Reminds me of when Verizon's staff took industrial action (strike) a couple of years ago for the Communication Workers of America union - one industry wag wrote in Network Computing, "Did anybody notice when Verizons 800,000 employees went on strike? Neither did I". But seriously, no new lines were installed, and I'm sure all the maintenance work would have soon caught up with what little mgmt could do to run such a network.
I'll never forget waiting in a little custom computer store for their sec'ty to process a check (and taking a darn long time at it) and using one of the machine they had running. Went to www.theregus.com and tried to read one article and the speaker startles me with 'blocked!', and the screen says something about porn. Tried another article and got the same thing. Eventually got to read one but the false hit rate in that little test, 2 out of 3, was pretty abysmal, rendering a public station nearly useless for the over paranoia.
Lets see, the link refers to: BBN, Honeywell, AT&T, which I'm sure had to competitively bid for the govt. contracts. Govt does stage large projects of national defence scale, Arpanet, NASA etc, that no business would risk, but private industry is still involved. The govt funded Langley worked on a flying machine, but it was a couple of bike mechanics interested in the same thing that actually pulled it off.
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No need to stage a communist revolution just yet - read the article: CCU is 8 billion in debt, listenership is falling, etc etc. Like everyone here posts, who listens to radio anymore when you have alternatives? Capitalism may yet come to the rescue: CCU creditors can call their debt in, they may have to file for bandruptcy, they might have to sell off a lot of stations at bargain prices back to community oriented owners. It's just another aspect of the telecom / dot.bomb wave and their bubble hasn't burst yet. I'd love to get a good 1KW Collins AM transmitter for cheap and convert it to ham bands. The/worst/ thing to happen would be for a govt to socialize the thing and freeze CCU in it's current form, like having Castro for your leader until he croaks. Even in a solialist state plain ol' human politics 1.0 still rules whether a corporation owns it or, what we consider worse, a political party owns everything, where some are inevitably more 'equal' than others. In capitalism man opresses man, but in communism it's just the opposite.
There are more things in heaven & earth than are drempt of in Marx's, or anyone's, 'philosophy'.
Is to add to the global knowledge base / historical experience that will be necessary to achieve interstellar space travel before sol turns into a red giant. For the masses, it will be for 'gold' minerals, settling the question of life on mars, or, for most tabloid readers, just to check out the face of Elvis.
BellSouth, Verizon and SBC Communications hailed the decision as conforming with FCC Chairman Michael Powell's plans for the industry.
Powell's job must be so easy - just let the market decide! Then take a nap. If anything really important comes up ask Dad in the State Dept, he'll know what to do.
If someone doesn't want to watch their friggin ad, they aren't going to watch their friggin ad!! What do they expect, some kind of Clockwork Orange setup with our heads clamped in a chair and our eyes pried open?? If people were once dolts who beleived anything they 'saw on tv' but have developed sales resistance over time, the advertisters just have to get over it and move on to something else. Wow, just because Joe pays Jim a bundle of bucks he's upset because Fred isn't watching the pitch? Like I said before, I personally find most adverts insulting, manipulative and devoid of any real information on which to base a purchase decision. It's a deteriorating relationship, the more hyper and deceptive they become, the less attention they get (from me anyway), and the less attention they get the more hyper and deceptive they try to become. How about an intelligent "our product is a good deal because.." instead of trying to jerk on our primal emotions and instincts?
"Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks," said the report, by Mitre Corp.
I was going to suggest that Mitre was soon going to become a 'research' dept of Msft, but can't find their public stock listing. Uh oh, can't buy them out - that only leaves bribes and threats.
They release their kernel changes. Their application(s) stay proprietary.
To hear Msft's interpretation of the 'viral' GPL you'd think that if anyone in a company used the least little line of GPL code they'd have to cough up everything. Of course, this isn't so.
Lastly, the first thing that jumps out of the Tesla patent is the title "System of Transmission of Electrical Energy" - yes there's an antenna, coils, ground - so while he was searching for a way to send energy w/o wires he inadvertently creates what would be a terrific signalling system if only he'd realized the potential that would have. It's really no wonder at all he was misunderstood, letting Marconi capture the limelight with real demonstrations of signaling, not wackko lightning bolt demo's, threatening the split the earth, communicating w/ aliens, etc etc etc.
Ok, this started out as a joke, and I usually stay out of these 'whose was first' controversies, but further research for something solid turns up this:
"The court's decision, Case No. 369, identified as 'Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. United States,' rendered invalid Marconi's basic patent No. 763,722 dated June 28, 1904. Tesla's patent No. 645,576 of March 20, 1900, and it's subdivision patent for apparatus No. 649,621 dated May 15, 1900, had priority. (2,4)"
Ok, I'll go check these out at The PTO. Should be interesting viewing the scan of Tesla's patent.
I did - (Actually I do have a 7" spark (small, yes) Tesla coil). From all I've read tho,I still have to give Marconi 1st prize for developing and marketing, installing and operating functional, useful shipboard wireless stations for emergency communications. And Hertz was the one who proved the electromagnetic waves predicted in theory by Maxwell before Tesla. See this page.
While Tesla can be credited with inventing the rotating magnetic field, and an unacknowledged genius in his own right, the last 10 or so years of "yada yada Tesla invented this, Tesla invented That yada yada yada" has gone a little to far in the other direction;)
It is run by 3 Rivers Connect, a nonprofit whose major source of funding is the state of Pennsylvania.
taxes, baby. People who may never use a computer are helping to fund it. Of course it's for, ahem, their benefit, in that it should help to attract new businesses to the area, project a 'wired high tech' image and create jobs, you know, like those multi-billion $ software companies everyone wants in their tax district?
"The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties of the substance and is composed of two or more atoms; a group of like or different atoms held together by chemical forces."
It would seem that a molecule of diamond would be the smallest arrangement of carbon atoms that have the properties of diamon, or does the crystal structure dispose of the 'smallest' definition?
We finally got 512Kbps and 8 static IP's at work, and my first attempt at putting a RH71 box on the public Internet was rooted within 18 hours. This calls for OpenBSD. Rootkit that, kiddo. Forthuately I found it 4 hours after the syslog was restarted (SUn 4AM), there was absolutely nothing on it that isn't in the stock distro, and it was out in the DMZ connected to nothing in the firewall, so hahaha.
If I had more time, I'd have left it there and turn it into a honeypot, put some interesting fake info up and lure them in further, giving no clue that I know they're there.
My favorite example of well commented code, to the extreme, was a text editor w/ assembly code published in a Byte mag about 1983 or so (VDO Video Display Oriented). The source listing was nicely broken down into functions with a paragraph explaining exactely what was going on and why for maybe every 2 or 3 instructions! Anyway, the amount of English text far outweighed the actual code by maybe 10 to 1.
There's a funny story about Apple with their project code named Sagan - when the Carl Sagan people complained and threatened legal action (over an internal code name, not a product) they changed the name to "Butt Headed Astronomer". Being a product name, of course, they wouldn't solve anything by calling it "Asshole Software Architect OS". Hmm, maybe ASAOS would work, with only rumors about what it means;)
IP threatens creativity like personal property (real estate) threatens mobility (i.e., trespassing forbidden) - yet personal real estate exists and isn't likely to go away anytime soon.
What's wild is Apple used to use SCSI for desktop machines - now their servers use ATA.
All this should really entrench them amongst existing Apple shops, so the powers that be won't have any reason to go 'doze, but never underestimate irrational brand loyalty of the Windoze Robots. It's as if they just buy from the company w/ the most cash, like, 90% of Windows users buy Windows just because 90% of the computers are Windows. That's going to be a tough choo-choo to derail.
Hey Cassidy!!! Happy 13th b-day!! you don?t know me, but i am a 13 yr old girl who wants to be your PEN PAL!!! i checked out ur user profil on AOL. my name is brittney & i just turned 13 and want to talk to other 13 yr olds about stuff like NSYNC (the best!), math homework (yuk) and how you shower togethe with your little friends after gym class and what they look like! it?s okay to talk to me about ANYTHING ?cause I?m just a 13 yr old girl like you!! Write back soon!!! p.s. do u have a favorite pair of panties rite back soon ok
from now on, onsite pc support should put on disposable latex gloves before typing or touching the mouse. For a real gas, put on surgical garb and scrub up before opening the case.
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Reminds me of when Verizon's staff took industrial action (strike) a couple of years ago for the Communication Workers of America union - one industry wag wrote in Network Computing, "Did anybody notice when Verizons 800,000 employees went on strike? Neither did I". But seriously, no new lines were installed, and I'm sure all the maintenance work would have soon caught up with what little mgmt could do to run such a network.
I'll never forget waiting in a little custom computer store for their sec'ty to process a check (and taking a darn long time at it) and using one of the machine they had running. Went to www.theregus.com and tried to read one article and the speaker startles me with 'blocked!', and the screen says something about porn. Tried another article and got the same thing. Eventually got to read one but the false hit rate in that little test, 2 out of 3, was pretty abysmal, rendering a public station nearly useless for the over paranoia.
Lets see, the link refers to: BBN, Honeywell, AT&T, which I'm sure had to competitively bid for the govt. contracts. Govt does stage large projects of national defence scale, Arpanet, NASA etc, that no business would risk, but private industry is still involved. The govt funded Langley worked on a flying machine, but it was a couple of bike mechanics interested in the same thing that actually pulled it off.
No need to stage a communist revolution just yet - read the article: CCU is 8 billion in debt, listenership is falling, etc etc. Like everyone here posts, who listens to radio anymore when you have alternatives? Capitalism may yet come to the rescue: CCU creditors can call their debt in, they may have to file for bandruptcy, they might have to sell off a lot of stations at bargain prices back to community oriented owners. It's just another aspect of the telecom / dot.bomb wave and their bubble hasn't burst yet. I'd love to get a good 1KW Collins AM transmitter for cheap and convert it to ham bands. The /worst/ thing to happen would be for a govt to socialize the thing and freeze CCU in it's current form, like having Castro for your leader until he croaks. Even in a solialist state plain ol' human politics 1.0 still rules whether a corporation owns it or, what we consider worse, a political party owns everything, where some are inevitably more 'equal' than others. In capitalism man opresses man, but in communism it's just the opposite.
There are more things in heaven & earth than are drempt of in Marx's, or anyone's, 'philosophy'.
Also, the U.S. needs to establish a base before the Communist Chinese, space race style. We don't want Mars to become a Red planet.
Is to add to the global knowledge base / historical experience that will be necessary to achieve interstellar space travel before sol turns into a red giant. For the masses, it will be for 'gold' minerals, settling the question of life on mars, or, for most tabloid readers, just to check out the face of Elvis.
BellSouth, Verizon and SBC Communications hailed the decision as conforming with FCC Chairman Michael Powell's plans for the industry.
Powell's job must be so easy - just let the market decide! Then take a nap. If anything really important comes up ask Dad in the State Dept, he'll know what to do.
If someone doesn't want to watch their friggin ad, they aren't going to watch their friggin ad!! What do they expect, some kind of Clockwork Orange setup with our heads clamped in a chair and our eyes pried open?? If people were once dolts who beleived anything they 'saw on tv' but have developed sales resistance over time, the advertisters just have to get over it and move on to something else. Wow, just because Joe pays Jim a bundle of bucks he's upset because Fred isn't watching the pitch? Like I said before, I personally find most adverts insulting, manipulative and devoid of any real information on which to base a purchase decision. It's a deteriorating relationship, the more hyper and deceptive they become, the less attention they get (from me anyway), and the less attention they get the more hyper and deceptive they try to become. How about an intelligent "our product is a good deal because.." instead of trying to jerk on our primal emotions and instincts?
"Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks," said the report, by Mitre Corp.
I was going to suggest that Mitre was soon going to become a 'research' dept of Msft, but can't find their public stock listing. Uh oh, can't buy them out - that only leaves bribes and threats.
They release their kernel changes. Their application(s) stay proprietary.
To hear Msft's interpretation of the 'viral' GPL you'd think that if anyone in a company used the least little line of GPL code they'd have to cough up everything. Of course, this isn't so.
Lastly, the first thing that jumps out of the Tesla patent is the title "System of Transmission of Electrical Energy" - yes there's an antenna, coils, ground - so while he was searching for a way to send energy w/o wires he inadvertently creates what would be a terrific signalling system if only he'd realized the potential that would have. It's really no wonder at all he was misunderstood, letting Marconi capture the limelight with real demonstrations of signaling, not wackko lightning bolt demo's, threatening the split the earth, communicating w/ aliens, etc etc etc.
Ok, this started out as a joke, and I usually stay out of these 'whose was first' controversies, but further research for something solid turns up this:
"The court's decision, Case No. 369, identified as 'Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. United States,' rendered invalid Marconi's basic patent No. 763,722 dated June 28, 1904. Tesla's patent No. 645,576 of March 20, 1900, and it's subdivision patent for apparatus No. 649,621 dated May 15, 1900, had priority. (2,4)"
Ok, I'll go check these out at The PTO. Should be interesting viewing the scan of Tesla's patent.
I did - (Actually I do have a 7" spark (small, yes) Tesla coil). From all I've read tho,I still have to give Marconi 1st prize for developing and marketing, installing and operating functional, useful shipboard wireless stations for emergency communications. And Hertz was the one who proved the electromagnetic waves predicted in theory by Maxwell before Tesla. See this page.
;)
While Tesla can be credited with inventing the rotating magnetic field, and an unacknowledged genius in his own right, the last 10 or so years of "yada yada Tesla invented this, Tesla invented That yada yada yada" has gone a little to far in the other direction
It is run by 3 Rivers Connect, a nonprofit whose major source of funding is the state of Pennsylvania.
taxes, baby. People who may never use a computer are helping to fund it. Of course it's for, ahem, their benefit, in that it should help to attract new businesses to the area, project a 'wired high tech' image and create jobs, you know, like those multi-billion $ software companies everyone wants in their tax district?
from dictionary.com :
"The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties of the substance and is composed of two or more atoms; a group of like or different atoms held
together by chemical forces."
It would seem that a molecule of diamond would be the smallest arrangement of carbon atoms that have the properties of diamon, or does the crystal structure dispose of the 'smallest' definition?
Gorsh, and here I though Heinrich Hertz and Guglielmo Marconi invented the wireless, darn.
Kids these days....
We finally got 512Kbps and 8 static IP's at work, and my first attempt at putting a RH71 box on the public Internet was rooted within 18 hours. This calls for OpenBSD. Rootkit that, kiddo. Forthuately I found it 4 hours after the syslog was restarted (SUn 4AM), there was absolutely nothing on it that isn't in the stock distro, and it was out in the DMZ connected to nothing in the firewall, so hahaha.
If I had more time, I'd have left it there and turn it into a honeypot, put some interesting fake info up and lure them in further, giving no clue that I know they're there.
My favorite example of well commented code, to the extreme, was a text editor w/ assembly code published in a Byte mag about 1983 or so (VDO Video Display Oriented). The source listing was nicely broken down into functions with a paragraph explaining exactely what was going on and why for maybe every 2 or 3 instructions! Anyway, the amount of English text far outweighed the actual code by maybe 10 to 1.
Gates mimicked Jobs.
;)
There's a funny story about Apple with their project code named Sagan - when the Carl Sagan people complained and threatened legal action (over an internal code name, not a product) they changed the name to "Butt Headed Astronomer". Being a product name, of course, they wouldn't solve anything by calling it "Asshole Software Architect OS". Hmm, maybe ASAOS would work, with only rumors about what it means
IP threatens creativity like personal property (real estate) threatens mobility (i.e., trespassing forbidden) - yet personal real estate exists and isn't likely to go away anytime soon.
You'll have to take that magnet out of here, this is a 'no spin' zone.
replace with 'gravity':
3. Solemnity or dignity of manner.
What's wild is Apple used to use SCSI for desktop machines - now their servers use ATA.
All this should really entrench them amongst existing Apple shops, so the powers that be won't have any reason to go 'doze, but never underestimate irrational brand loyalty of the Windoze Robots. It's as if they just buy from the company w/ the most cash, like, 90% of Windows users buy Windows just because 90% of the computers are Windows. That's going to be a tough choo-choo to derail.
Hey Cassidy!!! Happy 13th b-day!! you don?t know me, but i am a 13 yr old girl who wants to be your PEN PAL!!! i checked out ur user profil on AOL. my name is brittney & i just turned 13 and want to talk to other 13 yr olds about stuff like NSYNC (the best!), math homework (yuk) and how you shower togethe with your little friends after gym class and what they look like! it?s okay to talk to me about ANYTHING ?cause I?m just a 13 yr old girl like you!! Write back soon!!! p.s. do u have a favorite pair of panties rite back soon ok
from now on, onsite pc support should put on disposable latex gloves before typing or touching the mouse. For a real gas, put on surgical garb and scrub up before opening the case.