That is why it needs to be concealed in some of those $200 sneakers all the kids where all the time. They don't know there is a GPS tracking device in there with a cell phone. Of course then you have to come up with something that will make the kids plug their sneakers into an outlet every few days so the battery can be recharged.
Of course that is a problem with the dog version too. How do you train fido to plug his collar in once a week? Wonder if this would not be a good use for broadcast power. Set it up on the dogs bed so when he sleeps the GPS/phone unit gets recharged. Otherwise most of these will be useless after about two weeks if that long when the battery discharges.
Please please tell me they are including information like this on broadcasts! It should make commercial detection much easier. Instead of being able to automatically skip about 90% of all commercials we can get 100% of them. That wuold be good!:)
With cable companies and dish networks pushing DVRs how are companies using Neilson since many of those DVRs allow users to skip over commercials? Personally I have been using MythTV for almost a year now. I never watch live TV anymore and as a result I see very few commercials. If I understand correctly broadcasters use Neilson ratings to set the price of commercials on different shows. With DVRs becoming more common allowing more people to skip commercials won't this make Neilson ratings useless and ultimately cause advertisers to reduce spending since they are not really reaching as many people as are watching the shows. And by
The scary part of all this is that recently there has been talk about letting cable companies offer channels ala cart. I figure this will eventual evolve into user paid support for channels and ultimately into users paying for each show directly. This should result in commercials getting dropped from shows supported in this method. But this will lead to commercial placements directly in the shows.
Finally an operating system upper management can actually use! I guess I can retire their etch-a-sketchs. Now if I can just teach them not to stick stamps on the monitor when they send email.
The biggest problem you have is getting a company to switch systems. As in most cases they get used to using the first thing they start with. Moving to a new accounting system is painful regardless of the systems involved. You must have commitment from the top on down to make it a success.
I wouldn't trust an M$ application to report on M$ operating system and other flaws even if I were offered large sums of money to do so.
It all depends on how large a sum of money. If they give me a check for say $2 million dollars, then no problem, Microsoft is the answer. Of course I would retire at the end of the week.:)
A real fix would be for Microsoft to use this http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp or even this http://www.redhat.com/. Of course this would cut into their revenue stream but these are real fixes for the problem not bandaids like anti-virus software and spyware removal tools. I am sure an OEM branding deal could be setup for Microsoft to use either of those options. They just need to port some of their other applications to either of those choices. Of course they would then be competing against the likes of Apache, postgresql, mysql, and Openoffice/Staroffice.
In the long run that is what is going to happen anyway. Real alternatives are available today for most things running on Microsofts OS. As more and more companies and governments learn they can reap significant savings by moving away from Windows products Microsoft will either have to adapt or slowly become irrelevant. (I am sure some on/. would argue that is already the case)
I've said it before and I will keep saying it, Microsoft is in a downward spiral. They will continue to lose customers at an increasing rate. Today there are viable alternatives to all of their products. A year or two ago that was not really true. Today things are much different. And now that Sun is releasing their development tools for free there are even more alternatives. We have reached a tipping point, expect to see over the next two years a steady increase in developers moving to one of the many alternative systems available. As that happens the third party products available for Solaris and Linux will explode which will in turn have users demanding to run something other than Windows.
And watch Microsoft continue to try and reinvent themselves. I expect any day to read where Microsoft will release their OS in a form that is zero cost, probably not as open source but using a license scheme where they can claim they compete directly with Solaris and Linux. They may even claim to have invented open source at some point, assuming they fail to attack it successfully in the courts.
Why do most people assume the current climate conditions are static and are suppose to remain unchanged? The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the distant past Earth has gone through many cycles of warming and cooling. This will continue to happen. What we need to do is adapt to the changes as we have done in the past. The one big difference is that now we have technology that will allow us to build structures that will allow us to live in all climates instead of mass migrations into new territories like we did in the distant past.
We have been lucky the past couple of thousand years in that the climate has been relatively mild which allowed us to achieve the technology level we have. Lets use what we have learned to adapt to the coming change. Better yet lets get a viable self sustaining colony establshied off this planet. Currently if a sudden and dramatic event occurs on a global scale it may destroy what we have built up so far. A first step to mitigating that is to establish viable colonies on Mars and other moons in this solar system. Eventually we need to establish colonies around other suns since our current one will eventually fail or may be causing the climate changes that may ultimately doom us on this planet.
New Orleans being flooded has nothing to do with global warming and more to do with poor engineering and planning by local officials. Trying to use possibly false arguements to get people to change their behaviour is doomed to failure. Even if the goal is to improve the environment.
This lastest evidence might be interpeted that since there had been several warming and cooling cycles in the distant past with no corelation between those cycles and green house gases that possibly the warming cycle is caused by something other than green house gases? Couple that with the information that Mars ice caps are currently receding as well and one would have to theorize that possibly something else is causing the current warming cycle. Something that can affect two planets at the same time. Something like a variation in the Sun. But no one wants to think about that. They would rather spout things that advance a different agenda instead of trying to sort out the real cause.
Of course some may argue that we caused Mars ice caps to melt since we have put several rovers on the planet which are still running around up there.:)
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You obviously don't understand how/. works. Post quickly with little content, slam Microsoft when possible, and duplicate the story as quickly as possible with no new content.
Once you get the rules down it won't bother you so much.:)
Yes, it was on Thunderbirds. They tried using one of their ships to lift the mirror assembly but that did not work. I'm really surprised there are not more rferences to that episode in this article.
Microsoft has finally realized that they can no longer hold most of the world hostage to their file formats. There are legitimate options availiable. Staroffice and Openoffice provide fairly good translation, thanks to the hard efforts of the developers to reverse engineer those file formats. Now that open document format is becoming a requirement by governments Microsoft is being forced into this action. This is being driven by the marketing group, they needed to be able to check off that they support open file formats. Now that their particular file formats can be declared open they can fight the onslaught of the open document format using other tricks.
Hopefully this will be to little to late. Microsoft is not embracing the open document format, they are just trying to have a counter response when the question is raised by customers. Let's hope that most customers realize this and still consider other alternatives to getting locked into the Microsoft way.
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Actually this will be used for silicon laser breast implants for sharks. So not only will they have lasers on their heads but also in their bossoms. Three shots for each shark.
Of course the real danger will be when women start getting lasers implanted in their breasts. When they say no they will really mean NO!
Naturally most/.'ers will never have to face this problem.
He sites H.G. Wells and cavorite as examples of his "invention"? What the heck is the patent office doing? Can we start patenting things in sci-fi books? If that is the case then I want to patent the flux capacitor, hyper drive, antimatter engines,......
Now if he can produce a prototype space craft using this "technology" then he should get all of Bill Gates money and a lot more.
Like a lot of the patents that have been granted, this will just keep antigravity out of the general publics hands for a very long time. Just like that 100 mile per gallon carburator.
And it just goes to show that if you have the money you can get ANYTHING patented.
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Actually isn't that the direction Microsoft is taking their licensing? They want an annual fee for each copy out there, not a one time upfront charge. So yes they want you to have to pay each year in order to run your computer. Plus that gets them in a position to have a recuring revenue stream they can count on. They can only sell so many new copies of an OS each year. With the number of computers that are out there now much larger than new systems being sold they want to get paid for all of those systems each and every year.
Keep looking for Microsoft to try to reinvent themselves. The gravy train is ending and they need to find new ways to get money from people.
If we could get the average Joe Bob Windows user to read a book about security, I'm sure we'd see a lot fewer Windows security breaches, too.
The problem is you have teach "Joe Bob Windows user" how to read first.:)
Personally, I think a special campaign that sends out spam and phish attempts should be put into place. All those that respond will be identified and their computers confiscated, their cable and phone jacks removed from their house, and then they would be sterilized. We have to end this problem at the source, the individual user that apparently throws huge sums of money at the asshats that make the Internet a less secure and usable tool. Once the spammers stop making money off these idiots they will go away.
Two years from now we will start to see IPv6 becoming very common.
And two years from now you will start to get an annual bill from what ever organization that happens to get the contract to assign all those IPv6 addresses that you are using throughout your house.
And you can bet the UN knows this and this is why it is trying to get control of the addressing and DNS services. Collect a nickel every year for each IPv6 address assigned is a lot of money once this catches on big time.
Are there provisions for a IPv6 NAT router? If not people will want one real soon.
Does IPv6 have a equivalent function for NAT that is widely used now? Everyone is waving their hands saying it would be a good thing for eveyrone to use a "real" address on all equipment. But no one has discussed the processes that will be needed for an authority to pass out those addresses to ALL users. Right now the ISP is granted a block of addresses and they assign one of those to the end user. The end user setups a NAT firewall/router and puts all kinds of equipment behind it. In the new IPv6 world that end user would have to request a block of addresses that he could assign to all that equipment. And any good net admin knows that you ask for more than you currently need because things grow. So how fast is all that IPv6 addressing going to last with people asking for big chunks of addressing and companies asking for even larger portions? On top of that it is going to require a central organization (ICANN?) to pass out the address blocks. They are not going to do that for free. So now the individual user that wants to setup an IPv6 network at home will have to pay an annual fee for his block of addresses. And based on the previous message you would want to own your own block of addressing since in theory you can take it anywhere you want to go.
Maybe this is why the UN wants to get into the DNS business now. It can see down the road far enough where EVERYONE IN THE WORLD will have to pay an annual fee for each piece of equipment or address block they want to own that is on the Internet. I would not mind getting a nickel for every IP address that is assigned every year from now on. Heck I would settle for a penny for every address that is assigned.
I can understand some of the technical issues for moving to IPv6 but I don't think anyone has thought through the political and business reasons for moving to it.
(Obligatory car analogy) When you put gas in your car, there's still gas left in it, so it can still work. Yet you don't wait till you go dry to put some more gas in.
You never rode with my wife, she runs out of gas all the time.
One big reason NAT is not going to go away is that it is fairly easy to assign an end user one IP address (or small block of addresses) then the end user can setup however many systems they need behind that address. If each end user has to be assigned a block of IPV6 addresses so they have "real" addresses for every device they use there will be a lot of people asking for huge blocks. The reason they ask for huge blocks of addresses is so they won't have to ask for a larger block later on if needed or work with a lot of smaller address blocks at the same site.
Right now with NAT end users can setup very large complex networks using RFC1918 addressing without impacting on anyone or having to get permission to use any of those address blocks.
I wonder if this is where the UN wants to control things? I would hate to have to register every piece of equipment with such an organization or request another block of addressing for a test LAN or to hook up that new fridge in the kitchen. Could be weeks or months before I get an IP address that lets me ssh into my fridge to turn on the ice maker and assign its IP address. And it will probably add cost to new houses that need IP address blocks for all the light switches. Just imagine the UN having problems responding to all the requests and you having to sit in the dark in your new house for a couple of months because you can not get on line to initialize your light switches.:)
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That is why it needs to be concealed in some of those $200 sneakers all the kids where all the time. They don't know there is a GPS tracking device in there with a cell phone. Of course then you have to come up with something that will make the kids plug their sneakers into an outlet every few days so the battery can be recharged.
Of course that is a problem with the dog version too. How do you train fido to plug his collar in once a week? Wonder if this would not be a good use for broadcast power. Set it up on the dogs bed so when he sleeps the GPS/phone unit gets recharged. Otherwise most of these will be useless after about two weeks if that long when the battery discharges.
Didn't you just define a tank tread? Seriously, ;) isn't a tank tread a closed loop road way that the wheels of the tank drive on?
Please please tell me they are including information like this on broadcasts! It should make commercial detection much easier. Instead of being able to automatically skip about 90% of all commercials we can get 100% of them. That wuold be good! :)
With cable companies and dish networks pushing DVRs how are companies using Neilson since many of those DVRs allow users to skip over commercials? Personally I have been using MythTV for almost a year now. I never watch live TV anymore and as a result I see very few commercials. If I understand correctly broadcasters use Neilson ratings to set the price of commercials on different shows. With DVRs becoming more common allowing more people to skip commercials won't this make Neilson ratings useless and ultimately cause advertisers to reduce spending since they are not really reaching as many people as are watching the shows. And by
The scary part of all this is that recently there has been talk about letting cable companies offer channels ala cart. I figure this will eventual evolve into user paid support for channels and ultimately into users paying for each show directly. This should result in commercials getting dropped from shows supported in this method. But this will lead to commercial placements directly in the shows.
Finally an operating system upper management can actually use! I guess I can retire their etch-a-sketchs. Now if I can just teach them not to stick stamps on the monitor when they send email.
Sounds like you are locked in forever then. To bad. I doubt if any other system would ever duplicate the API's for quickbooks.
there aren't any accounting packages for Linux that have even a fraction of the functionality that the admittedly low-end Quickbooks offers.
I think you need to check this site out for a viable option for accounting: http://www.sql-ledger.com/
The biggest problem you have is getting a company to switch systems. As in most cases they get used to using the first thing they start with. Moving to a new accounting system is painful regardless of the systems involved. You must have commitment from the top on down to make it a success.
I wouldn't trust an M$ application to report on M$ operating system and other flaws even if I were offered large sums of money to do so.
:)
/. would argue that is already the case)
It all depends on how large a sum of money. If they give me a check for say $2 million dollars, then no problem, Microsoft is the answer. Of course I would retire at the end of the week.
A real fix would be for Microsoft to use this http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp or even this http://www.redhat.com/. Of course this would cut into their revenue stream but these are real fixes for the problem not bandaids like anti-virus software and spyware removal tools. I am sure an OEM branding deal could be setup for Microsoft to use either of those options. They just need to port some of their other applications to either of those choices. Of course they would then be competing against the likes of Apache, postgresql, mysql, and Openoffice/Staroffice.
In the long run that is what is going to happen anyway. Real alternatives are available today for most things running on Microsofts OS. As more and more companies and governments learn they can reap significant savings by moving away from Windows products Microsoft will either have to adapt or slowly become irrelevant. (I am sure some on
I've said it before and I will keep saying it, Microsoft is in a downward spiral. They will continue to lose customers at an increasing rate. Today there are viable alternatives to all of their products. A year or two ago that was not really true. Today things are much different. And now that Sun is releasing their development tools for free there are even more alternatives. We have reached a tipping point, expect to see over the next two years a steady increase in developers moving to one of the many alternative systems available. As that happens the third party products available for Solaris and Linux will explode which will in turn have users demanding to run something other than Windows.
And watch Microsoft continue to try and reinvent themselves. I expect any day to read where Microsoft will release their OS in a form that is zero cost, probably not as open source but using a license scheme where they can claim they compete directly with Solaris and Linux. They may even claim to have invented open source at some point, assuming they fail to attack it successfully in the courts.
Why do most people assume the current climate conditions are static and are suppose to remain unchanged? The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the distant past Earth has gone through many cycles of warming and cooling. This will continue to happen. What we need to do is adapt to the changes as we have done in the past. The one big difference is that now we have technology that will allow us to build structures that will allow us to live in all climates instead of mass migrations into new territories like we did in the distant past.
We have been lucky the past couple of thousand years in that the climate has been relatively mild which allowed us to achieve the technology level we have. Lets use what we have learned to adapt to the coming change. Better yet lets get a viable self sustaining colony establshied off this planet. Currently if a sudden and dramatic event occurs on a global scale it may destroy what we have built up so far. A first step to mitigating that is to establish viable colonies on Mars and other moons in this solar system. Eventually we need to establish colonies around other suns since our current one will eventually fail or may be causing the climate changes that may ultimately doom us on this planet.
New Orleans being flooded has nothing to do with global warming and more to do with poor engineering and planning by local officials. Trying to use possibly false arguements to get people to change their behaviour is doomed to failure. Even if the goal is to improve the environment.
:)
This lastest evidence might be interpeted that since there had been several warming and cooling cycles in the distant past with no corelation between those cycles and green house gases that possibly the warming cycle is caused by something other than green house gases? Couple that with the information that Mars ice caps are currently receding as well and one would have to theorize that possibly something else is causing the current warming cycle. Something that can affect two planets at the same time. Something like a variation in the Sun. But no one wants to think about that. They would rather spout things that advance a different agenda instead of trying to sort out the real cause.
Of course some may argue that we caused Mars ice caps to melt since we have put several rovers on the planet which are still running around up there.
You obviously don't understand how /. works. Post quickly with little content, slam Microsoft when possible, and duplicate the story as quickly as possible with no new content.
:)
Once you get the rules down it won't bother you so much.
That's why they need the implants. :)
Yes, it was on Thunderbirds. They tried using one of their ships to lift the mirror assembly but that did not work. I'm really surprised there are not more rferences to that episode in this article.
Microsoft has finally realized that they can no longer hold most of the world hostage to their file formats. There are legitimate options availiable. Staroffice and Openoffice provide fairly good translation, thanks to the hard efforts of the developers to reverse engineer those file formats. Now that open document format is becoming a requirement by governments Microsoft is being forced into this action. This is being driven by the marketing group, they needed to be able to check off that they support open file formats. Now that their particular file formats can be declared open they can fight the onslaught of the open document format using other tricks.
Hopefully this will be to little to late. Microsoft is not embracing the open document format, they are just trying to have a counter response when the question is raised by customers. Let's hope that most customers realize this and still consider other alternatives to getting locked into the Microsoft way.
Actually this will be used for silicon laser breast implants for sharks. So not only will they have lasers on their heads but also in their bossoms. Three shots for each shark.
/.'ers will never have to face this problem.
Of course the real danger will be when women start getting lasers implanted in their breasts. When they say no they will really mean NO!
Naturally most
Yeah, they are all talking on their cell phones at the same time they are publishing articles.
He sites H.G. Wells and cavorite as examples of his "invention"? What the heck is the patent office doing? Can we start patenting things in sci-fi books? If that is the case then I want to patent the flux capacitor, hyper drive, antimatter engines, ......
Now if he can produce a prototype space craft using this "technology" then he should get all of Bill Gates money and a lot more.
Like a lot of the patents that have been granted, this will just keep antigravity out of the general publics hands for a very long time. Just like that 100 mile per gallon carburator.
And it just goes to show that if you have the money you can get ANYTHING patented.
Actually isn't that the direction Microsoft is taking their licensing? They want an annual fee for each copy out there, not a one time upfront charge. So yes they want you to have to pay each year in order to run your computer. Plus that gets them in a position to have a recuring revenue stream they can count on. They can only sell so many new copies of an OS each year. With the number of computers that are out there now much larger than new systems being sold they want to get paid for all of those systems each and every year.
Keep looking for Microsoft to try to reinvent themselves. The gravy train is ending and they need to find new ways to get money from people.
The competition to have the longest running Windows 2000 server will start heating up in 2008.
If we could get the average Joe Bob Windows user to read a book about security, I'm sure we'd see a lot fewer Windows security breaches, too.
:)
The problem is you have teach "Joe Bob Windows user" how to read first.
Personally, I think a special campaign that sends out spam and phish attempts should be put into place. All those that respond will be identified and their computers confiscated, their cable and phone jacks removed from their house, and then they would be sterilized. We have to end this problem at the source, the individual user that apparently throws huge sums of money at the asshats that make the Internet a less secure and usable tool. Once the spammers stop making money off these idiots they will go away.
Two years from now we will start to see IPv6 becoming very common.
And two years from now you will start to get an annual bill from what ever organization that happens to get the contract to assign all those IPv6 addresses that you are using throughout your house.
And you can bet the UN knows this and this is why it is trying to get control of the addressing and DNS services. Collect a nickel every year for each IPv6 address assigned is a lot of money once this catches on big time.
Are there provisions for a IPv6 NAT router? If not people will want one real soon.
Does IPv6 have a equivalent function for NAT that is widely used now? Everyone is waving their hands saying it would be a good thing for eveyrone to use a "real" address on all equipment. But no one has discussed the processes that will be needed for an authority to pass out those addresses to ALL users. Right now the ISP is granted a block of addresses and they assign one of those to the end user. The end user setups a NAT firewall/router and puts all kinds of equipment behind it. In the new IPv6 world that end user would have to request a block of addresses that he could assign to all that equipment. And any good net admin knows that you ask for more than you currently need because things grow. So how fast is all that IPv6 addressing going to last with people asking for big chunks of addressing and companies asking for even larger portions? On top of that it is going to require a central organization (ICANN?) to pass out the address blocks. They are not going to do that for free. So now the individual user that wants to setup an IPv6 network at home will have to pay an annual fee for his block of addresses. And based on the previous message you would want to own your own block of addressing since in theory you can take it anywhere you want to go.
Maybe this is why the UN wants to get into the DNS business now. It can see down the road far enough where EVERYONE IN THE WORLD will have to pay an annual fee for each piece of equipment or address block they want to own that is on the Internet. I would not mind getting a nickel for every IP address that is assigned every year from now on. Heck I would settle for a penny for every address that is assigned.
I can understand some of the technical issues for moving to IPv6 but I don't think anyone has thought through the political and business reasons for moving to it.
(Obligatory car analogy) When you put gas in your car, there's still gas left in it, so it can still work. Yet you don't wait till you go dry to put some more gas in.
You never rode with my wife, she runs out of gas all the time.
One big reason NAT is not going to go away is that it is fairly easy to assign an end user one IP address (or small block of addresses) then the end user can setup however many systems they need behind that address. If each end user has to be assigned a block of IPV6 addresses so they have "real" addresses for every device they use there will be a lot of people asking for huge blocks. The reason they ask for huge blocks of addresses is so they won't have to ask for a larger block later on if needed or work with a lot of smaller address blocks at the same site.
:)
Right now with NAT end users can setup very large complex networks using RFC1918 addressing without impacting on anyone or having to get permission to use any of those address blocks.
I wonder if this is where the UN wants to control things? I would hate to have to register every piece of equipment with such an organization or request another block of addressing for a test LAN or to hook up that new fridge in the kitchen. Could be weeks or months before I get an IP address that lets me ssh into my fridge to turn on the ice maker and assign its IP address. And it will probably add cost to new houses that need IP address blocks for all the light switches. Just imagine the UN having problems responding to all the requests and you having to sit in the dark in your new house for a couple of months because you can not get on line to initialize your light switches.