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Exactly. Risky, complex, and a waste of infrastructure. Why would you put an entire 18 wheeler on a train track?
Containerized shipping today is so much more efficient. Leave the 18 wheeler at home, load the containers, and ship those across country. We already have risk of train-train collisions... now you want to put 18 wheelers in the mix? Bad idea.
traded in coax for ethernet
You're confusing a physical medium (coax) with a transport protocol (ethernet). Most cable companies are fiber to the neighborhood, and coax to your doorstep.
If I were building a 10 gig-E system, I'd want it to run on fiber. Sorry, I won't trust 10 gig-E to run on twisted pair, coax, or anything less than fiber. It's not worth it.
I'm curious about 10 gig-E.
What's the maximum (practical) utilization going to be? Maybe a couple gig for a full duplex segment with multiple machines? Imagine the collisions! And, if you load the segment up with more machines, imagine the contention! I think it'd be nasty. I'd much rather see a pair of 1/2 duplex segments, one transmit, one receive between 2 boxes. If you want mission critical stuff with maximum bandwidth, that's the way to go. Reliable. More utilization, and no collisions or contention.
I think most university researchers or professors have a tremendous ego problem. I don't see Hawking having that problem which makes him far more likeable. He's almost humble, and has a great sense of humor.
I've never been very tolerant of arrogant professors. They often believe they can't be wrong, and that it's absurd to suggest that there's an alternative to their way of thinking.
I've also seen professors claim others' ideas as their own.
People think they can tell MS how to run their business. It's just not possible. No one will listen.
If MS wants to run their business in a certain way, that is up to them. There are stories about contractors beaten into submission, and then others say it's the greatest place to work, and still others say it's a dog-eat-dog world at MS. There are so many rumors, no one knows what is true and what isn't. Who cares how MS runs their business. You can't change it. They won't listen, they don't have any reason to do so. Why mess with something that works?
Now, complain about their products, complain about their service, complain about the prices, and they'll listen. Quit buying their products, and they'll listen. Hurt them in their pocket book, and they'l listen.
Why does Microsoft publish this propaganda?
It's easy. Press releases are treated as news. In fact, if you asked 100 people, 90% of them would not be able to distinguish a press release from the news. If it comes off of a newswire, it's treated as news. If it's news, it's fact. Microsoft knows how to play the game. They have lobbyists printing this crap and dropping it in every legislators' mailbox each and every day.
If you repeat this mumbo jumbo enough, eventually everyone will repeat it as fact. And since no one at/. can issue press releases to the AP, Reuters, CNN, etc, Joe Citizen will never hear the other side of the story.
Microsoft is the master at playing politics in the news. The free software people should be issuing their own press releases. They should commission their own "studies" by DC think tanks. Then selectively include quotes that make Microsoft look as bad as possible. (It's not hard.)
Lastly, Microsoft does have a point. Microsoft products do promote full employment. It takes a lot of people to support MS products. We had 2 people that supported several hundred Linux desktops and a dozen servers over a 3 year period. The same number of Windoze machines required more than 25 headcount, several contractors and vendors with full time people on site, and they were always short-staffed.
There are plenty of people that crave consistent (dull) offerings. They're too scared to risk anything by trying something new.
I see it all the time. They can't live without the familiarity of a Starbucks. They'll find problems with anything else. If you drag these people into a locally-owned shop, they're afraid. I find it quite funny.
Kona is great stuff. I can't afford the pure stuff most of the time, but I found a nice blend.
My all-time favorite coffee is Jamaican Blue Mountain. Wow! I've paid $25 for a 1/2 lb of beans a few times in the past, and it's worth it. That is the stuff that I will not serve for guests, I horde it for me on Sunday mornings.
A local shop near me used to carry a Blue Mountain Blend that was almost as good for $18.95 a pound, but they didn't sell very much and quit bringing it in.
Gevalia isn't that great. It's a coffee-of-the-month club, and 1/2 of the coffees were crap. The rest were average.
Have you ever looked at Starbuck's beans? There's all kinds of rubbish in there. Funny looking beans, beans that are drastically different colors. It's bizarre. I've tried a lot of coffe, and most of the time, I stop into several locally owned shops with their own roasters. I buy beans from them, but occasionally, someone will give me a pound of Starbucks beans, or I'll be at someone's house and they have starbucks' beans, and, after looking at them, I wonder just what they do to get that bag of beans together. I don't know what kind of "blend" they've got going on, but it doesn't seem consistent to me. Maybe they do the "sprayed-on" flavor, and just use the lowest grade beans available?
What the article doesn't tell you is the number of fraud incidents online, or the volume of spam. It does link to the recommendations made by a site, but it doesn't go in depth to explain why those recommendations were made.
This article, typical of a lot of editorial drivel these days, bemoans blacklisting without bringing up relevant facts or any theory for solution.
Macedonia has made a few laws. Good for them. How about arrests and convictions? The article also complains about the small number of users in Macedonia... 90K. And then it complains about the political situation that allow hackers/spammers/con artists in Russia or Israel to go unpunished. Big deal. Maybe the hackers will all end up in Russia, and then the blacklists will shrink?
And as far as numbers go, if the volume of spam is high, or the volume of fraud is high, then the problem is worse in Macedonia than it is in Russia or Israel. But they don't mention any numbers, so we'll never know if that's true.
The bias here is typical. Cry for the little people. Complain, cry, moan. Poor Macedonians. Maybe the Macedonians need to step into the 21st century? Maybe, in addtion to making a new law or two, they need to go the next step?
I love editorials that offer a solution. But this isn't one of them. Anyone can write complaints.
How about writing about ideas for a real solution?
Call Jesse James. He could do a Monster Garage show on this.
They need help. The ice is overwhelming, and they don't know what to do. Frankly, I would put up a building that can be moved inland every year. Put stilts on it that can be raised up.
Someone might need to take the stupid pills away from that judge.
Wait until Joe Schmoe wants to take a single IP address from Joe ISP's class B subnet. Imagine the route staments in the core routers? No more summarization. What a mess!
Maybe it's just the way they do things in New Jersey?
I tell ya... there's nothing better than the $89 20" flat screen Apex TV I picked up for xmas 2 years ago. Fantastic picture, well-thought out remote, top quality product. Just like MS Windows.
I can guarantee that a developer and a customer will have two different definitions of secure. And, the cost will be more than the customer will want to pay.
How many customers can write a scope of work, send it off to a developer, and get a proper quote for a project that includes adequate security? How many customers actually remember to ask for security? Or if they do, do they put enough priority on security?
I bet the answer is very few. I know from past experience that most customers take the cheapest bid. The cheapest bid is usually the one that is skipping something, and the easiest thing to skip is security. If the customer didn't ask for it, is the developer responsible? Is Micro$haft reponsible? Nope. Security is not in their project. They want speed. So, there's always a niche for ActiveX. Microsoft knows they can undercut someone's cost because security isn't an issue.
And everyone complains about Microsoft's future security ideas. Well, what do people really want? Security? Or no security?
You could run a Stirling engine on the exhaust output and start generating electricity, or power some form of locomotion.
500 to 700 degrees is ridiculous. That's more heat output than when running a nitro-powered radio control engine...
When the waste heat is that high, something is seriously wrong. They need to slow the reaction down, keep that temp down, otherwise, you'll never get approval to bring it anywhere.
You'd be better off building a small portable steam engine.
The band had very little to do with it. The label may have approached them and said, "Hey, here's a report that indicates what's going to happen with sales and pirates. We need to slow this down." Obviously, it's not going to stop the determined pirates. But, the demographics indicate that this album is likely to get copied... and copied... and copied.
If you dig out the recording contract, the band might not have had any choice, and they may not have known. The label has probably smuggled in clauses allowing them to "protect their investment" in almost any way possible.
Lastly, how much $$$ does an artist receive from an album sale? $1.00? $.50? These artists make their big money on tour.
You asked the store clerk?
You thought that the people who worked in the store would know what's going on?
I'd suggest that if a music store employee was sophisticated enough to be aware of the Beastie Boys copy-protection, they're worth more than $4.85 an hour in wages and have long since moved on, or are camped out in Mom and Dad's basement, playing PS2 all day long with their friends.
The PDA isn't dead. It's changing. The need for wireless was grossly underestimated.
As for the comments about scanning pill bottles, you're not talking about something that a doctor would do, that's a nurse, or a lab tech. You're talking about jobs for at least 3 different people in a hospital. And those jobs are going to be treated differently. If you think a barcode scanner will help a doctor, you might think again. A doctor rarely will need it. A doctor writes prescriptions, orders tests and x-rays. If they dispense anything, it's with a nurse assisting them. The nurse might need a barcode reader.
PDAs are not a gimmick. For years, meetings were much more convenient with the previous days' take of email and info at hand... saving a lot of time running back and forth without a laptop. Are you trying to tell me that all that convenience was wasted? A PDA/cell phone wouldn't have done me any good.
Sony has hinted that they will attack the PDA market without the high-branded CLIE "we've got every feature you could imagine" attitude. They've hinted that the market for the PDA will be specific features, more focused, lower-priced.
Frankly, wireless would be the feature I'm most interested in. And to all you clods crying "Bluetooth r0xx0rs." Balloney. The last thing I need is another dumb box sitting on or around my home machines. Wireless router/firewall, cable modem, USB 1.1 hub (for an old machine that can't get USB 2), USB2, firewire, KVM switch, and now you want bluetooth? Get a life.
I've found a really good PDA without the one feature I want most... 802.11 wireless, but they stuck a f-ing 1meg video cam on the thing. I have 2 mini-DV cameras that fit in my palm. Why would I want somethign that does 240 x 180 in a PDA? Huh? Who's the brain surgeon here?
As for wireless, I don't care which format, I can handle all 3. I don't want an add on module that sticks out 3 inches. I want something small. I don't need a phone. If I switch phone companies, I'm screwed. I want it separated. I'm sick of the phone companies locking features away, or charging $10 a month for something that should be free.
Speaking of phones, I want to be able to put my own ringtones in the phone. I don't want to have to pay some schmuck in NJ $2.95 to try out Battle Hymn of the Republic on my cell phone.
And, I don't want to pay $10 a month to send 125 text messages with a cellphone keypad. It's f-ing ridiculous. I don't want to pay $600 for a PDA phone either. I really want them separate. I want to be able to tell my cell phone provider to take a hike if they can't provide service. I'd like to be able to take my PDA with me when and if I left my phone carrier.
They don't tell you which distributions, what they "scored", or anything else?
That's just like CNN, NYTimes, and other news "polls". They tell you what they want you to think, and they only show data that supports that hypothesis.
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Exactly. Risky, complex, and a waste of infrastructure. Why would you put an entire 18 wheeler on a train track?
Containerized shipping today is so much more efficient. Leave the 18 wheeler at home, load the containers, and ship those across country. We already have risk of train-train collisions... now you want to put 18 wheelers in the mix? Bad idea.
traded in coax for ethernet You're confusing a physical medium (coax) with a transport protocol (ethernet). Most cable companies are fiber to the neighborhood, and coax to your doorstep.
If I were building a 10 gig-E system, I'd want it to run on fiber. Sorry, I won't trust 10 gig-E to run on twisted pair, coax, or anything less than fiber. It's not worth it.
I'm curious about 10 gig-E.
What's the maximum (practical) utilization going to be? Maybe a couple gig for a full duplex segment with multiple machines? Imagine the collisions! And, if you load the segment up with more machines, imagine the contention! I think it'd be nasty. I'd much rather see a pair of 1/2 duplex segments, one transmit, one receive between 2 boxes. If you want mission critical stuff with maximum bandwidth, that's the way to go. Reliable. More utilization, and no collisions or contention.
5 posts, and they're down. It's almost 8pm central. Don't you people have lives?
I think most university researchers or professors have a tremendous ego problem. I don't see Hawking having that problem which makes him far more likeable. He's almost humble, and has a great sense of humor.
I've never been very tolerant of arrogant professors. They often believe they can't be wrong, and that it's absurd to suggest that there's an alternative to their way of thinking.
I've also seen professors claim others' ideas as their own.
People think they can tell MS how to run their business. It's just not possible. No one will listen.
If MS wants to run their business in a certain way, that is up to them. There are stories about contractors beaten into submission, and then others say it's the greatest place to work, and still others say it's a dog-eat-dog world at MS. There are so many rumors, no one knows what is true and what isn't. Who cares how MS runs their business. You can't change it. They won't listen, they don't have any reason to do so. Why mess with something that works?
Now, complain about their products, complain about their service, complain about the prices, and they'll listen. Quit buying their products, and they'll listen. Hurt them in their pocket book, and they'l listen.
So few people get it.
Why does Microsoft publish this propaganda? It's easy. Press releases are treated as news. In fact, if you asked 100 people, 90% of them would not be able to distinguish a press release from the news. If it comes off of a newswire, it's treated as news. If it's news, it's fact. Microsoft knows how to play the game. They have lobbyists printing this crap and dropping it in every legislators' mailbox each and every day.
/. can issue press releases to the AP, Reuters, CNN, etc, Joe Citizen will never hear the other side of the story.
If you repeat this mumbo jumbo enough, eventually everyone will repeat it as fact. And since no one at
Microsoft is the master at playing politics in the news. The free software people should be issuing their own press releases. They should commission their own "studies" by DC think tanks. Then selectively include quotes that make Microsoft look as bad as possible. (It's not hard.)
Lastly, Microsoft does have a point. Microsoft products do promote full employment. It takes a lot of people to support MS products. We had 2 people that supported several hundred Linux desktops and a dozen servers over a 3 year period. The same number of Windoze machines required more than 25 headcount, several contractors and vendors with full time people on site, and they were always short-staffed.
Quick, patent the idea before Amazon or Microsoft do it.
Fantastic! More distractions for those idiots that drive 11mph on the freeway and yack on their cellphones.
Now they're going to want to check their clothing for these images while they drive.
Perfect!
I still wish I had a little gizmo that would zap the cellphone calls on the freeway around me.
There are plenty of people that crave consistent (dull) offerings. They're too scared to risk anything by trying something new.
I see it all the time. They can't live without the familiarity of a Starbucks. They'll find problems with anything else. If you drag these people into a locally-owned shop, they're afraid. I find it quite funny.
Kona is great stuff. I can't afford the pure stuff most of the time, but I found a nice blend.
My all-time favorite coffee is Jamaican Blue Mountain. Wow! I've paid $25 for a 1/2 lb of beans a few times in the past, and it's worth it. That is the stuff that I will not serve for guests, I horde it for me on Sunday mornings. A local shop near me used to carry a Blue Mountain Blend that was almost as good for $18.95 a pound, but they didn't sell very much and quit bringing it in.
Those numbers are ancient! 1985 to 1988? Let's see some numbers from the late '90s.
Gevalia isn't that great. It's a coffee-of-the-month club, and 1/2 of the coffees were crap. The rest were average.
Have you ever looked at Starbuck's beans? There's all kinds of rubbish in there. Funny looking beans, beans that are drastically different colors. It's bizarre. I've tried a lot of coffe, and most of the time, I stop into several locally owned shops with their own roasters. I buy beans from them, but occasionally, someone will give me a pound of Starbucks beans, or I'll be at someone's house and they have starbucks' beans, and, after looking at them, I wonder just what they do to get that bag of beans together. I don't know what kind of "blend" they've got going on, but it doesn't seem consistent to me. Maybe they do the "sprayed-on" flavor, and just use the lowest grade beans available?
What the article doesn't tell you is the number of fraud incidents online, or the volume of spam. It does link to the recommendations made by a site, but it doesn't go in depth to explain why those recommendations were made.
This article, typical of a lot of editorial drivel these days, bemoans blacklisting without bringing up relevant facts or any theory for solution.
Macedonia has made a few laws. Good for them. How about arrests and convictions? The article also complains about the small number of users in Macedonia... 90K. And then it complains about the political situation that allow hackers/spammers/con artists in Russia or Israel to go unpunished. Big deal. Maybe the hackers will all end up in Russia, and then the blacklists will shrink? And as far as numbers go, if the volume of spam is high, or the volume of fraud is high, then the problem is worse in Macedonia than it is in Russia or Israel. But they don't mention any numbers, so we'll never know if that's true.
The bias here is typical. Cry for the little people. Complain, cry, moan. Poor Macedonians. Maybe the Macedonians need to step into the 21st century? Maybe, in addtion to making a new law or two, they need to go the next step? I love editorials that offer a solution. But this isn't one of them. Anyone can write complaints.
How about writing about ideas for a real solution?
One word....
Freebie
Call Jesse James. He could do a Monster Garage show on this.
They need help. The ice is overwhelming, and they don't know what to do. Frankly, I would put up a building that can be moved inland every year. Put stilts on it that can be raised up.
Someone might need to take the stupid pills away from that judge.
Wait until Joe Schmoe wants to take a single IP address from Joe ISP's class B subnet. Imagine the route staments in the core routers? No more summarization. What a mess!
Maybe it's just the way they do things in New Jersey?
MS Windows and Apex Televisions.
I tell ya... there's nothing better than the $89 20" flat screen Apex TV I picked up for xmas 2 years ago. Fantastic picture, well-thought out remote, top quality product. Just like MS Windows.
I'm kidding.
Define secure.
I can guarantee that a developer and a customer will have two different definitions of secure. And, the cost will be more than the customer will want to pay.
How many customers can write a scope of work, send it off to a developer, and get a proper quote for a project that includes adequate security? How many customers actually remember to ask for security? Or if they do, do they put enough priority on security?
I bet the answer is very few. I know from past experience that most customers take the cheapest bid. The cheapest bid is usually the one that is skipping something, and the easiest thing to skip is security. If the customer didn't ask for it, is the developer responsible? Is Micro$haft reponsible? Nope. Security is not in their project. They want speed. So, there's always a niche for ActiveX. Microsoft knows they can undercut someone's cost because security isn't an issue.
And everyone complains about Microsoft's future security ideas. Well, what do people really want? Security? Or no security?
You could run a Stirling engine on the exhaust output and start generating electricity, or power some form of locomotion.
500 to 700 degrees is ridiculous. That's more heat output than when running a nitro-powered radio control engine...
When the waste heat is that high, something is seriously wrong. They need to slow the reaction down, keep that temp down, otherwise, you'll never get approval to bring it anywhere.
You'd be better off building a small portable steam engine.
The band had very little to do with it. The label may have approached them and said, "Hey, here's a report that indicates what's going to happen with sales and pirates. We need to slow this down."
Obviously, it's not going to stop the determined pirates. But, the demographics indicate that this album is likely to get copied... and copied... and copied.
If you dig out the recording contract, the band might not have had any choice, and they may not have known. The label has probably smuggled in clauses allowing them to "protect their investment" in almost any way possible.
Lastly, how much $$$ does an artist receive from an album sale? $1.00? $.50? These artists make their big money on tour.
You asked the store clerk?
You thought that the people who worked in the store would know what's going on?
I'd suggest that if a music store employee was sophisticated enough to be aware of the Beastie Boys copy-protection, they're worth more than $4.85 an hour in wages and have long since moved on, or are camped out in Mom and Dad's basement, playing PS2 all day long with their friends.
It works great until it gets wet.
The PDA isn't dead. It's changing. The need for wireless was grossly underestimated. As for the comments about scanning pill bottles, you're not talking about something that a doctor would do, that's a nurse, or a lab tech. You're talking about jobs for at least 3 different people in a hospital. And those jobs are going to be treated differently. If you think a barcode scanner will help a doctor, you might think again. A doctor rarely will need it. A doctor writes prescriptions, orders tests and x-rays. If they dispense anything, it's with a nurse assisting them. The nurse might need a barcode reader.
PDAs are not a gimmick. For years, meetings were much more convenient with the previous days' take of email and info at hand... saving a lot of time running back and forth without a laptop. Are you trying to tell me that all that convenience was wasted? A PDA/cell phone wouldn't have done me any good.
Sony has hinted that they will attack the PDA market without the high-branded CLIE "we've got every feature you could imagine" attitude. They've hinted that the market for the PDA will be specific features, more focused, lower-priced.
Frankly, wireless would be the feature I'm most interested in. And to all you clods crying "Bluetooth r0xx0rs." Balloney. The last thing I need is another dumb box sitting on or around my home machines. Wireless router/firewall, cable modem, USB 1.1 hub (for an old machine that can't get USB 2), USB2, firewire, KVM switch, and now you want bluetooth? Get a life.
I've found a really good PDA without the one feature I want most... 802.11 wireless, but they stuck a f-ing 1meg video cam on the thing. I have 2 mini-DV cameras that fit in my palm. Why would I want somethign that does 240 x 180 in a PDA? Huh? Who's the brain surgeon here? As for wireless, I don't care which format, I can handle all 3. I don't want an add on module that sticks out 3 inches. I want something small. I don't need a phone. If I switch phone companies, I'm screwed. I want it separated. I'm sick of the phone companies locking features away, or charging $10 a month for something that should be free.
Speaking of phones, I want to be able to put my own ringtones in the phone. I don't want to have to pay some schmuck in NJ $2.95 to try out Battle Hymn of the Republic on my cell phone.
And, I don't want to pay $10 a month to send 125 text messages with a cellphone keypad. It's f-ing ridiculous. I don't want to pay $600 for a PDA phone either. I really want them separate. I want to be able to tell my cell phone provider to take a hike if they can't provide service. I'd like to be able to take my PDA with me when and if I left my phone carrier.
They don't tell you which distributions, what they "scored", or anything else?
That's just like CNN, NYTimes, and other news "polls". They tell you what they want you to think, and they only show data that supports that hypothesis.
How about social security (tax) and every other tax?