:Or just add localhost to a bridge.. why I can't do this is outside my understanding (until someone gives a crafty answer)
It's a simple reason. Bridging is a layer 2 technology, as IP is layer 3. As I expected, a "localhost" on Linux does not have a MAC address (required for layer 2).
They were good for a few reasons: They had a rudimentary form of track selection. Yes, it had to be on the boundary, but it's better than what records had: none. A few rare players could play a special version of 8-track: quadraphonic sound. I knew a retro computer geek who had precisely that player and 3 tapes. Only in recent Dolby Digital times have we resurrected 4 channel sound on "consumer gear".
One very bad downside of 8-tracks are the rubber they used in the rollers. Turns out, after 25 or so years, they melt. I have found that out, sadfully. I'm a youngin (26), but I appreciate what we have created in what ages to get where we are... and there were some good 8-tracks.
If there is a monopoly condition, price approaches infinity according to needs. Talk to any company that did software contracts with MS during the 90's.
IIRC he found a formula for the amount of energy captured with a metal rod X miles high. I have a book with his documents and lab notes that covers exactly that.
He was also working on elecroluminescence, as he considered Edison's tungsten light a waste in thermal energy.
I guess a big concern is what could happen with remote power: we now know the effects of energy through the body, and are still unsure on some frequencies. However, his aha moment came that he realized that only a miniscule amount of energy was lost on world-transmission of power. Only energy that propagated perpendicular to the ionosphere could escape.
His real, studied works are terribly interesting. Just do a patent search for Tesla. I just ignore the kooks.
For lowbies, no griefing. For mid-level, only allow mid-level griefing in select special treasure locations. Big signposts to let users know. For high level, have the "epic places" griefer-able.
That's exactly it: I know you arent being funny. That was its original intention behind juridical "lawmaking".
Instead, we got what should have been expected: the current crop of politicos embed their judges for their interpretations. Personally, making judgments against the Constitution should be an impeachable offense, but none of the congress wants to touch that one.
It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete with the erasure of the last invidious border when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder and delineate the arrhythmias of drought to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna as rich as a thousand human tongues and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions ancient beyond mythology's reach
So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers no patent can encompass zero and one no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine no empire rules the quantum waves
And there must be room for all at the celebration of understanding for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
I get a chuckle out of these newfangled words like "digital immigrant".
I want around since the beginning, but close enough. I was born in the Commodore 64 age. I cut my teeth on the commie, while I used my dads Purdue account to play with VAX and (dont quite remember) svr2 or 3.
I also saw the first Windows 1.0 and had at one time the floppies. I also remember notching floppies to get dd when it came out. My dad introduced me into pirate bbs'es which we did as we wished.
3 years ago, one of my younger friends who is deeply interested in computers found a working Prime. That thing was sheer beauty when it purred to life. Completely weird OS: I couldnt make heads or tales out of it (no manuals).
I grew up with computers and have been on the net longer than most. I remember the September that never ended.. A sad day for us all.
We have unfair representation when compared to prior representative-"voting citizen" ratio of our countrys past.
One way to fix that would be to have 5000 congressmen. But that would cost too much! That is, if we force them to be in House/Senate. Our technology could easily get each and every congresscritter a t-1 to their house and have net-voting. GPG is the PKI that's free to use, therefore congresscritters could post messages with GPG, and conduct publically accountable voting. Aww, no more voice votes.
Since voting could be done from any congresscritter T-1 (ip checks would not allow GPG signed messages from other IPs), it would also allow collaboration if they choose to meet.
And doing this method would eliminate a "central" point of government. I say that cause Washington DC would be easy to bomb, either by air or sea. It's pretty darn close to the shore. How would you disable a government that meets virtually across the whole USA? We in the tech community would agree that eliminating a SPOF would be a good idea.
Because maintaining connections to networks cost real money in terms of hardware upgrades and intelligent personnel to do that work.
Software: Once it's built, they dont maintain all the bugs (look at IE bug list). MS in particular is very shoddy about bugfixes. And look at 2000, or NT4, or win98.. There's a thing called implied fitness. Did you know you cant disclaim that after the fact (EULA)?
It's pretty simple: whoever owns their IP should be required for maintenance. Note that I do not expect upgrades (adding USB to Win95). I am only commenting on bugfixes and security patches.
I'd also accept releasing source as an option because we cant patch the systems. That really is the argument.
And your point to CP/M and Apple][ : were they intended to be on a network (support out of box TCP/IP stack and some network interfaces)? Only what you bought should be required to be fixed, not new content added on.
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That's why our Congress is bicameral: one for population density based voting, the other for "one state: one vote".
For the first 150 years, it worked rather well.
:Or just add localhost to a bridge.. why I can't do this is outside my understanding (until someone gives a crafty answer)
It's a simple reason. Bridging is a layer 2 technology, as IP is layer 3. As I expected, a "localhost" on Linux does not have a MAC address (required for layer 2).
Dont be dissin the eight tracks.
They were good for a few reasons:
They had a rudimentary form of track selection. Yes, it had to be on the boundary, but it's better than what records had: none.
A few rare players could play a special version of 8-track: quadraphonic sound. I knew a retro computer geek who had precisely that player and 3 tapes. Only in recent Dolby Digital times have we resurrected 4 channel sound on "consumer gear".
One very bad downside of 8-tracks are the rubber they used in the rollers. Turns out, after 25 or so years, they melt. I have found that out, sadfully. I'm a youngin (26), but I appreciate what we have created in what ages to get where we are... and there were some good 8-tracks.
You know what the best "buzz word" is? Dildo.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Not true in all cases.
If there is a monopoly condition, price approaches infinity according to needs. Talk to any company that did software contracts with MS during the 90's.
Whether or not you should commit suicide.
That's the soliloquy of "kill myself or not".
IIRC he found a formula for the amount of energy captured with a metal rod X miles high. I have a book with his documents and lab notes that covers exactly that.
He was also working on elecroluminescence, as he considered Edison's tungsten light a waste in thermal energy.
I guess a big concern is what could happen with remote power: we now know the effects of energy through the body, and are still unsure on some frequencies. However, his aha moment came that he realized that only a miniscule amount of energy was lost on world-transmission of power. Only energy that propagated perpendicular to the ionosphere could escape.
His real, studied works are terribly interesting. Just do a patent search for Tesla. I just ignore the kooks.
In all honesty, accounting for S/N ratio, how much is a slashdot post worth?
Thats what would matter for the failover time of lost data. But really, I'd be interested in how much a post is worth (it is content, albeit small).
His patents were rather cool..
His master idea of remote energy is also awesome. Or better yet, use towers in the stratosphere to collect energy from the giant earth capicator.
Even our space elevator would use energy coming from connecting upper atmosphere to ground.
Too bad there's a lot of flakes out there. It really smears his name.
I'd use iTunes but I cannot. I have a media server with a lot of goodies on it (think 100+gigs music, 1.2TB movies).
iTunes crashes when it tries to parse my server. Each time.
We should stay in their little play-group for one reason only: To listen to them bitch and moan.
The UN has really only 1 good purpose: for countries to express grievances against other countries. Sort of a world embassy.
Greifers rock in the right places.
For lowbies, no griefing.
For mid-level, only allow mid-level griefing in select special treasure locations. Big signposts to let users know.
For high level, have the "epic places" griefer-able.
The key: Want cool items? Deal with greifers.
That's exactly it: I know you arent being funny. That was its original intention behind juridical "lawmaking".
Instead, we got what should have been expected: the current crop of politicos embed their judges for their interpretations. Personally, making judgments against the Constitution should be an impeachable offense, but none of the congress wants to touch that one.
Back and forth would be my guess.
Intent and judicial interpretation are 2 different things.
One has force of law, the other one doesnt. Can you guess which one?
Yo Chad, whats hangin?
But corporations ARE "persons". That's what the law says.
It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete
with the erasure of the last invidious border
when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder
and delineate the arrhythmias of drought
to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna
as rich as a thousand human tongues
and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions
ancient beyond mythology's reach
So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers
no patent can encompass zero and one
no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine
no empire rules the quantum waves
And there must be room for all at the celebration of understanding
for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold
imposed by force, resisted
or escaped.
Greg Egan as Muteba Kazadi
I know a guy that old.
He was the first to set up a punch-card system for what was new to them: computing.
Oh yeah. They're old so they cant figure out a User Interface. meh.
I get a chuckle out of these newfangled words like "digital immigrant".
I want around since the beginning, but close enough. I was born in the Commodore 64 age. I cut my teeth on the commie, while I used my dads Purdue account to play with VAX and (dont quite remember) svr2 or 3.
I also saw the first Windows 1.0 and had at one time the floppies. I also remember notching floppies to get dd when it came out. My dad introduced me into pirate bbs'es which we did as we wished.
3 years ago, one of my younger friends who is deeply interested in computers found a working Prime. That thing was sheer beauty when it purred to life. Completely weird OS: I couldnt make heads or tales out of it (no manuals).
I grew up with computers and have been on the net longer than most. I remember the September that never ended.. A sad day for us all.
That isnt that bad of an idea...
We have unfair representation when compared to prior representative-"voting citizen" ratio of our countrys past.
One way to fix that would be to have 5000 congressmen. But that would cost too much! That is, if we force them to be in House/Senate. Our technology could easily get each and every congresscritter a t-1 to their house and have net-voting. GPG is the PKI that's free to use, therefore congresscritters could post messages with GPG, and conduct publically accountable voting. Aww, no more voice votes.
Since voting could be done from any congresscritter T-1 (ip checks would not allow GPG signed messages from other IPs), it would also allow collaboration if they choose to meet.
And doing this method would eliminate a "central" point of government. I say that cause Washington DC would be easy to bomb, either by air or sea. It's pretty darn close to the shore. How would you disable a government that meets virtually across the whole USA? We in the tech community would agree that eliminating a SPOF would be a good idea.
As I am also prepared for paying 40$ for music from my favorite music group.
I however, pay that price for the imports. As a fact, 2 times, I have paid 40$. Much more than the crap we parade around here.
You DO know that Mal-Wart cd's are censored and 'modified'.
Try if you dont believe me.
Because maintaining connections to networks cost real money in terms of hardware upgrades and intelligent personnel to do that work.
Software: Once it's built, they dont maintain all the bugs (look at IE bug list). MS in particular is very shoddy about bugfixes. And look at 2000, or NT4, or win98.. There's a thing called implied fitness. Did you know you cant disclaim that after the fact (EULA)?
It's pretty simple: whoever owns their IP should be required for maintenance. Note that I do not expect upgrades (adding USB to Win95). I am only commenting on bugfixes and security patches.
I'd also accept releasing source as an option because we cant patch the systems. That really is the argument.
And your point to CP/M and Apple][ : were they intended to be on a network (support out of box TCP/IP stack and some network interfaces)? Only what you bought should be required to be fixed, not new content added on.