Reminds me of the old "space race era" joke about Poland announcing that while the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. were vying to put a man on the moon, the Poles were sending a man to the sun.
When asked how they planned to have him survive the incredible heat, the response was "we're going to do it at night!"
I've just bought the copyright for VMS from the subsidiary of a spin-off of a minor division of Compaq.
First thing I'm gonna do is sue the bejeebers out of Microsoft for using the semicolon--to which I own the exclusive rights in a computing environment--to separate email addresses in Outlook.
if they cost anything significant, the ISP should sell conectivity without access to their servers at a lower price.
Ab-sim-o-lutely!
I'm just a "regular guy," a computer user. I'm a consulting engineer who works out of my home office, and I have a home-built AMD box sitting in the closet in my office that is my "Internet Server."
Email goes there. Yes, I use Earthlink (my ISP) SMTP, but that's so I don't have to fuss with the settings to make sure I don't serve as an open relay. I could just as easily send from here.
About the only thing I really use my ISP for is a newsfeed, because (again) I'm too lazy to set up to suck News because Usenet just ain't what it use to be. But again, I could probably set up NNTP and SMTP on my box one lazy Saturday if I chose.
And if I "own" my own block of IPv6 addresses, all I need is a line in/out. I don't care if Earthlink provides it, or my neighborhood grocery store.
But won't IPv6 sort of spell the end of ISPs as we have known them?
I mean, if you have more addresses available than computers that will be manufactured in the next millenium, why do I have to depend upon an ISP to dole them out parsimoniously?
Seems to me that you can get a block of the things assigned to you RIGHT NOW, with no muss/no fuss, more than you'll probably ever need your whole life (we'll probably end up bequeathing our network blocks to our posterity when we die).
The only thing you'll need then is a connection to the 'net. How long before that becomes as commonplace as getting telephone line?
IMO, we're headed toward "free flight" in terms of how you connect to the cyber-world.
So if you don't run the car for at least the full 4 seconds every time, does it eventually only get up to about 30 mph because of that "battery memory" problem?
Well, I've had to "search" many a time for the original CD jewel case and the Install Code thingy, when reinstalling the various Windows flavors after they invariably get hosed up (about once or twice a year).
So I consider that their "developing search technoloy" is pretty mature.
Current economics dictate that if I want to become popular, I'll need people around me supporting.
So? Hire your own.
Why do you need a one-size-fits-all corporation to do this, when you can "outsource" to your heart's content?
I can hire a public relations firm, who work for ME, to do all the "connecting" that I want.
The method used by the entertainment industry is outmoded. It is based on a monopolistic creed that stipulates that all the contacts needed are in L.A., or whatever.
Sorry, but the infrastructure provided by digital channels far outstrips anything the Hollywood or New York distribution outlets were ever able to do.
I can write a book, have someone (who works for ME) edit the thing, put it on Amazon.Com and have it printed on demand by IUniverse or similar, and never need this corporate infrastructure that is bloated and vampiristic.
And I keep the majority of the profits, and the publicists, editors, printers-on-demand, and retail channels will all make their money, too.
Who won't make the money are the Vodka Gimlet-swilling pimps--er--lawyers who make up the old, outmoded monopoly that is the "entertainment industry."
I think the important thing to note here is that a major player, Sun, thinks it's time to challenge MS on the desktop with Linux.
I don't think even IBM has been ready to go that far (well, they could've done it with OS/2 eight or nine years ago, and I don't see that they've grown a spine since that time).
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"Move 10,000 units of these per month...
For great justice!"
Man, I wish we could get RPN calculators here in Poland!
When asked how they planned to have him survive the incredible heat, the response was "we're going to do it at night!"
Wouldn't that be "Steamboat Willie"?
Thanks, I really needed to get that off my chest.
First thing I'm gonna do is sue the bejeebers out of Microsoft for using the semicolon--to which I own the exclusive rights in a computing environment--to separate email addresses in Outlook.
Even with the advent of Google, I have as yet been unable to discover who the hell "Dewey Decimal" was.
Here's one place you can go to prove you're wrong.
Ab-sim-o-lutely!
I'm just a "regular guy," a computer user. I'm a consulting engineer who works out of my home office, and I have a home-built AMD box sitting in the closet in my office that is my "Internet Server."
Email goes there. Yes, I use Earthlink (my ISP) SMTP, but that's so I don't have to fuss with the settings to make sure I don't serve as an open relay. I could just as easily send from here.
About the only thing I really use my ISP for is a newsfeed, because (again) I'm too lazy to set up to suck News because Usenet just ain't what it use to be. But again, I could probably set up NNTP and SMTP on my box one lazy Saturday if I chose.
And if I "own" my own block of IPv6 addresses, all I need is a line in/out. I don't care if Earthlink provides it, or my neighborhood grocery store.
Thanks for the ROTFLOL thing.
What the hell does that mean?
It means that it's more unpredictable than a "static operating company."
I mean, if you have more addresses available than computers that will be manufactured in the next millenium, why do I have to depend upon an ISP to dole them out parsimoniously?
Seems to me that you can get a block of the things assigned to you RIGHT NOW, with no muss/no fuss, more than you'll probably ever need your whole life (we'll probably end up bequeathing our network blocks to our posterity when we die).
The only thing you'll need then is a connection to the 'net. How long before that becomes as commonplace as getting telephone line?
IMO, we're headed toward "free flight" in terms of how you connect to the cyber-world.
I thought he had already survived the Great Magnetic Field. What's HE got to worry about?
Did you recently get married, by any chance?
Replacing Bluetooth.
My question wasn't serious.
So if you don't run the car for at least the full 4 seconds every time, does it eventually only get up to about 30 mph because of that "battery memory" problem?
So I consider that their "developing search technoloy" is pretty mature.
To my certain knowledge, Dieter NEVER shouts.
How unfortunate for you that *BSD is dead.
Hell, for that matter, you can argue that pr0n relies on the MILITARY for its own existence!
Ever see the inside of a barracks? They don't need wallpaper; Penthouse and Hustler are there.
You don't think that the vast majority of users will access the 'net via broadband in the next decade?
So? Hire your own.
Why do you need a one-size-fits-all corporation to do this, when you can "outsource" to your heart's content?
I can hire a public relations firm, who work for ME, to do all the "connecting" that I want.
The method used by the entertainment industry is outmoded. It is based on a monopolistic creed that stipulates that all the contacts needed are in L.A., or whatever.
Sorry, but the infrastructure provided by digital channels far outstrips anything the Hollywood or New York distribution outlets were ever able to do.
I can write a book, have someone (who works for ME) edit the thing, put it on Amazon.Com and have it printed on demand by IUniverse or similar, and never need this corporate infrastructure that is bloated and vampiristic.
And I keep the majority of the profits, and the publicists, editors, printers-on-demand, and retail channels will all make their money, too.
Who won't make the money are the Vodka Gimlet-swilling pimps--er--lawyers who make up the old, outmoded monopoly that is the "entertainment industry."
Actually, it means that everything starts with *BSD.
Which, btw, is dying.
I don't think even IBM has been ready to go that far (well, they could've done it with OS/2 eight or nine years ago, and I don't see that they've grown a spine since that time).
This'll be interesting to watch.