Time Warner has a site with content that I would be interested in? I'm so outta the loop....but wait, I pay TW $45/mo for RoadRunner...are they gonna cut me out too? I was already a 4th class citizen but this friggin' totem pole is gettin' heavy.
I'm about to make a major move and the Forth books ("Starting Forth","Thinking in Forth", "Threaded Languages" and 2 or 3 Forth Inc manuals were slated for the trash (ie a library book sale that will prolly do the honors). If someone throws shipping money (or wants to pick up in Tampa) in my direction, they are welcome to them. Let me know by 10AM 10/1 cuz they are goin',goin'......I think my email addr is in my bio somewhere.
I had a Data General at work that had 2.5 MB platters...one fixed and one removable...the other mini only had 8" floppies. The first computer that I owned had 256 BYTES of memory but cool leds and switches on the front panel. It wasn't until the 2nd puter that 5 1/4" floppies were even available...to do anything with one you wire wrapped an interface/controller using a WD 1771 and some TTL and wrote your own drivers in assembly language. The first hard drive I owned was an 8" 5 Mb Tandon that cost $1000 (in 1977 currency). It talked to an outboard Xebec controller that you bought for $300 and that talked to the bus through a wirewrapped interface...write a set of drivers and you were ready to rumble....at the time, 5 Mb seemed like overkill *LOL* But I'm ancient....
How do you feel about the Palladium and the so-called "trusted computing" initiatives that are being pushed by industry leaders as a way of protecting content providers and copyright owners? Do you see this as something that might benefit artists, songwriters and musicians, or more as an attempt to cede total control in the hands of the RIAA membership? By placing the onus of protecting digital content on the consumer rather than on the entity claiming ownership, will we be helping the struggling musician or will it give the record companies an unassailable lock on the entire industry? In short, if the promoters of trusted computing succeed in their plans, do you think this will move the balance irretrievably in favor of the Big Three?
What if my cable modem doesn't "trust" me?
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I am wondering what one is supposed to do when your cable or DSL DHCP server decides no to talk to you because the modem has determined that you aren't "trusted". Cut off from/., not to mention the rest of the Net, how long are you going to hold out? Oh, I see, your ISP won't do that. Mine will. RoadRunner is Time Warner and I seem to remember that they are a content provider...and somehow associated with AOL also. Content and IP providers love this because the field is so heavily tilted in their favor. Hardware vendors love it too 'cuz they get to sell virtually every PC on the face of the earth all over again. Intel and AMD are already signed up, as is IBM (I believe...tried to check on the TPCA web site but predictably, since I am not a member, I wasn't trusted enough to get beyond the opening page) and prolly Moto and Transmeta too. Not only do the the biggies support it, word is that they will be putting the encryption device on the processor once the concept has been properly rammed down everyone's throat. Oh, did anyone mention that Longhorn is suddenly delayed so that every Microsoft product can be rewritten just in time for the final Palladium rollout? And if Office for Mac is included in the rewrite, doesn't that mean Apple will fall in line too? And y'all thought that the February focus on security meant Bill wanted to plug the leaks in IIS, didn't ya? Jerry Sanders puts out a little smoke in front of a judge, gets XP for the Hammers for being nice as long as he does the encryption thing on chip, Intel gets to save face by including those same extensions, and oh by the way, might as well do Yamhill while they are at it cuz Jerry had to give them a license for all the new X86-64 stuff as part of the package. Yes, when Longhorn comes down the chute, Wintel fans will all be using processors running identical code. One big, happy family. Ok, maybe I have been reading the Reg too often but seems to me a very well thought out plan that will click along under the radar until it has so much momentum that it can't be stopped.
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Time Warner has a site with content that I would be interested in? I'm so outta the loop....but wait, I pay TW $45/mo for RoadRunner...are they gonna cut me out too? I was already a 4th class citizen but this friggin' totem pole is gettin' heavy.
I'm about to make a major move and the Forth books ("Starting Forth","Thinking in Forth", "Threaded Languages" and 2 or 3 Forth Inc manuals were slated for the trash (ie a library book sale that will prolly do the honors). If someone throws shipping money (or wants to pick up in Tampa) in my direction, they are welcome to them. Let me know by 10AM 10/1 cuz they are goin',goin'......I think my email addr is in my bio somewhere.
I had a Data General at work that had 2.5 MB platters...one fixed and one removable...the other mini only had 8" floppies. The first computer that I owned had 256 BYTES of memory but cool leds and switches on the front panel. It wasn't until the 2nd puter that 5 1/4" floppies were even available...to do anything with one you wire wrapped an interface/controller using a WD 1771 and some TTL and wrote your own drivers in assembly language. The first hard drive I owned was an 8" 5 Mb Tandon that cost $1000 (in 1977 currency). It talked to an outboard Xebec controller that you bought for $300 and that talked to the bus through a wirewrapped interface...write a set of drivers and you were ready to rumble....at the time, 5 Mb seemed like overkill *LOL* But I'm ancient....
You're giving trolls a bad name, sport.
Janis,
How do you feel about the Palladium and the so-called "trusted computing" initiatives that are being pushed by industry leaders as a way of protecting content providers and copyright owners? Do you see this as something that might benefit artists, songwriters and musicians, or more as an attempt to cede total control in the hands of the RIAA membership? By placing the onus of protecting digital content on the consumer rather than on the entity claiming ownership, will we be helping the struggling musician or will it give the record companies an unassailable lock on the entire industry? In short, if the promoters of trusted computing succeed in their plans, do you think this will move the balance irretrievably in favor of the Big Three?
I am wondering what one is supposed to do when your cable or DSL DHCP server decides no to talk to you because the modem has determined that you aren't "trusted". Cut off from /., not to mention the rest of the Net, how long are you going to hold out? Oh, I see, your ISP won't do that. Mine will. RoadRunner is Time Warner and I seem to remember that they are a content provider...and somehow associated with AOL also. Content and IP providers love this because the field is so heavily tilted in their favor. Hardware vendors love it too 'cuz they get to sell virtually every PC on the face of the earth all over again. Intel and AMD are already signed up, as is IBM (I believe...tried to check on the TPCA web site but predictably, since I am not a member, I wasn't trusted enough to get beyond the opening page) and prolly Moto and Transmeta too. Not only do the the biggies support it, word is that they will be putting the encryption device on the processor once the concept has been properly rammed down everyone's throat. Oh, did anyone mention that Longhorn is suddenly delayed so that every Microsoft product can be rewritten just in time for the final Palladium rollout? And if Office for Mac is included in the rewrite, doesn't that mean Apple will fall in line too? And y'all thought that the February focus on security meant Bill wanted to plug the leaks in IIS, didn't ya? Jerry Sanders puts out a little smoke in front of a judge, gets XP for the Hammers for being nice as long as he does the encryption thing on chip, Intel gets to save face by including those same extensions, and oh by the way, might as well do Yamhill while they are at it cuz Jerry had to give them a license for all the new X86-64 stuff as part of the package. Yes, when Longhorn comes down the chute, Wintel fans will all be using processors running identical code. One big, happy family. Ok, maybe I have been reading the Reg too often but seems to me a very well thought out plan that will click along under the radar until it has so much momentum that it can't be stopped.