Assuming you're not attached to a miserably slow ISDN line (last I knew there was much heel dragging regarding upgrading from obsolete yet expensive tech) nor having to take out a second mortgage to pay for it I envy you. Where I live I'm surrounded by much dark fibre and anchient charged copper. If I want anything beyond a 22.4 Kbps dialup around here I've got to point a dish at the sky and there aren't too many folks floating Buicks and offering let you suck on the tail pipe.
It's real simple. If ISPs upgraded to IPv6 then there would be plenty of addresses to hand out. There would not be any reasonable argument against handing out a static address to each and every one of their customers. There are however a limited supply of IPv4 addresses. Right now most people are hiding out behind a NAT. If they want a static address though their ISP will be happy to give them one for a small monthly fee. I if memory serves I believe my ISP would be happy to give me one for $25/month.
It would seem that the quote found its way to the net from the news group Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery. I cannot verify one way or another whether these words much like "No one should ever need more than 640K" were actually spoken by Satan.
Because anything that allows a malicious user to exploit your system and hijack isn't a flaw... it's a feature!
Don't worry, even if the courts make them distribute a version of Windows with out this feature bundled with it, it will still be rich enough in features that the normal user generally won't notice the difference.
It seems to me that the only people who know what a geek are are geeks themselves. Hell go take a look at Best Buy's wonderful "Geek Squad". Talk about a bunch of marketing flotsam. Not one of those clowns could code his way out of a wet paper stack. They're just a bunch of power-Lusers with an A+ certification stating that they know what a PCI slot is and how to run spam removel software on a winbox.
A geek sits down one afternoon at his computer and decides "I'm going to recompile my kernel today" for no other reason than because to him it's easy and an console framebuffer update was just posted for his video card.
Thus saith the great Wikipedia: "In various sciences, a theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a certain natural or social phenomenon, thus either originating from observable facts or supported by them (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical, testable, and has never been falsified."
Like it or not there are unplugged holes in present evolutionary explainations of things. Really large ones at that. ie First cause; statistics; second law of thermodynamics; missing transitional forms; inconsistent fossil records whereby fossils belonging to more recent geological time periods are found below other fossils belonging to earlier time periods; etc. If one were to be "scientific" and "honest" it would seem a perfectly reasonable thing to fess up to this stuff. By ignoring these holes, these so called evolutionary scientists are demonstraiting their own version of faith not the scientific method.
The exploration of science is generally funded by external investors. What happens when you tell investors that you're unsure of your research, there are some holes in your theory, that it might lead to a dead end? Selfless, benevolent investors aren't normal, they almost always want a return on their investment. If the prospects of ROI are small so will be the investment (if any) made.
Just because you are affronted by the message that "Jesus die to save you from your sin," does that mean you should ignore and/or hide the problems with your held explaination of reality? Certainly the motives of many allied with the ID camp do not stop with a simple reality check and a call for honesty. We all know that. Who however, says we have to take it all, hook, line, and sinker. Honesty in science is becoming an increasing problem because of tight walleted investors. If we're to actually progress our knowledge and understanding at its fullest potential pace it is necessary to periodically "show our cards" so others don't head down the same dead ends.
Don't be so certain. The US is typically considered the "land of the free" usually more so than the EU, our FCC doesn't seem to interested in anything other than monopolies. Clear Channel, and AOL Time Warner comes to mind... We're all still crossing our fingers on the software patent thing, but the longer things go the more obvious it is that the "free and open" people are going to get nailed up the arse by corporate $$$ on Capital Hill and in the courts.
If this keeps up I'm moving to some nice asian nation where tech runs free.
Don't worry the Great Patent Rebellion of the early 21st century will soon be at hand. The number of tort cases will overwelm the court systems. Adjudication will be impossible and technology will run free and far. Tux, not Clippy will show us the way into a big, bright, better tomorrow... There is hope, the GPR is soon, geeks bring your tech to the ready!
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Assuming you're not attached to a miserably slow ISDN line (last I knew there was much heel dragging regarding upgrading from obsolete yet expensive tech) nor having to take out a second mortgage to pay for it I envy you. Where I live I'm surrounded by much dark fibre and anchient charged copper. If I want anything beyond a 22.4 Kbps dialup around here I've got to point a dish at the sky and there aren't too many folks floating Buicks and offering let you suck on the tail pipe.
--Neth
It's real simple. If ISPs upgraded to IPv6 then there would be plenty of addresses to hand out. There would not be any reasonable argument against handing out a static address to each and every one of their customers. There are however a limited supply of IPv4 addresses. Right now most people are hiding out behind a NAT. If they want a static address though their ISP will be happy to give them one for a small monthly fee. I if memory serves I believe my ISP would be happy to give me one for $25/month.
--Neth
But how would that affect their ability to float? If they become depressed again won't they drown.
--Neth
Can I still program in Java...?
--Neth
It would seem that the quote found its way to the net from the news group Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery. I cannot verify one way or another whether these words much like "No one should ever need more than 640K" were actually spoken by Satan.
--Neth
Sure, why not? All that's left to get is a fold out couch, fridge and an indoor hibachi. --Neth
Don't worry, even if the courts make them distribute a version of Windows with out this feature bundled with it, it will still be rich enough in features that the normal user generally won't notice the difference.
--Neth
It seems to me that the only people who know what a geek are are geeks themselves. Hell go take a look at Best Buy's wonderful "Geek Squad". Talk about a bunch of marketing flotsam. Not one of those clowns could code his way out of a wet paper stack. They're just a bunch of power-Lusers with an A+ certification stating that they know what a PCI slot is and how to run spam removel software on a winbox.
A geek sits down one afternoon at his computer and decides "I'm going to recompile my kernel today" for no other reason than because to him it's easy and an console framebuffer update was just posted for his video card.
--Neth
Last I knew the implementation of transparencies for the PNG format on IE wasn't quite right. You have to do some Gimp magic to fix it.
Thus saith the great Wikipedia: "In various sciences, a theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a certain natural or social phenomenon, thus either originating from observable facts or supported by them (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical, testable, and has never been falsified."
Like it or not there are unplugged holes in present evolutionary explainations of things. Really large ones at that. ie First cause; statistics; second law of thermodynamics; missing transitional forms; inconsistent fossil records whereby fossils belonging to more recent geological time periods are found below other fossils belonging to earlier time periods; etc. If one were to be "scientific" and "honest" it would seem a perfectly reasonable thing to fess up to this stuff. By ignoring these holes, these so called evolutionary scientists are demonstraiting their own version of faith not the scientific method.
The exploration of science is generally funded by external investors. What happens when you tell investors that you're unsure of your research, there are some holes in your theory, that it might lead to a dead end? Selfless, benevolent investors aren't normal, they almost always want a return on their investment. If the prospects of ROI are small so will be the investment (if any) made.
Just because you are affronted by the message that "Jesus die to save you from your sin," does that mean you should ignore and/or hide the problems with your held explaination of reality? Certainly the motives of many allied with the ID camp do not stop with a simple reality check and a call for honesty. We all know that. Who however, says we have to take it all, hook, line, and sinker. Honesty in science is becoming an increasing problem because of tight walleted investors. If we're to actually progress our knowledge and understanding at its fullest potential pace it is necessary to periodically "show our cards" so others don't head down the same dead ends.
--Neth
*boggles at the concept*
emerge x11-base/xorg-x11
Don't be so certain. The US is typically considered the "land of the free" usually more so than the EU, our FCC doesn't seem to interested in anything other than monopolies. Clear Channel, and AOL Time Warner comes to mind... We're all still crossing our fingers on the software patent thing, but the longer things go the more obvious it is that the "free and open" people are going to get nailed up the arse by corporate $$$ on Capital Hill and in the courts.
If this keeps up I'm moving to some nice asian nation where tech runs free.
--Neth
Don't worry the Great Patent Rebellion of the early 21st century will soon be at hand. The number of tort cases will overwelm the court systems. Adjudication will be impossible and technology will run free and far. Tux, not Clippy will show us the way into a big, bright, better tomorrow... There is hope, the GPR is soon, geeks bring your tech to the ready!
--Neth