Oh so many things one could talk of: The Little Ice Age that began in the late Middle Ages that ruined the Greenland Colony of Vikings, and incidentally also ruined the last of the grape harvest of Britanium (Rome used to import wine from there). I could speak of the Phonecian ports in the Lebanaon and all along the Asiatic coast that are now miles inland from the current coastline...
How about the real basic and simple observation that any computer model run forward and predicting gloom and doom when run backward to its starting point never comes close to predicting the inital circumstances or I could just point to the prediction on channel 2 of sunny weather and then point to the rain showers today...
Chicken Little obviously didn't have a good enough grant chasing committee...
What are you guys saying? I mean think man think! How many people are employed in IT? Now imagine a world in which the desktop was oh..Mac OS X and the servers, database systems and other infustructure was all Linux/Open Source, etc. Rememeber that figure above? Cut it to a TENTH! All Hail St Redmond of the Kludge for Thine is the Kingdom of Screw-up..... and that my friends, keeps me employed...
Indeed so. I have no idea who is owed all the back copy write fees for the works of Aristotle. Think of all those monks in the middle ages making their unauthorized quill pin "rips" of his work... Or the plays of Aristophanes From circa 400BC till 2004 AD there is one heck of a back interest payment. Definitly for the Birds...
The current view of copy write law amounts to stupidity. The whole idea was to protect the IP for a "Limited Period of Time".
Indeed. But in spite of all the talk of the high minded use for webcams (protecting rights, filming offical misbehavior etc). YOU KNOW that 90% of the little buggers will end up in bedrooms filming your most secret of secrets. Given the choice between "Click here to see your politican du jour be a jerk", or "Click there to see your neighbor and Betty Sue Co-Ed doing the double backed beast", which will most folks choose? Humm...ever notice that extra reflection in the light fixture over there?
This is all well and good but.... It will never fly. Know why? For a decade America has been upgrading. That is, we have all traded in our 486 for a Pentium 65, for a Pentium 166, for a Pentium 2, 3 AMD, Cirix, and on and on. That original 486 running Win 3.1 with a 14.4 or 33.6 modem running Trumpet Winsock (rememebr that?) can get ont he Internet. And where did all that junk go? To the Third World by the dumptruck load! A even more modest Pentium 300ish or a AMD K6-2 of about that speed on a socket 7 motherboard with 90-256mb memory a 2-6gb drive a 14" VGA.. load a bootleg 98SE and: you are in business! Cost? no 250 bucks, rather more like 20. Folks in Botswana would rather spend the $230 savings on FOOD! Poor folks do not buy new. Regardless of focus groups, break out sessions, and marketing strategies. I would strongly suggest to the good people who come up with these hair brained ideas to do their research somewhere that does not selll Late`. for example: Check the price at Goodwill.
I prefer my music to have that scratchy tin can sound of my youthful use of a pocket transistor radio tuned to the AM band.
So of course my collection is all in Real Audio format. Takes less space, sounds awful, and with Real Alternative I can listen without the adware.
Yeah I know, all the other formats: pure pristine sound. Well my other record player is a 78 Victrola....
Pirates is an absolutely EXCELLENT movie. It captures the true nature of Gates, Allen, Ballmer, Job and the Woz. If you check out Woz.org he has many an interesting thing to say on that period
As I recall.....
One of the great arguments the Founding Fathers had against the government of old King George was the issuance of the Lettre de Cache or open-end, fill-in in the blank warrant. This was a ready form signed by the Royal Governor and issued to the military commander. When they had a suspect, fill in the name and raid in the dark hours.
I remember when I was in secondary school being told that the American system of a warrant mentioning the name of the person, WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF, and needing to be signed by a judge for THAT SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCE ONLY was far more just.
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Shucks! I alread bought the stir-fry and some peanut oil. A wok may do, but for that just smoked flavor there is nothing else quite like a serving of Cooked CPU...
Speaking of tinfoil:
Ever read the Deathlands Series of novels? This database thing strikes me a lot like "Over Project Whisper" of the "Totality Concept" . It is a good rousing read of adventure books about life after nuclear heck.
As to online habits: I did an experiment: I opened 4 email accounts, 2 free, 2 paid for which I did NOT use AT ALL for 5 months. All of them became spam bait. I kept a graph for a while of the stats on spam per day on them. I wanted to see if "paid for" or "free" email addresses were more vulnerable.
One of the two paid for accounts was a telnet only account. I wanted to see if that had any effect.
after the 5 months I found no difference. Web Based, telnet only and accessed via Pine, POP3 service.... IT DIDN'T MATTER. Only thing in common for all of them was my name which starts with a "B". I gave up and just continued my practice of abandoning an account when the Nigerian V1agra Silicon Bra Mortgage offers get to be too much.
Incidentally, One account I had for a time was with a smaller outfit. I noted one day a email that came to me that had on the cc the name of another subscriber that I know personally (A dear lady who loves to click "remove", send greeting cards, and subscribe to all sorts of things. I surmised that this might have been a harvest vector.
Stating that "online habits" contribute to the problem is similar to blaming a rape victim's choice of habiliment for their victimization. I think that is both un called for and overly paternalistic.
Currently I have 6 email accounts, and I have discarded about 8. I write my contacts each time the signal to noise ratio rises above a certain point and let them know I am moving again. So far that has worked, but MAN it is a pain in the glutius to deal with!
I have said this jokingly, but I am getting to the point where a serious effort here might be worthwhile: Small off-shore mercenary army and....
Agreed. I have used all Windows 3.1-XP, Linux, several flavors, BeOS, etc etc. I can use and get along in all. About 2 years ago I loaded OS X 10.1 on a upgraded clone 604 with a G3 upgrade and some other parts tossed at it...
I have never looked back and today carry an iBook.
the question is: How difficult in a 32bit CPU, and how many lines of code will be needed to perform the most common home elctronic function out there:
"CLAP ON!" "CLAP OFF!"
Now I am no expert, merely a hobbiest, but, for years I have tinkered with networking and written on the subject in various venues from ezines to newsgroups. And since I am NOT a networking expert/ professional, I think a lot of the concepts are better spelled out when expressed by someone who doesn't speak fluent "Geek". See the Feb 2002 issue of Digital Civilization Magazine (archive here: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca/ for one of my scribbles on this (also check the current issue) or Google for "Network from Heck". The problem with most writers (myself included) is their inability to speak ENGLISH when discussing this subject.
As to "Names on the Ballot", in most states that process is a politicized as the election. Here in Oregon, Nader got enough signatures to be on the ballot but the (Dem.) Sec State decided that the sigs of petition gatherers did not meet some reasonable legibility rule so he tossed whole pages of petitions out. The (Dem) Supreme Court agrees. Not surprising. In this state there are so many independent wakos that the Dem establishment are afraid a 3rd party candidate might throw the election to the Repubs and that is far more unacceptable then any mere fraud or illegality.
For the record, I am not a Naderite, Dem or Repub. I am disgusted with all of them and will probably write in my pet weasel.
I remeber hearing back when the Pentium 1 166mhz was king that at that time Bill's machine of choice was a older 386 laptop he lugged about.
This could all be urban legend though. Knowing Bill, he probably acts like Andy Groves and uses...A Mac:)
Does anyone recall CALL-OS the similar time share system for the IBM OS/360? At the University of New Mexico back in the 70s some local hackers built a add-on to it called ATS for Aardvark Time Share which allowed many many things including total (and stealth) control of the zero protect key of the mainframe.
the whole 802.11 Wireless space proves that citizens, with no regulations at all (in that Wirelss operates in a unregulated area of spectrum) can and do (did till the money people noticed what was up) operate just fine thank you very much. Seems to me that accomodation without conflict could occur in ANY area of spectrum without problems. Regulation is merely a means of maintaining control... the drug of choice for control freaks.
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Oh so many things one could talk of: The Little Ice Age that began in the late Middle Ages that ruined the Greenland Colony of Vikings, and incidentally also ruined the last of the grape harvest of Britanium (Rome used to import wine from there). I could speak of the Phonecian ports in the Lebanaon and all along the Asiatic coast that are now miles inland from the current coastline... How about the real basic and simple observation that any computer model run forward and predicting gloom and doom when run backward to its starting point never comes close to predicting the inital circumstances or I could just point to the prediction on channel 2 of sunny weather and then point to the rain showers today... Chicken Little obviously didn't have a good enough grant chasing committee...
What are you guys saying? I mean think man think! How many people are employed in IT? Now imagine a world in which the desktop was oh..Mac OS X and the servers, database systems and other infustructure was all Linux/Open Source, etc. Rememeber that figure above? Cut it to a TENTH!
All Hail St Redmond of the Kludge for Thine is the Kingdom of Screw-up..... and that my friends, keeps me employed...
Indeed so. I have no idea who is owed all the back copy write fees for the works of Aristotle. Think of all those monks in the middle ages making their unauthorized quill pin "rips" of his work... Or the plays of Aristophanes From circa 400BC till 2004 AD there is one heck of a back interest payment. Definitly for the Birds... The current view of copy write law amounts to stupidity. The whole idea was to protect the IP for a "Limited Period of Time".
Indeed. But in spite of all the talk of the high minded use for webcams (protecting rights, filming offical misbehavior etc). YOU KNOW that 90% of the little buggers will end up in bedrooms filming your most secret of secrets. Given the choice between "Click here to see your politican du jour be a jerk", or "Click there to see your neighbor and Betty Sue Co-Ed doing the double backed beast", which will most folks choose? Humm...ever notice that extra reflection in the light fixture over there?
This is all well and good but.... It will never fly. Know why? For a decade America has been upgrading. That is, we have all traded in our 486 for a Pentium 65, for a Pentium 166, for a Pentium 2, 3 AMD, Cirix, and on and on. That original 486 running Win 3.1 with a 14.4 or 33.6 modem running Trumpet Winsock (rememebr that?) can get ont he Internet. And where did all that junk go? To the Third World by the dumptruck load!
A even more modest Pentium 300ish or a AMD K6-2 of about that speed on a socket 7 motherboard with 90-256mb memory a 2-6gb drive a 14" VGA.. load a bootleg 98SE and: you are in business! Cost? no 250 bucks, rather more like 20. Folks in Botswana would rather spend the $230 savings on FOOD! Poor folks do not buy new. Regardless of focus groups, break out sessions, and marketing strategies. I would strongly suggest to the good people who come up with these hair brained ideas to do their research somewhere that does not selll Late`. for example: Check the price at Goodwill.
Banyan VINES anyone?
I prefer my music to have that scratchy tin can sound of my youthful use of a pocket transistor radio tuned to the AM band. So of course my collection is all in Real Audio format. Takes less space, sounds awful, and with Real Alternative I can listen without the adware. Yeah I know, all the other formats: pure pristine sound. Well my other record player is a 78 Victrola....
Now my SS card is kind of old but printed right on it it says: "Not to be used for Identification Purpose" Had the Government obeyed the law......
Pirates is an absolutely EXCELLENT movie. It captures the true nature of Gates, Allen, Ballmer, Job and the Woz. If you check out Woz.org he has many an interesting thing to say on that period
I call ALL television fake. Clap trap, garbage and crud. It is like email without a spam filter.
As I recall..... One of the great arguments the Founding Fathers had against the government of old King George was the issuance of the Lettre de Cache or open-end, fill-in in the blank warrant. This was a ready form signed by the Royal Governor and issued to the military commander. When they had a suspect, fill in the name and raid in the dark hours. I remember when I was in secondary school being told that the American system of a warrant mentioning the name of the person, WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF, and needing to be signed by a judge for THAT SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCE ONLY was far more just. --
Shucks! I alread bought the stir-fry and some peanut oil. A wok may do, but for that just smoked flavor there is nothing else quite like a serving of Cooked CPU...
Speaking of tinfoil: Ever read the Deathlands Series of novels? This database thing strikes me a lot like "Over Project Whisper" of the "Totality Concept" . It is a good rousing read of adventure books about life after nuclear heck.
Total Agreement. CS was the Shotgun News of the Computer Trade. Alice and Bill gave the ads the extra spice.
As to online habits: I did an experiment: I opened 4 email accounts, 2 free, 2 paid for which I did NOT use AT ALL for 5 months. All of them became spam bait. I kept a graph for a while of the stats on spam per day on them. I wanted to see if "paid for" or "free" email addresses were more vulnerable. One of the two paid for accounts was a telnet only account. I wanted to see if that had any effect. after the 5 months I found no difference. Web Based, telnet only and accessed via Pine, POP3 service.... IT DIDN'T MATTER. Only thing in common for all of them was my name which starts with a "B". I gave up and just continued my practice of abandoning an account when the Nigerian V1agra Silicon Bra Mortgage offers get to be too much. Incidentally, One account I had for a time was with a smaller outfit. I noted one day a email that came to me that had on the cc the name of another subscriber that I know personally (A dear lady who loves to click "remove", send greeting cards, and subscribe to all sorts of things. I surmised that this might have been a harvest vector. Stating that "online habits" contribute to the problem is similar to blaming a rape victim's choice of habiliment for their victimization. I think that is both un called for and overly paternalistic.
Currently I have 6 email accounts, and I have discarded about 8. I write my contacts each time the signal to noise ratio rises above a certain point and let them know I am moving again. So far that has worked, but MAN it is a pain in the glutius to deal with!
I have said this jokingly, but I am getting to the point where a serious effort here might be worthwhile: Small off-shore mercenary army and....
Agreed. I have used all Windows 3.1-XP, Linux, several flavors, BeOS, etc etc. I can use and get along in all. About 2 years ago I loaded OS X 10.1 on a upgraded clone 604 with a G3 upgrade and some other parts tossed at it... I have never looked back and today carry an iBook.
the question is: How difficult in a 32bit CPU, and how many lines of code will be needed to perform the most common home elctronic function out there: "CLAP ON!" "CLAP OFF!"
Now I am no expert, merely a hobbiest, but, for years I have tinkered with networking and written on the subject in various venues from ezines to newsgroups. And since I am NOT a networking expert/ professional, I think a lot of the concepts are better spelled out when expressed by someone who doesn't speak fluent "Geek". See the Feb 2002 issue of Digital Civilization Magazine (archive here: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca/ for one of my scribbles on this (also check the current issue) or Google for "Network from Heck". The problem with most writers (myself included) is their inability to speak ENGLISH when discussing this subject.
Is the data being processed by that notorious roads data company Traf-O-Data?
She was just letting off steam....must be a Windows user...
As to "Names on the Ballot", in most states that process is a politicized as the election. Here in Oregon, Nader got enough signatures to be on the ballot but the (Dem.) Sec State decided that the sigs of petition gatherers did not meet some reasonable legibility rule so he tossed whole pages of petitions out. The (Dem) Supreme Court agrees. Not surprising. In this state there are so many independent wakos that the Dem establishment are afraid a 3rd party candidate might throw the election to the Repubs and that is far more unacceptable then any mere fraud or illegality. For the record, I am not a Naderite, Dem or Repub. I am disgusted with all of them and will probably write in my pet weasel.
I remeber hearing back when the Pentium 1 166mhz was king that at that time Bill's machine of choice was a older 386 laptop he lugged about. This could all be urban legend though. Knowing Bill, he probably acts like Andy Groves and uses...A Mac :)
Does anyone recall CALL-OS the similar time share system for the IBM OS/360? At the University of New Mexico back in the 70s some local hackers built a add-on to it called ATS for Aardvark Time Share which allowed many many things including total (and stealth) control of the zero protect key of the mainframe.
the whole 802.11 Wireless space proves that citizens, with no regulations at all (in that Wirelss operates in a unregulated area of spectrum) can and do (did till the money people noticed what was up) operate just fine thank you very much. Seems to me that accomodation without conflict could occur in ANY area of spectrum without problems. Regulation is merely a means of maintaining control... the drug of choice for control freaks.