?
that's okay neither is Vista, or XP.
win2k was really close though.
I can't stand MSFT products, I see them as cheap rip offs of other peoples ideas for most of their products.
That being said it takes a lot of really smart people to keep windows from cracking all together. The people who keep windows running have to be smart, in order to do some of the hacks and workaround that they do. Those guys could build a kick arse OS if they were allowed to by management and marketing.
net neutrality isn't about an ISP blocking a spam bot, it's about ISP double billing their customers, and then taxing certian traffic at higher rates.
Google has to pay an ISP for service. now that ISP wants to not only charge google for data coming out of there services but also for giving that data premium bandwidth at the cost of something else.
Net neutrality is to prevent the AOL'ing of the Internet. the ISP's want to nickel and dime you to death to increase their revenue. Just like how when AOL, Prodigy and compuserv first came online you couldn't send email between them, unless you were a premium suscriber if at all. Now ISP's want to do that to IM's emails, videos, file transfers. If you want music from itunes but your ISP only supports Zune-live then your screwed and have to pay more per megabyte for a slower transfer.
That way only the rich companies could afford the bandwidth and premium charges to make them popular. Companies like Youtube wouldn't be able to even get started under such a situation.
I have horrible visions of a 2000 car flying pile up.
You do realize mercedes and BMW are already testing that tech. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/3043
new Mercedes have a short range radar built into the cruise control. So if you come up behind a car moving slower than yourself it taps the brakes to slow you down to the speed of a car in front of you. it's not perfect if the vechicle is moving to slow or not moving you will sill hit it, but it does work say comingup on someone doing 50 while your doing 70.
In the 1970's Mercedes where one of the first companies shipping air bags standard. now they are shipping smarter cruise controls.
Those sci-fi ideas are slowly becoming reality.
I do the same thing with my powerbook. you put it to sleep and forget. i don't even bother with shutting it down. most of the time I just put it to sleep and travel that way.
Sleep mode. 10 seconds to wake up and connect to a network, and that's stumbling through which network to connect to part. Your dell is probably similar.
I spend more time typing in my password to unlock the system than actually waiting for the machine to be available.
what is it with all these death penalty cases the rest of the world thinks. over 3/4 of the states while having the death penalty have used it less than 8 times in 30 years. . NY hasn't executed anyone since 1976. heck the US government has only executed 3 people for crimes.
Texas doesn't represent the entire country.
Take a look for your selves http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state/
The fact is it takes decades to use the death penalty. You sit on death row for 10-20 years before the judicial process is complete. it's just not worth it in most cases.
So the Chinese head towards a european socialist route they still beat us.
Capitalism only works well when the competition is strong. you start creating monopolies even short term ones, and competition dries up. Patents, copyrights are federal backed monopolies for a set term.
actually it makes a nice round number. Think of it like y2k for the mayan people. It was far enough into the future to not worry about it.
Oddly enough the Mayans thought farther ahead than Unix programmers. twice. Y2k and the year 2038.
The Military does. Business vechiles that are subjected to regular maintenance (like police cars, school buses) get several hundred thousand miles out of each one.
The average owner(myself included) doesn't take care of their vehicles to that extant.
Artists can't dump their labels. Once you sign a contract with a label your pretty signed your life to that label for life. There isn't much you can do to get out of working for them.
A label can dumb an artist. However how many bands do you know have switched labels?
none that I know of maybe someone else knows where to look.
The only thing left to do is to make DRM look bad. Which isn't that hard. heck just look at all the problems they are having trying to get HDCP to work properly.
It's not called the Blue screen of Death for nothing.
think about it this way. They have invented the water cooler adaptor for humans. This little device pulls heat out of the blood. That colder blood circulates through out your body cooling you off.
My concern would be celluar damage at the point in which the cold blood enters the body. Cold being relative here. as you only want to lower the body temperature by a couple of degrees.
Of the infringing code in question is things that are defined by the POSIX standard and aren't copyrightable.
Other points are JFS and RCU both of which are wholly owned by IBM.
Under SCO's theory if a piece of code is used on a unix system, that becomes the copyrighted property of SCO.
So if you wrote a filesystem (JFS, by IBM) and used it on a Unix system you would no longer own that filesystem.
And people call the GPL viral.
FTP is the telenet of file transfer protocols. it transmitts passwords as clear text. HTTP isn't designed as large file transfer protocol, it works great on numerous small files, but you can always get a better connection with ftp, or sftp.
odd it did rain here today.
though we didn't get the snow they promised.
Check out plan9. It was created by the same guys who built the orginial Unix to address some of the complaints they had with it.
What I like about plan 9 is that it would work with everything. You could install it on a tv to act just as a remote or local display. it doesn't care.
with plan 9 the network is just another conduit for passing back data. it doesn't matter what physical resource you are using or where on the network it is located. To the OS it is all the same.
I think it would be far simpler to first build new protocols, to replace things like smtp, and pop first. kill off FTP to replace it completely with SFTP.
Once that part is done moving to better hardware will be easier.
i will get out of using sonar, the day someone comes up with something better.
It is the only thing we have for deep water wireless comms, and sensors radio waves don't propagate well. Lasers also don't work very well. Sonar is the best we have. It has been refined so it is not nearly as bad as it was. The Navy has been experimenting with higher power levels to increase resolution. That's where the animal suffering comes in.
Earn your billion dollars and find another way. I personally like microwaves. that way the fish get cooked while we kill them. [/sarcasm]
As the other poster pointed out GPS trackers gather GPS data the send it to a remote location(ie cell tower) where the processing is done , the finished data is then sent to your cell phone company. That is how onstar works, and most GPS cell phones. That way the phone doesn't need the processor to do the math for it.
While you can try to pry my powerbook away from me, Apple releases a steady stream of patches as well. Linux is constantly being updated as well.
The advantage to those, if you just need to update say your web browser, or music app, or other random file tool you don't have to reboot.
In MSFT's defense it is a smart move. That way a virus can't modify update.microsoft.com .
The last time i had to set apt-get's update I used the IP address as well.
You worked your way through the situation at hand which means your faith isn't in god, but yourself. Your a lot stronger mentally than most.
I personally consider that a good thing.