Most of an OS stays the same from one version to another. Regedit for instance has not changed since NT 3.51, nor have most of the important hardware keys like the ones that control the CD drive access.
I had to read this a couple of times, and then check to be sure that you were the parent poster, before I finally decided that you didn't just forget the/sarcasm tag.
So "I think" is a valid, rational reason why municipal Internet access is a really bad idea? Sorry, I'm not convinced. "I think" it's a really good idea, and so do a lot of other people. In my case the majority of the people who agree with me are the ones who pay the taxes and would use the service.
What overpowering lobby are you so frightened of, which apparently can go head to head with Comcast? Do you mean the customers who want better service, better rates, and more responsive support? That lobby? Sorry, you're not going to get much sympathy.
I wonder how many of them would do this at a fancy dinner with their significant other
An appalling number of them, from what I can see, and their SO doing the same. It's bizarre to me to be at a restaurant with my wife, seeing couples at other tables spending most of their time communicating with people who aren't there. It seems rude to me, but they seem OK with it.
I think the usefulness of business cards varies a lot depending on your work. For me they're actually a useful way to keep track of the people that I need to contact once in a blue moon. I haven't installed a Pivot3 box in two years, who was the regional field tech? No idea, any emails are lost in the morass of Inbox archives and the brain-dead Exchange admin has dumped all my contacts twice since then. Riffle through the pile of cards and he's the second one I encounter with the Pivot3 logo on it. I'm pretty sure that's how the IT guy for the City of Kirkland will find my info as well when the DVR we installed for them six years ago finally chokes. I won't care if you toss my business card, but if I need to get hold of you three years from now I hope you gave me yours.
There's this ancient business tradition where in an emergency technical staff can be called out of a meeting. Your company should try it some time. It actually works pretty well.
Perhaps you grew up on today's bloatware that can't fit on a single DVD, but the entire first version of MS Flight Simulator and 6 or 8 aircraft with maps for most major US airports fit on a single floppy disk. IIRC, all of DOS 5 fit on three floppies, and Windows For Workgroups with DOS and the TCP/IP add-on was nine or ten. That's under 15 mb. There's an awful lot you can do in a very small footprint.
These are the people that the elites, like Bush the Elected, have been observed to call "useless eaters". Many of the decent service jobs, such as truck driver, newspaper reporter, radio disk jockey, cashier, and the like, are also going away. I don't know what my nephews and nieces kids are going to do for a living.
That is the justification for any number of evils. Tax breaks, zoning variances, pollution exceptions, wetland destruction, whatever. In this case the only jobs created will be for truck automation programmers in India.
I think you're working on a different definition of crony capitalism than I was. It used to also include things like price fixing, cooperating to reduce competition, creating exclusive territories, and the like. Business cronies working together to the detriment of customers. It didn't always mean political favoritism towards financial benefactors, although I guess that's today's most accepted meaning. Oh, and get off my lawn . . .
Crony capitalism and monopoly is inevitable if you implement a free market system. Capitalists work together to maximize their piece of the pie at the expense of everyone else. Whoever gets largest fastest will manipulate the system to grab the whole pie. There is no way around it except regulations, at which point it's no longer the 'free market' ideal.
The First Amendment clearly says the right of the people, it says nothing about 'the right of the corporations'. If the CEO of Comcast wants to use his person fortune to lobby against using public infrastructure to provide public services the First Amendment would protect his right. Comcast itself has no First Amendment rights to protect.
What would be difficult about creating a boundary between the rights of a paper entity, a corporation, and a flesh-and-blood human being? Person has rights protected by the Constitution, corporation does not. It ain't rocket surgery.
Unfortunately most of the people who became pols were lawyers in their other job, so they were able to create the wonderful revolving door of writing laws so that only they are able to property exploit the loopholes that they inserted.
PSE is doing a shit job of maintaining their infrastructure, too. They've cut back on inspections, tree trimming, maintenance operations, and farmed out almost all the new construction to low-bid contractors. On the other hand, I worked for the Snohomish PUD for a while, and the difference between the Public Utility District's power line right-of-way and Puget Sound Energy's is obvious just driving by.
That's Arizona. The sun is probably more consistent there than pretty much anywhere else on the continent. The need for electricity peaks during the daylight hours, when air conditioning usage is high. So yeah, they're doing it right.
Depends on local zoning. In some areas homes that are not connected to the power grid are considered 'uninhabitable', no matter how absurd that might be. That includes homes that are empty because the owners may be working overseas or who only occupy a vacation place a few months out of a year. My grandparents couldn't turn the electricity off to their house in Florida, even after they had definitively moved back to Michigan when she got sick, because they would not have been able to sell an 'uninhabitable' home for a fair market price.
It used to be easier, when the technology was simple enough that one could know everything about a field. The Wright brothers or (much as I may loathe him) Edison would be good examples. The only one in the computer industry that I can think of is Bill Gates.
Nope, that's not it. This would have been in the fall/winter of 1996. It was loaded into BIOS by accidentally booting off a floppy, and once there would infect any other disk that you put in the machine. It didn't kill the machine immediately and I never knew what the trigger was, but at some point the customer would boot up the computer and random ASCII characters would fill the screen and it would stop. We'd have to tell the customer that their machine was dead and they probably needed to replace the BIOS of any other computers they owned.
There were other BIOS viruses at the time, but this was the only one I encountered that wasn't immediately destructive and which worked on more than one BIOS manufacturer. Some (most?) of them would let you warm boot the computer indefinitely, while infecting every disk you put in them, and then kill the machine dead when you turned off the power.
I remember BIOS viruses back when I did support for Windows 95, and damn they were nasty. Plug a loaner floppy into an infected machine and by the end of the day you could infect an entire computer lab. There was one that (IIRC) would infect both Phoenix and AMI BIOS machines, but did nothing to Award boards. I don't see why people think that a cross-platform BIOS infector is so out of the question.
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Most of an OS stays the same from one version to another. Regedit for instance has not changed since NT 3.51, nor have most of the important hardware keys like the ones that control the CD drive access.
I had to read this a couple of times, and then check to be sure that you were the parent poster, before I finally decided that you didn't just forget the /sarcasm tag.
So "I think" is a valid, rational reason why municipal Internet access is a really bad idea? Sorry, I'm not convinced. "I think" it's a really good idea, and so do a lot of other people. In my case the majority of the people who agree with me are the ones who pay the taxes and would use the service.
What overpowering lobby are you so frightened of, which apparently can go head to head with Comcast? Do you mean the customers who want better service, better rates, and more responsive support? That lobby? Sorry, you're not going to get much sympathy.
I wonder how many of them would do this at a fancy dinner with their significant other
An appalling number of them, from what I can see, and their SO doing the same. It's bizarre to me to be at a restaurant with my wife, seeing couples at other tables spending most of their time communicating with people who aren't there. It seems rude to me, but they seem OK with it.
I think the usefulness of business cards varies a lot depending on your work. For me they're actually a useful way to keep track of the people that I need to contact once in a blue moon. I haven't installed a Pivot3 box in two years, who was the regional field tech? No idea, any emails are lost in the morass of Inbox archives and the brain-dead Exchange admin has dumped all my contacts twice since then. Riffle through the pile of cards and he's the second one I encounter with the Pivot3 logo on it. I'm pretty sure that's how the IT guy for the City of Kirkland will find my info as well when the DVR we installed for them six years ago finally chokes. I won't care if you toss my business card, but if I need to get hold of you three years from now I hope you gave me yours.
I think mine would be amused.
There's this ancient business tradition where in an emergency technical staff can be called out of a meeting. Your company should try it some time. It actually works pretty well.
Perhaps you grew up on today's bloatware that can't fit on a single DVD, but the entire first version of MS Flight Simulator and 6 or 8 aircraft with maps for most major US airports fit on a single floppy disk. IIRC, all of DOS 5 fit on three floppies, and Windows For Workgroups with DOS and the TCP/IP add-on was nine or ten. That's under 15 mb. There's an awful lot you can do in a very small footprint.
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These are the people that the elites, like Bush the Elected, have been observed to call "useless eaters". Many of the decent service jobs, such as truck driver, newspaper reporter, radio disk jockey, cashier, and the like, are also going away. I don't know what my nephews and nieces kids are going to do for a living.
creates and supports local jobs
That is the justification for any number of evils. Tax breaks, zoning variances, pollution exceptions, wetland destruction, whatever. In this case the only jobs created will be for truck automation programmers in India.
Shame on you, confusing a poor teabagger with facts!
Wonder what effect it will have on the underground biosphere.
Perhaps someone who can come up with some rational reason WHY it isn't a good idea?
I think you're working on a different definition of crony capitalism than I was. It used to also include things like price fixing, cooperating to reduce competition, creating exclusive territories, and the like. Business cronies working together to the detriment of customers. It didn't always mean political favoritism towards financial benefactors, although I guess that's today's most accepted meaning. Oh, and get off my lawn . . .
Crony capitalism and monopoly is inevitable if you implement a free market system. Capitalists work together to maximize their piece of the pie at the expense of everyone else. Whoever gets largest fastest will manipulate the system to grab the whole pie. There is no way around it except regulations, at which point it's no longer the 'free market' ideal.
The First Amendment clearly says the right of the people, it says nothing about 'the right of the corporations'. If the CEO of Comcast wants to use his person fortune to lobby against using public infrastructure to provide public services the First Amendment would protect his right. Comcast itself has no First Amendment rights to protect.
What would be difficult about creating a boundary between the rights of a paper entity, a corporation, and a flesh-and-blood human being? Person has rights protected by the Constitution, corporation does not. It ain't rocket surgery.
Unfortunately most of the people who became pols were lawyers in their other job, so they were able to create the wonderful revolving door of writing laws so that only they are able to property exploit the loopholes that they inserted.
PSE is doing a shit job of maintaining their infrastructure, too. They've cut back on inspections, tree trimming, maintenance operations, and farmed out almost all the new construction to low-bid contractors. On the other hand, I worked for the Snohomish PUD for a while, and the difference between the Public Utility District's power line right-of-way and Puget Sound Energy's is obvious just driving by.
Are you making the even more common mistake of not including the environmental/health/disposal costs for the non-solar generation profile?
That's Arizona. The sun is probably more consistent there than pretty much anywhere else on the continent. The need for electricity peaks during the daylight hours, when air conditioning usage is high. So yeah, they're doing it right.
Depends on local zoning. In some areas homes that are not connected to the power grid are considered 'uninhabitable', no matter how absurd that might be. That includes homes that are empty because the owners may be working overseas or who only occupy a vacation place a few months out of a year. My grandparents couldn't turn the electricity off to their house in Florida, even after they had definitively moved back to Michigan when she got sick, because they would not have been able to sell an 'uninhabitable' home for a fair market price.
It used to be easier, when the technology was simple enough that one could know everything about a field. The Wright brothers or (much as I may loathe him) Edison would be good examples. The only one in the computer industry that I can think of is Bill Gates.
So you don't eat blood sausage? Good. More for the rest of us that know what good food really is.
Nope, that's not it. This would have been in the fall/winter of 1996. It was loaded into BIOS by accidentally booting off a floppy, and once there would infect any other disk that you put in the machine. It didn't kill the machine immediately and I never knew what the trigger was, but at some point the customer would boot up the computer and random ASCII characters would fill the screen and it would stop. We'd have to tell the customer that their machine was dead and they probably needed to replace the BIOS of any other computers they owned.
There were other BIOS viruses at the time, but this was the only one I encountered that wasn't immediately destructive and which worked on more than one BIOS manufacturer. Some (most?) of them would let you warm boot the computer indefinitely, while infecting every disk you put in them, and then kill the machine dead when you turned off the power.
I remember BIOS viruses back when I did support for Windows 95, and damn they were nasty. Plug a loaner floppy into an infected machine and by the end of the day you could infect an entire computer lab. There was one that (IIRC) would infect both Phoenix and AMI BIOS machines, but did nothing to Award boards. I don't see why people think that a cross-platform BIOS infector is so out of the question.