I wonder where someone could find and run QDOS (DOS 1.0 that Gates bought and sold to IBM). "The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products." - About.com
Maybe it's a typo. "The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland," said Lauri Rechardt, a spokesman for Finland's branch of IFPI. "If illegal services like The Pirate Bay are freely allowed to continue their operations..." to which the rest of the quote continued, "...at least we can see that there are some people out there who are interested in Finnish artists, whom we should probably be promoting on the international market rather than just within our own small country, where we still think we're a 'Phonographic' Industry."
I mean, I'm just trying to read into it and draw out the best possible alternative for Lauri.
Yeah, good luck. We went from Net Neutrality to this! With Net Neutrality they were saying, "Oh, leave it alone, it works fine. Don't force companies to not favor one site over another with premium QOS bandwidth." Now they're saying, "Stick it deep, as deep as possible, into the core of the Internet itself and control it all one record at a time!"
Where are the Libertarians railing against Net Neutrality when you need them to rail against this? If any of you are one, I hope you bring this comparison up LOUD and CLEAR to anti-net neutrality people who are now siding with DNS censoring that they are hypocrites. Either you mean it when you say you are hands off, or you don't.
Does this mean that if I have a HOSTS file, I have to filter through it, too?
What if that HOSTS file is for an enterprise?
What if that HOSTS file is published on the Internet for others to use?
What about Ad-Blocking software that uses a system like HOSTS? If it is capable of blocking DNS, will it then be required to block censored hosts as well?
What about VPN? Which side of the connection is reponsible?
What about Cache? Will there be a mandate that all DNS cache's everywhere only last for X amount of hours?
Beyond the level of the ISP, this presents an unworkable situation if any of these start applying to individuals, publishers (can free speech protect the publication of a HOSTS file, if so, why does it not protect a DNS server?), small organizations. The problem isn't just that this is wrong, but it's completely unworkable. It requires a very intrusive and extensive hack of the entire system currently in place, affecting everything from the router to the PC to the cellphone... unless, of course, the government runs its own firewall/dns that everyone shares, just like China.
I've read your other posts. I see you even have been marked a troll recently. Considering you are a confrontational asshole in all of them, I apologize. I didn't mean to lump the "assholes" in with "idiots". Let me rephrase, "Other people are idiots and/or assholes." I also apologize to all idiots. I didn't mean to lump you in with the above poster.
On every single device, mobile and PC, actual power buttons are disappearing. My cellphone has a mutant mute/power, but the power only actually brings up a "What would you like to do, mute, airplane, or actually power off?" So, on a crash, take off case, pull battery. Things just aren't designed to turn off anymore. I miss that.
This is a paid mentorship/apprenticeship. And that is a fine way to learn in many fields, provided the person is capable. It's like the blacksmith jobs of old. But give someone 2 years under a startup CEO, and they will undoubtedly be more prepared than someone with 2 years of college in starting a company.
Experience is one of the best teachers. Books are no replacement for the real world, with its successes, but more importantly, failures. This is why even medical doctors don't graduate without hands on experience.
Still, I don't like the idea. Rather, I think experience is part of a well rounded curriculum, not the entire curriculum.
So, when I said "your" (plural, as denoted by the previous plural "people", "idiots", and "assholes"), you took it personally? Yes, I was thinking of you, personally, individually, when I wrote that. o_O
You're quite easily offended. I made a general comment. You made a directed reply to me.
I have some links for you that may assist you (and I mean you, singular, specifically):
The Internet crashed and burned today, for lady we spoke with. She has been unable to connect to anyone over her neighbor's wifi. Will the world markets be the next to crash with this unfortunate outage, which we can associate to Microsoft? Leo Laporte has the rest of this breaking story.
This is true, but the penetration of those products is extremely low. Something like 74 million smart phone owners in the US. But the average US household has more than 2 televisions.
6 Year Study aboard sea vessel confirms earth is in fact round, as Eratosthenes postulated in the second century BC. So round, people will now compare it to other round objects, like the sun. The experiment continues in the search for even greater hand drawn maps, and possibly a trade route to India. The implications for drawers of "There be dragons here!" on map edges could be in danger of full economic collapse.
People don't want their fries on the sandwich. They still want their food separated. The same is with many services, computer/monitor, tv/service box, microwave/oven, peanut butter/jelly.
Cable boxes prove that it is not a passing fad. TV's do NOT upgrade well. They never have. And companies love selling add ons. The TV companies baked in native tuning support ever since their WAS a TV, and yet, companies still use boxes. Even with baked in digital, the cable companies still toss out a box. This hasn't been all bad. Most people's first remote control was through a cable box hooked up to an old, un-upgradable tv. Tivo gave us pause and rewind (and hell THAT still isn't even a standard TV feature yet, and that's a must have for why most people, even with great over the air digital, still pay for a service, any service, just to get their pause button).
But let's think about it. Do most people buy a computer/monitor all in one, or separate? They buy separate. I'm not going to go into the debate about why that is, and I believe it WILL change. But it isn't changing anytime soon. Some things just don't go together in people's minds.
I thought this was some anti-anti-islam thing to protest that idiot who was burning Korans in Florida. Thank goodness it was just geekiness. Kinda sick of all the hate politics.
Oprah retiring was the 3rd Trumpet of the Apocalypse. Duke Nukem Forever is the 5th. So we still have to wait for Carrot Top to sell out Yankee Stadium. I just don't see that happening before June 10.
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I wonder where someone could find and run QDOS (DOS 1.0 that Gates bought and sold to IBM). "The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products." - About.com
It's amazing. The error dialogs and calculator have lasted on, virtually unchanged.
Maybe it's a typo. "The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland," said Lauri Rechardt, a spokesman for Finland's branch of IFPI. "If illegal services like The Pirate Bay are freely allowed to continue their operations..." to which the rest of the quote continued, "...at least we can see that there are some people out there who are interested in Finnish artists, whom we should probably be promoting on the international market rather than just within our own small country, where we still think we're a 'Phonographic' Industry."
I mean, I'm just trying to read into it and draw out the best possible alternative for Lauri.
Let's get a petition together to get Google to put up a robots.txt on Google so that Google can't Google Google.
Yeah, good luck. We went from Net Neutrality to this! With Net Neutrality they were saying, "Oh, leave it alone, it works fine. Don't force companies to not favor one site over another with premium QOS bandwidth." Now they're saying, "Stick it deep, as deep as possible, into the core of the Internet itself and control it all one record at a time!"
Where are the Libertarians railing against Net Neutrality when you need them to rail against this? If any of you are one, I hope you bring this comparison up LOUD and CLEAR to anti-net neutrality people who are now siding with DNS censoring that they are hypocrites. Either you mean it when you say you are hands off, or you don't.
Dogs work too.
Does this mean that if I have a HOSTS file, I have to filter through it, too?
What if that HOSTS file is for an enterprise?
What if that HOSTS file is published on the Internet for others to use?
What about Ad-Blocking software that uses a system like HOSTS? If it is capable of blocking DNS, will it then be required to block censored hosts as well?
What about VPN? Which side of the connection is reponsible?
What about Cache? Will there be a mandate that all DNS cache's everywhere only last for X amount of hours?
Beyond the level of the ISP, this presents an unworkable situation if any of these start applying to individuals, publishers (can free speech protect the publication of a HOSTS file, if so, why does it not protect a DNS server?), small organizations. The problem isn't just that this is wrong, but it's completely unworkable. It requires a very intrusive and extensive hack of the entire system currently in place, affecting everything from the router to the PC to the cellphone... unless, of course, the government runs its own firewall/dns that everyone shares, just like China.
Oh no @ Clippy on my cellphone, lol.
I've read your other posts. I see you even have been marked a troll recently. Considering you are a confrontational asshole in all of them, I apologize. I didn't mean to lump the "assholes" in with "idiots". Let me rephrase, "Other people are idiots and/or assholes." I also apologize to all idiots. I didn't mean to lump you in with the above poster.
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On every single device, mobile and PC, actual power buttons are disappearing. My cellphone has a mutant mute/power, but the power only actually brings up a "What would you like to do, mute, airplane, or actually power off?" So, on a crash, take off case, pull battery. Things just aren't designed to turn off anymore. I miss that.
I hate Seattle zombies.
Why do researchers have to take things so literally? Next, they'll all go jump in lake?
This is a paid mentorship/apprenticeship. And that is a fine way to learn in many fields, provided the person is capable. It's like the blacksmith jobs of old. But give someone 2 years under a startup CEO, and they will undoubtedly be more prepared than someone with 2 years of college in starting a company.
Experience is one of the best teachers. Books are no replacement for the real world, with its successes, but more importantly, failures. This is why even medical doctors don't graduate without hands on experience.
Still, I don't like the idea. Rather, I think experience is part of a well rounded curriculum, not the entire curriculum.
So, when I said "your" (plural, as denoted by the previous plural "people", "idiots", and "assholes"), you took it personally? Yes, I was thinking of you, personally, individually, when I wrote that. o_O
You're quite easily offended. I made a general comment. You made a directed reply to me.
I have some links for you that may assist you (and I mean you, singular, specifically):
http://forum.psychlinks.ca/psychology-psychiatry-and-mental-health/22189-do-you-need-to-take-everything-personally-before-you-can-get-over-it.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090807073108AAf5Jzf
http://www.bpdfriends.com/blog/2009/11/how-to-not-take-things-personally/
From TFA: "like Google Trends but in reverse."
The Internet crashed and burned today, for lady we spoke with. She has been unable to connect to anyone over her neighbor's wifi. Will the world markets be the next to crash with this unfortunate outage, which we can associate to Microsoft? Leo Laporte has the rest of this breaking story.
This is true, but the penetration of those products is extremely low. Something like 74 million smart phone owners in the US. But the average US household has more than 2 televisions.
If anything this is another instance of life imitating art, even if it is some of the most atrocious "art" you've ever had the misfortune to witness.
You've never seen Gigli, have you?
6 Year Study aboard sea vessel confirms earth is in fact round, as Eratosthenes postulated in the second century BC. So round, people will now compare it to other round objects, like the sun. The experiment continues in the search for even greater hand drawn maps, and possibly a trade route to India. The implications for drawers of "There be dragons here!" on map edges could be in danger of full economic collapse.
Is Jersey a dump for bad reality shows featuring big hipped women and douche bag men? - Gieco Spokesman
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People don't want their fries on the sandwich. They still want their food separated. The same is with many services, computer/monitor, tv/service box, microwave/oven, peanut butter/jelly.
Cable boxes prove that it is not a passing fad. TV's do NOT upgrade well. They never have. And companies love selling add ons. The TV companies baked in native tuning support ever since their WAS a TV, and yet, companies still use boxes. Even with baked in digital, the cable companies still toss out a box. This hasn't been all bad. Most people's first remote control was through a cable box hooked up to an old, un-upgradable tv. Tivo gave us pause and rewind (and hell THAT still isn't even a standard TV feature yet, and that's a must have for why most people, even with great over the air digital, still pay for a service, any service, just to get their pause button).
But let's think about it. Do most people buy a computer/monitor all in one, or separate? They buy separate. I'm not going to go into the debate about why that is, and I believe it WILL change. But it isn't changing anytime soon. Some things just don't go together in people's minds.
I thought this was some anti-anti-islam thing to protest that idiot who was burning Korans in Florida. Thank goodness it was just geekiness. Kinda sick of all the hate politics.
Oprah retiring was the 3rd Trumpet of the Apocalypse. Duke Nukem Forever is the 5th. So we still have to wait for Carrot Top to sell out Yankee Stadium. I just don't see that happening before June 10.