Uh, yeah, but Dvorak doesn't have any credentials backing him up. Who is John C. Dvorak? Some stupid know-nothing tech journalist. Who is Bob Metcalfe? He's the co-inventor of Ethernet, he founded 3COM, and invented Metcalfe's Law.
Some people at least thought he knew what he was talking about and, well, they had good reason to. I will say that I thought his comment was wrong-headed and stupid, but, then again, what do I know? I'm just some random guy on Slashdot.
The people who say this sort of thing are the people that were predicting we would run out of oil by 2020, etc,etc. Um, we are going to run out of oil. Maybe by 2020 even. Why else do you think even George W. "All My Money Comes From Big Oil" Bush and every Democrat and Republican presidential candidate are making a big deal about 'energy independence.'?
OTOH, the imminent death of the Internet has been predicted since the thing started. Guess what? It's still here.
Well, now, you all know that as content moves toward high-definition audio and video, all of that audio and video is going to take up more disk space, right? Well, the Internet is going to run out of disk space!!! But don't worry, folk, I have the solution right here. Yup! For just $99.99, you can not just DOUBLE, TRIPLE, or even merely QUADRUPLE your space, no, my UBER-HIGH COMPRESSION technology will increase your space by TEN TIMES!!!! Call now!!! Operators are standing by!!!!
Answer: take your Zippo, light and then throw it on the ground. What happens? The flame doesn't go out. Try the same with any Bic. Guaranteed not to work.
Yeah, I know it's lame, but that's the reason. I could just as easily, as I pointed out earlier, take that same Bic lighter, a bottle of Absolut, and a piece of small cloth on the plane. First off, without even making a Molotov cocktail, I can get the same effect as the zippo by soaking the cloth in the vodka and lighting it on fire with the Bic. But, since I've now I got a full bottle of Absolut in my hand and a cloth, I can cause some serious havoc with a Molotov cocktail.
Yet all of the necessary ingredients can be taken on a plane -- provided you purchase the Absolut at the duty free store.
Yes, but there are other aspects of their UNIX business as well. There's SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, and OpenLinux all of which are worth at least something. Plus SCO has a bunch of proprietary UNIX apps. York will be selling off the pieces one-by-one. Together they don't amount to much, but the individual pieces (like the support contracts and the IP rights mentioned above) will probably fetch something. Whether they'll all fetch more than $36 megabucks is York's problem.
I would recommend prospective customers of Verizon to think twice and assess if they want to sign contracts with a company so inclined to assume a user of the service is guilty of copyright violations just because of the amount of data they are transferring. Couldn't someone watching YouTube all day or streaming video from another TV network site rack up this sort of data transferring? Yes. And add to that people transferring files from the company intranet to the laptop, or receiving many large attachments via e-mail. Even some music nut with a lot of money to spend on song downloads could buy 20 songs a day for 30 days and use 2.4GB of bandwidth just for that, not counting the rest of the surfing they do.
The last time I was on a plane (~February of this year), they were confiscating cigarette lighters. My wife and I had three cigarette lighters in our pockets between the two of us, and all were confiscated.
Exactly. They'll sell off the support contracts to some other business that specializes in IT services -- possibly even, in an irony of ironies, IBM.:)
As the Glasgow "terrorists" so brilliantly displayed, anybody can be a terrorist. All it takes is a car, a bunch of primitive explosive, flammable material and the motivation to endanger human life. And, of course, despite the laws passed since 9/11 to take away our rights, primitive explosives are steal extremely easy to either purchase or to fabricate in the comfort and safety of your own home. All one needs is access to a library and all the explosive anyone could want to produce can purchased at Wal*Mart without showing ID or signing any piece of paper.
Airline safety is worse under the TSA than it ever was under private contractors. Take it from someone who's wife used to work airport security -- anybody can get anything they want onto an airplane if their determined enough. Heck, I accidentally walked onto an airplane with a cigarette lighter -- it was in a carry-on and the screeners missed it and I forgot it was even in there. With that and one of those little bottles of Vodka they sell and a piece of cloth, I have enough to create a miniature molotov cocktail -- probably not big enough to blow the plane up, but definitely enough to create enough of a distraction for me to get to cockpit and take over the plane. That is, if I were a terrorist.
True, but the higher you go in the atmosphere, the less distortion. And targets such as the Moon and the Sun aren't nearly as affected by atmospheric distortion as, say, some stars that are millions of light years away. Sending up a balloon strikes a balance between the cost of sending a telescope into space or repositioning Hubble and the total atmospheric distortion experienced by ground-based telescopes.
And for your second queestion: because hot air balloons are a WHOLE lot cheaper to fly than an airplane.
Wife units may spontaneously spawn one more Child units. Child units are much more costly than Wife units, but as Child units go into adolescent mode, they may start assuming some functions of Wife unit, such as cleaning the gutters.
Land Rover Defenders were sold in the U.S. from 1993-1997, so you should be able to pick one up on the off of used car lot. I just saw a 1997 on Ebay Motors for about $35K.
I now enjoy floppy disk drives. Take an old 5-1/4" drive and make a distributed multiply redundant filesystem on it and store your sensitive information. Even if you could get a drive to read it (if you knew what it was), you wouldn't know my file system. 5-1/4"? You pesky youngsters and your 5-1/4" minifloppy drives. Why, in my day we had 8" floppies -- with capacities measured in megabits. Huge disks, small capacity. And we liked it that way!
Agreed. The other day, I asked my Generation Y stepdaughter about her new computer and asked "What's it got?" "I dunno." "How much RAM?" "I dunno." "CPU? Dual core? Clock speed?" "I dunno. I used to know all that stuff, but I just use it now."
OTOH, she's acutely aware of the fact that floppy drives are now obsolete, a fact that still hasn't seemed to seep into my techie stepson's fool head.
just wish y'all would worry about economic regulation *before* it starts getting applied to World of Warcraft and blogging. Nobody cares about economic regulation. For the average American, as long there's beer in the fridge, two new SUV's in the driveway, a white picket fence, bowling on Friday night and Monday Night Football, no one will ever complain, no matter how far they go. It doesn't even matter who wins the presidency, really, at this point.
I expect blogs to be taxed and licensed almost everywhere, eventually. We can't have people saying things critical of the governm....errr...I mean, we can't have people saying anything offensive. Will someone please think of the children????
So is this like coating the series of tubes with an improved surface so that the trucks get better traction? No, this is like cranking up the pressure on the liquid data running through the tubes. The liquid data looks kinda like the T2000, only it doesn't form into anything. I saw it on a Comcast 'Craptastic' commercial! The guy pulled some 'high speed' out of his Internet tube and rubbed it all over his hands and a whole sinkful of dishes stacked to the gills done in like 5 seconds!
Hmmm...you might want to read up on COPOWI. They claim to be 'COmmunity POWered Internet', and they claim to be trying to 'Save the Internet', offering completely fair service.
OTOH, it's DSL service, so you're at the mercy of your local telco monopoly, whether you like it or not. They don't offer 'dry' service in my state, and since I refuse to pay Verizon a red cent for anything, I guess I won't be getting service from them anytime soon.
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Grrr...wrong link. Here's the right one.
Uh, yeah, but Dvorak doesn't have any credentials backing him up. Who is John C. Dvorak? Some stupid know-nothing tech journalist. Who is Bob Metcalfe? He's the co-inventor of Ethernet, he founded 3COM, and invented Metcalfe's Law.
Some people at least thought he knew what he was talking about and, well, they had good reason to. I will say that I thought his comment was wrong-headed and stupid, but, then again, what do I know? I'm just some random guy on Slashdot.
OTOH, the imminent death of the Internet has been predicted since the thing started. Guess what? It's still here.
Well, now, you all know that as content moves toward high-definition audio and video, all of that audio and video is going to take up more disk space, right? Well, the Internet is going to run out of disk space!!! But don't worry, folk, I have the solution right here. Yup! For just $99.99, you can not just DOUBLE, TRIPLE, or even merely QUADRUPLE your space, no, my UBER-HIGH COMPRESSION technology will increase your space by TEN TIMES!!!! Call now!!! Operators are standing by!!!!
Answer: take your Zippo, light and then throw it on the ground. What happens? The flame doesn't go out. Try the same with any Bic. Guaranteed not to work.
Yeah, I know it's lame, but that's the reason. I could just as easily, as I pointed out earlier, take that same Bic lighter, a bottle of Absolut, and a piece of small cloth on the plane. First off, without even making a Molotov cocktail, I can get the same effect as the zippo by soaking the cloth in the vodka and lighting it on fire with the Bic. But, since I've now I got a full bottle of Absolut in my hand and a cloth, I can cause some serious havoc with a Molotov cocktail.
Yet all of the necessary ingredients can be taken on a plane -- provided you purchase the Absolut at the duty free store.
How would that be any better?
Yes, but there are other aspects of their UNIX business as well. There's SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, and OpenLinux all of which are worth at least something. Plus SCO has a bunch of proprietary UNIX apps. York will be selling off the pieces one-by-one. Together they don't amount to much, but the individual pieces (like the support contracts and the IP rights mentioned above) will probably fetch something. Whether they'll all fetch more than $36 megabucks is York's problem.
The last time I was on a plane (~February of this year), they were confiscating cigarette lighters. My wife and I had three cigarette lighters in our pockets between the two of us, and all were confiscated.
Exactly. They'll sell off the support contracts to some other business that specializes in IT services -- possibly even, in an irony of ironies, IBM. :)
Airline safety is worse under the TSA than it ever was under private contractors. Take it from someone who's wife used to work airport security -- anybody can get anything they want onto an airplane if their determined enough. Heck, I accidentally walked onto an airplane with a cigarette lighter -- it was in a carry-on and the screeners missed it and I forgot it was even in there. With that and one of those little bottles of Vodka they sell and a piece of cloth, I have enough to create a miniature molotov cocktail -- probably not big enough to blow the plane up, but definitely enough to create enough of a distraction for me to get to cockpit and take over the plane. That is, if I were a terrorist.
True, but the higher you go in the atmosphere, the less distortion. And targets such as the Moon and the Sun aren't nearly as affected by atmospheric distortion as, say, some stars that are millions of light years away. Sending up a balloon strikes a balance between the cost of sending a telescope into space or repositioning Hubble and the total atmospheric distortion experienced by ground-based telescopes.
And for your second queestion: because hot air balloons are a WHOLE lot cheaper to fly than an airplane.
Do you know what I have so say about jQuery? It helps make your site buzzword-compliant with AJAX and all that ... well, blah!
Be careful, too.
Wife units may spontaneously spawn one more Child units. Child units are much more costly than Wife units, but as Child units go into adolescent mode, they may start assuming some functions of Wife unit, such as cleaning the gutters.
That reminds me.... mine's still broken.
Land Rover Defenders were sold in the U.S. from 1993-1997, so you should be able to pick one up on the off of used car lot. I just saw a 1997 on Ebay Motors for about $35K.
Now you kids get off of my lawn!
Agreed. The other day, I asked my Generation Y stepdaughter about her new computer and asked "What's it got?" "I dunno." "How much RAM?" "I dunno." "CPU? Dual core? Clock speed?" "I dunno. I used to know all that stuff, but I just use it now."
OTOH, she's acutely aware of the fact that floppy drives are now obsolete, a fact that still hasn't seemed to seep into my techie stepson's fool head.
Sorry, honey.
I expect blogs to be taxed and licensed almost everywhere, eventually. We can't have people saying things critical of the governm....errr...I mean, we can't have people saying anything offensive. Will someone please think of the children????
Hmmm...you might want to read up on COPOWI. They claim to be 'COmmunity POWered Internet', and they claim to be trying to 'Save the Internet', offering completely fair service.
OTOH, it's DSL service, so you're at the mercy of your local telco monopoly, whether you like it or not. They don't offer 'dry' service in my state, and since I refuse to pay Verizon a red cent for anything, I guess I won't be getting service from them anytime soon.
I'm a former Comcast customer. Heck, where do I sign up for the class action lawsuit?