It *still* isn't AOL, Mr. Coward. Not the name, not the service.. which apparently was the manufacture of equipment, and *not* the providing online services.
You were doing fine until you gave an example. Microsoft *is* interested in knowing that you are 3.5 miles from Meijer.. they can sell that info to Starbucks who then sends you a coupon to the Starbucks 2.5 miles away. They *do* want to know that you take 20 steps from your car to your front door..they can sell that info to a canopy company who will then send a salesman over to pitch a beautiful blue canopy so that you will be protected from the rain during those 20 steps.
There isn't *anything* about you that isn't interesting to *someone* who would be willing to pay for it.
The `First mention of AOL' entry is bogus. The quoted posting discusses the product lineups of Apple vs. Quantum Computers. It is titled, for some mysterious reason which has nothing to do with AOL, 'America Online?'.
Success is *not* measured by seven distributions fighting for a share of the microscopic Mac (compared to PC) market, with no one able to get the upper hand, and claim enough of the business to be able to make some money.
Buggy software is a legal problem not a technical one. When the day comes that a software firm can be class-actioned for defects the same way Ford was sued for the exploding Pinto gastank, is the day that software companies will organize their development efforts to avoid bugs in the first place. And not a day before.
None of this applies. The Constitition is a contract between the Federal government and its citizens ONLY. It does not restrict what one citizen (say, the RIAA) can or cannot do to another (say, you).
Let's punch another hole. Let's say the US gov passes a law banning crypto for her own citizens. That gives other countries the green flag to pass a related law. Eventually 50%, say, of all nations have banned crypto. That gives them the strength to band together an implement trade santions against those nations that have been reluctant to ban crypto. Soon, all nations have banned crypto. Therefore, getting crypto banned in a single country, especially such a powerful and influential one as the USA, is an important first step to getting it banned everywhere.
Since you are connecting via DSL, your provider almost certainly will require you to use the PPPoE protocol. BE SURE TO GET A ROUTER/FIREWALL THAT SUPPORTS PPPeE in the router itself. SMC makes one and I believe LinkSys does so too.
I own the SMC 7004BR and love its simplicity, tininess, and quietness of operation.
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There is no `right to a certain extent' about it. Either you do have a right against unreasonable search and seizure under the Constitution, or you don't. Your arguments apply only if there is no such right. If there is such a right, then that right reduces your arguments to vaporous nothings.
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Haven't been done before? When I got out of college in 1975 I went to work for a minicomputer manufacturer whose entire OS was written in assembler. And that was not uncommon, most OSs of that era were in assembler.
You posted a *general aviation* table, not a commercial table. General aviation is Cessnas and Piper Cubs flown mostly by hobbiests and part-time professionals, and often maintained by same. Their accident rate is high.
The idea is to free some computers from getting bogged down in processing interrupt requests from peripherals, while letting a second set of machines run the full operating system, furnishing the cluster with networking, job scheduling, input/output, and other capabilities.
The central design theme of the CDC 6400 was exactly this, and it is a product of the mid sixties. In that incarnation, the two central CPUs ran only user applications, while the operating system, with all its interrupts, OS code, and device drivers, would reside nearby in the ten Peripheral CPUs (called PPUs) provided for this purpose. The central CPUs didn't even have an interrupt capability.
Like me. I remember the days of wirewrap boards, where a manufacturer could change the design of a computer and then send technicians out into the field to add and delete wires on all the customer's computers. And that wasn't so long ago either.. wirewrap will still very popular in 1975, the year I graduated from college.
You *almost* got this completely right. The tides continuously slow the Earth's rotation, most of the the energy so extracted is transfered to the moon, forcing it further out. The rest of the energy extracted is lost to friction (heat generation). Most likely, our puny efforts to tap into the tides will end up making use of the rotational energy that would have been converted to heat anyway.
The original HTML was a far cleaner and elegant specification, both in implementation and in concept, than the fractured crap that is called HTML today. Perhaps developers should do the opposite of what the article urges, and write only to the original specification and avoid the use of most of the so-called `modern' stuff.
CDC 6500 assembler manual plus lots of textbooks from the 1971-5 timeframe. Remember Snobol4, Algol, and Pascal? Still have the specs. Also my original Purdue MACE user manuals. Someday I should go out into my garage and see exactly what I do have. I'd like to donate them all to a good home someday. I would certainly hate for all that history to end up in the trash on that faraway day I am no longer around to protect them from my wife....
I see little need of open sourced hardware. The hardware industry, unlike the software industry, has done a very good job in providing a powerful, reliable, flexible, and inexpensive product, and has done so without complex usage rules (read: license terms) that arbitrarily remove your rights to use the product under Fair Use rules.
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It *still* isn't AOL, Mr. Coward. Not the name, not the service .. which apparently was the manufacture of equipment, and *not* the providing online services.
You were doing fine until you gave an example. Microsoft *is* interested in knowing that you are 3.5 miles from Meijer .. they can sell that info to Starbucks who then sends you a coupon to the Starbucks 2.5 miles away. They *do* want to know that you take 20 steps from your car to your front door..they can sell that info to a canopy company who will then send a salesman over to pitch a beautiful blue canopy so that you will be protected from the rain during those 20 steps.
There isn't *anything* about you that isn't interesting to *someone* who would be willing to pay for it.
The `First mention of AOL' entry is bogus. The quoted posting discusses the product lineups of Apple vs. Quantum Computers. It is titled, for some mysterious reason which has nothing to do with AOL, 'America Online?'.
COOLING FAN NOISE - SLEEVE BEARING VS. BALL BEARING.
Success is *not* measured by seven distributions fighting for a share of the microscopic Mac (compared to PC) market, with no one able to get the upper hand, and claim enough of the business to be able to make some money.
Buggy software is a legal problem not a technical one. When the day comes that a software firm can be class-actioned for defects the same way Ford was sued for the exploding Pinto gastank, is the day that software companies will organize their development efforts to avoid bugs in the first place. And not a day before.
None of this applies. The Constitition is a contract between the Federal government and its citizens ONLY. It does not restrict what one citizen (say, the RIAA) can or cannot do to another (say, you).
Let's punch another hole. Let's say the US gov passes a law banning crypto for her own citizens. That gives other countries the green flag to pass a related law. Eventually 50%, say, of all nations have banned crypto. That gives them the strength to band together an implement trade santions against those nations that have been reluctant to ban crypto. Soon, all nations have banned crypto. Therefore, getting crypto banned in a single country, especially such a powerful and influential one as the USA, is an important first step to getting it banned everywhere.
I own the SMC 7004BR and love its simplicity, tininess, and quietness of operation.
There is no `right to a certain extent' about it. Either you do have a right against unreasonable search and seizure under the Constitution, or you don't. Your arguments apply only if there is no such right. If there is such a right, then that right reduces your arguments to vaporous nothings.
Haven't been done before? When I got out of college in 1975 I went to work for a minicomputer manufacturer whose entire OS was written in assembler. And that was not uncommon, most OSs of that era were in assembler.
By this reasoning vacuum tubes would be the logic element in today's computers.
You posted a *general aviation* table, not a commercial table. General aviation is Cessnas and Piper Cubs flown mostly by hobbiests and part-time professionals, and often maintained by same. Their accident rate is high.
Guess who the CDC6400 designer was? Seymour Cray.
Also, UNIX (at that time) required a VM, and a good VM didn't show up until the 386 came out.
Commercial airliners are physical devices, and they don't seem to have any problem approaching your mythical 99.999% reliability.
486 systems are useful as firewall/routers. One can pick them up for $20 and run that linux router distribution on it straight off the floppy.
Like me. I remember the days of wirewrap boards, where a manufacturer could change the design of a computer and then send technicians out into the field to add and delete wires on all the customer's computers. And that wasn't so long ago either .. wirewrap will still very popular in 1975, the year I graduated from college.
The real problem is all the orbiting nuts & bolts that will strike the elavator at 17,000 mph.
You *almost* got this completely right. The tides continuously slow the Earth's rotation, most of the the energy so extracted is transfered to the moon, forcing it further out. The rest of the energy extracted is lost to friction (heat generation). Most likely, our puny efforts to tap into the tides will end up making use of the rotational energy that would have been converted to heat anyway.
Perhaps this should read: "... are rewriting their patent proposals already."
This is why we have laws that say in effect, if such-and-such term appears in such-and-such kind of contract, that term is null and void.
The original HTML was a far cleaner and elegant specification, both in implementation and in concept, than the fractured crap that is called HTML today. Perhaps developers should do the opposite of what the article urges, and write only to the original specification and avoid the use of most of the so-called `modern' stuff.
CDC 6500 assembler manual plus lots of textbooks from the 1971-5 timeframe. Remember Snobol4, Algol, and Pascal? Still have the specs. Also my original Purdue MACE user manuals. Someday I should go out into my garage and see exactly what I do have. I'd like to donate them all to a good home someday. I would certainly hate for all that history to end up in the trash on that faraway day I am no longer around to protect them from my wife....
I see little need of open sourced hardware. The hardware industry, unlike the software industry, has done a very good job in providing a powerful, reliable, flexible, and inexpensive product, and has done so without complex usage rules (read: license terms) that arbitrarily remove your rights to use the product under Fair Use rules.