Here, in Portland, OR, I am currently getting an upload speed of 272 and download speed from 256-512, and the company, Qwest, says as high as 640.
There is the service where you agree to only be on for 2 hours and then they can kick you off for 5 minutes, which costs $19.95/month. Or you can pay $10 more per month and have the service available all the time, and get an external dsl modem instead.
This is a little off the intended discussion, but what is up with a name like East Fishkill? It doesn't sound very good, and implies that another place has the name of Fishkill, or West Fishkill that would be located to the west of East Fishkill.
I think that pretty much blows. You have to spend at least $4,999 to be able to use this on a server, and that is just for the SQL. How much is the actual product going to cost?
I never watched Power Rangers, and I like the other three ( I like the original Voltron better than that other version with many little vehicles), but who or what was G-Force? When did it air? I would think that G-Force would have to be pretty old to come before such shows as the Fantastic Four.
I think that the Bionic six fits largely into what you were talking about, except for two things:
- there were six members
- it was a family, not several individuals brought together by some outside force.
I doubt it would be out of production. If I remember an article I was reading about NASA (it may have been here) that they don't use a processor until all the bugs have been worked out and then only after something like 5 years. Henceforth, the processors that NASA are currently using are 486s.
Well, the I had a K6-2 back at the grand speed of 266 MHz. I think the K6-3 came out somewhere near 400 HMz. The revisions with the '+' signs after them came out after the original Athlon. Yet I had heard a rumour about the K6-2+ before AMD anounced the Duron. It seems to me that this coverage is a little late.
You'd think that these manufacturers would learn from history. Just look at the jump to 900 MHz for phones.
As little as I know about wireless phones, the skinny of it is that as more people are using the phones, the more 'channels' needed to they wouldn't intrude upon one another. The same idea at 2.4GHz. The difference, to me, is that there is more room for more of these channels. Why the companies aren't taking advantage of that, I don't know.
Did anyone else notice the 16 car related companies? 10 airlines? 7 hotels? that Lucent, Motorola, and Toshiba are, afaik, primarily hardware companies? Kodak makes cameras? Or what AMR even does?
Why aren't Apple, Microsoft, AOL (from Netscape), Oracle, and Sun being sued (to name a few)? Do any one of these companies, let alone all of them, have too much money and/or the ability to defend themselves?
Since you all are asking about prior art, I have a question as well. Did anything happen at Xerox PARC that could be construed as prior art? They had a gui interface, a mouse, a network, printers. I think the computers could talk to each other, and would the printer be considered smart enough, ie the information being requested something like "is there paper available" and the response enough?
The earliest reference he has is '88. I think if someone could prove PARC as prior, then there is quite a bit of time between that and 1988.
I don't know if anyone will get to readin this, but here it goes:
I am out here in Oregon, and we have had problems with US West. The first problem, I concluded, was the Intel 2100 modem they provided. We managed to get that replaced with another one, which worked fine.
About a month ago, we started having problems connecting. We called tech support with US West, and they first said they would call back within 24 hours. We called them a couple of days later, and they said they would call back 4 hours later. We called them again, and the guy admitted that what was said to us was standard procedure, and they had 50 guys doing this who were overworked.
Finally, we found out that at some point we got moved to being 22,000 (roughly 4 miles) feet from where we are connecting to. By that measurement, we aren't supposed to even have service! They aren't supposed to connect anyone over 20,000 feet or so. The kicker is that using those yahoo maps, I found out that we are 2.4 miles from the physical building. So the line we need to use to connect is strung all over the place before it reaches us! I am telling you, it stinks.
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Okay, now being in the lab at school, I can tell you more about these things. There are ten Ultra 5s in the lab. Each one has a Viewsonic PS790. And each has 3 dumb terminals attached to them in the lab. The dumbe terminals seem adequate for everything but using Netscape.
I attend PSU, and in one of our labs, we have about 10 Sparc 5s all with Ultra Sparc IIs, I believe. I may be wrong. Each Sparc has between 3-5 tektronix (spelling?) dumb terminals attached to them.
I think that the letter is excellent. It asks Microsoft to back up what it is asking, and to show why and how it has the authority to do so. It does this in a clear manner as well.
For the most part, I agree with you. I am particularily interested in seeing that companies continue to print manuals for hardware, so that we may be easily able to read about and take care of any possible problems before they actually happen. I am thinking of motherboards, in particular, but for many pieces of hardware, some sort of diagram would be very helpful in the least.
I agree, the Conflux race isn't that great. However, you should check out the new 'extra' creatures that they have added. The fairy dragon, azure dragon, rust dragon, and crystal dragon are pretty cool.
You may be right about legality, but from your statement, you still aren't taking into account what default means. The traditional usage of default is where you want to use one browser or application most of the time, but still want to be able to access a similar application that handles the same things occasionally. Such as being able to connect to your work account from home as well as your own personal account.
However, with AOL 5.0, it is apparent that they are taking the usage of default much farther than needed. I don't know the average AOL user. However, I would probably be safe in thinking that this average user has encountered the default setting question before, and knows what it implies, and knows that it doesn't mean taking over everything so that other isps, such as a work account, can't be connected to.
I agree with you. I wish there was more out there for BeOS. Yes, it isn't completely POSIX compliant. and Yes, telnet hasn't been ported. (To my knowledge. I looked for it a little while back.) It is silly to try and compare BeOS to NT server. The two OSes have different goals, and intended users. I am not going to install NT server in a home box that isn't connected to anything, and I wouldn't use BeOS as a mail server.
Does any of you know the power the WTO wields? They have this awesome power to pretty much shut down any economy they want to, and override any government they want to.
One little country decided to not import some goods that would be bad for a couple of reasons, and the WTO stepped right around it because it "hurt" their business.
The WTO shut down a law in New Jersey for the same reasons. The law conflicted with what the WTO wanted to do, and so it got rid of the law.
It has happened to the EU as well, concerning the decision not to import beef from the US. The WTO stepped in, and now Europe is importing beef from the US.
The reason for those governments giving in is simple. If they didn't, the WTO and all the supporting corporations, and possibly countries could, and probably would, boycott the "offending" nation, sending that nation into total economic ruin, and that isn't cool.
This means that the WTO takes what little voice you do have in your government, and throws it all out the window, and it could be on the whim of some large corporation, such as Microsoft. So be wary of what the WTO can do.
Luckily, right now that bacteria can't survive without a lot of *help*. You know, special solutions, temperatures, other stuff. And even then, they don't last long.
I looked at the Darby & Darby website, and according to them, they handle many cases like this, yet their site hasn't been updated since early December of 1997. (According to the page info under Netscape.) Even if that is wrong, the newest information I could physically find on the site was from October of 1998. This is definitely a dated site, and something is fishy here. The domain name that goes with Miss Pollard's e-mail address specializes in Intellectual Property Law. I find her letter to Mr. Lopez do be less than what is deemed acceptable as a legal document. Under what she has stated to Mr. Lopez, Toys "R" Us has no legal standing on this case. I think I am now repeating myself... It seems to me that Toys "R" Us is taking itself way too seriously. It is going far out there to try and "protect" itself. The irony of it is, just as someone else has mentioned, his site could have been used to direct all the collectors that visited to look at the Toys "R" Us site and see if they have any information on what that particular collector is looking for.
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Here, in Portland, OR, I am currently getting an upload speed of 272 and download speed from 256-512, and the company, Qwest, says as high as 640.
There is the service where you agree to only be on for 2 hours and then they can kick you off for 5 minutes, which costs $19.95/month. Or you can pay $10 more per month and have the service available all the time, and get an external dsl modem instead.
This is a little off the intended discussion, but what is up with a name like East Fishkill? It doesn't sound very good, and implies that another place has the name of Fishkill, or West Fishkill that would be located to the west of East Fishkill.
What has prompted IBM to build there?
Here it is:
http://www.lexicon-branding.com/
You should really check out the different things they claim for naming, such as the Swiffer, the name Pentium for Intel's processors...
Thanks for the numbers. I was curious, and appreciate the answer.
I think that pretty much blows. You have to spend at least $4,999 to be able to use this on a server, and that is just for the SQL. How much is the actual product going to cost?
True. Think about this one. Is is easier to regulate the emissions of millions of cars, or is it easier to regulate the far fewer power plants?
I never watched Power Rangers, and I like the other three ( I like the original Voltron better than that other version with many little vehicles), but who or what was G-Force? When did it air? I would think that G-Force would have to be pretty old to come before such shows as the Fantastic Four.
I think that the Bionic six fits largely into what you were talking about, except for two things:
- there were six members
- it was a family, not several individuals brought together by some outside force.
I doubt it would be out of production. If I remember an article I was reading about NASA (it may have been here) that they don't use a processor until all the bugs have been worked out and then only after something like 5 years. Henceforth, the processors that NASA are currently using are 486s.
Well, the I had a K6-2 back at the grand speed of 266 MHz. I think the K6-3 came out somewhere near 400 HMz. The revisions with the '+' signs after them came out after the original Athlon. Yet I had heard a rumour about the K6-2+ before AMD anounced the Duron. It seems to me that this coverage is a little late.
You'd think that these manufacturers would learn from history. Just look at the jump to 900 MHz for phones.
As little as I know about wireless phones, the skinny of it is that as more people are using the phones, the more 'channels' needed to they wouldn't intrude upon one another. The same idea at 2.4GHz. The difference, to me, is that there is more room for more of these channels. Why the companies aren't taking advantage of that, I don't know.
Did anyone else notice the 16 car related companies? 10 airlines? 7 hotels? that Lucent, Motorola, and Toshiba are, afaik, primarily hardware companies? Kodak makes cameras? Or what AMR even does?
Why aren't Apple, Microsoft, AOL (from Netscape), Oracle, and Sun being sued (to name a few)? Do any one of these companies, let alone all of them, have too much money and/or the ability to defend themselves?
Since you all are asking about prior art, I have a question as well. Did anything happen at Xerox PARC that could be construed as prior art? They had a gui interface, a mouse, a network, printers. I think the computers could talk to each other, and would the printer be considered smart enough, ie the information being requested something like "is there paper available" and the response enough?
The earliest reference he has is '88. I think if someone could prove PARC as prior, then there is quite a bit of time between that and 1988.
I don't know if anyone will get to readin this, but here it goes:
I am out here in Oregon, and we have had problems with US West. The first problem, I concluded, was the Intel 2100 modem they provided. We managed to get that replaced with another one, which worked fine.
About a month ago, we started having problems connecting. We called tech support with US West, and they first said they would call back within 24 hours. We called them a couple of days later, and they said they would call back 4 hours later. We called them again, and the guy admitted that what was said to us was standard procedure, and they had 50 guys doing this who were overworked.
Finally, we found out that at some point we got moved to being 22,000 (roughly 4 miles) feet from where we are connecting to. By that measurement, we aren't supposed to even have service! They aren't supposed to connect anyone over 20,000 feet or so. The kicker is that using those yahoo maps, I found out that we are 2.4 miles from the physical building. So the line we need to use to connect is strung all over the place before it reaches us! I am telling you, it stinks.
Yes, it would!
Okay, now being in the lab at school, I can tell you more about these things. There are ten Ultra 5s in the lab. Each one has a Viewsonic PS790. And each has 3 dumb terminals attached to them in the lab. The dumbe terminals seem adequate for everything but using Netscape.
I attend PSU, and in one of our labs, we have about 10 Sparc 5s all with Ultra Sparc IIs, I believe. I may be wrong. Each Sparc has between 3-5 tektronix (spelling?) dumb terminals attached to them.
That would kick ass. Too bad it is so expensive right now. Hopefully, if there is enough demand for it, Compaq would be able to drop the price on it.
I think that the letter is excellent. It asks Microsoft to back up what it is asking, and to show why and how it has the authority to do so. It does this in a clear manner as well.
Way to Go!
For the most part, I agree with you. I am particularily interested in seeing that companies continue to print manuals for hardware, so that we may be easily able to read about and take care of any possible problems before they actually happen. I am thinking of motherboards, in particular, but for many pieces of hardware, some sort of diagram would be very helpful in the least.
It sounds like a cool thing, but the server was down when I tried the link at 11:53 am Pacific time.
I agree, the Conflux race isn't that great. However, you should check out the new 'extra' creatures that they have added. The fairy dragon, azure dragon, rust dragon, and crystal dragon are pretty cool.
You may be right about legality, but from your statement, you still aren't taking into account what default means. The traditional usage of default is where you want to use one browser or application most of the time, but still want to be able to access a similar application that handles the same things occasionally. Such as being able to connect to your work account from home as well as your own personal account.
However, with AOL 5.0, it is apparent that they are taking the usage of default much farther than needed. I don't know the average AOL user. However, I would probably be safe in thinking that this average user has encountered the default setting question before, and knows what it implies, and knows that it doesn't mean taking over everything so that other isps, such as a work account, can't be connected to.
I agree with you. I wish there was more out there for BeOS. Yes, it isn't completely POSIX compliant. and Yes, telnet hasn't been ported. (To my knowledge. I looked for it a little while back.) It is silly to try and compare BeOS to NT server. The two OSes have different goals, and intended users. I am not going to install NT server in a home box that isn't connected to anything, and I wouldn't use BeOS as a mail server.
Does any of you know the power the WTO wields? They have this awesome power to pretty much shut down any economy they want to, and override any government they want to.
One little country decided to not import some goods that would be bad for a couple of reasons, and the WTO stepped right around it because it "hurt" their business.
The WTO shut down a law in New Jersey for the same reasons. The law conflicted with what the WTO wanted to do, and so it got rid of the law.
It has happened to the EU as well, concerning the decision not to import beef from the US. The WTO stepped in, and now Europe is importing beef from the US.
The reason for those governments giving in is simple. If they didn't, the WTO and all the supporting corporations, and possibly countries could, and probably would, boycott the "offending" nation, sending that nation into total economic ruin, and that isn't cool.
This means that the WTO takes what little voice you do have in your government, and throws it all out the window, and it could be on the whim of some large corporation, such as Microsoft. So be wary of what the WTO can do.
Luckily, right now that bacteria can't survive without a lot of *help*. You know, special solutions, temperatures, other stuff. And even then, they don't last long.
I looked at the Darby & Darby website, and according to them, they handle many cases like this, yet their site hasn't been updated since early December of 1997. (According to the page info under Netscape.) Even if that is wrong, the newest information I could physically find on the site was from October of 1998. This is definitely a dated site, and something is fishy here. The domain name that goes with Miss Pollard's e-mail address specializes in Intellectual Property Law. I find her letter to Mr. Lopez do be less than what is deemed acceptable as a legal document. Under what she has stated to Mr. Lopez, Toys "R" Us has no legal standing on this case. I think I am now repeating myself... It seems to me that Toys "R" Us is taking itself way too seriously. It is going far out there to try and "protect" itself. The irony of it is, just as someone else has mentioned, his site could have been used to direct all the collectors that visited to look at the Toys "R" Us site and see if they have any information on what that particular collector is looking for.