The US is not going metric any time soon and it seems that the US is going AWAY from metric. Over 20 years ago I remember that new Interstate Highway signs were in both English and Metric values. The speed limits were in both kph and MPH, distances were in both miles and km. After a period of time with dual english/metric, all of the signs went back to just MPH and miles -- so much for encouraging Americans to metrify. I am not even sure that American car manufacturers still include km/h on speedometers any more. Personally, I can use either metric or english measurements but I default to english. A particular peeve I have is with the metric temperature scale. The celsius scale is less precise than the fahrenheit scale (unless you do decimal degrees). It also used to be that rulers and tape measures were marked in both english and metric units, now most are only in english units. Twenty years ago many secondary American schools used to have meter sticks in classrooms (with both inches and metric markings), I noticed that now at least some secondary schools have yard sticks (with only inch markings) in their classrooms instaead of meter sticks. The only two common measuring devices that I see today that have both english and metric scales are electronic devices that have a metric/english switch and glass measuring cups.
There are specific laws against reporting the bogus numbers that the Enron and Tyco folks reported. There are no specific laws against reporting the bogus numbers that the RIAA are reporting.
I think that a bigger problem with the RIAA is that it may be skirting laws that prevent collusion between "competing" companies.
Yeah, the RIAA could be doing something illegal or fraudulant, but who has both the desire and the resources to pick a fight with the RIAA?
May 1999 - Shawn Fanning released the original Napster P2P software
December 7, 1999 - RIAA filed suit against Napster
Bunch of law suit stuff happens that costs Napster lots of money and Napster gets shut down.
October 31, 2000 - Napster announces an agreement with Bertelsmann AG for a subscription-based distribution scheme.
More legal crap happens, essentially all good for RIAA.
March 5, 2001 - Napster begins to block access to copyrighted songs on its system. On the same day the Recording Academy (the Grammy award folks) files suit against Napster.
More stuff happens, RIAA gives Napster a list of songs to block. Judge says that Napster is "out of control"
July 2, 2001 - Judge orders Napster offline
May 2002 - Napster has fired almost everybody and is on verge of bankrupcy. Bertelsmann AG starts buying Napster
June 3, 2002: Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in preparation for takeover by Bertelsmann AG.
September 2002: Judge blocks the sale of Napster to Bertelsmann AG. Plans are started for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation of Napster.
November 25th, 2002 - Roxio acquired the bankrupt Napster.
July 2003 - Roxio announced that it planned the launch of Napster 2 in time for Christmas.
Patnets are getting even sillier. The patent office had the right idea when they required the inventer to provide an example or model of the invention.
I wonder if the USPTO will allow a patent for the process of placing a flaming bag of dog crap on somebody's doorstep.
"Block that whole range, and some dial-up customers might try to reach you and fail."
I would hope that NOBODY would ever accept email directly from somebody running a mail server on a dial-up or any other dynamic IP address. I know that there are folks who hate their ISP's mail servers, are responsible enough to run their own mail servers at home, etc, etc. The amount of spam and viruses coming from zombied broadband and DSL connections is HUGE. At least if it comes from an ISP's mail server there is some sort of accountability for the content of the mail.
TiVo can only record one show at any given time, it can also only play back one show at any given time. It can record a show and play another show at the same time. The TiVo remote will support two different TiVo's, I am wondering if getting a second TiVo would be over the top......
I do not use a cable box (although that means that I can't get the bajillion premium channel$ on the digital tier$). My TiVo is about the same size as the SA box and the tuner in my TV works as well, and I believe more conveniently, as the second tuner in the SA.
I don't care about brand name fuck. I don't think many people say linoleum when they mean vinyl flooring any more. I haven't heard the word "Frigidaire" used as a generic term in a long time. Aspirin is a trademark in Canada (Bayer) but not in the US. ASA is a trademark in the US (Eli Lilly) but a generic name in Canada. Heroin used to be a trademark too (Bayer).
I believe that you can program the TiVo to record by time and channel like a VCR. It is probably cheaper to buy the lifetime (of the TiVo) subscription rather than doing month to month.
I have a TiVo and a friend with a Scientific Atlanta DVR. I can tell you that the Scientific Atlantic user interface isn't any where as nice as the TiVo. I can do without TiVo surprising me with programs it decided I wanted to see, but it sure is nice to be able to do wish lists. The differences between the user interfaces on the SA and the TiVo seem to me like comparing a Mac to DOS 6.0.
I was in the military and put together a high end stereo while stationed overseas in the middle 70's. I could hear the differences between cassettes; and prerecorded cassettes ALWAYS sounded bad. Unless the cassette was copied on a low-end cassete recorder (like Soundesign or a portable), or the person doing the recording didn't know what he was doing, copies of decent LPs ALWAYS sounded better than prerecorded cassettes. The base hoppy shop had some lower end brand name cassette recorders for dubbing, and even the tapes from those recorders sounded better than prerecorded cassettes.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's, it didn't take a really expensive stereo system to make better cassette copies of LPs than the prerecorded cassettes. Prerecorded cassettes were made using high speed dubbing and the upper end was severly attenuated, there was also more hiss on prerecorded cassettes. The only advantage to prerecorded cassettes was that there were no pops or other audio artifacts from the records. To sum it up, the sound quality of prerecorded cassettes REALLY sucked.
I understood that at one time it was cheaper for at least one Japaneses manufacturer to build at least one model of car in the US and export it to Japan than it cost to build it in Japan. I also understand that Sony used to export televisions that were assembled in the US because the total cost of production was lower and the production was of higher quality. I think that this ended when production went to Mexico (which has now moved somewhere cheaper).
Is the special version of Solaris you referring to "Trusted Solaris"? Trusted Solaris had the Trusted added it met "the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)". These controls are primarily to protect the system from priveliged users and processes that run as a priveliged user. Very cool concept, a real bitch to use. There is an Open Source project called TrustedBSD http://www.trustedbsd.org "The TrustedBSD Project is made possible through the generous sponsorship and donations of a variety of organizations, including the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), Network Associates Laboratories, Safeport Network Services, the University of Pennsylvania, Yahoo!, and others."
Ethereal works great with Solaris workstations. I don't feel that Ethereal is necessary for collecting data on Solaris servers as Ethereal reads Solaris snoop output files. You can snoop -o on a Solaris server and examine the packets on a Linux, Solaris, or M$ workstation.
Most non-career Air Force SP's are interchangeable with Toys R Us Rent-a-Cops. The Air Force does not have cooks, so when somebody washes out of tech school they are recycled into either drivers, motor pool gas pumpers or SP's. Being a stocker or cashier at Toys R Us would be a step up.
When a large corporation does something that is illegal, such as stealing wages, the current administration would prefer to ignore it; or if it HAS to do something, it will do something that will not injure the large corporation in any way. If a person that is not favored by the administration is caught doing something that is illegal, such as stealing food in order to not have his family starve or trading MP3's, the legal system will come down on that person as hard and as deep as it possibly can.
I am not going to do all the work for you and provide the name of the company who makes it. "HomeSite 5.5 provides a lean, code-only editor for web development. Advanced coding features enable you to instantly create and modify HTML, CFML, JSP, and XHTML tags, while enhanced productivity tools allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format code more easily. Configure Macromedia HomeSite to fit your needs by extending its functionality and customizing the interface."
The only applications that are driving the insane workstation/personal computer processor and display speeds are PC games. If games go away on PCs then there will be very little incentive for anybody to upgrade to faster CPUs and displays. The server market is totally different, the server market needs processing power, but it doesn't need fast displays.
I don't know who told you that MS Windows could be online 24/7/365, but they told you a porky. According to uptime statistics on Netcraft, the *BSDs and Linux systems in general have MUCH longer uptimes than MS Windows systems. Having Unix systems with uptimes of over a year is not at all unusal, having MS Windows systems with uptimes approaching a month is unusal.
Is your IP or ISP on a blacklist such as SORBS or Spews? If your IP address is on such a list many, if not most, ISPs will reject or silently drop your email. Do not blame the ISPs, blame the spammers. One place to check to see if your IP address is listed is at http://www.moensted.dk/spam/
What do you mean "We've found one dead body, the criminal is in jail." in reference to Microsoft? Microsoft has been found to be an illegal monopoly (a felony) by both the US and the EU. The US has done virtually nothing about it and Microsoft is squirming trying to get out of any sanctions by the EU. In this case the criminal is not in jail, and the convicted criminal seems to be quite adept at buying it's way out of jail after each conviction.
I think that PenWindows died, descended into hell, and then arose as PenWindows ver 2.0; which was too crappy and too late. Later, the carcass of PenWindows went on to become a part of the Tablet PC.
See http://pencomputing.com/PenWindows/
and http://pencomputing.com/frames/tablet_pc.html
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I forgot one other thing that shows both metric and english units: a urinal -- 3.8 Lpf / 1.0 gpf.
The US is not going metric any time soon and it seems that the US is going AWAY from metric. Over 20 years ago I remember that new Interstate Highway signs were in both English and Metric values. The speed limits were in both kph and MPH, distances were in both miles and km. After a period of time with dual english/metric, all of the signs went back to just MPH and miles -- so much for encouraging Americans to metrify. I am not even sure that American car manufacturers still include km/h on speedometers any more. Personally, I can use either metric or english measurements but I default to english. A particular peeve I have is with the metric temperature scale. The celsius scale is less precise than the fahrenheit scale (unless you do decimal degrees). It also used to be that rulers and tape measures were marked in both english and metric units, now most are only in english units. Twenty years ago many secondary American schools used to have meter sticks in classrooms (with both inches and metric markings), I noticed that now at least some secondary schools have yard sticks (with only inch markings) in their classrooms instaead of meter sticks. The only two common measuring devices that I see today that have both english and metric scales are electronic devices that have a metric/english switch and glass measuring cups.
Funny how you can double non-metric paper sizes and get a standard paper size too:
A folded and trimmed 8 1/2" x 11" page = 5" x 8" (a standard page size).
Two 8 1/2" x 11" pages = 11" x 17" (a standard bond paper size).
Two 11" x 17" pages = 17" x 22" (the standard Bond paper size for determining basis weight).
There are specific laws against reporting the bogus numbers that the Enron and Tyco folks reported. There are no specific laws against reporting the bogus numbers that the RIAA are reporting. I think that a bigger problem with the RIAA is that it may be skirting laws that prevent collusion between "competing" companies. Yeah, the RIAA could be doing something illegal or fraudulant, but who has both the desire and the resources to pick a fight with the RIAA?
May 1999 - Shawn Fanning released the original Napster P2P software
December 7, 1999 - RIAA filed suit against Napster
Bunch of law suit stuff happens that costs Napster lots of money and Napster gets shut down.
October 31, 2000 - Napster announces an agreement with Bertelsmann AG for a subscription-based distribution scheme.
More legal crap happens, essentially all good for RIAA.
March 5, 2001 - Napster begins to block access to copyrighted songs on its system. On the same day the Recording Academy (the Grammy award folks) files suit against Napster.
More stuff happens, RIAA gives Napster a list of songs to block. Judge says that Napster is "out of control"
July 2, 2001 - Judge orders Napster offline
May 2002 - Napster has fired almost everybody and is on verge of bankrupcy. Bertelsmann AG starts buying Napster
June 3, 2002: Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in preparation for takeover by Bertelsmann AG.
September 2002: Judge blocks the sale of Napster to Bertelsmann AG. Plans are started for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation of Napster.
November 25th, 2002 - Roxio acquired the bankrupt Napster.
July 2003 - Roxio announced that it planned the launch of Napster 2 in time for Christmas.
Patnets are getting even sillier. The patent office had the right idea when they required the inventer to provide an example or model of the invention. I wonder if the USPTO will allow a patent for the process of placing a flaming bag of dog crap on somebody's doorstep.
"Block that whole range, and some dial-up customers might try to reach you and fail."
I would hope that NOBODY would ever accept email directly from somebody running a mail server on a dial-up or any other dynamic IP address. I know that there are folks who hate their ISP's mail servers, are responsible enough to run their own mail servers at home, etc, etc. The amount of spam and viruses coming from zombied broadband and DSL connections is HUGE. At least if it comes from an ISP's mail server there is some sort of accountability for the content of the mail.
TiVo can only record one show at any given time, it can also only play back one show at any given time. It can record a show and play another show at the same time. The TiVo remote will support two different TiVo's, I am wondering if getting a second TiVo would be over the top......
I do not use a cable box (although that means that I can't get the bajillion premium channel$ on the digital tier$). My TiVo is about the same size as the SA box and the tuner in my TV works as well, and I believe more conveniently, as the second tuner in the SA. I don't care about brand name fuck. I don't think many people say linoleum when they mean vinyl flooring any more. I haven't heard the word "Frigidaire" used as a generic term in a long time. Aspirin is a trademark in Canada (Bayer) but not in the US. ASA is a trademark in the US (Eli Lilly) but a generic name in Canada. Heroin used to be a trademark too (Bayer).
I believe that you can program the TiVo to record by time and channel like a VCR. It is probably cheaper to buy the lifetime (of the TiVo) subscription rather than doing month to month.
I have a TiVo and a friend with a Scientific Atlanta DVR. I can tell you that the Scientific Atlantic user interface isn't any where as nice as the TiVo. I can do without TiVo surprising me with programs it decided I wanted to see, but it sure is nice to be able to do wish lists. The differences between the user interfaces on the SA and the TiVo seem to me like comparing a Mac to DOS 6.0.
I was in the military and put together a high end stereo while stationed overseas in the middle 70's. I could hear the differences between cassettes; and prerecorded cassettes ALWAYS sounded bad. Unless the cassette was copied on a low-end cassete recorder (like Soundesign or a portable), or the person doing the recording didn't know what he was doing, copies of decent LPs ALWAYS sounded better than prerecorded cassettes. The base hoppy shop had some lower end brand name cassette recorders for dubbing, and even the tapes from those recorders sounded better than prerecorded cassettes.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's, it didn't take a really expensive stereo system to make better cassette copies of LPs than the prerecorded cassettes. Prerecorded cassettes were made using high speed dubbing and the upper end was severly attenuated, there was also more hiss on prerecorded cassettes. The only advantage to prerecorded cassettes was that there were no pops or other audio artifacts from the records. To sum it up, the sound quality of prerecorded cassettes REALLY sucked.
I understood that at one time it was cheaper for at least one Japaneses manufacturer to build at least one model of car in the US and export it to Japan than it cost to build it in Japan. I also understand that Sony used to export televisions that were assembled in the US because the total cost of production was lower and the production was of higher quality. I think that this ended when production went to Mexico (which has now moved somewhere cheaper).
Is the special version of Solaris you referring to "Trusted Solaris"? Trusted Solaris had the Trusted added it met "the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)". These controls are primarily to protect the system from priveliged users and processes that run as a priveliged user. Very cool concept, a real bitch to use. There is an Open Source project called TrustedBSD http://www.trustedbsd.org "The TrustedBSD Project is made possible through the generous sponsorship and donations of a variety of organizations, including the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), Network Associates Laboratories, Safeport Network Services, the University of Pennsylvania, Yahoo!, and others."
Ethereal works great with Solaris workstations. I don't feel that Ethereal is necessary for collecting data on Solaris servers as Ethereal reads Solaris snoop output files. You can snoop -o on a Solaris server and examine the packets on a Linux, Solaris, or M$ workstation.
Most non-career Air Force SP's are interchangeable with Toys R Us Rent-a-Cops. The Air Force does not have cooks, so when somebody washes out of tech school they are recycled into either drivers, motor pool gas pumpers or SP's. Being a stocker or cashier at Toys R Us would be a step up.
When a large corporation does something that is illegal, such as stealing wages, the current administration would prefer to ignore it; or if it HAS to do something, it will do something that will not injure the large corporation in any way. If a person that is not favored by the administration is caught doing something that is illegal, such as stealing food in order to not have his family starve or trading MP3's, the legal system will come down on that person as hard and as deep as it possibly can.
I am not going to do all the work for you and provide the name of the company who makes it. "HomeSite 5.5 provides a lean, code-only editor for web development. Advanced coding features enable you to instantly create and modify HTML, CFML, JSP, and XHTML tags, while enhanced productivity tools allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format code more easily. Configure Macromedia HomeSite to fit your needs by extending its functionality and customizing the interface."
I feel dirty and need to take a shower now.
In this case it depends upon how you look at it:
If you do it because you enjoy watching a server fry, you are a sadist.
If you do it because you enjoy your pain of having your server fry, you are masochistic.
The only applications that are driving the insane workstation/personal computer processor and display speeds are PC games. If games go away on PCs then there will be very little incentive for anybody to upgrade to faster CPUs and displays. The server market is totally different, the server market needs processing power, but it doesn't need fast displays.
I don't know who told you that MS Windows could be online 24/7/365, but they told you a porky. According to uptime statistics on Netcraft, the *BSDs and Linux systems in general have MUCH longer uptimes than MS Windows systems. Having Unix systems with uptimes of over a year is not at all unusal, having MS Windows systems with uptimes approaching a month is unusal.
Is your IP or ISP on a blacklist such as SORBS or Spews? If your IP address is on such a list many, if not most, ISPs will reject or silently drop your email. Do not blame the ISPs, blame the spammers. One place to check to see if your IP address is listed is at http://www.moensted.dk/spam/
What do you mean "We've found one dead body, the criminal is in jail." in reference to Microsoft? Microsoft has been found to be an illegal monopoly (a felony) by both the US and the EU. The US has done virtually nothing about it and Microsoft is squirming trying to get out of any sanctions by the EU. In this case the criminal is not in jail, and the convicted criminal seems to be quite adept at buying it's way out of jail after each conviction.
I think that PenWindows died, descended into hell, and then arose as PenWindows ver 2.0; which was too crappy and too late. Later, the carcass of PenWindows went on to become a part of the Tablet PC. See http://pencomputing.com/PenWindows/ and http://pencomputing.com/frames/tablet_pc.html