I could have used this technology in June May 1998 when Harris Corp delivered a 50kW AM transmitter (DX50) to our in-a-cow-pasture transmitter shack. In NW Washington. Think mud. The driver drove his 18 wheeler into the mud and got stuck. Had to rent special equipment to move the payload to the installation site. Had to get towed out. I never saw a semi w/ trailer stuck in the mud before. --
I was trying to justify this demand-pricing scheme based on a function of supply and demand...but then realized I can't. It's just gouging. Sure, when demand rises and/or supply falls price rises. But when supply is flexible enough to match demand (as it the case with the efficient production and distribution systems Coke employs), price need not fluctuate. So, Coke machines raising prices due to temperature have nothing to do with supply. Sure, microeconomics dictate prices are set to maximize profit (therefore higher prices reduce volume sold and eventually will lead to lower profits - ala Apple Computer) but this is simply taking advantage of people in their weakness. If Coke supply wasn't fluid (sorry) and if Coke distribution had trouble keeping up with summertime demand, then I could see reason for spot price increases.
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This isn't just a ZDNet article. It's in the Wall Street Journal
print edition.
If this didn't make you go "Oh, cool!" it's probably because you don't understand how influencial WSJ (print editiion) is in business. When I interned at a major investment house during college I was told that, before starting the day, read that day's WSJ (print edition). I wasn't interning as a finance major but as an information systems major in EDP Audit. Anyway, what is printed in the WSJ becomes part of the collective consciousness of business leaders in every industry. And business leaders make decisions about technology adoption.
I wasn't trying to pick on Digital...SCO Unix suffered from mystery crahes, too, in our experience. Actually, the fact that Digital (now Compaq) met with us and our (albeit, much larger) clients at this level was a good sign of Digital/Compaq's willingness to solve our problem. It's just that the closed-source model has its flaws, inherently, and one of them is the adversarial relationship fostered by withholding mission-critical system source code. --
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That, and high per-seat license fees, compelled my small company to switch to Linux in 1997. We had more than one occasion to meet with top-level engineers from Digital to track down crippling bugs in the Digital Unix. It was frustrating to have to rely on the holy priests to interpret the holy source code. We only have a handfull of people who _could_ make use of the OS source, but we're much more motivated to solve our client's problems than any closed source tool/infrastructure maker. Using closed-source OSes means having to describe problems to another party which may or may not be able to find the cause - and, even if the cause is found, may be embarrassed to admit culpability (remember Sun's hardware problems revealed a year ago?). Every time we've had these meetings (client, VAR, OEM conferences) the atmosphere is not friendly, but full of tension, blame-passing, suspicion and butt-covering. Even getting to the stage of having the meeting meant hours and hours of impasse leading to escalation of the problem. Very acrimonious. (Note: we've never had such a meeting with Microsoft, so I have no idea what that would be like).h
Two years ago we ran into a limit of ptys on an older Linux server. We searched the message boards and, not finding a solution, went through the source and found out what we were doing wrong. I'm not sure if we tweaked anything - that was a while back - but we solved our own problem without any acrimony.
Cost is an issue, but, with a little effort, the best benefit of Open Source is opened source. Maybe that's why it's called "Open Source" and not "Cheap Software". --
Any university (online or otherwise) with the motto "You can do this" is suspect.
OTOH, I have friends attending UPho (U-Ph-O) and they're serious students. They are also non-traditional students, which is the target market for such places. --
Now if someone would only release something like this for Outlook that turns off VBScript...
How about a worm that automatically detects insecure installations (Win2K, say) and automatically patches them with the recommended patches (Debian, say)?
Software can be released under the GPL with the copyright ownership being retained by an individual or corporation. I thought everybody knew that...
Name a package (or program, or library, or whatever) that has been withdrawn from the public after being released under the GPL. Maybe a later release, but once under the GPL, it's out there to stay. As long as one adheres to the license terms as released, no recourse can be had by the owner. So, sure, someone owns the code but they've given permission for others to use it, pursuant to the G(eneral)PL.
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This is really old news, as well as misleading. A curse on Yahoo Small Business for not including a time/date stamp on their story. See this Google search for more info. --
I'm sorry Randal, but you have to understand that you were convicted of felonies, and that is the law. You made a decision, and you must live with it.
Deft words of wisdom, enlightenment, experience and compassion. After your, albeit anonymous, post we're all better off. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Idiot.
Numerous people having reviewed the case materials online (some were posted at this URL not long ago, I recall) believe that repremand or termination might be in order for Mr. Schwartz's "transgressions" but are aghast at the idea of criminal charges. (As an aside: why was Intel running Sun servers in the first place? Strikes me a bit like Bill Gates running OS/2 Warp [heaven forbid, RedHat 7.1] on his office PC). --
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Indeed, a simple Google search reveals that the Linux community is on this.
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AOL's hit list.
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I could have used this technology in June May 1998 when Harris Corp delivered a 50kW AM transmitter (DX50) to our in-a-cow-pasture transmitter shack. In NW Washington. Think mud. The driver drove his 18 wheeler into the mud and got stuck. Had to rent special equipment to move the payload to the installation site. Had to get towed out. I never saw a semi w/ trailer stuck in the mud before.
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Of course, the answer is - drink water that you bring with you.
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At first glance I thought the title of this story was that CmdrTaco Considers...
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Thanks, Bruce, good to hear this news.
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I wasn't trying to pick on Digital...SCO Unix suffered from mystery crahes, too, in our experience. Actually, the fact that Digital (now Compaq) met with us and our (albeit, much larger) clients at this level was a good sign of Digital/Compaq's willingness to solve our problem. It's just that the closed-source model has its flaws, inherently, and one of them is the adversarial relationship fostered by withholding mission-critical system source code.
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Two years ago we ran into a limit of ptys on an older Linux server. We searched the message boards and, not finding a solution, went through the source and found out what we were doing wrong. I'm not sure if we tweaked anything - that was a while back - but we solved our own problem without any acrimony.
Cost is an issue, but, with a little effort, the best benefit of Open Source is opened source. Maybe that's why it's called "Open Source" and not "Cheap Software".
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OTOH, I have friends attending UPho (U-Ph-O) and they're serious students. They are also non-traditional students, which is the target market for such places.
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Dude - it was a joke.
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Perhaps I just need to shut up and get back to work...
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Thanks for the correction. I get confused by the recursive TLA's so prevalent in Free Software projects...
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What part of Public don't you understand?
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This is really old news, as well as misleading. A curse on Yahoo Small Business for not including a time/date stamp on their story. See this Google search for more info.
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Idiot.
Numerous people having reviewed the case materials online (some were posted at this URL not long ago, I recall) believe that repremand or termination might be in order for Mr. Schwartz's "transgressions" but are aghast at the idea of criminal charges. (As an aside: why was Intel running Sun servers in the first place? Strikes me a bit like Bill Gates running OS/2 Warp [heaven forbid, RedHat 7.1] on his office PC).
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Take the original message (included with the bounce response) and run it through SpamCop to find out the source. Have fun.
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I'm not picking on you. These help me.
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They charge you less for presort because you are doing the bulk (NPI) of the postal service's work. They're still making money off bulk mail.
Want to really save postage? Presort and deliver your own mail. ;-)
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