Don't know about the stats/etc/etc. but I do know that the Wii fit is still selling out locally, and the Wii isn't far behind (I think they had 3 in stock, the Wii fit typically stays in stock for an hour once it comes in according to the Best Buy guys), on the other hand Best Buy/Future Shop/etc. have literally piles of Xbox's and PS3's (nice pyramid stacks).
"and if there ever is a case where a bank fails to follow these guidelines, they can lose their banking license)."
Has this actually ever happened? I suspect this is a red herring similar to the "lawyers/engineers/doctors/psychologists/psychiatrists/etc. can lose their license" which virtually never happens.
Either you have someone at the settlement meeting that can make decisions, or you have a dozen settlement meetings with a few days in between while the person reports back to whomever can make decisions, which would be an enormous waste of the court's time. I think it's also fair to say if you're going to sue someone/etc. and say you're willing to settle you honor that and actually have someone who can settle at the meeting. Not rocket science. How they got away with this before is beyond me.
Seriously? Microsoft obviously is capable of gaming the system and doing and end run around it. This is just embarrassing. OTOH I guess it's one heck of a way to get job security if you're in the judicial system.
Speaking of RTFA'ing you should maybe take your own advice:
As it turns out, the reason for all those routing resets and general instability was due to a previously unknown Cisco bug involving AS paths close to 255 in length. If you try to prepend to a long path that you receive and by doing so, create a path longer than 255, you are toast. So the maps we gave in our our last blog were more of an indication of Cisco market share (at least among prependers), rather than the propensity of outdated routers. Kudos to Ivan for figuring this out.
If people had upgraded their routers this wouldn't have happened. Newsflash: software has bugs. Not upgrading your software will bite you in the ass eventually, especially if this software runs critical systems like your routers.
"For people who make a living out of creativity or in a creative business, there is scarcely anything more important than to have your rights protected by the law."
Actually there is something far, far, far more important. Having my ideas and my works actually consumed and enjoyed by people. Knowing that my work and ideas are actually good (for whatever arbitrary value of good we're using) enough to compete for and win peoples attention and appreciation. I'd happily write my monthly Magazine Column for free, getting paid is just a bonus (and I also appreciate that they post the columns online for free, I want lots of people to read my stuff).
Throughout the ages artists, craftsmen, performers, entertainers, writers, painters, etc. have all figured out business models that allow them to continue creating. Expressing creativity (be it art, science, music, etc.) seems to me to be a pretty fundamental human need and it's been done since well before we even had the idea of economies (e.g. cave paintings) let alone industry groups, and this will go on forever as best I can guess (with or without the industry groups).
My take on this whole process is that the industry groups are largely obsolete, and that companies/business models will either change or go extinct as the environment changes, whether they like it or not. The people who embrace the new environment and learn to work within it and take advantage of it will prosper (not necessarily financially, I mean more in the sense of gaining acceptance/market share/etc.).
"web hosting company" - lots of cheap servers with lots of disk (how else do you sell 10gig VPS servers? It's not like these machines have high IO requirements typically.
Yeah but I imagine the majority of the Olympic related work is simple office workflow, editing documents/etc. I'm not saying thin terminals for all, I'm simply saying if you want to save on energy you can replace a heck of a lot of desktops with one server and some thin terminals in many situations.
So buy full-spectrum light bulbs. I did for my entire house, at first many people complain that the light is "cold" (it's much whiter than the sickly-yellow pall a standard incandescent light casts) but after a while you get used to it and realize how bad incandescent bulbs make everything look.
I love how you didn't even mention Sparc:
"From a cost standpoint, they both run on the same server hardware (intel or amd), so there is no cost advantage there. "
Lovely platform but yeah....
I like them, cheap and reliable, plus there's a CPAN module to interact with them. Personally I would also investigate running your own DNS servers, with Bind a simple run of sed through the text config files and a restart and you're done.
If this decision goes to the law firm than it seems to me that certain companies/industries are entirely screwed. Yellow pages anyone? Maps? I know that traditionally these are seen as "facts" and are thus quasi public-domain, but this seems to be shifting the line dangerously.
"We'll be having a license agreement" which I assume I need to agree to in order to use the software, which sounds a lot like a EULA. Unless there is a clause like "if you don't like this agreement you can just ignore it" which I somehow doubt. Personally this annoys the heck out of me because 99% of my software doesn't force me to read the EULA/License/etc, imagine if every time you ran a UNIX utility you had to view/agree to a license. If grep and Galeon don't do it, why does Firefox have to?
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Great so I lose up to 2 weeks of work. Unless you're a small business with paper backups or something that won't fly to well.
Don't know about the stats/etc/etc. but I do know that the Wii fit is still selling out locally, and the Wii isn't far behind (I think they had 3 in stock, the Wii fit typically stays in stock for an hour once it comes in according to the Best Buy guys), on the other hand Best Buy/Future Shop/etc. have literally piles of Xbox's and PS3's (nice pyramid stacks).
CentOS is really, really slow on security updates and updates in general.
Well the truth is that some do lose their licenses, but there are problems even when this happens, i.e.: An alarming number of Massachusetts psychiatrists have gotten caught againand again having sex with some of this society's most vulnerable people: their own patients. .... Even after losing her license, Bean-Bayog reportedly was still seeing patients, thanks to a loophole in state law. I'd be curious to know if any Swiss bank has ever been properly censured (paying a fine and not having to admit guilt doesn't count =) for breaking the law/guidelines/etc.
"and if there ever is a case where a bank fails to follow these guidelines, they can lose their banking license)." Has this actually ever happened? I suspect this is a red herring similar to the "lawyers/engineers/doctors/psychologists/psychiatrists/etc. can lose their license" which virtually never happens.
Oh no, here comes an S!!! Doh.
Either you have someone at the settlement meeting that can make decisions, or you have a dozen settlement meetings with a few days in between while the person reports back to whomever can make decisions, which would be an enormous waste of the court's time. I think it's also fair to say if you're going to sue someone/etc. and say you're willing to settle you honor that and actually have someone who can settle at the meeting. Not rocket science. How they got away with this before is beyond me.
Seriously? Microsoft obviously is capable of gaming the system and doing and end run around it. This is just embarrassing. OTOH I guess it's one heck of a way to get job security if you're in the judicial system.
Speaking of RTFA'ing you should maybe take your own advice:
As it turns out, the reason for all those routing resets and general instability was due to a previously unknown Cisco bug involving AS paths close to 255 in length. If you try to prepend to a long path that you receive and by doing so, create a path longer than 255, you are toast. So the maps we gave in our our last blog were more of an indication of Cisco market share (at least among prependers), rather than the propensity of outdated routers. Kudos to Ivan for figuring this out.
If people had upgraded their routers this wouldn't have happened. Newsflash: software has bugs. Not upgrading your software will bite you in the ass eventually, especially if this software runs critical systems like your routers.
"For people who make a living out of creativity or in a creative business, there is scarcely anything more important than to have your rights protected by the law."
Actually there is something far, far, far more important. Having my ideas and my works actually consumed and enjoyed by people. Knowing that my work and ideas are actually good (for whatever arbitrary value of good we're using) enough to compete for and win peoples attention and appreciation. I'd happily write my monthly Magazine Column for free, getting paid is just a bonus (and I also appreciate that they post the columns online for free, I want lots of people to read my stuff).
Throughout the ages artists, craftsmen, performers, entertainers, writers, painters, etc. have all figured out business models that allow them to continue creating. Expressing creativity (be it art, science, music, etc.) seems to me to be a pretty fundamental human need and it's been done since well before we even had the idea of economies (e.g. cave paintings) let alone industry groups, and this will go on forever as best I can guess (with or without the industry groups).
My take on this whole process is that the industry groups are largely obsolete, and that companies/business models will either change or go extinct as the environment changes, whether they like it or not. The people who embrace the new environment and learn to work within it and take advantage of it will prosper (not necessarily financially, I mean more in the sense of gaining acceptance/market share/etc.).
"In Russia, which is not a signatory to the Berne Convention"
Uhhhh. No. That is incorrect.
The Berne Convention also became effective for Russia on March 13, 1995.[51]
Contracting Parties > Berne Convention > Russian Federation > Details
"web hosting company" - lots of cheap servers with lots of disk (how else do you sell 10gig VPS servers? It's not like these machines have high IO requirements typically.
Add to which it has an API/etc. It really is what you should be using.
Neither of these really address spam. Wrong tool set entirely.
Akismet
You realize you can rent them.
Yeah but I imagine the majority of the Olympic related work is simple office workflow, editing documents/etc. I'm not saying thin terminals for all, I'm simply saying if you want to save on energy you can replace a heck of a lot of desktops with one server and some thin terminals in many situations.
What about thin terminals? Why on earth would you need a full blown PC to display sporting results/etc.
So buy full-spectrum light bulbs. I did for my entire house, at first many people complain that the light is "cold" (it's much whiter than the sickly-yellow pall a standard incandescent light casts) but after a while you get used to it and realize how bad incandescent bulbs make everything look.
I love how you didn't even mention Sparc: "From a cost standpoint, they both run on the same server hardware (intel or amd), so there is no cost advantage there. " Lovely platform but yeah....
Uhh sed can do that you know. hint: -f
I like them, cheap and reliable, plus there's a CPAN module to interact with them. Personally I would also investigate running your own DNS servers, with Bind a simple run of sed through the text config files and a restart and you're done.
If this decision goes to the law firm than it seems to me that certain companies/industries are entirely screwed. Yellow pages anyone? Maps? I know that traditionally these are seen as "facts" and are thus quasi public-domain, but this seems to be shifting the line dangerously.
"We'll be having a license agreement" which I assume I need to agree to in order to use the software, which sounds a lot like a EULA. Unless there is a clause like "if you don't like this agreement you can just ignore it" which I somehow doubt. Personally this annoys the heck out of me because 99% of my software doesn't force me to read the EULA/License/etc, imagine if every time you ran a UNIX utility you had to view/agree to a license. If grep and Galeon don't do it, why does Firefox have to?