You know, it nearly did. I worked for a start-up years ago who were pioneering the music kiosk business, firstly allowing albums and mix albums to be burned on the fly, and there was a working solution for downloads of MP3s straight to devices or USB. The major labels and most of the indies were interested and signed on the dotted line. Millions of pounds were invested. Best Buy were trialing the cd burning, but even 8 years ago we knew the market needed the direct to device solution.
The problem which killed it. Apple. They refused to allow any content to go onto their devices bypassing itunes and wouldn't even consider working with us. We had the product, we had about 80,000+ lossless albums converting merrily stored ready to rock, but apple killed the business model because like it or not iPods dominated the market.
In this context person does not mean individual in the service of, but the physical body of the person. As in "we searched the diplomat and he has a gun concealed upon his person."
Article 1 lays out specific terms for different staff types associated with the mission.
I do agree with you though, diplomatic missions work only because everyone needs them to work, anyone who violates them is put in the dog house internationally and rightly so.
However the UK is in a bind, they are caught between an internationally agreed legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden which has been confirmed in every level of court in the land (and lets not forget the Judiciary isn't a patsy of the government, quite the opposite. Both the UK and Ecuador are treading a fine line in international law with the only easy outcome being Assange giving himself up reluctantly by stepping out of the embassy (which I have a funny feeling he will do on Sunday having proved his personal point)
A “diplomatic agent” is the head of the mission or a member of the diplomatic staff of the mission;
Assange isn't a diplomat and if Equador tried to make him one Britain can just refuse to accept him
Article 9
1.The receiving State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable. In any such case, the sending State shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission. A person may be declared non grata or not acceptable before arriving in the territory of the receiving State. 5 2. If the sending State refuses or fails within a reasonable period to carry out its obligations under paragraph 1 of this article, the receiving State may refuse to recognize the person concerned as a member of the mission.
Either way, Assange is at best going to be stuck in the embassy forever, at worst will need to go to sweden.
Currently he is a criminal as he is in breach of his bail conditions. I think the irony is that he has now cost the UK taxpayer millions of pounds when in all probability he would have gone to Sweden and either not be charged or got a non custodial sentence (minor probability of a bigger sentence, but in balance of probability unlikely)
Of course there is a chance that his paranoia is completely founded, but IMHO he really isn't that significant to the Americans.
Whilst I'm happy that your wife got great care it might be worth noting that contrary to your experience the US actually has a 45% higher infant mortality rate than the Netherlands and one of the worst rates in the developed world.
In the UK very few people have to lose everything they own and get into generations of debt to save a loved one. It's swings and roundabouts really. With universal healthcare everyone is lucky, with private models only the super rich are safe from losing everything from one bad break. I keep thinking about Les Claypool's (of primus fame) brother who is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt just to try to save the life of his baby. That is the reality of the US model...
I was just countering supposition and conspiracy theory with further supposition. Mainly out of interest to see how the moderation would go. Pro Julian conspiracy theory seems to have a tendency to be moderated up:)
As for "The only crime he might be accused of is "having consensual sex without a condom". That is not rape, not even in Sweden. "
I thought the accusation was that the sex was consensual if he used a condom, he decided not to use one (for whatever reason) which would invalidate that consent. TBH it should be a crime in countries if it isn't already. Either way the best course of action would be to go to Sweden and contest the accusations, if he is innocent he will be let off and all the accusations and counter arguments will be laid bare in a court of law (if it even gets that far, chances are if he'd gone there in the first place no charges would have been laid IMHO)
Of course it could all be a conspiracy by the US to get him, but equally it could all be the 7 foot lizards of the NWO trying to use him as a tool in their ongoing battle against the Thetans.
That's not the US, Dominique Strauss Kahn happily admits to being a sexual predator (he is French after all) it's just that he claims his conquests are consensual whereas some of the women involved don't. I'm pretty sure Julian has said similar.
Or possibly there are strong legal reasons why they can't do proxy interviews outside of their jurisdiction? Or possibly even they were pissed off he did a runner from the country whilst under investigation for a serious crime? Maybe there is a chance he is guilty according to Swedish law and he is going to try to do everything he can to stop himself from facing trial?
Recent case law and the special relationship between the UK and US (which is a pretty one sided relationship...) would usually imply that he's more likely to be extradited from the UK than Sweden. Sweden is an open, liberal democracy, the UK would hand him over to the US in a heartbeat (after 5 years of court appearances and trials...)
I'm quite impressed by how many tin foil hats he's managed to convince to crawl out of the woodwork in order to help him avoid having to face the accusations properly.
Just imagine those poor teachers starting their careers in 29 years time on $35,000 when everyone else in the country has has inflationary pay rises and bread is costing $10 a loaf. Although I feel a bit sorry for the teachers now looking back at their elderly colleges who were earning $35,000 in the 40's and 50's they must have lived as kings being able to bathe in champaign every night and plaster their walls with cocaine.
"rate of inflation" it doesn't work how you think it works, and if it does then you're teachers really do need to be unionised if they aren't getting inflation linked pay scale rises every year.
The problem is I can't think of any companies who are whiter than white and don't have some ethical grey area in their past or present. Short of becoming totally self sufficient its a total minefield.
I spent most of my childhood playing in an unregulated builders tip, graveyard and in woodlands, fun games included exploding the gas canister, pushing the fridge down the slope of rubble and throwing javelins made of sharpend fence poles at one another. It didn't cause me any harm and myself, stumpy, one-eye, pincushion and hubert all survived into adulthood, well hubert is a little odd about enclused spaces after being buried alive in the tunnel we dug in the graveyard.
Well, TBH the formet is true, the latter is for comic effect, although I'm often very surprised I made it into adulthood, I still have a scar below one eye from where a friend loosed an arrow from a homemade longbow at my head.
All the universities I've experienced in the UK (including ones i've worked for in senior ICT roles) have been platform agnostic, to the point that it's a nightmare as an admin. Running messaging systems we weren't allowed to dictate to users at all what they chose to connect and dealing with things like the buggy IMAP implementation of the last release of Eudora caused no end of headaches!
There were some managers who tried to push their agendas either way and as a department we certainly encouraged people to work with standardised platforms and software, but ultimately as long as the end platform was secure with AV/etc you could connect with whatever you could get working.
On the other hand we did ridicule people who people who tried to push their own agenda (be it FOSS or Microsoft) when they didn't actually have the knowledge or ability to back up their demands...
I tell the salesmen that every day, and then point out that their shiny new device would lead to them having to renegotiating all their previous contracts because it would invalidate the data security clauses they were so keen to add to get the business in the first place
"one that would cost me $30 mil and return $180 mil, and another that would cost $200 mil and would return $600+? If I had the $200 million to spend, choosing the latter one would be a no-brainer."
Of course the sensible thing to do would be to invest that $200 in 6 films at $30 each and make $1080 with the bonus of $19 million to buy a yacht out of your initial investment.
If I understand you correctly, I can do exactly that in a list view via View, Current VIew, Active Appointments and then adding an end date filter. That's with outlook 2007 though, earlier versions are a bit clunkier.. You can even use sql to generate the query if you are bored enough.
As for stability, Outlook is exceptionally stable, especially compared to Evolution or Entourage, YMMV of course, plug ins will always degrade stability, but that's the nature of any software.
Back to the topic though, the general attitude of the FOSS community towards products like Outlook/Exchange is exactly why they aren't taken seriously by business. You need to pick your targets and fight those ones. Exchange isn't one of them, it is lightyears ahead of any competition and just getting better whilst the alternatives are floundering. Cloud based solutions are an alternative, but Exchange is at least 2 or 3 generations ahead of any of the competitors and continually innovating. I've yet to meet an email admin who would choose to impliment an large corporate solution on FOSS groupware solution or even a plain old mailbox server.
It's quite clear that a number of people here (mostly people who aren't email admins in the corporate environment) don't actually understand the business requirements for a groupware solution. Certainly my current business would struggle to operate if we went to a different solution with less features.
but that is on unix machines, the nature of admining windows servers at the moment means that most of this is unnecessary. Although that will change a great deal with powershell with more power being moved to the cli from guis. Which i personally think is a step in the right direction and it's a shame FTA didn't focus on this more than the headline fluffery.
quite the opposite actually, can you actually point out day to day situations where ssh would be useful when performing admin on a wondows server? i'm more than happy to use one on linux or solaris, but haven't encountered a need for it ever on a wondows server. I'm sure you can give examples where it would make my life more fulfilling.
well, if you'd RTFA then you'd have seen it's replaced with windows remote shell. And i suspect you can execute remotely through powershell as well. and as pointed out by myself and others SSH is rarely, if ever used with windows servers.
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You know, it nearly did. I worked for a start-up years ago who were pioneering the music kiosk business, firstly allowing albums and mix albums to be burned on the fly, and there was a working solution for downloads of MP3s straight to devices or USB. The major labels and most of the indies were interested and signed on the dotted line. Millions of pounds were invested. Best Buy were trialing the cd burning, but even 8 years ago we knew the market needed the direct to device solution.
The problem which killed it. Apple. They refused to allow any content to go onto their devices bypassing itunes and wouldn't even consider working with us. We had the product, we had about 80,000+ lossless albums converting merrily stored ready to rock, but apple killed the business model because like it or not iPods dominated the market.
That's the problem when people don't read the EULA properly and just click next blindly when it gets changed.
I've yet to actually meet a contractor in the UK who pays IR35, it's such a badly implemented tax system which is all hole and no loop.
"person of a diplomatic agent"
In this context person does not mean individual in the service of, but the physical body of the person. As in "we searched the diplomat and he has a gun concealed upon his person."
Article 1 lays out specific terms for different staff types associated with the mission.
I do agree with you though, diplomatic missions work only because everyone needs them to work, anyone who violates them is put in the dog house internationally and rightly so.
However the UK is in a bind, they are caught between an internationally agreed legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden which has been confirmed in every level of court in the land (and lets not forget the Judiciary isn't a patsy of the government, quite the opposite. Both the UK and Ecuador are treading a fine line in international law with the only easy outcome being Assange giving himself up reluctantly by stepping out of the embassy (which I have a funny feeling he will do on Sunday having proved his personal point)
Would you let Assange marry your daughter! Although he's probably been dry humping the legs of every female member of staff since he's been there :)
Actually if you read it more carefully
Article 1
A “diplomatic agent” is the head of the mission or a member of the diplomatic staff of the mission;
Assange isn't a diplomat and if Equador tried to make him one Britain can just refuse to accept him
Article 9
1.The receiving State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the
sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is
persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable. In any such
case, the sending State shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions
with the mission. A person may be declared non grata or not acceptable before arriving in the territory of
the receiving State.
5
2. If the sending State refuses or fails within a reasonable period to carry out its obligations under
paragraph 1 of this article, the receiving State may refuse to recognize the person concerned as a
member of the mission.
Either way, Assange is at best going to be stuck in the embassy forever, at worst will need to go to sweden.
Currently he is a criminal as he is in breach of his bail conditions. I think the irony is that he has now cost the UK taxpayer millions of pounds when in all probability he would have gone to Sweden and either not be charged or got a non custodial sentence (minor probability of a bigger sentence, but in balance of probability unlikely)
Of course there is a chance that his paranoia is completely founded, but IMHO he really isn't that significant to the Americans.
Whilst I'm happy that your wife got great care it might be worth noting that contrary to your experience the US actually has a 45% higher infant mortality rate than the Netherlands and one of the worst rates in the developed world.
In the UK very few people have to lose everything they own and get into generations of debt to save a loved one. It's swings and roundabouts really. With universal healthcare everyone is lucky, with private models only the super rich are safe from losing everything from one bad break. I keep thinking about Les Claypool's (of primus fame) brother who is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt just to try to save the life of his baby. That is the reality of the US model...
I was just countering supposition and conspiracy theory with further supposition. Mainly out of interest to see how the moderation would go. Pro Julian conspiracy theory seems to have a tendency to be moderated up :)
As for "The only crime he might be accused of is "having consensual sex without a condom". That is not rape, not even in Sweden. "
I thought the accusation was that the sex was consensual if he used a condom, he decided not to use one (for whatever reason) which would invalidate that consent. TBH it should be a crime in countries if it isn't already. Either way the best course of action would be to go to Sweden and contest the accusations, if he is innocent he will be let off and all the accusations and counter arguments will be laid bare in a court of law (if it even gets that far, chances are if he'd gone there in the first place no charges would have been laid IMHO)
Of course it could all be a conspiracy by the US to get him, but equally it could all be the 7 foot lizards of the NWO trying to use him as a tool in their ongoing battle against the Thetans.
That's not the US, Dominique Strauss Kahn happily admits to being a sexual predator (he is French after all) it's just that he claims his conquests are consensual whereas some of the women involved don't. I'm pretty sure Julian has said similar.
Or possibly there are strong legal reasons why they can't do proxy interviews outside of their jurisdiction?
Or possibly even they were pissed off he did a runner from the country whilst under investigation for a serious crime?
Maybe there is a chance he is guilty according to Swedish law and he is going to try to do everything he can to stop himself from facing trial?
Recent case law and the special relationship between the UK and US (which is a pretty one sided relationship...) would usually imply that he's more likely to be extradited from the UK than Sweden. Sweden is an open, liberal democracy, the UK would hand him over to the US in a heartbeat (after 5 years of court appearances and trials...)
I'm quite impressed by how many tin foil hats he's managed to convince to crawl out of the woodwork in order to help him avoid having to face the accusations properly.
Just imagine those poor teachers starting their careers in 29 years time on $35,000 when everyone else in the country has has inflationary pay rises and bread is costing $10 a loaf. Although I feel a bit sorry for the teachers now looking back at their elderly colleges who were earning $35,000 in the 40's and 50's they must have lived as kings being able to bathe in champaign every night and plaster their walls with cocaine.
"rate of inflation" it doesn't work how you think it works, and if it does then you're teachers really do need to be unionised if they aren't getting inflation linked pay scale rises every year.
"Freedom of speech is extremely broad in the united states. You have the right to make offensive speech."
As long as you want to talk about sex or say the word Cunt in a broadcast medium.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/obscenity-indecency-and-profanity
The problem is I can't think of any companies who are whiter than white and don't have some ethical grey area in their past or present. Short of becoming totally self sufficient its a total minefield.
I spent most of my childhood playing in an unregulated builders tip, graveyard and in woodlands, fun games included exploding the gas canister, pushing the fridge down the slope of rubble and throwing javelins made of sharpend fence poles at one another. It didn't cause me any harm and myself, stumpy, one-eye, pincushion and hubert all survived into adulthood, well hubert is a little odd about enclused spaces after being buried alive in the tunnel we dug in the graveyard.
Well, TBH the formet is true, the latter is for comic effect, although I'm often very surprised I made it into adulthood, I still have a scar below one eye from where a friend loosed an arrow from a homemade longbow at my head.
I'm just worried that the Irony will be lost on the courts.
All the universities I've experienced in the UK (including ones i've worked for in senior ICT roles) have been platform agnostic, to the point that it's a nightmare as an admin. Running messaging systems we weren't allowed to dictate to users at all what they chose to connect and dealing with things like the buggy IMAP implementation of the last release of Eudora caused no end of headaches!
There were some managers who tried to push their agendas either way and as a department we certainly encouraged people to work with standardised platforms and software, but ultimately as long as the end platform was secure with AV/etc you could connect with whatever you could get working.
On the other hand we did ridicule people who people who tried to push their own agenda (be it FOSS or Microsoft) when they didn't actually have the knowledge or ability to back up their demands...
I tell the salesmen that every day, and then point out that their shiny new device would lead to them having to renegotiating all their previous contracts because it would invalidate the data security clauses they were so keen to add to get the business in the first place
"one that would cost me $30 mil and return $180 mil, and another that would cost $200 mil and would return $600+? If I had the $200 million to spend, choosing the latter one would be a no-brainer."
Of course the sensible thing to do would be to invest that $200 in 6 films at $30 each and make $1080 with the bonus of $19 million to buy a yacht out of your initial investment.
If I understand you correctly, I can do exactly that in a list view via View, Current VIew, Active Appointments and then adding an end date filter. That's with outlook 2007 though, earlier versions are a bit clunkier.. You can even use sql to generate the query if you are bored enough.
As for stability, Outlook is exceptionally stable, especially compared to Evolution or Entourage, YMMV of course, plug ins will always degrade stability, but that's the nature of any software.
Back to the topic though, the general attitude of the FOSS community towards products like Outlook/Exchange is exactly why they aren't taken seriously by business. You need to pick your targets and fight those ones. Exchange isn't one of them, it is lightyears ahead of any competition and just getting better whilst the alternatives are floundering. Cloud based solutions are an alternative, but Exchange is at least 2 or 3 generations ahead of any of the competitors and continually innovating. I've yet to meet an email admin who would choose to impliment an large corporate solution on FOSS groupware solution or even a plain old mailbox server.
It's quite clear that a number of people here (mostly people who aren't email admins in the corporate environment) don't actually understand the business requirements for a groupware solution. Certainly my current business would struggle to operate if we went to a different solution with less features.
Surely it's going to be a lot of time lost attaching a million of them to a plough in the morning.
And I pity the poor farmer who has to milk enough to get a pint for his breakfast.
but that is on unix machines, the nature of admining windows servers at the moment means that most of this is unnecessary. Although that will change a great deal with powershell with more power being moved to the cli from guis. Which i personally think is a step in the right direction and it's a shame FTA didn't focus on this more than the headline fluffery.
well, i wouldn't run a traditional webserver purely using IIS, in the same way i've always run third party sftp setups as well.
quite the opposite actually, can you actually point out day to day situations where ssh would be useful when performing admin on a wondows server? i'm more than happy to use one on linux or solaris, but haven't encountered a need for it ever on a wondows server. I'm sure you can give examples where it would make my life more fulfilling.
well, if you'd RTFA then you'd have seen it's replaced with windows remote shell. And i suspect you can execute remotely through powershell as well.
and as pointed out by myself and others SSH is rarely, if ever used with windows servers.