The on line newspapers must compete for eyeballs with TV and Radio news, local newspapers, and other on line newspapers. Also the tv stations have their own on line news. The only advantage the NYT as it that it IS the NY Times. They are one of the leading and most respected newspapers in the country. (the New York post and Daily news on the other hand are known as the best papers to wrap fish with).
ebay is interstate commerece. The FTC regulates that. This law would give Ohio power that the Federal government has. So IMHO (IANAL) this would be un-constitutional. Whay say ye, supreme court?
First of all most of the combatants in the "Unix Wars" were selling complete systems, NOT just software. For the most part they sold machines that were NOT binary compatible with each other, and the fact that their OS was UNIX was based on the idea that it was better to port an off the shelf OS to their HW than write one from scratch. I worked for Gould for about 5 years. Their UNIX was a BSD/SysV hybrid. Now since Unix runs on all these binary incompatible machines the ONLY way to write code to run on all is to distribute SOURCE in some common language (probably "C"). While at Gould I was developing software for an IO controller running a National 32000 series uP. We had to port National's cross compileir to run on our Gould system. National's compiler was supplied in Unix source format, but it did not work correctly "out of the box". Most of the problems had to do with "Endian-ness" differences between the Gould Unix system's HW and National's. (Don't ask what this did to the opcode's generated for the 32000 target!)
Hardware differences aside, the NSC compilier WAS a Unix application, and it DID port to the Gould Unix system quite well, once the HARDWARE differences projecting through the compiler were ironed out.
So... saying that Windows is the same across all hardware that IT runs on is really meaningless, because all hardware that Windows runs on are BINARY COMPATIBLE!. BIG DEAL! Apples (pun intended) to Oranges. QED.
I've used both CP/M, and CP/M86 as well as MP/M86. I had to port all of the above to custom h/w, which means writing bios and bootstrap code. I later used the very first version of MS-DOS on the very first IBM pc and clones. All of these operating systems are VERY similar in their internals and disk structure. 86-DOS, which includes MSDOS v1, uses an interface more like CP/M than CP/M86. Digital Research improved the interface into the OS when they introduced the 8086 version of the OS, while 86-DOS/MSDOS copied the interface of CP/M. This means that only CP/M86 and MP/M86 took advantage of the new features of the 8086 cpu. By version 2.0 however, MSDOS had a better disk file structure, interface, and a means of loading drivers without relinking the OS.
This is more like the government asking copier manufacturers to design their machines so that someone who buys one and takes it home cannot copy U.S. Government currency with it...
SO the government tries to make the money 'copy proof' instead. And they HAVE done a reasonable job of that with holigrams and special threads in the paper.
Let the media try and make their stuff un-copyable. Wait... they have and that's against 'fair use'.
You can help our campaign by buying AMD CPU chips and not buying Intel, and by publishing statements about what you're doing. Likewise, buy motherboards that support free BIOS.
According to the FreeBIOS website, Acer , Via and SiS support it . And it will probably see a LOT of Bochs in testing too. So I might opt for an Acer laptopt finally (it's cheap too)
Well my new linux box has an AMD64 cpu on an Asus motherboard with a Via chipset. Guess that's at least 2 our of 3.
It is NOT fair. If I have placed a bid and I am the highest bidder, but I want to rasie my maximum bid that should NOT raise the current high bid on the item. If it did, then I just bid against myself. Now if my current bid is higher than the last previous bid by more than the bid increment raising my maximum bid does NOT change the current high bid. But if my current bid is higher than the last previous bid by an amount less than the increment, raising my maximum bid should NOT raise my current high bid to the next increment notch. Granted the amount is small, but multiply it by the number of auctions where this happens and you have a huge windfall for Ebay. I hope they lose this one. This policy may be buried in fine print someplace, but it is counter-intutitive to the way most people expect the auction system to work.
Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick. Starbucks is coffee.
Well almost. I bought an HP4SI off ebay for $100. (Had to drive 100 miles to pick it up), It had only 7000 copies on the meter!!!!!!! Age does have problems with these though. The toner cart died of old age, IE: it started LEAKING and an unused repack that I bought which was a shelf queen long before I got it had the same problem (result, pages with about a 10% gray background and streaks). A brand new toner cart ($70) and it prints clean again. Also my power supply and duplexor had to be replaced as the printer started throwing error codes 55, 54, and 13.2 paper jams on selftest/powerup all the time. (and the printer shop couldn't reproduce the problem which ONLY happened in my house!!!)
Still it's a great printer, if not a bit on the dinosaur size (and WEIGHT!). 32megs of memory and postscript and duplex.
Yet another reason to call for the impeachment of the brainless horse's arse we have for a president. (If the story is true)
do you even know the meaning of the word
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Why is a collection of songs in a single release called an 'album'?
Because before the long playing 33.3 rpm record the only way to make such a release was a collection of discrete 78 rpm records. The collection was packaged in a book, that looked much like a 'photo album'. These collections were grouped two ways, one in which the tracks were ordered with consectutive numbers on individual discs so they would be played in order on a record changer. The other grouping was for playing them on a manual player with the record being flipped over between selections.
We might be tempted to go nuclear, but we wouldn't have too. A few MOABS in the right places would be just as effective. Maybe a Fuel-Air bomb or two over their capital.
There have been many 'studies' funded by MS to prove that Linux TCO is higher than Windows. If one had to convert their operation from a total MS solution to a total Linux solution I can see that the re-tooling and re-training would take quite some time to be absorbed into any possible lower support costs. Given that Linux upgrades are 'free' for the download and installation (minus the manpower costs to do it) how can Windows claim a lower TCO when upgrades have a sizeable cost per seat? Do you actually believe that IP support costs (manhours times cost per manhour) is less with Windows than with Linux? IE: do support engineers charge MORE per hour for Linux support than for MS? Or does Windows require LESS manhours to support than Linux? Or BOTH? Do you actually believe that Windows has fewer support 'incidents' than Linux (for bonifide software problems and NOT user training issues)? Do you think that the 'learning curve' for a user to become proficient with the system is larger for Linux than for Windows (assuming a user starts with ZERO computer experience)?
In Bill Gate's bank account. He would NOT be worth the BILLONS he is today. Neither would Paul Alan, and think of all the projects that would not have been funded. For one Rutan would NOT have had a sponser for the X prize.
Remember the BBC series 'connections'? Well in this case one thing changes EVERYTHING.
Well the first transistors had an ft (switching speed) of about 5khz and it didn't take much abuse to burn them out. Today we have transitors with ft's over 10ghz and they are quite rugged.
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the "foot mouse". It was a mouse you put on the floor and pushed with your feet. (Guess you had to be barefoot to work the buttons with your toes?)
Maybe Apple will put the two buttons on the SIDES of the mouse so you work them with your thumb and ring fingers.
The on line newspapers must compete for eyeballs with TV and Radio news, local newspapers, and other on line newspapers. Also the tv stations have their own on line news. The only advantage the NYT as it that it IS the NY Times. They are one of the leading and most respected newspapers in the country. (the New York post and Daily news on the other hand are known as the best papers to wrap fish with).
ebay is interstate commerece.
The FTC regulates that. This law would
give Ohio power that the Federal government
has. So IMHO (IANAL) this would be un-constitutional. Whay say ye, supreme court?
First of all most of the combatants in the "Unix Wars" were selling complete systems, NOT just software. For the most part they sold machines that were NOT binary compatible with each other, and the fact that their OS was UNIX was based on the idea that it was better to port an off the shelf OS to their HW than write one from scratch. I worked for Gould for about 5 years. Their UNIX was a BSD/SysV hybrid. Now since Unix runs on all these binary incompatible machines the ONLY way to write code to run on all is to distribute SOURCE in some common language (probably "C"). While at Gould I was developing software for an IO controller running a National 32000 series uP. We had to port National's cross compileir to run on our Gould system. National's compiler was supplied in Unix source format, but it did not work correctly "out of the box". Most of the problems had to do with "Endian-ness" differences between the Gould Unix system's HW and National's. (Don't ask what this did to the opcode's generated for the 32000 target!)
Hardware differences aside, the NSC compilier WAS a Unix application, and it DID port to the Gould Unix system quite well, once the HARDWARE differences projecting through the compiler were ironed out.
So... saying that Windows is the same across all hardware that IT runs on is really meaningless, because all hardware that Windows runs on are BINARY COMPATIBLE!. BIG DEAL! Apples (pun intended) to Oranges. QED.
Linus wanted to call it Freex (or some variant on that spelling).
I've used both CP/M, and CP/M86 as well as MP/M86. I had to port all of the above to
custom h/w, which means writing bios and bootstrap code. I later used the very first version of MS-DOS on the very first IBM pc and clones. All of these operating systems are VERY similar in their internals and disk structure. 86-DOS, which includes MSDOS v1, uses an interface more like CP/M than CP/M86. Digital Research improved the interface into the OS when they introduced the 8086 version of the OS, while 86-DOS/MSDOS copied the interface of CP/M. This means that only CP/M86 and MP/M86 took advantage of the new features of the 8086 cpu. By version 2.0 however, MSDOS had a better disk file structure, interface, and a means of loading drivers without relinking the OS.
Didn't Burt's OTHER plane, ie: Voyager set the
previous record?
This is more like the government asking copier manufacturers to design their machines so that someone who buys one and takes it home cannot copy U.S. Government currency with it...
SO the government tries to make the money 'copy proof' instead. And they HAVE done a reasonable job of that with holigrams and special threads in the paper.
Let the media try and make their stuff un-copyable. Wait... they have and that's against 'fair use'.
You can help our campaign by buying AMD CPU chips and not buying Intel, and by publishing statements about what you're doing. Likewise, buy motherboards that support free BIOS.
According to the FreeBIOS website, Acer , Via and SiS support it . And it will probably see a LOT of Bochs in testing too. So I might opt for an Acer laptopt finally (it's cheap too)
Well my new linux box has an AMD64 cpu on an Asus motherboard with a Via chipset. Guess that's at least 2 our of 3.
Time for tin foil wallets.
It is NOT fair. If I have placed a bid and I am the highest bidder, but I want to rasie my maximum bid that should NOT raise the current high bid on the item. If it did, then I just bid against myself. Now if my current bid is higher than the last previous bid by more than the bid increment raising my maximum bid does NOT change the current high bid. But if my current bid is higher than the last previous bid by an amount less than the increment, raising my maximum bid should NOT raise my current high bid to the next increment notch. Granted the amount is small, but multiply it by the number of auctions where this happens and you have a huge windfall for Ebay. I hope they lose this one.
This policy may be buried in fine print someplace, but it is counter-intutitive to the way most people expect the auction system to work.
If windows XP comes on a single CD rom, then how come when I went to back up the partition on my new HP computer it took over 7 CD's??????
Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick.
Starbucks is coffee.
Well almost. I bought an HP4SI off ebay for $100. (Had to drive 100 miles to pick it up), It had only 7000 copies on the meter!!!!!!!
Age does have problems with these though. The toner cart died of old age, IE: it started LEAKING and an unused repack that I bought which was a shelf queen long before I got it had the same problem (result, pages with about a 10% gray background and streaks). A brand new toner cart ($70) and it prints clean again.
Also my power supply and duplexor had to be replaced as the printer started throwing error codes 55, 54, and 13.2 paper jams on selftest/powerup all the time. (and the printer shop couldn't reproduce the problem which ONLY happened in my house!!!)
Still it's a great printer, if not a bit on the dinosaur size (and WEIGHT!). 32megs of memory and postscript and duplex.
oh god please let someone kill fortran, dead bodies be damned, please please please
And while you're at it, please exterminate Cobol too! (PL/1 ?)
make a copy of the cd but don't copy the copy protection to the copy. Rip the copy.
Problem solved.
Yet another reason to call for the impeachment of the brainless horse's arse we have for a president. (If the story is true)
Why is a collection of songs in a single release called an 'album'?
Because before the long playing 33.3 rpm record the only way to make such a release was a collection of discrete 78 rpm records. The collection was packaged in a book, that looked much like a 'photo album'. These collections were grouped two ways, one in which the tracks were ordered with consectutive numbers on individual discs so they would be played in order on a record changer. The other grouping was for playing them on a manual player with the record being flipped over between selections.
We might be tempted to go nuclear, but we wouldn't have too. A few MOABS in the right places would be just as effective. Maybe a Fuel-Air bomb or two over their capital.
There have been many 'studies' funded by MS to prove that Linux TCO is higher than Windows.
If one had to convert their operation from a total MS solution to a total Linux solution I can see that the re-tooling and re-training would take quite some time to be absorbed into any possible lower support costs. Given that Linux upgrades are 'free' for the download and installation (minus the manpower costs to do it) how can Windows claim a lower TCO when upgrades have a sizeable cost per seat? Do you actually believe that IP support costs (manhours times cost per manhour) is less with Windows than with Linux? IE: do support engineers charge MORE per hour for Linux support than for MS? Or does Windows require LESS manhours to support than Linux? Or BOTH?
Do you actually believe that Windows has fewer support 'incidents' than Linux (for bonifide software problems and NOT user training issues)? Do you think that the 'learning curve' for a user to become proficient with the system is larger for Linux than for Windows (assuming a user starts with ZERO computer experience)?
In Bill Gate's bank account. He would NOT be worth the BILLONS he is today. Neither would Paul
Alan, and think of all the projects that would not have been funded. For one Rutan would NOT have had a sponser for the X prize.
Remember the BBC series 'connections'? Well in this case one thing changes EVERYTHING.
Well the first transistors had an ft (switching speed) of about 5khz and it didn't take much abuse to burn them out. Today we have transitors with ft's over 10ghz and they are quite rugged.
It's a sail that pharts.
The Right Stuff.
Hey the movie was almost as long as the book, but
the book was a little too long.
The first Linux 64 bit port was probably the Alpha port, and THAT goes back quite a bit.
Guessing the superspark was the second.