I probably couldn't make any money reselling NT licenses either - we just got one today from a large company, a laptop w/ NTWorkstation, preconfig'd w/ NetBEUI, so I deleted that and installed TCP/IP, and NBT worked ok, could access server shares, but none of the Internet stuff worked, no IE, no FTP, get "bind: invalid parameter". After diddling around for half a day upgraded to SP5 (came w/ 4) and that was the magic bullet. Jeeze, if you HAVE to spend time config'ing something to get it to work it may as well be open. Layperson end users STILL need access to someone who makes NT a career to manage it.
when they try to reposition - like trying to say "I was correct before, but I've changed my mind" - he writes We're a far cry from a year ago when I was telling you it was politically and technically dangerous to even consider Linux - the only thing dangerous was following his advice a year ago, whereas early adopters have had time to get up on the learning curve and become comfortable; unless one's idea of a 'computer professional' is putting in a CD and calling for support if 'autorun' doesn't work.
Maybe what we need is a view of economics where value is expressed as a complex number w/ both real and imaginary components; then products and services can have a phase angle as well as magnitude, and could go a long way toward pleasing both the cluel^H^H^H^H^Hlayperson user and the technical specialist at the same time, instead of one at the expense of the other. Where's my application form for a research grant...
Really, people into radio have thought in terms of UTC (formerly GMT) for years - remember where the International date line is and that on any day, when someone in Hawaii is just stumbling out of bed to get the paper and make breakfast, someone in Japan has already come home from work! It's always sometime somewhere.
Of course going 3d is obvious, but they don't really give enough details other than 'magneto-optical' - what, 3 lasers and a field reading/writing bits in a cube of stuff? Maybe the next 'bubble memory' device? (anyone old enough to remember those?) I know a MO disk you have to buffer and rewrite a whole track just to alter one bit. Maybe a data access rate of 100Mbps but it takes 3 minutes to write? Who knows....
From what I understand - frequencies, being measured in powers of 10, will still be Kilo-cycles, Mega, Giga, etc. Only the powers of 2 will get new monikers. Just so's nobody will think 1 Kilocycle = 1024 cps. But I may be hallucinating again.
As anyone who has worked near a govt agency knows, every budget cycle you dare not have a SURPLUS of funds, otherwise next years funding will be cut. It often happens that an agency will have a SURPLUS and then go on a spending spree to get rid of the ca$h quick, just buy stuff, who cares if it's necessary or not, but for chrissake don't return it to the taxpayers or let another department get it. So now Clit-tongue has to find a 'boogyman' to scare up a new spending program to sell us, anything to spend the SURPLUS lest they get less tax dollars and lose politcal power.
Whether you like it or not, your involved in a power struggle - you can stand up and fight for your rights to self determination, or you can just sit there and let someone else slowly take over.
They've already got 90% of the desktop, and most likely can't pull the 10% their way; Instead, they advertize to KEEP theiy monopoly
This is true - psychologiest have pointed out that seeing an ad for a product you have already purchased validates and reinforces that decision, helps keeps people loyal to the brand and from jumping ship. People also put up with a certain amount of defects, hide and cover them up as they wouldn't want to admit that the purchasing decision was a mistake - "I decided to go with Microsoft® products because they're a great value proposition [opps, ignore that error message]", and they start using political dodge's like blaming crashes in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on lightning, static, hackers, etc.
sound more and more like baseless, groundless media 'spin' and public relations damage control from a professional handler who's clueless about the actual details of the situation.
This gratuitous bashing of ye' olde software hegemony was brought to you by:
Microsoft® products are pale, thin, sickly, fragile and are born w/ AIDS - there is no cure. The most humane thing to do is administer euthenasia and install a healthy, robust OS. Send NT to Dr. Kovorkian.
Tranquility Base (IP) The interplanetary oil taker Nostromo, on a routine run from Titan to the Hexagon Corporation Earth ports was struck by a large meteroite at 013588 hours yesterday, leaving the craft crippled and leaking an estimated 130,000 gallons per hour into the L5 space preserve quadrilateral. "This is the worst intra-luna disaster we have ever seen" said Lgarth Mrubbl3, spokesbeing for the Committee for the Preservation of Clean Space (CPCS). "We have repeatedly recommended the use of cleaner, more powerful nuclear fuels, but nooooo! We have to truck it in from foreign colonies". Hexagon Corporation officials, in what is widely reguarded as merely a public relations move, have already dispatched an emergency crew to deal with the disaster, but industry insiders beleive that their ability to suck up large blobs of the floating Titan #4 Crude are extremely limited, and expect vast clouds of the sticky substance to orbit the Earth and disrupt space travel for years until it is finally dispersed by the solar wind.
... for such dubious reasons as: fallacy #1: "everyone else seems to be doing it", or fallacy #2: "they're a $$100+billion company so it must be good", make darn SURE the decision whizzes read and understand the license agreement, for your own protection, to wit: (paraphrasing) they'll take your money for all the licenses but if the SOFTWARE PRODUCT fails to perform as expected ('substantially' is the weasle word these days) or if there is loss of critical business data, employee productivity, etc, pfft, too bad! Make sure they understand that the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is not under your complete control, you are just handed a binary and patches from Microsoft® and if it contains bugs, there's nothing you can do except live w/ the inconveniences and wait for fixes that may or may not appear. For goodness sake, protect yourself! Don't let them place the 'onus' on you! Office software politics 101: if I make the decision, I'm responsible. If you make the decision, I'm not responsible.
Actually, there is a powerful place for anonymous, unaccounted political speech: the voting booth, where you pull the curtains and make your mark. How many people have been in a crowd, say a classroom, and had a 'show of hands' vote on some controverisal issue and watch as the majority of people just wait to see who gets the majority vote and 'go along with the crowd'? Meaningless. Just dangerous collective herd psychology that doesn't reflect what people might really beleive. In this day and age of 'political correctness' we need more than ever the ability to speak out w/o fear of retribution from the masses who will do anything to make life uncomfortable for dissenters. Otherwise we're just lemmings happily rushing toward the cliffs.
Congress shall have power... to promote the wealth of large, corporate holding companies, by securing, for an ever extending period of time at the request of Sonny Bono in behalf of the Disney corporation, the exclusive right to any stale content their lawyers can possibly claim as property. - Article 1, Section 8 Perverted US Constitution.
To Universal, it's kinda like the layout of a grocery story - they put the staples like milk and bread way in the back of the store so you have to walk by everything else and do some impulse buying.
More like the freedom to get caught BEHIND in emerging technoligies ONCE AGAIN and then, in a dramatic comeback, push, shove, lie, cheat, steal, pilfer, plunder their way to market dominance, yeah! Lets see if AOL gets 'Netscaped'.
Trivia note: Aol started out as a company selling a downloadable video game service for the Atari VCS 2600.
Microsoft® has consistently shown an ability to use any tactic to further their global cash flow ends and stockholder loyalty (which is perfectly natural, just not great computer science, i.e., software that sucks) - beware. Don't take your eye off the ball or be fooled by diversionary fluff; if keeping source code in Ft. Knox sucks dollars out of customers pockets they'll do it. If putting on an 'open standards' mantle accomplishes the same... These guys are famous for 'open, extend, incompatible'. If AOL allows MSN uses to schmooze with their customers, you can bet the sheeple will be led right up to the AOL->MSN migration utility. AOL can chat w/ MSN, MSN can chat w/ AOL, suddenly MSN is 'improved', suddenly AOL is broken - opps, better sign up with MSN and drop AOL, they don't work anymore! I don't think it's hipocritical for AOL to demand access to a monopoly cable bandwidth, as long as it's paid for, and then act to keep their paying customer directory servers from being used by competitors who can't succeed on their own. Microsoft® has raided other companies customer listings w/o approval before, like their 'strategic partnering' w/ 3COM for example while pushing lan manager.
Lookout! Some may say "They're being nice now". I don't beleive it; when push comes to shove they'll shiv ya' in an instant.
The National Information Stool-pigeon Infrastructure is just another case of us lil'ol people not able to fend for ourselves against the meen ol' hackers out there. What'cha bet the same system installed to 'protect us' gets used to enforce collection of taxes on Internet commerce, among other things.
The bureaucracy is expanding to fulfill the needs of an ever expanding bureaucracy.
I think it's ASCAP does that; there was an article here on/. about them trying to collect license fees from web sites for even LINKING to another site w/ licensed music on it. Free radio sounds great to me, but don't think the, ahem, 'establishment' would like it one bit.
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Chuck
hello, tech support? There is NO 'any' key!
Sorry, old joke.
Chuck
I probably couldn't make any money reselling NT licenses either - we just got one today from a large company, a laptop w/ NTWorkstation, preconfig'd w/ NetBEUI, so I deleted that and installed TCP/IP, and NBT worked ok, could access server shares, but none of the Internet stuff worked, no IE, no FTP, get "bind: invalid parameter". After diddling around for half a day upgraded to SP5 (came w/ 4) and that was the magic bullet. Jeeze, if you HAVE to spend time config'ing something to get it to work it may as well be open. Layperson end users STILL need access to someone who makes NT a career to manage it.
Chuck
when they try to reposition - like trying to say "I was correct before, but I've changed my mind" - he writes We're a far cry from a year ago when I was telling you it was politically and technically dangerous to even consider Linux - the only thing dangerous was following his advice a year ago, whereas early adopters have had time to get up on the learning curve and become comfortable; unless one's idea of a 'computer professional' is putting in a CD and calling for support if 'autorun' doesn't work.
Chuck
Maybe what we need is a view of economics where value is expressed as a complex number w/ both real and imaginary components; then products and services can have a phase angle as well as magnitude, and could go a long way toward pleasing both the cluel^H^H^H^H^Hlayperson user and the technical specialist at the same time, instead of one at the expense of the other. Where's my application form for a research grant...
But I may be hallucinating again.
Chuck
Really, people into radio have thought in terms of UTC (formerly GMT) for years - remember where the International date line is and that on any day, when someone in Hawaii is just stumbling out of bed to get the paper and make breakfast, someone in Japan has already come home from work!
It's always sometime somewhere.
Chuck
Of course going 3d is obvious, but they don't really
give enough details other than 'magneto-optical' -
what, 3 lasers and a field reading/writing bits in a
cube of stuff? Maybe the next 'bubble memory' device?
(anyone old enough to remember those?) I know a MO
disk you have to buffer and rewrite a whole track just
to alter one bit. Maybe a data access rate of 100Mbps
but it takes 3 minutes to write? Who knows....
Chuck
My Buick gets 4 cords per the furlong and that's the way I like it - Abraham Simpson
Chuck
From what I understand - frequencies, being measured in powers of 10, will still be Kilo-cycles, Mega, Giga, etc. Only the powers of 2 will get new monikers. Just so's nobody will think 1 Kilocycle = 1024 cps. But I may be hallucinating again.
Chuck
As anyone who has worked near a govt agency knows,
every budget cycle you dare not have a SURPLUS of
funds, otherwise next years funding will be cut.
It often happens that an agency will have a SURPLUS
and then go on a spending spree to get rid of the
ca$h quick, just buy stuff, who cares if it's
necessary or not, but for chrissake don't return
it to the taxpayers or let another department get it.
So now Clit-tongue has to find a 'boogyman' to scare
up a new spending program to sell us, anything to
spend the SURPLUS lest they get less tax dollars
and lose politcal power.
Whether you like it or not, your involved in a power
struggle - you can stand up and fight for your rights
to self determination, or you can just sit there and
let someone else slowly take over.
Chuck
They've already got 90% of the desktop, and most likely can't pull the 10% their way; Instead, they advertize to KEEP theiy monopoly
This is true - psychologiest have pointed out that seeing an ad for a product you have already purchased validates and reinforces that decision, helps keeps people loyal to the brand and from jumping ship. People also put up with a certain amount of defects, hide and cover them up as they wouldn't want to admit that the purchasing decision was a mistake - "I decided to go with Microsoft® products because they're a great value proposition [opps, ignore that error message]", and they start using political dodge's like blaming crashes in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on lightning, static, hackers, etc.
Chuck
sound more and more like baseless, groundless media 'spin' and public relations damage control from a professional handler who's clueless about the actual details of the situation.
This gratuitous bashing of ye' olde software hegemony was brought to you by:
Chuck
it's pronounced Eunuchs.
Chuck
Microsoft® products are pale, thin, sickly, fragile and are born w/ AIDS - there is no cure.
The most humane thing to do is administer euthenasia and install a healthy, robust OS.
Send NT to Dr. Kovorkian.
Chuck
right here. The root of that site may be interesting also (lot of Retro Hell stuff).
Chuck
TANKER HIT BY METEROITE
Tranquility Base (IP) The interplanetary oil taker
Nostromo, on a routine run from Titan to the Hexagon
Corporation Earth ports was struck by a large meteroite
at 013588 hours yesterday, leaving the craft crippled
and leaking an estimated 130,000 gallons per hour into
the L5 space preserve quadrilateral. "This is the worst
intra-luna disaster we have ever seen" said Lgarth Mrubbl3,
spokesbeing for the Committee for the Preservation of Clean
Space (CPCS). "We have repeatedly recommended the use
of cleaner, more powerful nuclear fuels, but nooooo! We
have to truck it in from foreign colonies". Hexagon Corporation
officials, in what is widely reguarded as merely a public
relations move, have already dispatched an emergency
crew to deal with the disaster, but industry insiders
beleive that their ability to suck up large blobs of the
floating Titan #4 Crude are extremely limited, and expect
vast clouds of the sticky substance to orbit the Earth and
disrupt space travel for years until it is finally dispersed
by the solar wind.
... for such dubious reasons as: fallacy #1: "everyone else seems to be doing it", or fallacy #2: "they're a $$100+billion company so it must be good", make darn SURE the decision whizzes read and understand the license agreement, for your own protection, to wit: (paraphrasing) they'll take your money for all the licenses but if the SOFTWARE PRODUCT fails to perform as expected ('substantially' is the weasle word these days) or if there is loss of critical business data, employee productivity, etc, pfft, too bad! Make sure they understand that the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is not under your complete control, you are just handed a binary and patches from Microsoft® and if it contains bugs, there's nothing you can do except live w/ the inconveniences and wait for fixes that may or may not appear. For goodness sake, protect yourself! Don't let them place the 'onus' on you! Office software politics 101: if I make the decision, I'm responsible. If you make the decision, I'm not responsible.
Chuck
Actually, there is a powerful place for anonymous, unaccounted political speech: the voting booth, where you pull the curtains and make your mark. How many people have been in a crowd, say a classroom, and had a 'show of hands' vote on some controverisal issue and watch as the majority of people just wait to see who gets the majority vote and 'go along with the crowd'? Meaningless. Just dangerous collective herd psychology that doesn't reflect what people might really beleive. In this day and age of 'political correctness' we need more than ever the ability to speak out w/o fear of retribution from the masses who will do anything to make life uncomfortable for dissenters. Otherwise we're just lemmings happily rushing toward the cliffs.
Signed, Chuck
Congress shall have power ... to promote the wealth of large, corporate holding companies, by securing, for an ever extending period of time at the request of Sonny Bono in behalf of the Disney corporation, the exclusive right to any stale content their lawyers can possibly claim as property. - Article 1, Section 8 Perverted US Constitution.
To Universal, it's kinda like the layout of a grocery story - they put the staples like milk and bread way in the back of the store so you have to walk by everything else and do some impulse buying.
Chuck
More like the freedom to get caught BEHIND in emerging technoligies ONCE AGAIN and then, in a dramatic comeback, push, shove, lie, cheat, steal, pilfer, plunder their way to market dominance, yeah! Lets see if AOL gets 'Netscaped'.
Trivia note: Aol started out as a company selling a downloadable video game service for the Atari VCS 2600.
Chuck
Microsoft® has consistently shown an ability to use any tactic to further their global cash flow ends and stockholder loyalty (which is perfectly natural, just not great computer science, i.e., software that sucks) - beware. Don't take your eye off the ball or be fooled by diversionary fluff; if keeping source code in Ft. Knox sucks dollars out of customers pockets they'll do it. If putting on an 'open standards' mantle accomplishes the same... These guys are famous for 'open, extend, incompatible'. If AOL allows MSN uses to schmooze with their customers, you can bet the sheeple will be led right up to the AOL->MSN migration utility. AOL can chat w/ MSN, MSN can chat w/ AOL, suddenly MSN is 'improved', suddenly AOL is broken - opps, better sign up with MSN and drop AOL, they don't work anymore! I don't think it's hipocritical for AOL to demand access to a monopoly cable bandwidth, as long as it's paid for, and then act to keep their paying customer directory servers from being used by competitors who can't succeed on their own. Microsoft® has raided other companies customer listings w/o approval before, like their 'strategic partnering' w/ 3COM for example while pushing lan manager.
Lookout! Some may say "They're being nice now". I don't beleive it; when push comes to shove they'll shiv ya' in an instant.
Chuck
The National Information Stool-pigeon Infrastructure is just another case of us lil'ol people not able to fend for ourselves against the meen ol' hackers out there. What'cha bet the same system installed to 'protect us' gets used to enforce collection of taxes on Internet commerce, among other things.
The bureaucracy is expanding to fulfill the needs of an ever expanding bureaucracy.
Chuck
Well, the US prez did ask the National Association of Theatre Owners to crack down on underage viewers after Columbine etc.
Chuck
I think it's ASCAP does that; there was an article here on /. about them trying to collect license fees from web sites for even LINKING to another site w/ licensed music on it. Free radio sounds great to me, but don't think the, ahem, 'establishment' would like it one bit.
Chuck