They're pointing at the telcos because it's resulting in multi-thousand dollar bills, and the telcos are telling them "tough" when they clearly didn't intend to authorize the calls.
And from a source-porting standpoint I can tell you that Linux is more its own beast than *BSD/SunOS/HPUX/Solaris etc. I have not programmed for MacOSX, but as it is based on FreeBSD, it is probably not all that dissimilar, except for the GUI components.
Anyways, Linux has a lot of its own isms. A whole slew of programs rely on headers located in/usr/include/linux, for example, rather than the more "standard" locations like/usr/include/sys.
You forgot to describe the Test process. In this case it would include:
* Advance clock by 1 month - run program * Advance clock by 2 months - run program * Advance clock by 3 months - run program * so on up to 5 years
Do you know of any testing methodologies which include something like this, other than for say.. a clock program? What do you do if the problem only happens on certain weeks? Certainly possible given that this is time based. Do you test for every week? Every day?
When was the last time a security guard, who's seen you nearly every day for the past 2 years (ala MS Office being run nearly every day for the past 2 years), suddenly refused entry and demanded you show your ID again, and prove that you have an account there?
If that's ever happened, it's time to find a new bank.
It does sound like it's as simple as that. He offered money for a place - it doesn't matter if it's on the market. He bought it from the owners.
If you want to call anyone an asshole, it's the previous owners, not Paul Allen. They could have just said no, and Paul could have then gone on to find other property.
"Licensing" is a fancy way of saying "selling". Apple stopped selling to clone vendors. GW is going to stop selling to Internet vendors. Both Apple's clone vendors and GW's internet vendors are providing different "channels" for sales - in one case, Apple's software, in the other GW's miniatures.
It's not a perfect comparison, because Apple also sells hardware. So Apple still beats them in the big mistake department.;)
Apple has shut down potentially profitable business plans (such as the clone plan). GW is doing something similar, only with sales channels instead of licensed clones. IOW, GW is shooting themselves in the foot just like Apple did.
GW could just suck it up, and realize that maybe their target market doesn't need as much "value added customer service" as they think. GW provided the starter kits making it easier for newbies to get in. GW provided catalogs for the rest of the folk to browse through and purchase from. There is plenty of information out there (and always will be) on how to paint models, what paints to use, etc. There's always going to be discussions on how to play/rules/strategies.
So, what can the local stores offer that the Internet stores can't, for the price premium? Well - no waiting for shipping assuming the item is in stock; advice on what to buy, what accessories to buy with that item, what other things to buy that the customer might be interested in, a magazine or two to buy; 3D view of the item.
The last of which is probably the most interesting thing for a customer, the first being second (heh).
It sounds to me more like a "last ditch effort" to get people into the stores. But, like in the case of the RIAA, GW will have to learn that technology moves rather quickly, and can occasionally outpace their "standard" business practices. GW would rather fight than adapt, and that's a shame.
Several so-called "backbone providers" host spammers directly. What then?
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Or, Rackspace will look at the checks they're getting from the spammers, including the "look the other way" fee, and will smile happily in their bling-bling cars and hot hookers.
Point being Rackspace knows about the spam, they're not going to be convinced to care about it. Go after the spammers rather than the ISPs, reduce collateral damage, and make actual progress.
Of course they bitched about that. However, was it a success otherwise? If so, maybe a larger subset of the population could be allowed to change the world?
"no, the sky is not falling. states can pass as many dumb laws as they want, there's still higher courts that will listen and overturn the bad ones."..for a (significant) price.
They require funds to get elected - not to work. The government funds that once they're in, eh? I mean, it pays their salaries and their assistants salaries and all that.
For some reason/. doesn't seem to want to take responsibility for their actions. They've known for YEARS that they can cause what would otherwise appear as a very wide spread DDOS, and still they make no attempts to mitigate the damage (like pointing to caches, providing mirror links, etc).
And I don't think it would delay story submissions - it's not like this happens once in a great while, and they have to set up something special each time. It happens a dozen times a day.
"if we feel like talking instead of playing, it's easier to turn away from it because you don't miss anything if you stop."
This is so true. People have the monster spawn times down on spreadsheets and clocked with stopwatches, they know exactly how long they can rest (ie stop) between battles.
That's the sort of thing that made me end up hating the game.
Dungeon crawls were way too dangerous - plus people would get upset if you disturbed their delicate timings.
(and yeah, I played a lot, something like 90 days playtime on my main character, before I quit)
I didn't mean to imply it would be easy. I'm also not a physicist, but I imagine that they'll figure out some way to "detect" them that will turn out to be practical for energy generation. Maybe as they pass through something, they generate some sort of "field" that something else can pick up, akin to a bar passing by a magnet.
I'm truly a layman here, but the stuff they're looking at is really exciting, and they haven't even detected everything yet.
The neutrino-based power generator. We're still just learning how to detect the various types of solar neutrinos there are out there. I suspect it's only a matter of time til we can build a new-style "solar cell" to generate energy.
I believe AMD's chips require cutting a certain trace in order to overclock their CPUs. It's something that would be pretty obvious if you were trained to check for it before you accept a return.
I remember the months of "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell". Nearly every damn show on there was talking about it, and then there were ads for it, too. That was so utterly blatant it was sick. It became a joke in our circle.
I tried playing the game, it was an irritating FPS (most are on consoles, tho), too. I don't know what Judgement Day had to say about it.
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They're pointing at the telcos because it's resulting in multi-thousand dollar bills, and the telcos are telling them "tough" when they clearly didn't intend to authorize the calls.
And from a source-porting standpoint I can tell you that Linux is more its own beast than *BSD/SunOS/HPUX/Solaris etc. I have not programmed for MacOSX, but as it is based on FreeBSD, it is probably not all that dissimilar, except for the GUI components.
/usr/include/linux, for example, rather than the more "standard" locations like /usr/include/sys.
Anyways, Linux has a lot of its own isms. A whole slew of programs rely on headers located in
You forgot to describe the Test process. In this case it would include:
* Advance clock by 1 month - run program
* Advance clock by 2 months - run program
* Advance clock by 3 months - run program
* so on up to 5 years
Do you know of any testing methodologies which include something like this, other than for say.. a clock program? What do you do if the problem only happens on certain weeks? Certainly possible given that this is time based. Do you test for every week? Every day?
When was the last time a security guard, who's seen you nearly every day for the past 2 years (ala MS Office being run nearly every day for the past 2 years), suddenly refused entry and demanded you show your ID again, and prove that you have an account there?
If that's ever happened, it's time to find a new bank.
It does sound like it's as simple as that. He offered money for a place - it doesn't matter if it's on the market. He bought it from the owners.
If you want to call anyone an asshole, it's the previous owners, not Paul Allen. They could have just said no, and Paul could have then gone on to find other property.
Wow. Someone with money bought property. Why oh why didn't I hear this on the news?!!?
Licensing is selling the rights to something - it's how software is "sold". I'm sure at least one of the lawyers on your bridge could tell you that.
"Licensing" is a fancy way of saying "selling". Apple stopped selling to clone vendors. GW is going to stop selling to Internet vendors. Both Apple's clone vendors and GW's internet vendors are providing different "channels" for sales - in one case, Apple's software, in the other GW's miniatures.
;)
It's not a perfect comparison, because Apple also sells hardware. So Apple still beats them in the big mistake department.
Apple has shut down potentially profitable business plans (such as the clone plan). GW is doing something similar, only with sales channels instead of licensed clones. IOW, GW is shooting themselves in the foot just like Apple did.
GW could just suck it up, and realize that maybe their target market doesn't need as much "value added customer service" as they think. GW provided the starter kits making it easier for newbies to get in. GW provided catalogs for the rest of the folk to browse through and purchase from. There is plenty of information out there (and always will be) on how to paint models, what paints to use, etc. There's always going to be discussions on how to play/rules/strategies.
So, what can the local stores offer that the Internet stores can't, for the price premium? Well - no waiting for shipping assuming the item is in stock; advice on what to buy, what accessories to buy with that item, what other things to buy that the customer might be interested in, a magazine or two to buy; 3D view of the item.
The last of which is probably the most interesting thing for a customer, the first being second (heh).
It sounds to me more like a "last ditch effort" to get people into the stores. But, like in the case of the RIAA, GW will have to learn that technology moves rather quickly, and can occasionally outpace their "standard" business practices. GW would rather fight than adapt, and that's a shame.
What does gcc do with "3D" as an argument? ;)
Several so-called "backbone providers" host spammers directly. What then?
Or, Rackspace will look at the checks they're getting from the spammers, including the "look the other way" fee, and will smile happily in their bling-bling cars and hot hookers.
Point being Rackspace knows about the spam, they're not going to be convinced to care about it. Go after the spammers rather than the ISPs, reduce collateral damage, and make actual progress.
Of course they bitched about that. However, was it a success otherwise? If so, maybe a larger subset of the population could be allowed to change the world?
"no, the sky is not falling. states can pass as many dumb laws as they want, there's still higher courts that will listen and overturn the bad ones." ..for a (significant) price.
Who could forget the most famous math bug, the falacy that suggests that pi =~ 3.14159265... one, when pi is actually just 3.
They require funds to get elected - not to work. The government funds that once they're in, eh? I mean, it pays their salaries and their assistants salaries and all that.
IMO, I think most people seem to want cheap newspapers/magazines and moreso free television, than to pay less for every item they own.
At least, it sure as hell seems that way whenever someone whines about the cost of cable.
For some reason /. doesn't seem to want to take responsibility for their actions. They've known for YEARS that they can cause what would otherwise appear as a very wide spread DDOS, and still they make no attempts to mitigate the damage (like pointing to caches, providing mirror links, etc).
And I don't think it would delay story submissions - it's not like this happens once in a great while, and they have to set up something special each time. It happens a dozen times a day.
"if we feel like talking instead of playing, it's easier to turn away from it because you don't miss anything if you stop."
This is so true. People have the monster spawn times down on spreadsheets and clocked with stopwatches, they know exactly how long they can rest (ie stop) between battles.
That's the sort of thing that made me end up hating the game.
Dungeon crawls were way too dangerous - plus people would get upset if you disturbed their delicate timings.
(and yeah, I played a lot, something like 90 days playtime on my main character, before I quit)
I didn't mean to imply it would be easy. I'm also not a physicist, but I imagine that they'll figure out some way to "detect" them that will turn out to be practical for energy generation. Maybe as they pass through something, they generate some sort of "field" that something else can pick up, akin to a bar passing by a magnet.
I'm truly a layman here, but the stuff they're looking at is really exciting, and they haven't even detected everything yet.
The neutrino-based power generator. We're still just learning how to detect the various types of solar neutrinos there are out there. I suspect it's only a matter of time til we can build a new-style "solar cell" to generate energy.
speaking as a layman,dpk
Indeed. If such a device is created, in the future, people will actually think:
"In order to solve this problem I'm going to need a Big Mac and a Coke!"
I believe AMD's chips require cutting a certain trace in order to overclock their CPUs. It's something that would be pretty obvious if you were trained to check for it before you accept a return.
I remember the months of "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell". Nearly every damn show on there was talking about it, and then there were ads for it, too. That was so utterly blatant it was sick. It became a joke in our circle.
I tried playing the game, it was an irritating FPS (most are on consoles, tho), too. I don't know what Judgement Day had to say about it.