Hmmm, how about a wedding of sorts? Something old (existing railway line and wires) Something new (new technology) Something borrowed (an idea, from India) Something blue...bluetooth.
Think it through. Set up some kind of relationship between the train and intermittent (every couple hundered meters there's a control box or switch or an emergency phone) control point, let the train act as a repeater, using "cell" logic to pass from one node to the next.
Not that it'd work, it just made a great premise. Meow
Tell me about it! Someone (I'm not naming names, but it was one of the humans) scratched my copy of The Matrix so badly that watching the visit to the oracle is just painful.
I took revenge by leaving hairballs all over the couch.
I used to discuss "when we turn 50" plans with co-workers regularly.
The network admin is going to open a "cyber-cafe / bar" in a college town; the mainframe sysprog is going to open a key duplicating kiosk in a mall, and I'm going to run a B&B somewhere in Michigan.
Provided, of course, that we assign all rights to the appropriate group...OSF for anything that might be useful (a method for displaying a graphical user interface on a computer monitor without a computer = Xterm or thin client) or Slashdot for everything else. (a method for ensuring southern processed corn will not be eaten = pour grits down your pants)
The government is not a monarchy, and every step of this process must be carefully run through to give MS a harder time proving they had an unfair trial when (not if, when) they appeal.
The effect of what you propose would be for all the multinational corporations with overseas offices to immediately look at moving there. Think about it - if the government can smack down MS...
Point of law - Anyone CAN sue anyone. This is why the American justice system is swamped, why judges are overbooked, and why there are too damn many landsharks (ahem, lawyers) out there.
I could, for instance, sue Microsoft for being a bunch of morons. That case, like their case against Peacefire, would likely be tossed...provided the judge doesn't get swayed by PR... Meow
Assuming you're not really trolling... (okay, I need a laugh today) What you'd end up with is a nice tight pile of code that nobody in the recording industry would touch because there are just too many self-promoting bastards like netPD who are willing to generate completely bogus numbers using "secret" methods to get their company names in lights.
Looks simple enough even I could build it. (and I have two left paws - I also have two right paws...think about it) I won't, though. My time is too vaulable a comodity at the moment, it'd cost me less to work an extra hour and then buy a Rio clone off E-Bay.
On the other hand, 20 years ago I'd be headed over to Nutron Electronics with a shopping list. (which is exactly how my time got so valuable in the first place)
Your right to communicate ends at my property line. There's case law (not just laws, but court case findings) to back it up. (no, I'm not a lawyer, I'm the wrong species for one thing...but it does exist)
The problem is, telemarketing (unlike spam) hasn't exceeded the threshold to generate public outcry. Yet. It will, and then there will be laws.
Two things. First, while it would be very interesting to see (for instance) MS Instance1 headed by Bill Gates going head to head with MS Instance2 headed by Steve Ballmer, it's unlikely. How do you divide a group of, say, 21 coders who worked on SCSI drivers? Sure, the code goes both ways, but the bodies?
Second, if a vertical split could be engineered, you would likely see one or more of the instances agressively courting the open-source community. Look for someone to buy a RedHat or Corel, etc.
OPEC is a trade organization made up of companies sitting over rotten dinosaur corpses. (i.e. oil) I don't think they give a rats' ass about our silly monopolistic laws. (QED - 1973 and 1976)
Company I used to work at hired a DBA who turned out to know nothing. The headhunter had deliberately coached him on what to say in the interview, and he got past a KPMG technical interview as well. (which revised my opinion of KPMG down a few notches)
We finally figured out he was useless through the firewall logs - he spent all day at various porn sites, and never produced any actual results.
Slashdot Mirror
It's called BackOrifice. Look into it.
Windows, like DOS before it (and CP/M before that) uses the extension to determine file type.
Pretty sad, really.
Hmmm, how about a wedding of sorts?
Something old (existing railway line and wires)
Something new (new technology)
Something borrowed (an idea, from India)
Something blue...bluetooth.
Think it through. Set up some kind of relationship between the train and intermittent (every couple hundered meters there's a control box or switch or an emergency phone) control point, let the train act as a repeater, using "cell" logic to pass from one node to the next.
Not that it'd work, it just made a great premise.
Meow
Tell me about it! Someone (I'm not naming names, but it was one of the humans) scratched my copy of The Matrix so badly that watching the visit to the oracle is just painful.
I took revenge by leaving hairballs all over the couch.
Meow
I used to discuss "when we turn 50" plans with co-workers regularly.
The network admin is going to open a "cyber-cafe / bar" in a college town; the mainframe sysprog is going to open a key duplicating kiosk in a mall, and I'm going to run a B&B somewhere in Michigan.
And we're all in Chicago.
Provided, of course, that we assign all rights to the appropriate group...OSF for anything that might be useful (a method for displaying a graphical user interface on a computer monitor without a computer = Xterm or thin client) or Slashdot for everything else. (a method for ensuring southern processed corn will not be eaten = pour grits down your pants)
Meow
What, are you stupid?
The government is not a monarchy, and every step of this process must be carefully run through to give MS a harder time proving they had an unfair trial when (not if, when) they appeal.
The effect of what you propose would be for all the multinational corporations with overseas offices to immediately look at moving there. Think about it - if the government can smack down MS...
Meow
Meow!
Rabid indeed! Perhaps the interviewer needs to be put down? I'd recommend at least quarantine and observation for a fortnight!
Meow!
Point of law -
Anyone CAN sue anyone. This is why the American justice system is swamped, why judges are overbooked, and why there are too damn many landsharks (ahem, lawyers) out there.
I could, for instance, sue Microsoft for being a bunch of morons.
That case, like their case against Peacefire, would likely be tossed...provided the judge doesn't get swayed by PR...
Meow
It was possible back in the DOS days because there were a limited KNOWABLE list of executables.
Take a look at c:\windows\ and its' tree sometime and tell me anybody could know that mess.
Meow
It'll just go viral...that is, if we block it, it'll just mutate.
I was surprised to hear Metallica was still together.
I figure they're good for two or three more albums, if you count "best of" and maybe a "live at the...".
After that, it's off to playing at county fairs and summerfests, like all the metal bands of the '80s that didn't break up.
Meow
Assuming you're not really trolling...
(okay, I need a laugh today)
What you'd end up with is a nice tight pile of code that nobody in the recording industry would touch because there are just too many self-promoting bastards like netPD who are willing to generate completely bogus numbers using "secret" methods to get their company names in lights.
Meow
Looks simple enough even I could build it.
(and I have two left paws - I also have two right paws...think about it)
I won't, though. My time is too vaulable a comodity at the moment, it'd cost me less to work an extra hour and then buy a Rio clone off E-Bay.
On the other hand, 20 years ago I'd be headed over to Nutron Electronics with a shopping list. (which is exactly how my time got so valuable in the first place)
Meow!
Your right to communicate ends at my property line. There's case law (not just laws, but court case findings) to back it up. (no, I'm not a lawyer, I'm the wrong species for one thing...but it does exist)
The problem is, telemarketing (unlike spam) hasn't exceeded the threshold to generate public outcry. Yet. It will, and then there will be laws.
Meow
Hey, I LIKE K&R C.
Beats C++...
Ditto.
Thanks for saying it for me.
Two things.
First, while it would be very interesting to see (for instance) MS Instance1 headed by Bill Gates going head to head with MS Instance2 headed by Steve Ballmer, it's unlikely. How do you divide a group of, say, 21 coders who worked on SCSI drivers? Sure, the code goes both ways, but the bodies?
Second, if a vertical split could be engineered, you would likely see one or more of the instances agressively courting the open-source community. Look for someone to buy a RedHat or Corel, etc.
Quibble.
OPEC is a trade organization made up of companies sitting over rotten dinosaur corpses. (i.e. oil) I don't think they give a rats' ass about our silly monopolistic laws. (QED - 1973 and 1976)
No, no no no NO!
What ORBS and RBL DUL are doing here is blocking DIRECT-TO-SMTP from dial-up, NOT AOL INTERNAL SERVERS!
In other words, the only thing this blocks are the clowns with RFMS (Rapid Fire {mail sender|mallet summoner}) on AOL dial-up.
Meow!
Which is not surprising, considering the head of development for NT was also (responsible|to blame) for VMS...
Leave off the hard drive, and let it boot off a Linux server over ethernet...
A GPL'able thin client!
Company I used to work at hired a DBA who turned out to know nothing.
The headhunter had deliberately coached him on what to say in the interview, and he got past a KPMG technical interview as well.
(which revised my opinion of KPMG down a few notches)
We finally figured out he was useless through the firewall logs - he spent all day at various porn sites, and never produced any actual results.
Meow.
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Although you'll take a performance hit. RAID5 requires more calculations than vanilla striping, so is not as fast.