A big outfit like GM is wise to remember, they're not 'buying' M$ products, they are simple buying permission to use it, M$ retains all rights, it's still M$ property, M$ can do what they want with it. It really scares me to think a business would entrust so much to a single company which has amply demononstrated their ruthlessness and willingness to trample anyone who gets in the way of the M$ revenue stream. Hopefully GM has emough gumption to pick up the ball and regain control over their IT destiny, and not just blindly follow a crowd of M$ enchanted brain-dead zombies.
Your 'target' has an office. You are able to rent an office with a room adjoining their server room - you can make said device on the other side of the wall which probably is transparent to emf - suddenly their PC starts 'crashing' and nobody is able to fix it ("we swapped out the whole machine and it still freezes up on us!").
like if somebody buys 1-800-get-clue would Hasbro have the right to come along and claim it as their trademark, and force the owners to fork it over? Must be some precedent setting court cases in that area.
If another chemical reaction could then bond the next paddle to the plate, the rotating motion could continue indefinitely -- a motor, in other words.
The above claim offends my olde fashioned sense of thermodynamics, to wit, there are no perpetual motion machines. I really don't think a rotating molecule capable of supplying mechanical power (i.e., a "motor") can "continue indefinitely" w/o some kind of energy input, such as light as mentioned elsewhere. I can beleive a 120 degree motion powered by chemical bonds occurred, but don't understand how this can continue in perpetuity. Of course this is all at the quantum level and all new rules apply, all sorts of possibilities, like the ratchet effect alluded to: if that could take advantage of heat (agitated molecules) to create motion, 'd be cool!
you could get one of uPenn's ENIAC on a chip samples and start porting - not sure how Linux will make use of the "square rooter" but that's a good start on a math-coprocessor.
btw - who can name the inventors of the transistor and integrated circuit as easily as the inventors of the light bulb, telephone, powered manned flight?
Yep, and beleive me, there are LOTS of applications for dumb terminals - where you just need someone entering data and you don't want them getting into anything. Smart PC's empower the end user - more than a few end users wouldn't know what to do with it - like giving dynamite to an idiot - they just want to do a job, collect their pay and go home. Some observed recently are the Gas Co., Power Co., Dept. Motor vehicles, library card system, pos terminals, etc. Just press 'tab' on some familier forms, enter some data into a field, then press 'enter'. No muss, no fuss, no tech support calls, no greasy aftertaste.
All software that requires no costly payments is good software
Socretes will object - rather SOME software that requires no costly payments is good. However there's lots of free drek that's not worth the time to install it, software that's free because nobody in their right mind would ever pay for it (knowingly). What we want is good, worthy, quality software that has been overshadowed by the M$ marketing circus.
still don't think a 'free' office versions will be enbraced by a lot of M$ Office users in terms of licensing, largely because so many get theirs 'free from a friend', or their workplace buys copys and they 'borrow' the cd for home use, etc. M$ users are like M$, "gimme, gimme, gimme!"
Your choice - Like Dr. Bliss said, ha, there may be other unexpected consequences. Actually, I consider human intervention as a kind of 'semi-intelligent mutation' that has yet to be sifted out by natural selection; 'semi' in that the consequences are not completely known.
Piracy. A lot of M$ behavior is predicated on the idea that people WILL install illegal copies if M$ doesn't make it inconvenient, which gives us sysadmin problems. E.g., you must have the paper license to enter a code from to install a package. Also I'm thinking that is the reason vendors rarely offer refunds for an OS that comes with a new PC, even tho there are words to that effect in the license - M$ KNOWS that people will just leave the OS installed and try to get a few bucks back from the vendor, so it's just not common practice. Oh, plus the people I work with will install unlicensed copies (on their laptops, etc) at the drop of a hat, they steal stuff for their home pc's, etc. As sysadmin for this outfit, I seriously need to find some legal protection from the company I work for! I put up anti-piracy posters and stuff but people just scoff at them like scarecrows. They just have the attitude, "everybody does it". A recent new hire actually put that in their description of a previous employeer: "software policy: one person buys a copy and everyone else uses it". The evidence is pretty clear to me! QED: M$ is under justice dept. investigation, and their users aren't much more ethical either when it comes to IP, most of them don't even UNDERSTAND it, so naturally the honor system of licensing is going to fail, it's unenforcable.
at least as far as widespread acceptance of Linux. Applications 'boring'? Maybe so, but cloning other peoples killer apps, spreadsheets etc. is what garnered M$ their legions of loyal followers. Honestly, it's going to be tough to displace entranched technologies - like using a Linux WinFrame/MetaFrame client to run a window full of M$ Office suite in X, it's pretty sweet. Licensing? I've decided both M$ & their users are largely pretty much criminals anyway, they DESERVE each other - I try to stay out of there and just make a buck when possible.
the person will be paralysed from the neck down, due to the fact that the nerves can't be reconnecte
That's obviously ordinary voluntary motor muscles, but what about all the autonomous nervous system? Doesn't the heart, stomach, and other organs get their impulses from the brain? Or can the heart keep on ticking w/o nerve connection or the brain? Anyway, the ultimate organ donor.
Fantasy: Just keep Gates head in a life support solution in a jar, w/ the support machine needing a reboot every three days, and it comes back JUST in time before the head snuffs, while a direct audio implant continuously reads: "this life support machine comes with no warrenty, express or implied, as to merchantability or suitability for any advertised purpose", Do not make illegal copies of this brain.
So, like did you plug an ethernet card coax into a CB linear or what?
I may be behind on what can be done in Amateur radio these days - last I recall was, haha, packet radio up to, haha, 9600 haha baud.
Chuck
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As an Internet service provider... we got tired of waiting on a high-speed, low cost connectivity solution to arrive and decided instead to develop the service ourselves
Yeah! Sure wish SOMEONE - wish *I* could - take the initiative and build a fire under the monople-sloths, steal their thunder and deliver a service like this. Cheers for innovative, indie inventors...
Ahem, the US const. GRANTS specific powers to the fed govt, all others NOT SPECIFIED are reserved for the states and locals. Cheezus, if the const. has to spell out everything the feds CAN'T do it would have to be infinitely long!! It's a documents designed to LIMIT the power of a fed govt.
Then again, in practice the const. seems to be pretty much null and void where prohibited by law anyway.
You're already most likely triple-taxed on your income, anyway (city/state/Federal).
Well, once you get enough deductions to beat the std. exemption (like mortgage interest) you can deduct state and local from fed - not sure how that'll work out w/ a fed internet sales tax, along with all the states trying to collect mail order sales tax. However, it'll make things a little more complicated and once again those who remain ignorant will pay for it and those who study it will be able to save. Also, any internet tax scheme will definitely add to a business' overhead and those just marginally skating by will go under. I can see the spam now.
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Linux has no licensing issues.
A big outfit like GM is wise to remember, they're not 'buying' M$ products, they are simple buying permission to use it, M$ retains all rights, it's still M$ property, M$ can do what they want with it. It really scares me to think a business would entrust so much to a single company which has amply demononstrated their ruthlessness and willingness to trample anyone who gets in the way of the M$ revenue stream. Hopefully GM has emough gumption to pick up the ball and regain control over their IT destiny, and not just blindly follow a crowd of M$ enchanted brain-dead zombies.
Chuck
official "slashdot discussion contributor".
tho camo would be cool! Yeah, I want a camouflaged case, yow!!
Chuck
Your 'target' has an office. You are able to rent an office with a room adjoining their server room - you can make said device on the other side of the wall which probably is transparent to emf - suddenly their PC starts 'crashing' and nobody is able to fix it ("we swapped out the whole machine and it still freezes up on us!").
Chuck
like if somebody buys 1-800-get-clue would Hasbro have the right to come along and claim it as their trademark, and force the owners to fork it over? Must be some precedent setting court cases in that area.
Chuck
If another chemical reaction could then bond the next paddle to the plate, the rotating motion could continue indefinitely -- a motor, in other words.
The above claim offends my olde fashioned sense of thermodynamics, to wit, there are no perpetual motion machines. I really don't think a rotating molecule capable of supplying mechanical power (i.e., a "motor") can "continue indefinitely" w/o some kind of energy input, such as light as mentioned elsewhere. I can beleive a 120 degree motion powered by chemical bonds occurred, but don't understand how this can continue in perpetuity. Of course this is all at the quantum level and all new rules apply, all sorts of possibilities, like the ratchet effect alluded to: if that could take advantage of heat (agitated molecules) to create motion, 'd be cool!
My word
Chuck
you could get one of uPenn's ENIAC on a chip samples and start porting - not sure how Linux will make use of the "square rooter" but that's a good start on a math-coprocessor.
Chuck
yeeetch -
btw - who can name the inventors of the transistor and integrated circuit as easily as the inventors of the light bulb, telephone, powered manned flight?
Chuck
pricy but rox! Not like being there, of course.
Chuck
Yep, and beleive me, there are LOTS of applications for dumb terminals - where you just
need someone entering data and you don't want them getting into anything. Smart PC's empower the end user - more than a few end users wouldn't know what to do with it - like giving dynamite to an idiot - they just want to do a job, collect their pay and go home. Some observed recently are the Gas Co., Power Co., Dept. Motor vehicles, library card system, pos terminals, etc. Just press 'tab' on some familier forms, enter some data into a field, then press 'enter'. No muss, no fuss, no tech support calls, no greasy aftertaste.
Chuck
what if they store you DNA on the DataBase.. will they make clones of me??
that way, any subversive types can be "disappeared" and replaced with a retrained clone so's friends and relatives won't suspect.
Chuck
All software that requires no costly payments is good software
Socretes will object - rather SOME software that requires no costly payments is good. However there's lots of free drek that's not worth the time to install it, software that's free because nobody in their right mind would ever pay for it (knowingly). What we want is good, worthy, quality software that has been overshadowed by the M$ marketing circus.
Chuck
still don't think a 'free' office versions will be enbraced by a lot of M$ Office users in terms of licensing, largely because so many get theirs 'free from a friend', or their workplace buys copys and they 'borrow' the cd for home use, etc.
M$ users are like M$, "gimme, gimme, gimme!"
Chuck
with some refrigerant right on the cpu
Chuck
HotOffice
Chuck
this is just another ruse for the insurance company to raise my flood insurance premiums again!
Chuck
Conspiracy theorist
Your choice -
Like Dr. Bliss said, ha, there may be other unexpected consequences. Actually, I consider human intervention as a kind of 'semi-intelligent mutation' that has yet to be sifted out by natural selection; 'semi' in that the consequences are not completely known.
Chuck
(I know, Linux Is Not UniX)
now, who would have ever guessed.
Another one saved from the dark side.
Chuck
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Chuck
Piracy. A lot of M$ behavior is predicated on the idea that people WILL install illegal copies if M$ doesn't make it inconvenient, which gives us sysadmin problems. E.g., you must have the paper license to enter a code from to install a package. Also I'm thinking that is the reason vendors rarely offer refunds for an OS that comes with a new PC, even tho there are words to that effect in the license - M$ KNOWS that people will just leave the OS installed and try to get a few bucks back from the vendor, so it's just not common practice. Oh, plus the people I work with will install unlicensed copies (on their laptops, etc) at the drop of a hat, they steal stuff for their home pc's, etc. As sysadmin for this outfit, I seriously need to find some legal protection from the company I work for! I put up anti-piracy posters and stuff but people just scoff at them like scarecrows. They just have the attitude, "everybody does it". A recent new hire actually put that in their description of a previous employeer: "software policy: one person buys a copy and everyone else uses it". The evidence is pretty clear to me! QED: M$ is under justice dept. investigation, and their users aren't much more ethical either when it comes to IP, most of them don't even UNDERSTAND it, so naturally the honor system of licensing is going to fail, it's unenforcable.
Chuck
Growing pessimistic.
at least as far as widespread acceptance of Linux. Applications 'boring'? Maybe so, but cloning other peoples killer apps, spreadsheets etc. is what garnered M$ their legions of loyal followers. Honestly, it's going to be tough to displace entranched technologies - like using a Linux WinFrame/MetaFrame client to run a window full of M$ Office suite in X, it's pretty sweet. Licensing? I've decided both M$ & their users are largely pretty much criminals anyway, they DESERVE each other - I try to stay out of there and just make a buck when possible.
Chuck
the person will be paralysed from the neck down, due to the fact that the nerves can't be reconnecte
That's obviously ordinary voluntary motor muscles, but what about all the autonomous nervous system? Doesn't the heart, stomach, and other organs get their impulses from the brain? Or can the heart keep on ticking w/o nerve connection or the brain?
Anyway, the ultimate organ donor.
Fantasy: Just keep Gates head in a life support solution in a jar, w/ the support machine needing a reboot every three days, and it comes back JUST in time before the head snuffs, while a direct audio implant continuously reads: "this life support machine comes with no warrenty, express or implied, as to merchantability or suitability for any advertised purpose", Do not make illegal copies of this brain.
Chuck
So, like did you plug an ethernet card coax into a CB linear or what?
I may be behind on what can be done in Amateur radio these days - last I recall was, haha, packet radio up to, haha, 9600 haha baud.
Chuck
As an Internet service provider ... we got tired of waiting on a high-speed, low cost connectivity solution to arrive and decided instead to develop the service ourselves
Yeah! Sure wish SOMEONE - wish *I* could - take the initiative and build a fire under the monople-sloths, steal their thunder and deliver a service like this. Cheers for innovative, indie inventors...
Chuck
Ahem, the US const. GRANTS specific powers to the fed govt, all others NOT SPECIFIED are reserved for the states and locals. Cheezus, if the const. has to spell out everything the feds CAN'T do it would have to be infinitely long!! It's a documents designed to LIMIT the power of a fed govt.
Then again, in practice the const. seems to be pretty much null and void where prohibited by law anyway.
Chuck
You're already most likely triple-taxed on your income, anyway (city/state/Federal).
Well, once you get enough deductions to beat the std. exemption (like mortgage interest) you can deduct state and local from fed - not sure how that'll work out w/ a fed internet sales tax, along with all the states trying to collect mail order sales tax. However, it'll make things a little more complicated and once again those who remain ignorant will pay for it and those who study it will be able to save. Also, any internet tax scheme will definitely add to a business' overhead and those just marginally skating by will go under. I can see the spam now.
Chuck