...one hopes that they'll look into GPRS sooner rather than later...
From the FAQ:
Q. Will your product be upgradeable to GPRS?
A. Yes. When the GPRS networks are commercially available and carriers are offering GPRS service plans, Treo communicators will be upgradeable via a software patch from Handspring.
Q. What version of GPRS is the Treo communicator going to use?
A. The Treo communicator will support GPRS class 2, which will provide two channels down and one up (otherwise known as "2+1") for throughput up to 28.8Kbps.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but how might you take notes, lookup information, or otherwise use the PDA part of your "phone" while you talk on it?
By acivating the built-in speakerphone during the call and switching to another program while you're still talking.
Do they purport that this genetic switch creates the numerous organs required to allow flight, including a complete set of wings, as well as... (rant snipped)
And in unrelated news:
REDMOND, Wash. -- Feb. 5, 2002 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the delivery of the final piece of the Java User Migration Path to Microsoft®.NET (JUMP to.NET) strategy with the immediate availability of the beta 1 release of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool for Java language developers that provides a smooth transition to building XML Web services on the Microsoft.NET platform. The JLCA, built on the world-leading ArtinSoft migration technology, automatically converts most existing Java language source code into C# (pronounced C-sharp), migrating language syntax and library calls.
Do they purport that this migration software allows for the migration of Perl to C#? Fortran? As well as creating the numerous changes required to handle this different code?
I had the points, and was going to moderate on this story, but I couldn't just let this troll lie. Seriously, why are you asking if this genetic switch creates flight? Nobody in the article said *anything* about flight! Its a building block in a larger scheme of things. This building block merely allows for a creature that originally had legs at every segment to generate a creature with legs at only a small number of segments. No flight, no ability to control them, nothing. Of course, it might turn out that they can use this change, and only this change, to actually generated a derivative creature from the many-legged creature, and the brain can handle control of the body just fine with only 6 legs.
Don't look for what isn't expected to be there and cry foul when you don't find it.
Ok, I'll grant the need for one drive per bus. So get 4 of the cards Maxtor includes instead of 2. Still, he's setting up a fileserver for a 100Mbit ethernet network. That's what, 12MB/sec? I doubt he'll ever see any added benefit from using the high end promise cards vs. the low end ones, even if he switches to gigabit ethernet at 120MB/sec. Even a switched gigabit network with saturated pipes in & out isn't going to move more than 240MB/sec, which is probably approaching the practical limit of his system. It just seems that the bootable card with onboard RAID is wasted if he's not actually *using* the onboard raid.
But why is he using expensive raid cards when he's not using the raid functionality of the card, and instead using software raid? Wouldn't it be cheaper to use the cards you can get with the big maxtor drives for an extra $13 ea?
But grabbing the third largest drive (100GB) out there will save you a bundle and you still only need 10.
Actually, it won't save you a bundle. The maxtor 160GB drive he's using is $262 ea, for a price of $1.64/GB (roughly). The cheapest 100GB drive is $193, for a price of $1.93/GB.
As you can see, the price per gig of the maxtor is significantly less. 8 160 GB drives comes to $2096 and holds 1280 GB, which, at RAID-5 with one disk for redundancy is 1120 data, 160 spare. 11 100GB disks costs $2123 and holds 1000GB data, 100GB spare. Costs more, holds less.
So, then, I'm confused... He's trying to use software raid, but he has 4 Promise FastTrak 100TX2 raid controllers. WTF? First off, each of those cards supports 4 drives on 2 channels... Why does he need 4 cards when he only has 8 drives? He only needs 2 cards. Second, why is he using expensive raid hardware (that doesn't even support RAID 5) when he's using software raid!?
All he needs are two of maxtor's cards, which you can buy packaged with the drive for an extra $13. Not only that, but his prices on hard drives are way too high. 8 drives (2 with maxtor's ide cards) are $2122, per pricescan.com. Since he lists $500 for the ide cards and $3000 for the HDD's, that's a savings of $1378.
Then, he quotes $500 for 2 GB of ram. At $70/.5GB sticks that's $280. $500 for a case??? Try $365.
That said, the $5720 price he quotes is high by $1733. You could build one of these for just under $4000.
Personally, I just got back from Brotherhood of the Wolf, and found it to be outstanding. I don't expect it'll be to the taste of most american audiences, but definitely something of substance and worthy of review. Then again, maybe he only likes doing reviews where he can bitch about the movie...?
The list of symptoms causing 'electrical sensitivity' reads like a laundry list of psychosomatic effects. In the article, one woman says that since the school put up this tower, going to the school makes her ill and even touching her computer mouse burns her. Of course, the article goes on to say that there have been towers on that school for the past 30 years. And the big advocate for this? He carries around a bevy of equipment to detect electrical fields, which I don't expect make him feel any better about the places he visits.
And I have one all-important question: Have *any* of these people been tested within the confines of an experiment to see if they *really* experience these problems? Try putting them through an experiment in an environment secure & devoid of radio activity (say, a bunker somewhere with a guassian cage around it).
Such an experiment would entail:
A control group which does not get any sort of exposure, and has no means by which the occupant would see any source of exposure.
A group with appliances inside the gaussian cage that can emit RF, such as computers & microwaves
A group with appliances inside that don't get any juice, and thus *can't* emit
A group in the same environment as the control group but with externally injected RF noise.
Only with that kind of an experiment can their claims be given any sort of credence. Until then, its all quackery.
Writing a DoS tool is not a crime. Using it on someone else is.
I agree. In support of that viewpoint, I would give the following example counter argument.
Guns are bad. Nuclear weapons are bad. Let's remove them both from the military. (etc...)
How is that 'in support of that viewpoint'?
How about: Guns are bad. Nuclear weapons are bad. We'll build them and see how they work and could be used against us, because someone else might do it to us, and we need to know how to defend against and handle such a situation.
Building a DoS tool isn't a crime. Using it against another machine in a cleanroom environment to see how the overall system responds is not only acceptable, but critical if you want to defend & respond appropriately.
On the other hand, it's possible that AOL might turn RedHat into one giant AOL ad. Just as they've done with ICQ and Netscape, they could coat RedHat in an annoying layer of ads designed to increase their user base.
Oh, I don't think you're going nearly far enough here. AOL is having issues with MS, right? They own the only browser which is really competing with Internet Explorer, and the biggest ISP, with MS trying to horn in on their market share there... why not split away from MS completely?
I know its wishful thinking, in that it would be a tremendous boost for Linux, but what if AOL came with a whole operating system? Maybe they want to compete with MS and just think having a piece of the pie (the pie being Linux) would help?
Would people be willing to pay for an AOL appliance that ran AOL on linux?
Someone not read the page very well? The/. story says the headmounted screen is 640x480 but the website says The one-inch full color 800 x 600 SVGA viewing screen...
800x600 is pretty cool. Though I don't see anything about linux here, so it looks like its stuck with winCE for now.
Yeah because prohibiting the export of this will prevent anyone evil from getting hold of it...
I think you've got the problem backwards here... The article describes how the export version which was being used by al'Queda was able to be decrypted, revealing valuable information. This is important, because it gives the regulations that prevent strong encryption from being exported worked. Thus, the people backing those laws now have something concrete to point to and say "hey look, terrorists used encryption, but because it was U.S. export grade encryption, we got them anyways!" One more excuse for politians to not withdraw the regulation.
That means, increased taxes to increase spending on paving roads that were paved last in year in order to contract the job out to your brother, who just happens to own a paving company (which you actually had 25% ownership of before you got elected), at a higher than average rate so you get a cutback from the job....
I thought that was a republican? Oh, sorry, the republican is the one that waits an extra 2 years after the road's useless then pays 300% extra to his brother, etc... Same difference.
The article says video on demand... but who watches that many movies in a month?! The suggestion that $230 is for one stop shopping would be fine, if I actually spent a combined $230 on the various services this encompasses. I don't think I spend more than $10/month over what they already charge me, since I almost never rent movies anyways. This better be an option that I'm not forced into choosing, because if it isn't its goodbye cable, hello satellite.
Lucas lost me when he turned Episode VI into a puppet theater with the Ewoks.
Heaven forbid a sci-fi director should dare to be... cute!
Seriously though, if I recall, that's what happened. They were originally going to use wookies, but the first two movies resulted in a too technologically advanced creature to be taken seriously as an aboriginal technologically simple species on a backwater moon somewhere. They started drawing up other ideas, but they all kept coming out "cute". Finally, they went with it, and as Lucas put it, "we dared to be cute".
But what about the ", and cause damage by gaining or using such unwarrented knowledge" bit? It's not illegal to break in, it's illegal to break in and cause damage. At least, that's how I read it.
Sure, but its easy for a company to say, "and since he distributed this, our profits were impacted due to fewer dvd player sales and fewer dvd sales since people could now copy dvd's." And yes, I know DeCSS is irrelevant for dvd copying, and allowing more users access to view dvd's can do nothing but increase dvd's usefulness. A judge, however, might be convinced otherwise.
In effect, they are banning sending mail when you don't know what state the target mailbox is in. You may be able to find out the state with a bit of whois work or searching lists, but California is not supposed to have the power to make you take these extra steps if it turns out the mail is not going to come to California
Another good point. I hadn't gone that far in my logic. A company which sells a product over the internet by mail to credit card users is effectively doing business in CA unless they explicitly don't ship to CA.
Clearly, requiring spammers to behave with some sort of ethics is a noble goal. However, it appears that the judge has decided that this law does not violate the constitution for the wrong reasons. So, as much as it pains me, I must disagree with the judge. The law needs to be rewritten to be more restrictive. My logic follows below.
I read through the judges decision, and here are some interesting snippets which show the judge does not understand the nature of the internet, and the defendant clearly did not present sufficient argument in several areas.
First, respondents argue that the geographic limitations on the scope of section 17538.4 are ineffectual because of the very nature of the Internet. UCE is transmitted via the Internet which functions in cyberspace, a place respondents characterize as being "wholly insensitive to geographic distinctions." (Quoting American Libraries Association v. Pataki (S.D.N.Y. 1997) 969 F.Supp. 160, 170 (Pataki).) Thus, respondents maintain, an e-mail address simply does not logically correspond to a geographic residence.
The problem with this argument is that section 17538.4 does not regulate the Internet or Internet use per se. It regulates individuals and entities who (1) do business in California, (2) utilize equipment located in California and (3) send UCE to California residents. The equipment used by electronic-mail service providers does have a geographic location. And e-mail recipients are people or businesses who function in the real world and have a geographic residence.
That implies that (1) the geographic location of the electronic mail server can be determined by the sender of the mail, (2) that the servers which will be passed through (or at least are at the origin or destination) are known to the sender, and (3) that the residency of the recipient is known to the sender.
Respondents argue that, even if e-mail recipients do have geographic residences, it is simply not possible for senders of UCE to determine the residency of any particular e-mail recipient. Thus, respondents argue that the only way to avoid violating section 17538.4 is to comply with it in every instance. This argument has two fatal flaws. First, respondents ignore the second geographic limitation imposed by section 17538.4: it applies only when equipment located in the State is used. By limiting the scope of section 17538.4 to UCEs that are transmitted via equipment located in the State, our Legislature ensured that the statute would not reach conduct occurring "wholly" outside the State.
Second, the record does not support respondents' claim that it is impossible to determine the geographic residence of a UCE recipient. Both the Attorney General and Ferguson dispute this contention. They suggest that lists of e-mail addresses sorted by geographic residence exist already or can be created and utilized by senders of UCE.
Which implies, again, that the residency of the recipient is known or can be inferred. Both the Attorney General and Ferguson apparently don't know how the assembly of e-mail address lists occurs. When compiling a list of addresses who might be interested in a particular subject, address assesment almost never occurs.
If I were to decide to assemble a list of addresses that might be interested in my product, I could go to a newsgroup, download all the headers available, and compile the attached e-mail addresses into a list. However, that list of e-mail addresses has no other information embedded within it. Any of the e-mail addresses listed may be hosted with a server having a privacy policy which prevents disclosure of the end user's address. Therefore, I have no way of determining what the residency of those recipients is.
Respondents argue that another practical effect of section 17538.4 is that it conflicts with statutes regulating UCE that have been enacted by other states. Notwithstanding the fact that, to date, at least 18 states have enacted laws regulating UCE (Heckel, supra, 24 P.3d at pp. 411-412), respondents have identified only one actual conflict pertaining to one requirement imposed by section 17538.4. Section 17538.4, subdivision (g), requires that the subject line of the UCE include "ADV:ADLT" as its first eight characters if the message contains adult information. Respondents contend this requirement directly conflicts with a Pennsylvania statute which requires that the first nine characters of a subject line of a UCE containing explicit sexual materials be "ADV-ADULT" if the UCE is transmitted to a person "within the Commonwealth." (See 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. section 5903(A.1).)
Respondents' argument that section 17538.4 conflicts with Pennsylvania law fails at its base because they have not established that the geographic limitations imposed by section 17538.4 are ineffectual.
Here lies the most important part of the argument, conflicting state laws. The entire basis of the court's rejection of the unconstitutionality hinges on the assumption that the residency of a UCE recipient can be determined. If it is impossible to determine the residency of a UCE, the law becomes unconstitutional.
How many free e-mail services do not require an indication of a user's residency? How many of those servers that do require it verify identity? For an entire segment of the population, it is completely impossible to determine the residency of the users, thus, this law should be found unconstitutional.
$30,000, you can get one teacher or 20 computers...do the math.
Going over to thenerds.net and piecing together a basic computer, assuming about 24 computers (so I can scale the costs to bulk easier), I can put together a computer suitable for the classroom for about $385/each. That means for 30000 I can get you 60 computers, with nearly $7000 left over for networking and a server to put all the kids' accounts on, so they can log into any machine and see the same data. That's 3 full classrooms of machines at a cost which'll probably reoccur every 5 years, so if the pencil pushers can figure it out, that's about $6000/year for 60 computers. (AMD Duron 950,128MB,10GB,56xCD,10/100eth,snd&vid on mb, 15"Monitor w/spkrs)
Of course, if there's no teacher, the whole concept of buying computers would be rather moot.
Not only does Opera 6 for windows allow for either MDI or SDI, like you are complaining about, but also with a simple CTRL + TAB you can change between windows if you are using the MDI.
Great! I'm installing it now, then. And I know about alt-tab. When I last tried opera, I had to alt-tab to opera, then ctrl-tab to the specific window I wanted. No, thanks. I shouldn't have to mix my window-changing keys. That's as annoying as the infinitely different keystroke commands for closing a window under a linux gui. (alt-w closes netscape, but only netscape, another keystroke closes... etc)
Gotta love people who bitch without checkin' things out.
Last I tried opera was 3-6 months ago. SDI wasn't available yet, and I didn't watch for a new release.
For example, for about $2k per month I can get a MPPP dual T1 internet connection, 3Mbit/sec, and run that link for all the wire will deliver all month long. Even at 80% constant utilization that's 800Gbyte per month.
Most colo schemes seem to want to charge more than this -- at least 30 to 50% more, in fact.
Looking at rackspace.com, 800 GB/mo runs $2002.00.(note, that $2002 is the amount you pay in addition to the rest of the package deal, which already included 30GB, so that's $2002/770GB, which is close enough for jazz here)
Even if the colo scheme wants to charge 30-50% more, why do you think that is? Do you have redundant agreements with several providers, allowing you to be certain your packets will always get through? Do you have a secure site, extensive backup power plan, onsite staff 24x7 to handle power outages, etc...? This is what you're paying 30-50% for. Colo costs of the hardware and connections include their cost of infrastructure. When you say you can get it for cheaper if you do it without the colo, that's fine. But you also have to add in your own expenses for hosting your server(s) before you can arrive at the real Total Cost of Ownership.
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From the FAQ:
Q. Will your product be upgradeable to GPRS?
A. Yes. When the GPRS networks are commercially available and carriers are offering GPRS service plans, Treo communicators will be upgradeable via a software patch from Handspring.
Q. What version of GPRS is the Treo communicator going to use?
A. The Treo communicator will support GPRS class 2, which will provide two channels down and one up (otherwise known as "2+1") for throughput up to 28.8Kbps.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but how might you take notes, lookup information, or otherwise use the PDA part of your "phone" while you talk on it?
By acivating the built-in speakerphone during the call and switching to another program while you're still talking.
Do they purport that this genetic switch creates the numerous organs required to allow flight, including a complete set of wings, as well as ... (rant snipped)
And in unrelated news:
I had the points, and was going to moderate on this story, but I couldn't just let this troll lie. Seriously, why are you asking if this genetic switch creates flight? Nobody in the article said *anything* about flight! Its a building block in a larger scheme of things. This building block merely allows for a creature that originally had legs at every segment to generate a creature with legs at only a small number of segments. No flight, no ability to control them, nothing. Of course, it might turn out that they can use this change, and only this change, to actually generated a derivative creature from the many-legged creature, and the brain can handle control of the body just fine with only 6 legs.
Don't look for what isn't expected to be there and cry foul when you don't find it.
Ok, I'll grant the need for one drive per bus. So get 4 of the cards Maxtor includes instead of 2. Still, he's setting up a fileserver for a 100Mbit ethernet network. That's what, 12MB/sec? I doubt he'll ever see any added benefit from using the high end promise cards vs. the low end ones, even if he switches to gigabit ethernet at 120MB/sec. Even a switched gigabit network with saturated pipes in & out isn't going to move more than 240MB/sec, which is probably approaching the practical limit of his system. It just seems that the bootable card with onboard RAID is wasted if he's not actually *using* the onboard raid.
But why is he using expensive raid cards when he's not using the raid functionality of the card, and instead using software raid? Wouldn't it be cheaper to use the cards you can get with the big maxtor drives for an extra $13 ea?
But grabbing the third largest drive (100GB) out there will save you a bundle and you still only need 10.
Actually, it won't save you a bundle. The maxtor 160GB drive he's using is $262 ea, for a price of $1.64/GB (roughly). The cheapest 100GB drive is $193, for a price of $1.93/GB.
As you can see, the price per gig of the maxtor is significantly less. 8 160 GB drives comes to $2096 and holds 1280 GB, which, at RAID-5 with one disk for redundancy is 1120 data, 160 spare. 11 100GB disks costs $2123 and holds 1000GB data, 100GB spare. Costs more, holds less.
So, then, I'm confused... He's trying to use software raid, but he has 4 Promise FastTrak 100TX2 raid controllers. WTF? First off, each of those cards supports 4 drives on 2 channels... Why does he need 4 cards when he only has 8 drives? He only needs 2 cards. Second, why is he using expensive raid hardware (that doesn't even support RAID 5) when he's using software raid!?
All he needs are two of maxtor's cards, which you can buy packaged with the drive for an extra $13. Not only that, but his prices on hard drives are way too high. 8 drives (2 with maxtor's ide cards) are $2122, per pricescan.com. Since he lists $500 for the ide cards and $3000 for the HDD's, that's a savings of $1378.
Then, he quotes $500 for 2 GB of ram. At $70/.5GB sticks that's $280. $500 for a case??? Try $365.
That said, the $5720 price he quotes is high by $1733. You could build one of these for just under $4000.
Ok, I admit, I didn't include shipping.
Personally, I just got back from Brotherhood of the Wolf, and found it to be outstanding. I don't expect it'll be to the taste of most american audiences, but definitely something of substance and worthy of review. Then again, maybe he only likes doing reviews where he can bitch about the movie...?
Doh! I meant Faraday Cage, not Gaussian Cage. (sorry)
If this guy and his buddies are looking for a place to live that will satisfy their needs, may I suggest Salem, Mass.?
Oh, please, not again! I think they've had their quota for the next few centuries, don't you?
And I have one all-important question: Have *any* of these people been tested within the confines of an experiment to see if they *really* experience these problems? Try putting them through an experiment in an environment secure & devoid of radio activity (say, a bunker somewhere with a guassian cage around it).
Such an experiment would entail:
Only with that kind of an experiment can their claims be given any sort of credence. Until then, its all quackery.
How is that 'in support of that viewpoint'?
How about: Guns are bad. Nuclear weapons are bad. We'll build them and see how they work and could be used against us, because someone else might do it to us, and we need to know how to defend against and handle such a situation.
Building a DoS tool isn't a crime. Using it against another machine in a cleanroom environment to see how the overall system responds is not only acceptable, but critical if you want to defend & respond appropriately.
On the other hand, it's possible that AOL might turn RedHat into one giant AOL ad. Just as they've done with ICQ and Netscape, they could coat RedHat in an annoying layer of ads designed to increase their user base.
Oh, I don't think you're going nearly far enough here. AOL is having issues with MS, right? They own the only browser which is really competing with Internet Explorer, and the biggest ISP, with MS trying to horn in on their market share there... why not split away from MS completely?
I know its wishful thinking, in that it would be a tremendous boost for Linux, but what if AOL came with a whole operating system? Maybe they want to compete with MS and just think having a piece of the pie (the pie being Linux) would help?
Would people be willing to pay for an AOL appliance that ran AOL on linux?
Someone not read the page very well? The /. story says the headmounted screen is 640x480 but the website says The one-inch full color 800 x 600 SVGA viewing screen...
800x600 is pretty cool. Though I don't see anything about linux here, so it looks like its stuck with winCE for now.
Yeah because prohibiting the export of this will prevent anyone evil from getting hold of it...
I think you've got the problem backwards here... The article describes how the export version which was being used by al'Queda was able to be decrypted, revealing valuable information. This is important, because it gives the regulations that prevent strong encryption from being exported worked. Thus, the people backing those laws now have something concrete to point to and say "hey look, terrorists used encryption, but because it was U.S. export grade encryption, we got them anyways!" One more excuse for politians to not withdraw the regulation.
Oh you're democrat.
That means, increased taxes to increase spending on paving roads that were paved last in year in order to contract the job out to your brother, who just happens to own a paving company (which you actually had 25% ownership of before you got elected), at a higher than average rate so you get a cutback from the job....
I thought that was a republican? Oh, sorry, the republican is the one that waits an extra 2 years after the road's useless then pays 300% extra to his brother, etc... Same difference.
As far as I can tell "Microshaft Winblows" is the closest name to "Microsoft Windows" ever used for a non-MS piece of software.
Yes, and its also a parody, which means its not an infrigement.
Please insert 50c to play again
The article says video on demand... but who watches that many movies in a month?! The suggestion that $230 is for one stop shopping would be fine, if I actually spent a combined $230 on the various services this encompasses. I don't think I spend more than $10/month over what they already charge me, since I almost never rent movies anyways. This better be an option that I'm not forced into choosing, because if it isn't its goodbye cable, hello satellite.
Lucas lost me when he turned Episode VI into a puppet theater with the Ewoks.
Heaven forbid a sci-fi director should dare to be... cute!
Seriously though, if I recall, that's what happened. They were originally going to use wookies, but the first two movies resulted in a too technologically advanced creature to be taken seriously as an aboriginal technologically simple species on a backwater moon somewhere. They started drawing up other ideas, but they all kept coming out "cute". Finally, they went with it, and as Lucas put it, "we dared to be cute".
But what about the ", and cause damage by gaining or using such unwarrented knowledge" bit? It's not illegal to break in, it's illegal to break in and cause damage. At least, that's how I read it.
Sure, but its easy for a company to say, "and since he distributed this, our profits were impacted due to fewer dvd player sales and fewer dvd sales since people could now copy dvd's." And yes, I know DeCSS is irrelevant for dvd copying, and allowing more users access to view dvd's can do nothing but increase dvd's usefulness. A judge, however, might be convinced otherwise.
In effect, they are banning sending mail when you don't know what state the target mailbox is in. You may be able to find out the state with a bit of whois work or searching lists, but California is not supposed to have the power to make you take these extra steps if it turns out the mail is not going to come to California
Another good point. I hadn't gone that far in my logic. A company which sells a product over the internet by mail to credit card users is effectively doing business in CA unless they explicitly don't ship to CA.
Clearly, requiring spammers to behave with some sort of ethics is a noble goal. However, it appears that the judge has decided that this law does not violate the constitution for the wrong reasons. So, as much as it pains me, I must disagree with the judge. The law needs to be rewritten to be more restrictive. My logic follows below.
I read through the judges decision, and here are some interesting snippets which show the judge does not understand the nature of the internet, and the defendant clearly did not present sufficient argument in several areas.
That implies that (1) the geographic location of the electronic mail server can be determined by the sender of the mail, (2) that the servers which will be passed through (or at least are at the origin or destination) are known to the sender, and (3) that the residency of the recipient is known to the sender.
Which implies, again, that the residency of the recipient is known or can be inferred. Both the Attorney General and Ferguson apparently don't know how the assembly of e-mail address lists occurs. When compiling a list of addresses who might be interested in a particular subject, address assesment almost never occurs.
If I were to decide to assemble a list of addresses that might be interested in my product, I could go to a newsgroup, download all the headers available, and compile the attached e-mail addresses into a list. However, that list of e-mail addresses has no other information embedded within it. Any of the e-mail addresses listed may be hosted with a server having a privacy policy which prevents disclosure of the end user's address. Therefore, I have no way of determining what the residency of those recipients is.
Here lies the most important part of the argument, conflicting state laws. The entire basis of the court's rejection of the unconstitutionality hinges on the assumption that the residency of a UCE recipient can be determined. If it is impossible to determine the residency of a UCE, the law becomes unconstitutional.
How many free e-mail services do not require an indication of a user's residency? How many of those servers that do require it verify identity? For an entire segment of the population, it is completely impossible to determine the residency of the users, thus, this law should be found unconstitutional.
$30,000, you can get one teacher or 20 computers...do the math.
Going over to thenerds.net and piecing together a basic computer, assuming about 24 computers (so I can scale the costs to bulk easier), I can put together a computer suitable for the classroom for about $385/each. That means for 30000 I can get you 60 computers, with nearly $7000 left over for networking and a server to put all the kids' accounts on, so they can log into any machine and see the same data. That's 3 full classrooms of machines at a cost which'll probably reoccur every 5 years, so if the pencil pushers can figure it out, that's about $6000/year for 60 computers. (AMD Duron 950,128MB,10GB,56xCD,10/100eth,snd&vid on mb, 15"Monitor w/spkrs)
Of course, if there's no teacher, the whole concept of buying computers would be rather moot.
Not only does Opera 6 for windows allow for either MDI or SDI, like you are complaining about, but also with a simple CTRL + TAB you can change between windows if you are using the MDI.
Great! I'm installing it now, then. And I know about alt-tab. When I last tried opera, I had to alt-tab to opera, then ctrl-tab to the specific window I wanted. No, thanks. I shouldn't have to mix my window-changing keys. That's as annoying as the infinitely different keystroke commands for closing a window under a linux gui. (alt-w closes netscape, but only netscape, another keystroke closes... etc)Gotta love people who bitch without checkin' things out.
Last I tried opera was 3-6 months ago. SDI wasn't available yet, and I didn't watch for a new release.For example, for about $2k per month I can get a MPPP dual T1 internet connection, 3Mbit/sec, and run that link for all the wire will deliver all month long. Even at 80% constant utilization that's 800Gbyte per month.
Most colo schemes seem to want to charge more than this -- at least 30 to 50% more, in fact.
Looking at rackspace.com, 800 GB/mo runs $2002.00.(note, that $2002 is the amount you pay in addition to the rest of the package deal, which already included 30GB, so that's $2002/770GB, which is close enough for jazz here) Even if the colo scheme wants to charge 30-50% more, why do you think that is? Do you have redundant agreements with several providers, allowing you to be certain your packets will always get through? Do you have a secure site, extensive backup power plan, onsite staff 24x7 to handle power outages, etc...? This is what you're paying 30-50% for. Colo costs of the hardware and connections include their cost of infrastructure. When you say you can get it for cheaper if you do it without the colo, that's fine. But you also have to add in your own expenses for hosting your server(s) before you can arrive at the real Total Cost of Ownership.