Ppl will pay 30 dollars a year for slashdot.org stories and will get the follwoing benefits:)
1. Automatic posting at +2 (+4 for 100 dollars a year)
2. I pay for slashdot and all i got was less adds and this stupid t-shirts (with DeCSS on the back)
Back when I ran a RAT(radioactive Telegard) BBS i had polling plugin that would do all of that essentialy and it was realtime(even thoe 1 person was logged on to the system at once) it would take the vote, display it, and make sure the same person could not vote again.... anyone else remember this?
Think your a few years out of date buddy.. most ppl have cell phones these days.. 3 years ago everyone had pagers.. but its a dying business...(one way paging that is)
minas morgul sounds kinda familar... then my fave were the H/P/A/V/C boards which i ran one... and also the aslyum.. and the hackers group wars... CAGE or sumthin and PTS phuck the system
Yeah I miss the old days of running BBS's myself.. used to run one called The Forest of Infinite Possibilites back in da old 215 area code.. anyone from there still around??
I think i played tradewars on ever BBS there was in my area... Loved modifying the ships and creating my own worlds for pepple to play on them.. makin the ferengi tough as hell!! ploping random planets full of bases through out the galaxy.. ahh the good old days...
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said. ''There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free.''
That has got to be one of the funniest things i've ever heard. For a few reasons...
1. "We CAN build a better product" <-- no mention here that they have or will do that...
2. Dictionary.com defines Enamor as:
enamor (-nmr) v.
To inspire with love; captivate: was enamored of the beautiful dancer; were enamored with the charming island.
Great so he is sayin that there is always a love and great charm over getting somthing for free.. and gee... have ya noticed? People do get a stable robust OS for free and do love it and evangelize it and (some) write for it and follow the free principle which in turn creates greater bonds and friendships among ppl and also trust because they are sharin their code that they love. Thats the biggest fear of microsoft... the fear that people LOVE using Linux and free software... who loves using Microsoft?? i've never met one person..
already being done.. they are about 70-100 bux.... biggest drawback is half time phone won't ring.. 48v power minimum needed.. hmmm linksys has one.. cisco has one.. pagoo has one.. and d-link is making one.. off top of my head... they work ok....
Not many people in the industry realize(or will admit publicly) that is thier biggest fear. In 10 years most people in the US and other countries where broadband to the home will be available, will not have a pots line to thier house. Most people will have a cell phone(4 or 5g by then) and will have one number where they can receive calls on their cell, or through thier broadband connection in thier house. They will have a box attached to thier hub that will power the POTS line in their house so they can use all there old phone equipment(wall phones, cordless etc etc).
Most communications will be over IP.. picture this scenario..
Bob in NJ will want to call there buddy Jay in California. Bob's phone # is 609-555-1111 and is provisoned by Jersey Cell company(fictional). He picks up his cordless phone in his house and dials Jays number 213-555-2222 in LA. The call is converted into SIP packets at the box his cordless is attached to. A request is sent out over IP to the Jersey Cell's regional Proxy/Gatekeeper for his area and is routed to the Jersey Cell's border Proxy/GK. The border PROXY/GK check's its routing tables and determines to send a call to 1213XXXXXXX it talks to the PacBell Proxy/GK that it knows about. And then the PacBell GK/Proxy routes the call the to local LA reginoal PRoxy/GK and checks to see if Jay is available. If jay is at home, he'll have the option to pick it up, send to voice mail or his cell phone(his preferences are already defined) or any other adanvanced options that might be availble then.
Never once does this call touch an old Bell legacy landline network except the phone numbers are provisioned under the old system. Because of this the cost for a DOMESTIC call will drop to virtually ZERO.(assuming the FCC and PUC's don't cause to much of a problem) As a result of this, There will be almost no profit to be made from it(really upsetting to telco's) so they will offer enhanced services such as find-me-follow-me, voice mail and loads of other worthless stuff everyone will buy but no one will use...
There will still be a huge market for international VoIP.. it is far cheaper to install VoIP gateways and softswitches in 3rd world countries then laying seperate fiber for phone conncetions when they can bring in Internet Access(ala the new economy) and Phone server at the same time and they can at the change of a fly intercconect with different LD VoIP providers for the best rates, whereas in the old world you'd pretty much have to lay new fiber.
Sorry this is so rambling. Back to the original article here, groups like FWD will be semi-successful but where you'll see real growth in next 2-4 years is when companies like YAHOO or new ones start providing free Proxy/GK servers to link thousands and eventually millions of SIP & or h.323 clients together. There is almost no overhead except for the cost of the Proxy/GK Servers. and evenutally all these companies will Peer with each other creating a new network to route calls. So you'll see a semi-fragmentation where mosts Domestic US calls will be made from your regular phone in your house, go out over IP terminate to another person's house IP and should cost nothing and next to nothing for terminating to a legacy POTS user and even cheaper international rates...
I'll stop rambling now.. but its coming soon... get ready for it....
Sniff Sniff... surpised they did'nt mention that even with all the linux shops closing down that even Apple was gonna quit now too since thier kernel is freeBSD based and well hey... I heard Steve Jobs say "Since our kernel is based on *NIX and a free *NIX is never gonna be closing down, we will also close Apple down completely since our business model must be hopeless since its based on *NIX as our underlying kernel & we can obviously not keep up with the inovation of Microsoft" yep.. thats what i heard... linux, apple.. whos next? Sega.. oh wait.. they did:)
What a great id.. except for the fact that would alienate normal computer users even more.. Besides isn'nt MS getting closer to dumbed down interfaces with whistler i believe. so if revert to hotkeys for everything, you take away the substance and feeling of the computer... i know too many computer novices that love thier damn animated cursors and folders.. if went back to a quarterdeck memm manager stlye(anyone member that one?) most ppl today would find it revolting and scream for their windows GUI or mac GUI back.. an OS is a great thing because it provides an interface(ok the GUI or CLI shell does but bare with me here) for people to INTERFACE with thier system and provides a COMMON look they can reconize and be familiar with... if you had hot keys for every app you wanted there is problems..
1. no interface standard... ppl get confused
2. I personally have way to many apps to always use hot keys.
The worse thing about all of this(i'm flamebait) is that mumia has never said he did'nt kill the guy... even when he had the chance.. bothers me a bit....
Yer a fool, ACLU is one of the few orginazations in this country that fights for rights of the people.. if they screw up once in a while its ok in my book when you consider all the good they've done.
I'm a card carrying member and proud of it.. I love these guys, they are doing the perfect thing. Lets hope they actually make some progress with it, i think we all agree that the approved new names are horrible...aero ??? but not.xxx or not.union ???? great....
I don't think it will affect the rest of the US, because unlike California, most other states actually build Power Plants... nifty concept ya know..
What OS controls the Tracking System?
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Laser-equipped 747
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· Score: 1
Lets see... what would happen if the officers had to use one of these OS's to fire the weapon....
DOS: The officers would see this after firing: Abort, Retry, Fail?
Windows 98: the officers would miss all the targers trying to get the wizard to configure the laser properly.
Windows 2000: the officers would fire and the plane would blow up from a blue screen of death(wonder if the laser color is blue?)
Mac OS:As soon as they fire a Type 11 error, Please Reboot comes up and laser does nothing
Mac OS X: Officers are too tripped out watching the fire app scale from big to small in the docking bar.
Linux: Officers are to busy re-compiling their kernel's to fire
Amiga OS: Officers miss chance to fire while ranting how this 10 yearold OS is still the best
BeOS: never installed.. could'nt find a copy so they installed DOS instead.
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Ppl will pay 30 dollars a year for slashdot.org stories and will get the follwoing benefits
1. Automatic posting at +2 (+4 for 100 dollars a year)
2. I pay for slashdot and all i got was less adds and this stupid t-shirts (with DeCSS on the back)
Would be quite humorous
Back when I ran a RAT(radioactive Telegard) BBS i had polling plugin that would do all of that essentialy and it was realtime(even thoe 1 person was logged on to the system at once) it would take the vote, display it, and make sure the same person could not vote again.... anyone else remember this?
Think your a few years out of date buddy.. most ppl have cell phones these days.. 3 years ago everyone had pagers.. but its a dying business...(one way paging that is)
Now if it had a PCMCIA slot for my Digital photos it would be perfect.. to bad its missing that...
I was in the Upper Bux area... member Palace... and The asylum and a few others.....
I used to be known as stick-stealer or ZaVoid
Phuck the System!!!
minas morgul sounds kinda familar... then my fave were the H/P/A/V/C boards which i ran one... and also the aslyum.. and the hackers group wars... CAGE or sumthin and PTS phuck the system
Yeah I miss the old days of running BBS's myself.. used to run one called The Forest of Infinite Possibilites back in da old 215 area code.. anyone from there still around??
I think i played tradewars on ever BBS there was in my area... Loved modifying the ships and creating my own worlds for pepple to play on them.. makin the ferengi tough as hell!! ploping random planets full of bases through out the galaxy.. ahh the good old days...
In the News.com Article it says......
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said. ''There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free.''
That has got to be one of the funniest things i've ever heard. For a few reasons...
1. "We CAN build a better product" <-- no mention here that they have or will do that...
2. Dictionary.com defines Enamor as:
enamor (-nmr) v.
To inspire with love; captivate: was enamored of the beautiful dancer; were enamored with the charming island.
Great so he is sayin that there is always a love and great charm over getting somthing for free.. and gee... have ya noticed? People do get a stable robust OS for free and do love it and evangelize it and (some) write for it and follow the free principle which in turn creates greater bonds and friendships among ppl and also trust because they are sharin their code that they love. Thats the biggest fear of microsoft... the fear that people LOVE using Linux and free software... who loves using Microsoft?? i've never met one person..
This is one Giant Step for Man Kind...
And one Painful Setup for NEAR..
already being done.. they are about 70-100 bux.... biggest drawback is half time phone won't ring.. 48v power minimum needed.. hmmm linksys has one.. cisco has one.. pagoo has one.. and d-link is making one.. off top of my head... they work ok....
Not many people in the industry realize(or will admit publicly) that is thier biggest fear. In 10 years most people in the US and other countries where broadband to the home will be available, will not have a pots line to thier house. Most people will have a cell phone(4 or 5g by then) and will have one number where they can receive calls on their cell, or through thier broadband connection in thier house. They will have a box attached to thier hub that will power the POTS line in their house so they can use all there old phone equipment(wall phones, cordless etc etc).
Most communications will be over IP.. picture this scenario..
Bob in NJ will want to call there buddy Jay in California. Bob's phone # is 609-555-1111 and is provisoned by Jersey Cell company(fictional). He picks up his cordless phone in his house and dials Jays number 213-555-2222 in LA. The call is converted into SIP packets at the box his cordless is attached to. A request is sent out over IP to the Jersey Cell's regional Proxy/Gatekeeper for his area and is routed to the Jersey Cell's border Proxy/GK. The border PROXY/GK check's its routing tables and determines to send a call to 1213XXXXXXX it talks to the PacBell Proxy/GK that it knows about. And then the PacBell GK/Proxy routes the call the to local LA reginoal PRoxy/GK and checks to see if Jay is available. If jay is at home, he'll have the option to pick it up, send to voice mail or his cell phone(his preferences are already defined) or any other adanvanced options that might be availble then.
Never once does this call touch an old Bell legacy landline network except the phone numbers are provisioned under the old system. Because of this the cost for a DOMESTIC call will drop to virtually ZERO.(assuming the FCC and PUC's don't cause to much of a problem) As a result of this, There will be almost no profit to be made from it(really upsetting to telco's) so they will offer enhanced services such as find-me-follow-me, voice mail and loads of other worthless stuff everyone will buy but no one will use...
There will still be a huge market for international VoIP.. it is far cheaper to install VoIP gateways and softswitches in 3rd world countries then laying seperate fiber for phone conncetions when they can bring in Internet Access(ala the new economy) and Phone server at the same time and they can at the change of a fly intercconect with different LD VoIP providers for the best rates, whereas in the old world you'd pretty much have to lay new fiber.
Sorry this is so rambling. Back to the original article here, groups like FWD will be semi-successful but where you'll see real growth in next 2-4 years is when companies like YAHOO or new ones start providing free Proxy/GK servers to link thousands and eventually millions of SIP & or h.323 clients together. There is almost no overhead except for the cost of the Proxy/GK Servers. and evenutally all these companies will Peer with each other creating a new network to route calls. So you'll see a semi-fragmentation where mosts Domestic US calls will be made from your regular phone in your house, go out over IP terminate to another person's house IP and should cost nothing and next to nothing for terminating to a legacy POTS user and even cheaper international rates...
I'll stop rambling now.. but its coming soon... get ready for it....
Sniff Sniff... surpised they did'nt mention that even with all the linux shops closing down that even Apple was gonna quit now too since thier kernel is freeBSD based and well hey... I heard Steve Jobs say "Since our kernel is based on *NIX and a free *NIX is never gonna be closing down, we will also close Apple down completely since our business model must be hopeless since its based on *NIX as our underlying kernel & we can obviously not keep up with the inovation of Microsoft" yep.. thats what i heard... linux, apple.. whos next? Sega.. oh wait.. they did :)
:)
cute story that was
What a great id.. except for the fact that would alienate normal computer users even more.. Besides isn'nt MS getting closer to dumbed down interfaces with whistler i believe. so if revert to hotkeys for everything, you take away the substance and feeling of the computer... i know too many computer novices that love thier damn animated cursors and folders.. if went back to a quarterdeck memm manager stlye(anyone member that one?) most ppl today would find it revolting and scream for their windows GUI or mac GUI back.. an OS is a great thing because it provides an interface(ok the GUI or CLI shell does but bare with me here) for people to INTERFACE with thier system and provides a COMMON look they can reconize and be familiar with... if you had hot keys for every app you wanted there is problems..
1. no interface standard... ppl get confused
2. I personally have way to many apps to always use hot keys.
think about it........
What happens?? I'll tell ya!! America's Funniest Plane Crashes NEXT ON FOX!!
Course.. the pilot could start playing with himself.... watch that plane go up and down, up and down.... :)
It happened on my birthday today...
The worse thing about all of this(i'm flamebait) is that mumia has never said he did'nt kill the guy... even when he had the chance.. bothers me a bit....
well said :)
Like removing the abilitiy to truly be anonymous? so you can't hide behind an AC post?
Totally regulate the internet.. give us all a ID number totally traceable(ie pass laws making the SS number that)
Yer a fool, ACLU is one of the few orginazations in this country that fights for rights of the people.. if they screw up once in a while its ok in my book when you consider all the good they've done.
I'm a card carrying member and proud of it.. I love these guys, they are doing the perfect thing. Lets hope they actually make some progress with it, i think we all agree that the approved new names are horrible.. .aero ??? but not .xxx or not .union ???? great....
It was on my Birthday... was wierd...
I don't think it will affect the rest of the US, because unlike California, most other states actually build Power Plants... nifty concept ya know..
Lets see... what would happen if the officers had to use one of these OS's to fire the weapon....
DOS: The officers would see this after firing: Abort, Retry, Fail?
Windows 98: the officers would miss all the targers trying to get the wizard to configure the laser properly.
Windows 2000: the officers would fire and the plane would blow up from a blue screen of death(wonder if the laser color is blue?)
Mac OS:As soon as they fire a Type 11 error, Please Reboot comes up and laser does nothing
Mac OS X: Officers are too tripped out watching the fire app scale from big to small in the docking bar.
Linux: Officers are to busy re-compiling their kernel's to fire
Amiga OS: Officers miss chance to fire while ranting how this 10 yearold OS is still the best
BeOS: never installed.. could'nt find a copy so they installed DOS instead.
:)