Well, here's the problem with this. Common carrier laws apply to telecommunications services. If Cable is not a telecommunications service, it's not a common carrier.
I strongly suggest someone sue charter, time warner, etc, for damages over the emotional trama the 'degrading' porn email they receive brings them. After all, that's why common carrier laws exist...
Every linux based WAP/Router combo, and my old Router/Switch combo, that I've owned has worked like a charm without fail 24/7 for years.
Out of all of the linksys cards I've used, I've had one CardBus 802.11b card develop mental issues, and one PCI wireless-g card spaz out randomly. Given the failure rates of PC hardware (high), I'd say Linksys is no worse than anyone else.
You only gave them access to it, given the terms that if they redistributed it, they had to provide source.
They are getting something from you, you are asking something in return from them. It's kind of like agreeing to buy a car for a set ammount, and then simply never making a payment. Contracts are contracts.
Is there real harm in taking delivery of a car and never making a payment? Not really, I mean, banks have lots of money, right?...
As far as fiscal damages, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. If 20 developers work on a piece of GPL'd code for a combined total manhours of 2,000, it would cost $developer_salary X 2,000 hours for the company to reproduce for its own purpose. If they violate your contract, wouldn't it make sense to go after them for the time you spent working on what they claim is their code? You only agreed to give it away for free to people who thought free code was a good idea (basically), if people don't agree with you... well, uh, why give it to them for free, too?
I actually have an M100 that _never_ kept its data during a battery swap. After the first 3 change outs, I simply stopped using it entirely since when I called Palm they told me I was obviously removing the batteries for serveral minutes (I timed it once, about 30 seconds total).
Now if I can find the damn thing, I might get a new PDA...
Mr. Darl C. McBride , 45 Chief Exec. Officer, Pres $ 986.00K N/A
That works out to $986,000. That's almost a million of it right there. Not sure where you're getting $300,000 total, the K at the end means 'thousands'. The decmial place is just there so you can say like, 11.20K for 11,200.
It's an audio loop -- you run a set of speakers off the 'hot' wire, and a microphone bridged to the negative lead off of an audio cable back into the 'return' wire. You get better results using an amplified source, such as a sound card or stereo with a microphone jack and seperate microphone output. You don't really need a circuit to seperate them so much as you need to match the output level of the microphone to make it audible over the line. This is exactally how old analog phones work, basically. I figured out how to wire this by ripping apart an old 70's ma bell beige telephone. When you lift the receiver, it bridges the hot wired to the speaker and the return wired to the mic, thus completing the circuit.
If you don't want to hear yourself echo, and you're using a portable phone which provides its own power instead of depending on the line, you can simply hook the hot pin into the speaker line and the return pin into the microphone line. Then use your soundcard's mixer to lower the volume on the speaker and microphone leads, and set up a test call with someone using skype or whatever, and raise the volume levels until the call is clear.
It actually is possible to extract audio off of a phone line directly, anyway. That's why I don't understand how this is so impressive.
You just build a special rj11 cable, and done.
I used the same trick to build a speakerphone into my stereo with a microphone. I didn't even have a normal handset in the loop, just an on/off switch.
Well, the thing is, it's not really. I hear the same thing you're saying from a lot of people, and for the most part, those people are not die-hard IT people. They have one specialty that they're pretty good at, but no other skills and typically don't have a willingness to learn.
It has everything to do with skills available and needed. If you have a wide vareity of skills, it makes more sense for an employer to hire you for a floating role. Small and Medium sized business need IT staff in floating roles, it's all they can afford. You're average CS student typically dosen't even have one skill out of college. They know how to write crap textbook java, alongside something like RISC assembly. What the hell good does that do in 99% of workplaces available?
Additionally, I've been picking up consulting work on the side like mad. If all else fails, there are still thousands of businesses starting every year -- they need IT work to get started, so working for yourself shouldn't be that hard. It's not for me, my business partner (who is a graphics artist), or for any of the other people we work with. If you can't find a conventional job, walking into a business as an LLC looking for contract work or website design or any of that comes far easier, and no one cares if you're degreed or not, so long as you can do the work.
At the same time, however, I think this is a little skewed. I know a lot of people working in IT without degrees, or with non-IT degrees, who do very well. Personally, I've only got a GED, and I've been working professionally on IT projects since I was 15. I'm now nearly 24, and I've yet to have issues obtaining or keeping a job -- I've been at the one I'm at now for 4 1/2 years.
I've had many credit cards in my wallet loose their magnetic data, not to mention get scratched up from repeated removal. Do you really think ID's are going to be immune to that problem in a way that people don't just ignore after awhile?
If you are using C++ builder enterprise, you have the source to the interface. It's entirely implimented in VCL, and the VCL source is included. If it crashes, it's because an underlying VCL component is broke.:)
Not that I like BCB, but when forced to develop on win32 where cygwin won't do, it's at the top of my list compared to MSVS.
windex.org was locked up by NSI for about 4 years after they claimed to not receive my payment by check (they cashed 2 of them just fine, though). This was pre-multiple registars, though. I made multiple attempts to get the domain back, and eventually every set of communcation led to getting a supervisor, having them tell me they'd call me back, and them never doing so.
When it came up in 2002, I had 3 domain-watching companies fixed on it, and thus, recovered it without incident.
I did everything short of getting a lawyer involved. Getting a lawyer involved may not matter, in my opinion. They aren't really accountable to anyone in the real world. It's like a landlord who goes out to his rentals, changes all the locks, then takes a flight to tahiti for a couple years without giving tennants a key. How do you realistically do something about that?
We use -48VDC, and it's a pain in the ass to find power supplies for modern hardware.
Whenever we need something outside of normal ATX, we wind up paying custom development fees.
No one makes DC to DC power supplies that are worth a damn, and the few vendors who do sell them (Sun, IBM, etc) charge an arm and a leg above and beyond what we pay to have them custom engineered.
System Requirements Note: Requires 50 quad cpu render boxes wi 16GB of RAM each, running on a shared GFS namespace, clustered with MOSIX, and 4TB of fiberchannel SAN storage.
If a broadband ISP can't handle all their users utilizing 160Kbit/sec of bandwith they are far too oversold to be of any value to any consumer.
I work for such a provider, and we're also a Old School Long Distance(tm) company. If we were to block or limit wanted traffic (VoIP service), we would be breaking the statutes that allow us to remain common carriers of IP traffic.
Even to deal with virus outbreaks, we don't stop the packets (that would be filtering, which is bad), we just redirect them to a device I have built that can identify the customer from radius logs and network maps, then spits out a report for us to contact them.
Common carrier is important, and there is court prescidence to justify the fact that 'rate limiting' is the same as 'filtering' in the eyes of common carrier status. Let someone take it to court against the provider, then there will be hell to pay. Would you want to be "responsible" for the data passing over your internet connection?
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Commit suicide. Then you don't have to choose, and two new losers will gain access to untapped ass resources.
How do you think he keeps his son quiet at night?
Oddly, they were not the ones who won throughout history.
I think the women are plotting something.
Not common carrier, eh?
Well, here's the problem with this. Common carrier laws apply to telecommunications services. If Cable is not a telecommunications service, it's not a common carrier.
I strongly suggest someone sue charter, time warner, etc, for damages over the emotional trama the 'degrading' porn email they receive brings them. After all, that's why common carrier laws exist...
Out of all of the Linksys hardware I've used..
Every linux based WAP/Router combo, and my old Router/Switch combo, that I've owned has worked like a charm without fail 24/7 for years.
Out of all of the linksys cards I've used, I've had one CardBus 802.11b card develop mental issues, and one PCI wireless-g card spaz out randomly. Given the failure rates of PC hardware (high), I'd say Linksys is no worse than anyone else.
You only gave them access to it, given the terms that if they redistributed it, they had to provide source.
...
... well, uh, why give it to them for free, too?
They are getting something from you, you are asking something in return from them. It's kind of like agreeing to buy a car for a set ammount, and then simply never making a payment. Contracts are contracts.
Is there real harm in taking delivery of a car and never making a payment? Not really, I mean, banks have lots of money, right?
As far as fiscal damages, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. If 20 developers work on a piece of GPL'd code for a combined total manhours of 2,000, it would cost $developer_salary X 2,000 hours for the company to reproduce for its own purpose. If they violate your contract, wouldn't it make sense to go after them for the time you spent working on what they claim is their code? You only agreed to give it away for free to people who thought free code was a good idea (basically), if people don't agree with you
rpm = dpkg, yum = apt
yum is just about as good as apt. it's a little slow on every system i've used it on.
BAH! Children these days.
Quick! Where's all the apple fangirl webcam sites?!
I actually have an M100 that _never_ kept its data during a battery swap. After the first 3 change outs, I simply stopped using it entirely since when I called Palm they told me I was obviously removing the batteries for serveral minutes (I timed it once, about 30 seconds total).
Now if I can find the damn thing, I might get a new PDA...
Mr. Darl C. McBride , 45 Chief Exec. Officer, Pres $ 986.00K N/A
That works out to $986,000. That's almost a million of it right there. Not sure where you're getting $300,000 total, the K at the end means 'thousands'. The decmial place is just there so you can say like, 11.20K for 11,200.
It's an audio loop -- you run a set of speakers off the 'hot' wire, and a microphone bridged to the negative lead off of an audio cable back into the 'return' wire. You get better results using an amplified source, such as a sound card or stereo with a microphone jack and seperate microphone output. You don't really need a circuit to seperate them so much as you need to match the output level of the microphone to make it audible over the line. This is exactally how old analog phones work, basically. I figured out how to wire this by ripping apart an old 70's ma bell beige telephone. When you lift the receiver, it bridges the hot wired to the speaker and the return wired to the mic, thus completing the circuit.
If you don't want to hear yourself echo, and you're using a portable phone which provides its own power instead of depending on the line, you can simply hook the hot pin into the speaker line and the return pin into the microphone line. Then use your soundcard's mixer to lower the volume on the speaker and microphone leads, and set up a test call with someone using skype or whatever, and raise the volume levels until the call is clear.
It actually is possible to extract audio off of a phone line directly, anyway. That's why I don't understand how this is so impressive.
You just build a special rj11 cable, and done.
I used the same trick to build a speakerphone into my stereo with a microphone. I didn't even have a normal handset in the loop, just an on/off switch.
Well, the thing is, it's not really. I hear the same thing you're saying from a lot of people, and for the most part, those people are not die-hard IT people. They have one specialty that they're pretty good at, but no other skills and typically don't have a willingness to learn.
It has everything to do with skills available and needed. If you have a wide vareity of skills, it makes more sense for an employer to hire you for a floating role. Small and Medium sized business need IT staff in floating roles, it's all they can afford. You're average CS student typically dosen't even have one skill out of college. They know how to write crap textbook java, alongside something like RISC assembly. What the hell good does that do in 99% of workplaces available?
Additionally, I've been picking up consulting work on the side like mad. If all else fails, there are still thousands of businesses starting every year -- they need IT work to get started, so working for yourself shouldn't be that hard. It's not for me, my business partner (who is a graphics artist), or for any of the other people we work with. If you can't find a conventional job, walking into a business as an LLC looking for contract work or website design or any of that comes far easier, and no one cares if you're degreed or not, so long as you can do the work.
At the same time, however, I think this is a little skewed. I know a lot of people working in IT without degrees, or with non-IT degrees, who do very well. Personally, I've only got a GED, and I've been working professionally on IT projects since I was 15. I'm now nearly 24, and I've yet to have issues obtaining or keeping a job -- I've been at the one I'm at now for 4 1/2 years.
I've had many credit cards in my wallet loose their magnetic data, not to mention get scratched up from repeated removal. Do you really think ID's are going to be immune to that problem in a way that people don't just ignore after awhile?
If you are using C++ builder enterprise, you have the source to the interface. It's entirely implimented in VCL, and the VCL source is included. If it crashes, it's because an underlying VCL component is broke. :)
Not that I like BCB, but when forced to develop on win32 where cygwin won't do, it's at the top of my list compared to MSVS.
windex.org was locked up by NSI for about 4 years after they claimed to not receive my payment by check (they cashed 2 of them just fine, though). This was pre-multiple registars, though. I made multiple attempts to get the domain back, and eventually every set of communcation led to getting a supervisor, having them tell me they'd call me back, and them never doing so.
When it came up in 2002, I had 3 domain-watching companies fixed on it, and thus, recovered it without incident.
I did everything short of getting a lawyer involved. Getting a lawyer involved may not matter, in my opinion. They aren't really accountable to anyone in the real world. It's like a landlord who goes out to his rentals, changes all the locks, then takes a flight to tahiti for a couple years without giving tennants a key. How do you realistically do something about that?
We use -48VDC, and it's a pain in the ass to find power supplies for modern hardware.
Whenever we need something outside of normal ATX, we wind up paying custom development fees.
No one makes DC to DC power supplies that are worth a damn, and the few vendors who do sell them (Sun, IBM, etc) charge an arm and a leg above and beyond what we pay to have them custom engineered.
But they're still trying to make a buck charging for the article.
How American.
System Requirements Note: Requires 50 quad cpu render boxes wi 16GB of RAM each, running on a shared GFS namespace, clustered with MOSIX, and 4TB of fiberchannel SAN storage.
actually, 9/10 times its just that you need to killall -9 firefox-bin.
about:config
How hard is that?
My wife's 40GB ipod didn't come with an AC adapter either. It came with a AC to FireWire adapter that works with any firewire-powered device.
I wish it was USB, but hey.. who am I to bitch.
If a broadband ISP can't handle all their users utilizing 160Kbit/sec of bandwith they are far too oversold to be of any value to any consumer.
I work for such a provider, and we're also a Old School Long Distance(tm) company. If we were to block or limit wanted traffic (VoIP service), we would be breaking the statutes that allow us to remain common carriers of IP traffic.
Even to deal with virus outbreaks, we don't stop the packets (that would be filtering, which is bad), we just redirect them to a device I have built that can identify the customer from radius logs and network maps, then spits out a report for us to contact them.
Common carrier is important, and there is court prescidence to justify the fact that 'rate limiting' is the same as 'filtering' in the eyes of common carrier status. Let someone take it to court against the provider, then there will be hell to pay. Would you want to be "responsible" for the data passing over your internet connection?
Thought not.