Summary, when 'someone' answers the phone, the Telezapper sends out a tone that makes the telemarketers auto-dialer think it's out of service, and then the telezapper hangs up.
This is all well and good, execpt that my answermachine is pretty smart. It can sense when an extenion picks up the phone, and the the answering machine will stop and hang up it's extension.
So, follow along:
1) Telemarketer auto-dialer dials a number
2) No one is home, so the answering machine picks up.
3) The telezapper, seeing an extension pick up, also picks up, and plays it's little tones.
4) The answering machine, realizing that 'someone' picked up an extension, stops the playback of the outgoing message, and hangs up.
5) The telezapper, having played it's tones, also hangs up.
Now... in that process, when was an ACTUAL caller allowed to leave a voice message?
That's right. Never.
Pretty severe logic flaw, IMHO.
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I'd much rather use an OS from someone/accompany that views themselves as the competition. There's something very pure about that. You do the best you can do, know your own weaknesses, and move to eliminiate them. If the competition is minicking YOU and including YOUR features, that means you're in the lead. You're the top dog.
Coke shouldn't worry about Pepsi. Coke should worry about Coke.
IBM's interest in LINUX is primarily on the S/390 platform, not an INTEL platform. Windows 2k/XP isn't available on the primary platform that IBM is touting LINUX for...
IBM has every bit as much to gain or lose as any other PC/Server manufacturer does in an 386 platform.
I still say it's a bad idea to allow a patent on just an idea without a 'reference implementation. That would stop these people from patenting ideas and just laying in wait until someone implements your patent, and then you can jump on them.
If there's not a working implementation of your idea with 12 months, the patent is invalid.
There's a lot of doom and gloom on this message about the un-stoppability of Microsoft, and I would like to remind everyone of one thing.
You can't kill open source.
It was there before RedHat, VA Linux, and most other commercialization efforts.
Open Source is not driven by money, it is not driven by profits, and so, no amount of FUD can eliminate it. We don't NEED money/companies/etc. to survive.
In a nutshell, we can't lose, because we can never go away. We will always be there waiting to take over when the world grows tired of microsoft.
I agree. Mr. Katz has proven, yet again, than he can analyze a situation, and complete draw incorrect conclusions, especially where our President is concerned.
I have seen NOTHING that indicates that Pres. Bush 'Shirked', 'shrunk', or withdrew in any way from his role in this.
I will grant you that Pres. Bush is not the most dynamic of speakers. His delivery and tone do not provide a strong sense of comfort. His words, on the other hand, do. They are strong, confident, and say all the right things.
Condeming a man solely on his presentation shows a lack of understanding, depth, and character.
Pres. Bush's greatest challenge is yet to come: What do you do once you determine who is responsible. At that point, a decision will have to be made where no decision will be correct. At that time, he will have to explain his decision such that millions of people will understand, and accept.
At that point, we will have the best indication of what kind of President we have. Not from some stupid speech over Television.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that it had a 60GB hard drive in it...(I actually haven't cracked open my DirecTivo due to the warranty)
Also, I've never seen an MPEG2 data stream that took 1/2 the space of an MPEG1 data stream of the same quality.....
30GB Tivo = 9 hours of HQ recording time 30 Hours at a quality slightly better than a slide-show...
DirectTivo = 35 hours of HQ recording time (no choice as to recording time)
It HAS to have a larger HD in it... MPEG2 CAN'T be 4x more efficient than MPEG1.
I read an article that Sendmail, Inc., uses IBM Mainframes for their development anyway.... Sounds to me like IBM just convinced them to sell/support the product natively on that platform.
Last time I checked, sites like Liquid Audio came with software that would let you take your downloaded music (in "proprietary, protected" format), and burn it to a CD-R ONCE.
If they tax the CD-R's, people would be paying TWICE for music.
If they DO tax CD's, does that mean I can copy anything and give it to anyone? After all, I paid for the music when I bought the CD....
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Summary, when 'someone' answers the phone, the Telezapper sends out a tone that makes the telemarketers auto-dialer think it's out of service, and then the telezapper hangs up.
This is all well and good, execpt that my answermachine is pretty smart. It can sense when an extenion picks up the phone, and the the answering machine will stop and hang up it's extension.
So, follow along:
1) Telemarketer auto-dialer dials a number
2) No one is home, so the answering machine picks up.
3) The telezapper, seeing an extension pick up, also picks up, and plays it's little tones.
4) The answering machine, realizing that 'someone' picked up an extension, stops the playback of the outgoing message, and hangs up.
5) The telezapper, having played it's tones, also hangs up.
Now... in that process, when was an ACTUAL caller allowed to leave a voice message?
That's right. Never.
Pretty severe logic flaw, IMHO.
I'd much rather use an OS from someone/accompany that views themselves as the competition. There's something very pure about that. You do the best you can do, know your own weaknesses, and move to eliminiate them. If the competition is minicking YOU and including YOUR features, that means you're in the lead. You're the top dog.
Coke shouldn't worry about Pepsi. Coke should worry about Coke.
So, if someone was porting their UNIX application to Windows, you're suggesting that they completely rewrite the application for COM?
If PIPES don't work, why do they support them?
IBM's interest in LINUX is primarily on the S/390 platform, not an INTEL platform. Windows 2k/XP isn't available on the primary platform that IBM is touting LINUX for...
IBM has every bit as much to gain or lose as any other PC/Server manufacturer does in an 386 platform.
I still say it's a bad idea to allow a patent on just an idea without a 'reference implementation. That would stop these people from patenting ideas and just laying in wait until someone implements your patent, and then you can jump on them.
If there's not a working implementation of your idea with 12 months, the patent is invalid.
Gnutella seems to be slowly grinding itself into the floor...
My last few searches turned up nada....
One thing to keep in mind is that along with these jobs that come and go, salaries have also shot THROUGH THE ROOF...
Ask yourself if you would be willing to take, say, a 25% (or more) salary reduction to give you more job stability?
Oh, well, that's OK then.
!?!?!?!?!!
I'd like to see that for MS Office as well, but it comes on two CD's and is a minimum install of, like, +380MB
I guess I assume that when they said "adding detail" they meant adding graphic detail (rendering)...
I could be wrong...
There's a lot of doom and gloom on this message about the un-stoppability of Microsoft, and I would like to remind everyone of one thing.
You can't kill open source.
It was there before RedHat, VA Linux, and most other commercialization efforts.
Open Source is not driven by money, it is not driven by profits, and so, no amount of FUD can eliminate it. We don't NEED money/companies/etc. to survive.
In a nutshell, we can't lose, because we can never go away. We will always be there waiting to take over when the world grows tired of microsoft.
IBM has paid more in advertising dollars than Microsoft did, so we now get the report that is so badly needed...
Now, where's the same report on Microsoft Support?
I agree. Mr. Katz has proven, yet again, than he can analyze a situation, and complete draw incorrect conclusions, especially where our President is concerned.
I have seen NOTHING that indicates that Pres. Bush 'Shirked', 'shrunk', or withdrew in any way from his role in this.
I will grant you that Pres. Bush is not the most dynamic of speakers. His delivery and tone do not provide a strong sense of comfort. His words, on the other hand, do. They are strong, confident, and say all the right things.
Condeming a man solely on his presentation shows a lack of understanding, depth, and character.
Pres. Bush's greatest challenge is yet to come: What do you do once you determine who is responsible. At that point, a decision will have to be made where no decision will be correct. At that time, he will have to explain his decision such that millions of people will understand, and accept.
At that point, we will have the best indication of what kind of President we have. Not from some stupid speech over Television.
I also believe that it's buggy to protect their partners. If the closed all the virus holes, Norton and Mcafee would be out a LOT of money.
Exactly what incentive does MS have to close these holes?
I dunno... server seems to be holding it's own...
The SA units WILL get a 2.5 upgrade. It just won't have the ability to dual-record something.
They're trying to sell it as a VCR replacement.
And what a VCR replacement it is! I NEVER fire-up my VCR anymore... except to Archive something off of the Tivo!
Allegedly, Replay is no longer IN the enduser market.... I'd expect to see it show up in your favorite Digital Cable box soon...
Are you sure? I was under the impression that it had a 60GB hard drive in it...(I actually haven't cracked open my DirecTivo due to the warranty)
Also, I've never seen an MPEG2 data stream that took 1/2 the space of an MPEG1 data stream of the same quality.....
30GB Tivo = 9 hours of HQ recording time 30 Hours at a quality slightly better than a slide-show...
DirectTivo = 35 hours of HQ recording time (no choice as to recording time)
It HAS to have a larger HD in it... MPEG2 CAN'T be 4x more efficient than MPEG1.
Do you understand how slashdot works?
It's a p-o-r-t-a-l, which means it disseminates information gathered from other sites (Ok, Katz is an anomoly.. in more ways than one)...
sheesh.
Solaris 8 is (almost) free for Intel.....
Just $75 for 'media'.
(what is that, a fsck'in PLATIUNUM CD?)
I read an article that Sendmail, Inc., uses IBM Mainframes for their development anyway.... Sounds to me like IBM just convinced them to sell/support the product natively on that platform.
Sendmail, Inc. provides both a MTA and an MUA (IMAP/POP3/Webmail) with their product.
Last time I checked, sites like Liquid Audio came with software that would let you take your downloaded music (in "proprietary, protected" format), and burn it to a CD-R ONCE.
If they tax the CD-R's, people would be paying TWICE for music.
If they DO tax CD's, does that mean I can copy anything and give it to anyone? After all, I paid for the music when I bought the CD....
Now see, there you go again... trying to apply LOGIC to a situation where logic does not prevail..
Remember, the money of the few out-weigh the rights of the many...