If you can't obtain real LSD, you can always use banana peels. For real history see Michael Hollingshead [clue: he's the guy that turned Leary onto LSD!]
Leave it to Msft to sell yet another server license just to patch bugs. I seriously admire their ability to consistently turn defects into revenue streams.
the courts have ruled that Msft's bundling and pushing IE with every OS purchase is good for the consumer. Let business be free to manipulate their customers! It's good for the economy.
software is the must utterly bizarre legal property there is: just about all the advantages go to the vendor, and all the problems go to the customer. The IP owners get all the advantages of govt enforced artificial scarcity and ease of replication (charging $500 for a CD and a manual) but have no liability for damage caused by their property (a bug in the software wipes out a disk of important business data). If the owner of a swimming pool doesn't put a fence around it or take step to secure the water hazard to children, the owner of the pool is liable for damages if someone trespasses and drowns. But the owner or software is indemnified for ANY damages caused by real defects in their property.
Now, the next level of insanity: the unwitting end user paying customer is responsible for the IP owner stealing and selling property. That's like a car dealer hot wires a car and then sells it to a customer, and the police come and arrest the customer for theft! I can understand the car buyer being out of price of the car when it's returned to the rightful owner, until the dealer is caught is made to pay up.
Software has the most bizarre, irrational property law about it. It's almost like the laws are being written by IP holders for their own benefit.
Nope - Atari, during development, did purchas Msft basic source but didn't use it in the final product. Atari hired a firm called OSS to write the BASIC many of us grew up using - and it definitely was NOT Microsoft!
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There's still plenty of opportunity for experimentation with RF technology, just research SDR software defined radio, GnuRadio or the Tayloe detector patented in 1998 or so. People are actually using sound cards for ADC of 12Khz IF and doing the detection and filtering of AM/SSB/FM in software (fft, etc).
I just recently purchased a TenTec RX320 and love it because I can stuff it into a backpack along with a small battery, a notebook computer, a short antenna and headphones and hike out into the woods and setup a listening post away from urban rf noise for some real dxing.
this 300 million year old climate change could only have come from Halliburton's secret time machine, designed Dick Cheney for vast personal profit. All those species wiped out by corporate greed.
I got a call just last night, was all set to initiate action against some telemarketer - turned out it was a personal phone call from John Kerry. It took a second to remember the exception put in for political solicitations and slam down the receiver.
What usually, for real, happens is, some department near the end of the budget period realizes they saved $120,000 - so they go on a spending spree to erase the surplus so they don't get cut next budget period. EVERY government agency is ALWAYS SHORT of funds and desperately NEEDS MORE. ALWAYS. It never fails. You can bank on it. It's an inherent property of offices that depend on begging instead of profits, there is no reward mechanism for being efficient.
The best that can happen is they free up funds to buy things that actually help fulfill their mission, instead of upgrading software just to help Msft meet financial goals.
You know, I'd love to setup a transmitter and inject a signal into the seti data collection dish - you know, a low level non-random mathematically transformed character stream that roughtly translates to "The earthlings will never find us here" or something.
If done right it could be a bigger practical joke than the War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938!
Wow, has the song changed going from attacker to defender
- Don't change for the sake of it
We sure didn't hear that tune when the push was to replace Novell with NT4. Our shop replaced several perfectly working Novell file/print servers w/ NT that didn't do anything Novell did except 3D pinball.
- Take into account what your people know
Then it was "if you have Novell certification you will just have to enjoy the paradigm shift and get retraining, sorry".
It's like watching a politician trying to save both his faces.
I have a theory that Deep Thought had a word size of 42 bits..... thus the answer to the great question, the meaning of everything is 42, just like humans anthropomorphize 'god' as an elderly grandparent with long white beard, etc.
'Guest' temporary programs like applets, javascript, active-X, flash, Word macros and the like SHOULD run in sandboxes sealed off from the OS (fat chance of that every happening on a Windows box anyway). Things that register themselves and make permemant changes in os behavior should be known by the user. However, as someone pointed out above, the luser usually just blindly clicks thru an agreement giving up their rights anyhow.
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If you can't obtain real LSD, you can always use banana peels. For real history see Michael Hollingshead [clue: he's the guy that turned Leary onto LSD!]
built an Software Update Server
Leave it to Msft to sell yet another server license just to patch bugs. I seriously admire their ability to consistently turn defects into revenue streams.
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the courts have ruled that Msft's bundling and pushing IE with every OS purchase is good for the consumer. Let business be free to manipulate their customers! It's good for the economy.
software is the must utterly bizarre legal property there is: just about all the advantages go to the vendor, and all the problems go to the customer. The IP owners get all the advantages of govt enforced artificial scarcity and ease of replication (charging $500 for a CD and a manual) but have no liability for damage caused by their property (a bug in the software wipes out a disk of important business data). If the owner of a swimming pool doesn't put a fence around it or take step to secure the water hazard to children, the owner of the pool is liable for damages if someone trespasses and drowns. But the owner or software is indemnified for ANY damages caused by real defects in their property.
Now, the next level of insanity: the unwitting end user paying customer is responsible for the IP owner stealing and selling property. That's like a car dealer hot wires a car and then sells it to a customer, and the police come and arrest the customer for theft! I can understand the car buyer being out of price of the car when it's returned to the rightful owner, until the dealer is caught is made to pay up.
Software has the most bizarre, irrational property law about it. It's almost like the laws are being written by IP holders for their own benefit.
Nope - Atari, during development, did purchas Msft basic source but didn't use it in the final product. Atari hired a firm called OSS to write the BASIC many of us grew up using - and it definitely was NOT Microsoft!
Especially if your values are this extreme [warning! Not for the squeammish!]
Yeah, but since they can't run Windows® it would be not ready for the desktop.
If it sucks, say it sucks
man, you gotta stop watching those old newsreels
I pick neither.
Yeah, like here in the middle, where I am God.
Apple announces a big monitor, suddenly this Msft innovation appears.
now imagine TWO male monkeys who can't look away from the hindquarters of a female in estrus.
Well, it must also have resource enabling technology capable of turning ordinary employees into highly effective business-value generators
There's still plenty of opportunity for experimentation with RF technology, just research SDR software defined radio, GnuRadio or the Tayloe detector patented in 1998 or so. People are actually using sound cards for ADC of 12Khz IF and doing the detection and filtering of AM/SSB/FM in software (fft, etc).
I just recently purchased a TenTec RX320 and love it because I can stuff it into a backpack along with a small battery, a notebook computer, a short antenna and headphones and hike out into the woods and setup a listening post away from urban rf noise for some real dxing.
this 300 million year old climate change could only have come from Halliburton's secret time machine, designed Dick Cheney for vast personal profit. All those species wiped out by corporate greed.
How do you know when a blonde has been using your computer to send email?
All the stamps pasted to the monitor.
I got a call just last night, was all set to initiate action against some telemarketer - turned out it was a personal phone call from John Kerry. It took a second to remember the exception put in for political solicitations and slam down the receiver.
that's the highest he could count with his shoes off and pants down
What usually, for real, happens is, some department near the end of the budget period realizes they saved $120,000 - so they go on a spending spree to erase the surplus so they don't get cut next budget period. EVERY government agency is ALWAYS SHORT of funds and desperately NEEDS MORE. ALWAYS. It never fails. You can bank on it. It's an inherent property of offices that depend on begging instead of profits, there is no reward mechanism for being efficient.
The best that can happen is they free up funds to buy things that actually help fulfill their mission, instead of upgrading software just to help Msft meet financial goals.
You know, I'd love to setup a transmitter and inject a signal into the seti data collection dish - you know, a low level non-random mathematically transformed character stream that roughtly translates to "The earthlings will never find us here" or something.
If done right it could be a bigger practical joke than the War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938!
Wow, has the song changed going from attacker to defender
- Don't change for the sake of it
We sure didn't hear that tune when the push was to replace Novell with NT4. Our shop replaced several perfectly working Novell file/print servers w/ NT that didn't do anything Novell did except 3D pinball.
- Take into account what your people know
Then it was "if you have Novell certification you will just have to enjoy the paradigm shift and get retraining, sorry".
It's like watching a politician trying to save both his faces.
arg, the censorship filters erased some direction:
TT Rep: <pulls blinds and speaks in a low voice "What would you like the outcome to be?"
Client: "We have an, uh, certain amount of funding to pay for, uh, researching what the outcome of using product X is".
TT Rep: "What would you like the outcome to be?"
[recycled laywer joke]
I'm sure this guy has to have one.
I have a theory that Deep Thought had a word size of 42 bits..... thus the answer to the great question, the meaning of everything is 42, just like humans anthropomorphize 'god' as an elderly grandparent with long white beard, etc.
'Guest' temporary programs like applets, javascript, active-X, flash, Word macros and the like SHOULD run in sandboxes sealed off from the OS (fat chance of that every happening on a Windows box anyway). Things that register themselves and make permemant changes in os behavior should be known by the user. However, as someone pointed out above, the luser usually just blindly clicks thru an agreement giving up their rights anyhow.