All these stories about some home user getting massive broadband only reminds me how Verizon never seem to be able to deliver my home much more than a string with a tin-can on the end. The current apartment was a 'maybe, we have to test' - after a week and a half the application was abruptly canceled w/o explaination, and folks further out in the country get dsl just fine. Bastards.
Man, people could have been having projector parties for years, if they wanted to. I even have a retro Super-8 projector and a few reels of film just for fun. Same thing as having people over to watch a movie on dvd. Nothing new there, just different way of doing the same thing.
I'm sure a lot of people/things don't want to be found, let alone indexed and searched. I think that's one reason why ldap never became a global directory for people like DNS has for hosts.
Before rolling out a big business wireless network, the installers should do a check of existing interference, then setup a simple access point/client and check it out in different places using a spectrum analyzer. Just like cable techs sometimes need a cat-5 analyser to trouble wiring plant problems, the wireless tech needs an instrument to measure the rf environment.
Heck, my wireless pda loses signal while standing near the microwave popping pop corn. Some buildings, especially in industrial areas, can get lousy with interference
Who cares as long as we get cheap stuff from WalMart.
A Communist once said, "We'll bury you!" - the Chinese are actually doing it, with cheap disposable consumer products - taking factories and long term capital in exchange.
you get more junkmail than regular mail on a daily basis
I don't encourage that either - in fact you can go to Direct Marketing Association and pay a buck to get on a kind of 'do not mail' like (voluntary by DMA members, not enforced by law like on telemarketers).
Another thing I had to stop was a local newspaper trying a new business model. I had canceled subscription to the regular newspaper, but they started delivering a small printing of ads and a few articles - so once a week I had to walk out on the lawn and pick up a yellow bag, what is basically garbage a motor route guy tossed there, and put it in the trash. I just went ballistic getting that stopped. I didn't ask for it, I don't want it - get off my lawn!
This is just a personal thought but it seems like the 'great flood' could very well have been a flooding of the Mediterrian(sp?) sea. Maybe it was all below sea level like Death Valley or the dead sea and the straight of Gilbrater was suddenly breached. If it happened way back when history was just orally transmitted that would certainly have been a major event that could be cast into all kinds of morality lessons, the legend of Atlantis etc. It's in the right part of the world.
Power has been the same from ancient Rome to Jesse Jackson to the Mafia - They leverage power, make certain demands, stated either subtly or outright, and you either pay their tributes and taxes or something bad happens to you.
"Documents to be submitted to the document control center (DCC) must first be approved by the ISO committee, which meets every Tuesday, or Wednesday during a holiday. Submissions must be received before 9AM on Tuesday, preferably by email. Quickly he grabbed Laura and, while holding her tightly, looked deep into her eyes. Her heaving breasts rose and fell in a quickening pace as his hands caressed her hair. His deep, muscular, voice whispered, "Darling, I must have you now!". Documents that have been rejected must be corrected by the author and be approved by a supervisor before resubmitting to the DCC"
The old joke is about a scanner buff, his small town police department started scrambling their voice transmissions, using a simple frequency inversion scheme. Now he was really intriqued so he bought a descrambler to listen in. The first thing he heard on the scrambled channel was, "Yeah Lenny, make mine a ham and swiss on rye, no mayo. And don't forget the doughnuts".
This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode: "Jerry and Kramer attend the film with Brody, who makes a bootleg tape. Brody gets sick and has Kramer take him home, leaving Jerry to finish making the tape. Brody likes Jerry's camera work and asks him to do more films.... After Jerry refuses to tape anymore movies for Brody, George takes on the challenge, but gets arrested."
I've often wondered how much one can get away with in licenses. Of course they cannot override any consitutional or local laws, but say a developer is rather religious. Can s/he then stipulate that the software cannot be run on Sundays? Or that the user must be wearing underwear or shoes and shirt while using $PRODUCT ?
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A massive spinning top? I thought it was turtles all the way down.
Just wait until TIVO comes up with their scheme for Counterantitivoization!
Well, business is a cold war and FUD is the propaganda and disinformation it is waged with.
So the force was strong with Eve.
Yeah, you program in a route to a restaurant you want to visit on vacation, and end up at the hut of some old man peddling v!@Gr/\
Guess it was not so obvious humor to the mods. NSA gift shop mugs have bugs in them - very insightful.
All these stories about some home user getting massive broadband only reminds me how Verizon never seem to be able to deliver my home much more than a string with a tin-can on the end. The current apartment was a 'maybe, we have to test' - after a week and a half the application was abruptly canceled w/o explaination, and folks further out in the country get dsl just fine. Bastards.
well, puffery in advertising is perfectly legal
Linux should demand a prenuptial agreement.
why don't corporations just install XP?
Man, people could have been having projector parties for years, if they wanted to. I even have a retro Super-8 projector and a few reels of film just for fun. Same thing as having people over to watch a movie on dvd. Nothing new there, just different way of doing the same thing.
I'm sure a lot of people/things don't want to be found, let alone indexed and searched. I think that's one reason why ldap never became a global directory for people like DNS has for hosts.
All they need now are large hydraulic actuators then airplanes could flap their wings as they fly thru the air.
Before rolling out a big business wireless network, the installers should do a check of existing interference, then setup a simple access point/client and check it out in different places using a spectrum analyzer. Just like cable techs sometimes need a cat-5 analyser to trouble wiring plant problems, the wireless tech needs an instrument to measure the rf environment.
Heck, my wireless pda loses signal while standing near the microwave popping pop corn. Some buildings, especially in industrial areas, can get lousy with interference
Who cares as long as we get cheap stuff from WalMart.
A Communist once said, "We'll bury you!" - the Chinese are actually doing it, with cheap disposable consumer products - taking factories and long term capital in exchange.
you get more junkmail than regular mail on a daily basis
I don't encourage that either - in fact you can go to Direct Marketing Association and pay a buck to get on a kind of 'do not mail' like (voluntary by DMA members, not enforced by law like on telemarketers).
Another thing I had to stop was a local newspaper trying a new business model. I had canceled subscription to the regular newspaper, but they started delivering a small printing of ads and a few articles - so once a week I had to walk out on the lawn and pick up a yellow bag, what is basically garbage a motor route guy tossed there, and put it in the trash. I just went ballistic getting that stopped. I didn't ask for it, I don't want it - get off my lawn!
This is just a personal thought but it seems like the 'great flood' could very well have been a flooding of the Mediterrian(sp?) sea. Maybe it was all below sea level like Death Valley or the dead sea and the straight of Gilbrater was suddenly breached. If it happened way back when history was just orally transmitted that would certainly have been a major event that could be cast into all kinds of morality lessons, the legend of Atlantis etc. It's in the right part of the world.
Power has been the same from ancient Rome to Jesse Jackson to the Mafia - They leverage power, make certain demands, stated either subtly or outright, and you either pay their tributes and taxes or something bad happens to you.
"Documents to be submitted to the document control center (DCC) must first be approved by the ISO committee, which meets every Tuesday, or Wednesday during a holiday. Submissions must be received before 9AM on Tuesday, preferably by email. Quickly he grabbed Laura and, while holding her tightly, looked deep into her eyes. Her heaving breasts rose and fell in a quickening pace as his hands caressed her hair. His deep, muscular, voice whispered, "Darling, I must have you now!". Documents that have been rejected must be corrected by the author and be approved by a supervisor before resubmitting to the DCC"
In short, this particle has enough energy for massive events, and it's omnipresent.
Then I guess we should build a bomb out of it before the Iranians/North Koreans/etc do. We've gotta protect ourselves from those people!
The old joke is about a scanner buff, his small town police department started scrambling their voice transmissions, using a simple frequency inversion scheme. Now he was really intriqued so he bought a descrambler to listen in. The first thing he heard on the scrambled channel was, "Yeah Lenny, make mine a ham and swiss on rye, no mayo. And don't forget the doughnuts".
This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode: "Jerry and Kramer attend the film with Brody, who makes a bootleg tape. Brody gets sick and has Kramer take him home, leaving Jerry to finish making the tape. Brody likes Jerry's camera work and asks him to do more films.... After Jerry refuses to tape anymore movies for Brody, George takes on the challenge, but gets arrested."
I've often wondered how much one can get away with in licenses. Of course they cannot override any consitutional or local laws, but say a developer is rather religious. Can s/he then stipulate that the software cannot be run on Sundays? Or that the user must be wearing underwear or shoes and shirt while using $PRODUCT ?
arch-spammers
Its starting to feel like living in a Gibson novel..
Come to think of it, Novell bought a pretty good clone of DOS long ago, originally from the makers of CP/M (Digital Research).