Companies just want to have fun - no, to have thick profit margins - they do this by reducing their production costs and NOT passing the savings on to you, the consumer, unless a competitor threatens to.
One big F500 company I know of had an 8-bit device with 16K of memory. Customers could buy memory upgrades for it by having a tech come out and plug in another row of mem-chips, customer paid for parts and labor. Well time went on and they found it cheaper to just make all the boards with 64K chips but they only enabled 16K. Now the customer had to pay the same damn fee to 'add more memory', but now all the tech did was come out and pull a jumper.
One to hold the iron, one to hold the solder, and one to position the work. Sometimes I'll clamp the iron between some books and hold the work and solder, and sometimes bend a piece of solder so it's hangin in the air and hold the iron and the work. The real solution is get a 'panavise' to position the work. A not recomended solution is the hold the solder in your mouth. If your working on the floor sometimes you can hold the iron between your toes. There were a few irons available that had the roll of solder right on them - just press a button and it feeds some to the tip!
- that oughta keep the mystique going:) Nothing boosts demand (and consequently $$$) for something than having it prohibited:)) - highly desirable, in demand, artifically limited supply - econ 101 formula for big ticket, thick margins, yeah!!
now it sounds like 'common files' or shared libraries. Whatever. Remember what Tom Edison said about 'genius'? It's.1% innovation and 99.9% perspiration (actually 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration) so they do a lot of sweating in the marketing and self promotion dept, I'm sure. Msft is their own little, head-up-ass, mutual-admiration-society, self-congratulatory backslapping world, fer sure.
just breezed thru but it sounds a bit like HSM to me - basically when online disk storage reaches a threshold, the oldest files are migrated to near line storage like rw optical disks or whatever and automatically replaced with a link - when near line storage reaches a threshold the older files are migrated off to tape libraries or something - the end user still sees all their files, just the older ones take a little longer to retrieve.
is that with talk about sexual matters still taboo in many places, people have always resorted to 'double talk', suggestive language and innuendo, speaking 'martian' etc - you catch my drift? I heard That! Often it's not what you say but how you say it. So even the phrase 'hard disk' can have an obscene meaning if it's used with a wink and a nudge, say no more, say no more. All filters can do, at best, even with a huge ammount of sociological research going on every day to keep up with latest language trends in the singles and bar scene, etc. is just block trendy words that have taken on another subtle meaning to those 'in the know', and damn those who are stuck with a domain name in the older sense of the word. I might have a very happy web site for children who have a 'gay' old time like the Flintstones, and then suddenly I'm being blocked because some censorware has decided that ANYTHING with that term in it is inappropriate and offensive, and there goes my click-thru rate and ad revenue.
I hope a similar outcome occurs in the Ramsey Electronics raid case. Makers of electronic kits are scarce enough w/o the feds having a fit of paranoia. You can help by filling out the form if you own or would like to buy any of the small FM 'wireless mics' they used to sell. Bastards.
<PARODY>Look! K-Mart is selling TELESCOPES!! Those can be used to spy thru people's windows!!! RAID!!!!!!!!</PARODY>
1) Because all those people online are having FUN! The people who are NOT online can't stand it and want to put a stop to it.
2) To generate funds for a manned mission to Mars.
3) To increase certainty and stability, since the only things you can depend on is death and taxes.
4) Pay off the hugh US national mountain of debt - of course investors in T-bills won't like having their taxpayer "pay or go to jail" backed high grade securities, bonds and debt obligations retired.
6) Military buildup for upcoming nuke war w/ China over Formosa
7) Funds for free health care
8) Expand White House summer intern program
9) Because everything is taxed.
Finally, the top reason to tax internet deals:
10) To fund the final stages of the US shift to global socialism, where there are no possessions! No work or need to compete for a living! Everything is free! The lion lays down with the lamb, and peace, harmony, sibling love and understanding comes to all, bombers turn into butterflys - This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...yada dada dada dada da.
In a move that rocked the open source community, the Marconi Corp. today announced plans to GPL their "Morse Code" telegraphy protocol stack, formerly widely used for telegram transmission. "Now that we have our entire office on the open TCP/IP protocol, we felt it was time to 'give back' to the community", said Paul J. Oldtimer III, his wrist still twitching from a long session at the key. "Our Morse Code Stack is the best in the business, with centuries of development and debugging that has left it the most mature protocol available." Not all agreed that this boon to humanity was a welcome offer. "Telegraphy?!?" bellowed Peter D. Spittle, a Linux enthusiast and Networking consultant to the International Megabuck Banking consortium. "Who the heck uses that anymore in a competitive business environment? Maybe as a slow secure-channel protocol to thwart crackers busting in on your IP router, but for everyday use the manual routing personnel can delay packets for as long as an hour, depending on coffee breaks". However, officials for the Marconi Corp. insist it is still a relevant protocol. "Look, say the line between Witchata and Flagstaff goes down, you can still get a ticker tape of the message to our guy on a horse who'll get it thru! The message must get thru!!", repeated Mr. Oldtimer, slumping in his chair as the whiskey bottle fell to the floor.
Looks like time to plug the "Dead Media Project"
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Saw a funny referance recently, Dave Barry? Steve Martin? Anyway, about how email, where messages are sent across great distances at the speed of light, has largely replaced smoke signals, where messages are send across great distances at the speed of light.
A golf caddy asked a patron how he'd earned his fortune. The Billionaire replied, "Son, it was the depths of the depression in the 30's. I was down to my last nickle. One morning I bought an apple with that nickle and polished it all day. At the end of the day I sold it for 6 cents. The next day I did the same, an after a week could afford 2 apples. This went on for several months, at the end of which I'd earned a grand sum of $4.38. Then my wife's father died and left us 3 million dollars".
for beer lost when run thru the soup strainer and cookie duster.
Hopefully you know the story about the Guinness Book or World Records - see, bar patrons inevitably get into arguments over who's got the biggest this and what's the fastest that - kinda like discussions of Apache vs IIS or benchmarketing - so Guinness publishes a book that the bartender can whip out to settle such disputes before it comes to fistcuffs.
In related matters, it may be a not so good time for IPO's, the market in general appears to have peaked around last Dec., and economists are talking about 'soft landings' again - don't think I've heard that for several years. And I can't beleive Greenspan said he sees "no sign of inflation" with a straight face - he obviously doesn't pump his own gas into the limo! When they worry about price rises and jack up interest rates bonds perform better than stocks.
what would it take to get./ readers to read a paper pulp product: how about, if it had a little box on the front that I can type in a few search terms and have it present articles with them in it?
But seriously, there are real advantages to computerized media that a printed product just can't compete with, no matter what you print or how you lay it out - that is the ability to search (something a computer is MUCH better at than an eyeball skimming over an index or the classifieds) and to customize what you see and what you don't. The ability to control what gets shoved in your face and what gets relegated to the back pages is a powerful, addictive drug that once your hooked you won't ever go back, by personal choice. Like Yahoo. Papers have always championed diversity and now they've got it and a single run just isn't going to meet the needs of everyone, or else the content just gets thinner and thinner from trying to appeal to a lowest common denominator.
The answer to get people to want to read your paper? Put it online - naturally the local 7832 printers unions isn't going to like it a bit but they can be retrained as McSE's to run the server farm you'll need to meed the demand and think of the advantages - lower printing costs - if your make a big mistake ("Dewey Wins!") you can easily change it dynamically and have everyone just hit 'reload' instead of having to print retractions in the next paper. And most importantly to the business, advertisers will now only have prominant positions at the head or side of columns, but paid links to their own sites for those wishing to find out more about their product.
For a time when the poorer folks will need a paper edition, but for many that even need a paper edition they'll have 'paper on demand' - that is find an article you want, hit 'print' and it prints out on a disposable pulp w/ soy ink or something and they can take it out on the porch for close scrutiny over coffee and scones or whatever.
I dunno - there's a lot of papers experimenting w/ 'new media' like our local rag which is also parterned w/ a local ISP.
They used to say freedom of the press applies only to those who own one - altho you have to have subscribers, delivery and circulation.
They used to be call the 'penny dredfuls':)
Personally, I get most news, wx, sports and software updates from the ol' 28.8 modem - the weekend paper has been on the verge of being canceled for some time - it helps to fill the recycle bin so I get a few bucks off garbage pickup - but about all I read is Dave Berry and the comics Sunday morning to break from the monitor, and maybe the headlines if there's a tornado in town or Gates buys into the local shipyard - just did a 'google' search and didn't find any obvious articles about that but Gates is now tied for largest stockholder of Newport News Shipyard. (local news)
I have to shut down Win95 and startup Linux to listen to Internet streaming RealAudio !!
Something in my Win95 config is scrogged Again, causing the whole machine to lockup after maybe 30 seconds and I don't care to putz around with it anymore.
I think the only differance between Theologians and Scientists is they both try to understand the big picture, they both get inspired flashes of 'insight' and understanding, but the Theologian claims it was a telegram from God (and some realizations can be VERY powerful and life changing, as if it were) and writes it down in the one true book of facts, while the scientists isn't quite so trusting and faithful and devises experiments to test the validity of this 'hypothesis' - or you could say that ancient religious texts are 'great ideas' that have survived the test of time.
Anyway, when Copernicus or Kepler or whoever it was pouring over the record of observations and *finally* saw the simple pattern of elipses and realized what was *really* going on, I'll bet it was a powerful experience, it matches the data - whereas other people may get powerful inspirations that just leads them to do crazy things. Sometimes just to survive you HAVE to do crazy things!
for a/. coffee break 'news nugget' - not too short and one doesn't start getting bleary eyed from trying to slog thru a 'wall of text' - monitors aren't books - decent compression - a word to the wise is sufficient.
But this crowd does go for coding issues.
Great tht they remembered to take the lens cap off
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Once you've milked the 88/86/286/386/486/P5/.../IA64 etc lineage up to a gazillion or so transistors, you have to create a NEW market to dominate. If you can't compete in, say, 3D accels, make a market you CAN compete in. If YOU create the market (Gee, I didn't even know I needed one of those untill the salesman told me how bad off I was!) you make the rules and you own the trade secrets and you got another cash cow. Ingenious!
I loved it when they came out with 'pay at the pump' self service gas stations so now I don't have to deal with the lousy cashiers who can hold you up if they don't like your looks - and we just got grocerys with 'u-scan and bag', altho there you still have to get in line to pay the lousy cashier:( - other than that they're all just a bunch of random stupid people who drive like idiots:) Who'd want to associate with them?
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Companies just want to have fun - no, to have thick profit margins - they do this by reducing their production costs and NOT passing the savings on to you, the consumer, unless a competitor threatens to.
One big F500 company I know of had an 8-bit device with 16K of memory. Customers could buy memory upgrades for it by having a tech come out and plug in another row of mem-chips, customer paid for parts and labor. Well time went on and they found it cheaper to just make all the boards with 64K chips but they only enabled 16K. Now the customer had to pay the same damn fee to 'add more memory', but now all the tech did was come out and pull a jumper.
One to hold the iron, one to hold the solder, and one to position the work. Sometimes I'll clamp the iron between some books and hold the work and solder, and sometimes bend a piece of solder so it's hangin in the air and hold the iron and the work. The real solution is get a 'panavise' to position the work. A not recomended solution is the hold the solder in your mouth. If your working on the floor sometimes you can hold the iron between your toes. There were a few irons available that had the roll of solder right on them - just press a button and it feeds some to the tip!
Gawd I'd love to immigrate to Amsterdam :))
"New Amsterdam" is the pits.
- that oughta keep the mystique going :) :)) - highly desirable, in demand, artifically limited supply - econ 101 formula for big ticket, thick margins, yeah!!
Nothing boosts demand (and consequently $$$) for something than having it prohibited
now it sounds like 'common files' or shared libraries. Whatever. Remember what Tom Edison said about 'genius'? It's .1% innovation and 99.9% perspiration (actually 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration) so they do a lot of sweating in the marketing and self promotion dept, I'm sure. Msft is their own little, head-up-ass, mutual-admiration-society, self-congratulatory backslapping world, fer sure.
just breezed thru but it sounds a bit like HSM to me - basically when online disk storage reaches a threshold, the oldest files are migrated to near line storage like rw optical disks or whatever and automatically replaced with a link - when near line storage reaches a threshold the older files are migrated off to tape libraries or something - the end user still sees all their files, just the older ones take a little longer to retrieve.
is that with talk about sexual matters still taboo in many places, people have always resorted to 'double talk', suggestive language and innuendo, speaking 'martian' etc - you catch my drift? I heard That! Often it's not what you say but how you say it. So even the phrase 'hard disk' can have an obscene meaning if it's used with a wink and a nudge, say no more, say no more. All filters can do, at best, even with a huge ammount of sociological research going on every day to keep up with latest language trends in the singles and bar scene, etc. is just block trendy words that have taken on another subtle meaning to those 'in the know', and damn those who are stuck with a domain name in the older sense of the word. I might have a very happy web site for children who have a 'gay' old time like the Flintstones, and then suddenly I'm being blocked because some censorware has decided that ANYTHING with that term in it is inappropriate and offensive, and there goes my click-thru rate and ad revenue.
I hope a similar outcome occurs in the Ramsey Electronics raid case. Makers of electronic kits are scarce enough w/o the feds having a fit of paranoia. You can help by filling out the form if you own or would like to buy any of the small FM 'wireless mics' they used to sell. Bastards.
<PARODY>Look! K-Mart is selling TELESCOPES!! Those can be used to spy thru people's windows!!! RAID!!!!!!!!</PARODY>
like this.
1) Because all those people online are having FUN! The people who are NOT online can't stand it and want to put a stop to it.
2) To generate funds for a manned mission to Mars.
3) To increase certainty and stability, since the only things you can depend on is death and taxes.
4) Pay off the hugh US national mountain of debt - of course investors in T-bills won't like having their taxpayer "pay or go to jail" backed high grade securities, bonds and debt obligations retired.
5) Bread and Circuses for all!
6) Military buildup for upcoming nuke war w/ China over Formosa
7) Funds for free health care
8) Expand White House summer intern program
9) Because everything is taxed.
Finally, the top reason to tax internet deals:
10) To fund the final stages of the US shift to global socialism, where there are no possessions! No work or need to compete for a living! Everything is free! The lion lays down with the lamb, and peace, harmony, sibling love and understanding comes to all, bombers turn into butterflys - This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...yada dada dada dada da.
In a move that rocked the open source community, the Marconi Corp. today announced plans to GPL their "Morse Code" telegraphy protocol stack, formerly widely used for telegram transmission. "Now that we have our entire office on the open TCP/IP protocol, we felt it was time to 'give back' to the community", said Paul J. Oldtimer III, his wrist still twitching from a long session at the key. "Our Morse Code Stack is the best in the business, with centuries of development and debugging that has left it the most mature protocol available."
Not all agreed that this boon to humanity was a welcome offer. "Telegraphy?!?" bellowed Peter D. Spittle, a Linux enthusiast and Networking consultant to the International Megabuck Banking consortium. "Who the heck uses that anymore in a competitive business environment? Maybe as a slow secure-channel protocol to thwart crackers busting in on your IP router, but for everyday use the manual routing personnel can delay packets for as long as an hour, depending on coffee breaks".
However, officials for the Marconi Corp. insist it is still a relevant protocol. "Look, say the line between Witchata and Flagstaff goes down, you can still get a ticker tape of the message to our guy on a horse who'll get it thru! The message must get thru!!", repeated Mr. Oldtimer, slumping in his chair as the whiskey bottle fell to the floor.
of Bruce Sterling's right here.
Saw a funny referance recently, Dave Barry? Steve Martin? Anyway, about how email, where messages are sent across great distances at the speed of light, has largely replaced smoke signals, where messages are send across great distances at the speed of light.
Always liked this 'rags-to-riches' story:
A golf caddy asked a patron how he'd earned his fortune. The Billionaire replied, "Son, it was the depths of the depression in the 30's. I was down to my last nickle. One morning I bought an apple with that nickle and polished it all day. At the end of the day I sold it for 6 cents. The next day I did the same, an after a week could afford 2 apples. This went on for several months, at the end of which I'd earned a grand sum of $4.38. Then my wife's father died and left us 3 million dollars".
for beer lost when run thru the soup strainer and cookie duster.
Hopefully you know the story about the Guinness Book or World Records - see, bar patrons inevitably get into arguments over who's got the biggest this and what's the fastest that - kinda like discussions of Apache vs IIS or benchmarketing - so Guinness publishes a book that the bartender can whip out to settle such disputes before it comes to fistcuffs.
is what it looked like to me, yes it does.
In related matters, it may be a not so good time for IPO's, the market in general appears to have peaked around last Dec., and economists are talking about 'soft landings' again - don't think I've heard that for several years. And I can't beleive Greenspan said he sees "no sign of inflation" with a straight face - he obviously doesn't pump his own gas into the limo! When they worry about price rises and jack up interest rates bonds perform better than stocks.
Yeah, Mr. Smullyan is great for logic puzzles. He's one of several prof's that I would *love* to take a course from!
what would it take to get ./ readers to read a paper pulp product: how about, if it had a little box on the front that I can type in a few search terms and have it present articles with them in it?
But seriously, there are real advantages to computerized media that a printed product just can't compete with, no matter what you print or how you lay it out - that is the ability to search (something a computer is MUCH better at than an eyeball skimming over an index or the classifieds) and to customize what you see and what you don't. The ability to control what gets shoved in your face and what gets relegated to the back pages is a powerful, addictive drug that once your hooked you won't ever go back, by personal choice. Like Yahoo. Papers have always championed diversity and now they've got it and a single run just isn't going to meet the needs of everyone, or else the content just gets thinner and thinner from trying to appeal to a lowest common denominator.
The answer to get people to want to read your paper? Put it online - naturally the local 7832 printers unions isn't going to like it a bit but they can be retrained as McSE's to run the server farm you'll need to meed the demand and think of the advantages - lower printing costs - if your make a big mistake ("Dewey Wins!") you can easily change it dynamically and have everyone just hit 'reload' instead of having to print retractions in the next paper. And most importantly to the business, advertisers will now only have prominant positions at the head or side of columns, but paid links to their own sites for those wishing to find out more about their product.
For a time when the poorer folks will need a paper edition, but for many that even need a paper edition they'll have 'paper on demand' - that is find an article you want, hit 'print' and it prints out on a disposable pulp w/ soy ink or something and they can take it out on the porch for close scrutiny over coffee and scones or whatever.
that was Pilotonline
I dunno - there's a lot of papers experimenting w/ 'new media' like our local rag which is also parterned w/ a local ISP.
:)
They used to say freedom of the press applies only to those who own one - altho you have to have subscribers, delivery and circulation.
They used to be call the 'penny dredfuls'
Personally, I get most news, wx, sports and software updates from the ol' 28.8 modem - the weekend paper has been on the verge of being canceled for some time - it helps to fill the recycle bin so I get a few bucks off garbage pickup - but about all I read is Dave Berry and the comics Sunday morning to break from the monitor, and maybe the headlines if there's a tornado in town or Gates buys into the local shipyard - just did a 'google' search and didn't find any obvious articles about that but Gates is now tied for largest stockholder of Newport News Shipyard. (local news)
I have to shut down Win95 and startup Linux to listen to Internet streaming RealAudio !!
Something in my Win95 config is scrogged Again, causing the whole machine to lockup after maybe 30 seconds and I don't care to putz around with it anymore.
I've always loved this little vignette.
I think the only differance between Theologians and Scientists is they both try to understand the big picture, they both get inspired flashes of 'insight' and understanding, but the Theologian claims it was a telegram from God (and some realizations can be VERY powerful and life changing, as if it were) and writes it down in the one true book of facts, while the scientists isn't quite so trusting and faithful and devises experiments to test the validity of this 'hypothesis' - or you could say that ancient religious texts are 'great ideas' that have survived the test of time.
Anyway, when Copernicus or Kepler or whoever it was pouring over the record of observations and *finally* saw the simple pattern of elipses and realized what was *really* going on, I'll bet it was a powerful experience, it matches the data - whereas other people may get powerful inspirations that just leads them to do crazy things. Sometimes just to survive you HAVE to do crazy things!
for a /. coffee break 'news nugget' - not too short and one doesn't start getting bleary eyed from trying to slog thru a 'wall of text' - monitors aren't books - decent compression - a word to the wise is sufficient.
But this crowd does go for coding issues.
specially modified Hasselblad
Once you've milked the 88/86/286/386/486/P5/.../IA64 etc lineage up to a gazillion or so transistors, you have to create a NEW market to dominate. If you can't compete in, say, 3D accels, make a market you CAN compete in. If YOU create the market (Gee, I didn't even know I needed one of those untill the salesman told me how bad off I was!) you make the rules and you own the trade secrets and you got another cash cow. Ingenious!
try saying that three times real fast!
:( - other than that they're all just a bunch of random stupid people who drive like idiots :) Who'd want to associate with them?
I loved it when they came out with 'pay at the pump' self service gas stations so now I don't have to deal with the lousy cashiers who can hold you up if they don't like your looks - and we just got grocerys with 'u-scan and bag', altho there you still have to get in line to pay the lousy cashier