Except that they have corporate lawyers on staff that deal with "annoying" lawsuits like this without really costing them anything. It will cost you 50K - 100K to start unless you are lucky enough to find a very good lawyer (and they will need to be good to go up against Verizon) that is willing to do it on spec. You KNOW the FTC and other government agencies are not going to come to your aid, right???
No no no... The engineer designs and builds a product based on feasibility with current technology and the requirements specified by the product manager, but marketing/sales comes back after the product is finished and tells engineering that they have already sold the new product based on a totally different set of requirements and that they have to deliver the product based on the new set of requirements... At least that's how it worked at Sun...
This is EXACTLY the right response. Trying to push all the little conditions on web sites in other countries is irrational (just like the US tries to do with gambling.) This needs to be done at the Canadian ISP level. Of course no matter WHAT "solution" is mandated, it can be bypassed with redirectors / proxies.
The real answer of course it to tell all the whanking whiners to STFU and come up with a valid business model for the modern world.
So the question now is, can the people buying the movie get their money back? I know that most stores will not let you return opened music / videos / software - only exchanges for the same exact thing in case of bad media.
Or if you are in an enterprise environment that requires Windows as the base (meaning "host OS",) run VMWare Workstation. Just get yourself a nice big dualcore dualcpu workstation with at least 4G of ram, and it's quite snappy!
They did? You seriously think that the people laid off won't get new jobs? Do you really think that the higher paid people will accept a new job somewhere at 1/2 what they used to make?
On your other point however, I agree. I already don't shop at CC due to the employees there (seriously bad customer service / attitude.) If CC wants people to shop there, they need to figure out how to treat customers. Frankly Bad Buy is in the same boat. I just buy my stuff online at some place with free shipping, lower prices, and no sales tax tacked on.
Not to mention that we have a "pre approved" design for cookie cutter plants now. Standardization goes a long way towards increasing safety and cutting costs. I'm all for nuclear power at this point. We just need to get over ourselves about waste storage - the NIMBYism has to stop.
ATV was created to take advantage of the pre-existing iTMS sales, and expand it. It's meant to complement the video ipod. In fact, it IS a video ipod that you don't have to dock, and a little more.
So why would you limit your myth box to only dealing with "aired" content? They are also great for storing your entire DVD collection, music, photos, and of course, DOWNLOADED CONTENT.
It would make more sense to me for the ATV to support standard def output (S-Video) as my HDTV already has a nice Myth box. Now I want to share my Myth content on other TV's in the house. At least one company also thinks it's a good idea.
I'm a "jack of all trades, master of none" and I'm well paid. That means I'm pretty much stuck in my job unless I want to take a huge paycut.
Depends. Some companies *need* the jack of all trades types. Are you really a "master of none" or perhaps you are a "master of several"... With time / age comes generally comes experience. With time, you have the ability to master several specialties. As long as you don't let your knowledge get too stale in a specialty, you can keep up technically.
I just read what I wrote, and see that it's not clear. Note that while you "can" be found liable, it's not guaranteed. It depends on the situation / intent. For example: if your underage kids vandalize someone's car, you can be held financially liable for the damage. It's not a perfect analogy, but no analogy ever is...
Why is it annoying? Get out of the 1990's and use port 587, the MSA port, instead of port 25 which should ONLY be used by servers. It's too bad that the concept of differentiating MSA / MTA came as late as it did otherwise mail clients would all be defaulting to 587 instead of 25. We enforce this internally... All DHCP desktops / notebooks are blocked from port 25 and must authenticate on port 587. No outbound port 25 except by the mail servers.
While I used to be against it ("if I pay for internet access I don't want it filtered") I'm all for outbound port 25 blocking for dynamic (dhcp) clients at this point. The sooner everyone does it, the sooner we see a significant drop in spam / virus propagation. With port 587, VPN's, proxies, and ssh tunnels (all that require authentication) available, the need for dynamic IP clients to have direct port 25 access to the world is nonexistent. Some people whine about wanting to run home mail servers, but that is already no longer viable to to blacklisting by major mail servers of dynamic IP space.
Um, people don't care about companies that don't comply with laws. They still buy from them. The proof to this is that Microsoft's market share has RISEN during the YEARS that the EU has told MS over and over to comply with the laws.
Once a company becomes a monopoly and starts breaking laws, being anticompetitive, etc., the ONLY way to resolve the problem is to break the monopoly. Split MS into two - one company that does the OS, and another for applications. Require both to open all file formats and protocols for a period of 15 years.
Another option is to REALLY hit them hard, like billion dollar fines PER DAY, revoking all their IP (copyrights and patents), etc. The million or two dollars a day fine they have now is pocket lint to Microsoft.
Hmm. That's not been my experience and doesn't mesh with my own research. They do have some lower-end models that may not be as good - the carousel style printers are a lot slower when printing color and have more to go wrong.
I recently picked up a Ricoh C410DN for $900 for my home office. 15K page toner that runs under $600 for a set (about 4 cents / page.) If you mostly print black, that toner is cheaper and only runs about 2 cents per page. No maint until 100K pages where it will cost you $350 for the kit. Yeah, it comes with 5K starter toner, but what printer doesn't come with starters? It's fast too. 10 secs FPO, and runs 26ppm color - duplexing only a little slower at 24 sides / min! The C411DN, for $250 more, does 31ppm.
Contrast that with my last Epson inkjet, which I paid $400 for, and only got about 100 pages out of before it went in the garbage can. Hey, that's only $4 / page! Considering that the ink carts were rated at 400 pages for $35 each, it works out to 35 cents per page. Of course each cleaning cycle uses about 20 pages worth of ink, and you have to run it 5 times every time you print (yes, I'm kidding a little, but not by much,) it's closer to 50 cents.
Why did I throw the epson in the garbage? I couldn't clean the permanent head that you can't clean without disassembling the printer (a multi-hour job.) I called support and they wouldn't talk to me claiming the printer was out of warranty, unless I wanted to pay $25...
Even cheap ink refills can't touch the 4 cents per page laser cost, and definitely can't touch the speed. Quality? Well, if you can get the inkjet to print without banding, then yes the inkjet is better for photos. Inkjets still suck for text however which is 95% of my needs. The other 4.99% of the time I need business color (web pages, charts, etc.) Photos are only 0.01% of my printing. After going through every major brand of inkjet over the past 10 years, I just won't buy another inkjet - EVER.
I wouldn't call the Ricoh a photo printer, but at 1200x1200 it's better than inkjet's were just a few years ago, so the output is nice enough. If I want true photo quality, I use my little thermal transfer kodak 4x6 printer, or upload them to a photo site. It also has true Postscript / PCL support, and works with all OS's with no special drivers (although the drivers give you access to advanced features.)
As for your HP, the only thing the 5550 has over the ricoh is 11x17 support (my office has a 5550 too.) The Ricoh beats the HP hands down in all other areas. IMHO, HP printers are overpriced (base unit and supplies.)
Where did I ask for CODE? I asked for DOCS. CODE != DOCS.
It's up to the device manufacturers to work with their vendors that they work with to ensure that documentation for subcomponents is available if needed in order to write a driver. They should make the subcomponent vendor aware that they can't use their parts unless this information is made available to third party developers. The VALUE of the part is less without documentation as it makes the hardware less compatible.
The fact is, in days gone past we USED to be able to get all the technical docs we wanted. IBM even used to release the source code to their BIOS. I've already debunked the "trade secret" red herring in another post.
Frankly, that's total bullshit and you know it. Developers have been asking politely for years, and the problem has gotten WORSE, not better. It used to be that you could get technical programming docs for damn near EVERYTHING. Now it's the other way around where it's nearly impossible to get technical docs for ANYTHING. Manufacturers that used to cooperate are no longer doing so. It has NOTHING to do with user attitude and ALL to do with manufacturers wanting to keep data secret from competitors (which is short sighted, as their competitors have the know how to reverse engineer if they wish), and thinking that it's too costly to maintain public documents. It is also an attitude that everyone uses windows, and therefore releasing docs serves no purpose.
I also agree, but there are open source 2D drivers for nvidia... True, they aren't nearly as complete, but for basic stuff they work fine.
I really don't want DRIVERS from ATI or NVidia though, I want DOCS. We hear all sorts of whining about proprietary secret data, blah blah blah, but I DON'T CARE. If you want to sell me a fucking device, release the damn docs already. This goes for all the winmodems, winprinters, winscanners, wincameras, winwifi cards, winethernet, winsound cards, winkeyboards, winmice, winharddrive controllers too!!! I'm not buying WINDOWS hardware, I'm buying COMPUTER hardware. I want to be able to use it with ANY operating system. There is nothing so damn secret about how to program your device that would put you at a competitive disadvantage if everyone is releasing information. And if there really is? Tough shit. That is the price of being in the business.
Hah! With Linux, it's so much easier. I just don't give them a login for the system at all! Those pesky users just get to look at a pristine monitor and keyboard, but are not allowed to touch... Can't have them fucking up my nice clean install now can I?
using CE to disrupt Palm and limit that avenue of attack on Windows
Palm had no intention of ever encroaching on Windows. They were after the mobile market. What has all-but destroyed Palm in the market is their own self-mutilation. They forgot that the OS was important, and therefor it basically hasn't changed from the point it was at 10 years ago. Let's spin it off, no, let's buy it back... If they were serious about remaining in the market, they would have had a multi-tasking version of PalmOS by now... Where is the investment in improving their product?
The Nokia N800 platform is looking good about now...
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Except that they have corporate lawyers on staff that deal with "annoying" lawsuits like this without really costing them anything. It will cost you 50K - 100K to start unless you are lucky enough to find a very good lawyer (and they will need to be good to go up against Verizon) that is willing to do it on spec. You KNOW the FTC and other government agencies are not going to come to your aid, right???
No no no... The engineer designs and builds a product based on feasibility with current technology and the requirements specified by the product manager, but marketing/sales comes back after the product is finished and tells engineering that they have already sold the new product based on a totally different set of requirements and that they have to deliver the product based on the new set of requirements... At least that's how it worked at Sun...
This is EXACTLY the right response. Trying to push all the little conditions on web sites in other countries is irrational (just like the US tries to do with gambling.) This needs to be done at the Canadian ISP level. Of course no matter WHAT "solution" is mandated, it can be bypassed with redirectors / proxies.
The real answer of course it to tell all the whanking whiners to STFU and come up with a valid business model for the modern world.
So the question now is, can the people buying the movie get their money back? I know that most stores will not let you return opened music / videos / software - only exchanges for the same exact thing in case of bad media.
Trying to RTFA, but dark gray text on a black background?!?!? Why stop there? Why not #010101 on #000000?
Oh, and the site is now dead.
Since you left, please tell us the name so we can all sell it short :-)
Windows is plenty stable running one thing at a time. That one thing should be VMWare. :-)
Or if you are in an enterprise environment that requires Windows as the base (meaning "host OS",) run VMWare Workstation. Just get yourself a nice big dualcore dualcpu workstation with at least 4G of ram, and it's quite snappy!
They did? You seriously think that the people laid off won't get new jobs? Do you really think that the higher paid people will accept a new job somewhere at 1/2 what they used to make?
On your other point however, I agree. I already don't shop at CC due to the employees there (seriously bad customer service / attitude.) If CC wants people to shop there, they need to figure out how to treat customers. Frankly Bad Buy is in the same boat. I just buy my stuff online at some place with free shipping, lower prices, and no sales tax tacked on.
Not to mention that we have a "pre approved" design for cookie cutter plants now. Standardization goes a long way towards increasing safety and cutting costs. I'm all for nuclear power at this point. We just need to get over ourselves about waste storage - the NIMBYism has to stop.
ATV was created to take advantage of the pre-existing iTMS sales, and expand it. It's meant to complement the video ipod. In fact, it IS a video ipod that you don't have to dock, and a little more.
So why would you limit your myth box to only dealing with "aired" content? They are also great for storing your entire DVD collection, music, photos, and of course, DOWNLOADED CONTENT.
It would make more sense to me for the ATV to support standard def output (S-Video) as my HDTV already has a nice Myth box. Now I want to share my Myth content on other TV's in the house. At least one company also thinks it's a good idea.
I'm a "jack of all trades, master of none" and I'm well paid. That means I'm pretty much stuck in my job unless I want to take a huge paycut.
Depends. Some companies *need* the jack of all trades types. Are you really a "master of none" or perhaps you are a "master of several"... With time / age comes generally comes experience. With time, you have the ability to master several specialties. As long as you don't let your knowledge get too stale in a specialty, you can keep up technically.
I just read what I wrote, and see that it's not clear. Note that while you "can" be found liable, it's not guaranteed. It depends on the situation / intent. For example: if your underage kids vandalize someone's car, you can be held financially liable for the damage. It's not a perfect analogy, but no analogy ever is...
If you cause someone financial harm you can be found liable too.
Why is it annoying? Get out of the 1990's and use port 587, the MSA port, instead of port 25 which should ONLY be used by servers. It's too bad that the concept of differentiating MSA / MTA came as late as it did otherwise mail clients would all be defaulting to 587 instead of 25. We enforce this internally... All DHCP desktops / notebooks are blocked from port 25 and must authenticate on port 587. No outbound port 25 except by the mail servers.
While I used to be against it ("if I pay for internet access I don't want it filtered") I'm all for outbound port 25 blocking for dynamic (dhcp) clients at this point. The sooner everyone does it, the sooner we see a significant drop in spam / virus propagation. With port 587, VPN's, proxies, and ssh tunnels (all that require authentication) available, the need for dynamic IP clients to have direct port 25 access to the world is nonexistent. Some people whine about wanting to run home mail servers, but that is already no longer viable to to blacklisting by major mail servers of dynamic IP space.
Um, people don't care about companies that don't comply with laws. They still buy from them. The proof to this is that Microsoft's market share has RISEN during the YEARS that the EU has told MS over and over to comply with the laws.
Once a company becomes a monopoly and starts breaking laws, being anticompetitive, etc., the ONLY way to resolve the problem is to break the monopoly. Split MS into two - one company that does the OS, and another for applications. Require both to open all file formats and protocols for a period of 15 years.
Another option is to REALLY hit them hard, like billion dollar fines PER DAY, revoking all their IP (copyrights and patents), etc. The million or two dollars a day fine they have now is pocket lint to Microsoft.
Hmm. That's not been my experience and doesn't mesh with my own research. They do have some lower-end models that may not be as good - the carousel style printers are a lot slower when printing color and have more to go wrong.
I recently picked up a Ricoh C410DN for $900 for my home office. 15K page toner that runs under $600 for a set (about 4 cents / page.) If you mostly print black, that toner is cheaper and only runs about 2 cents per page. No maint until 100K pages where it will cost you $350 for the kit. Yeah, it comes with 5K starter toner, but what printer doesn't come with starters? It's fast too. 10 secs FPO, and runs 26ppm color - duplexing only a little slower at 24 sides / min! The C411DN, for $250 more, does 31ppm.
Contrast that with my last Epson inkjet, which I paid $400 for, and only got about 100 pages out of before it went in the garbage can. Hey, that's only $4 / page! Considering that the ink carts were rated at 400 pages for $35 each, it works out to 35 cents per page. Of course each cleaning cycle uses about 20 pages worth of ink, and you have to run it 5 times every time you print (yes, I'm kidding a little, but not by much,) it's closer to 50 cents.
Why did I throw the epson in the garbage? I couldn't clean the permanent head that you can't clean without disassembling the printer (a multi-hour job.) I called support and they wouldn't talk to me claiming the printer was out of warranty, unless I wanted to pay $25...
Even cheap ink refills can't touch the 4 cents per page laser cost, and definitely can't touch the speed. Quality? Well, if you can get the inkjet to print without banding, then yes the inkjet is better for photos. Inkjets still suck for text however which is 95% of my needs. The other 4.99% of the time I need business color (web pages, charts, etc.) Photos are only 0.01% of my printing. After going through every major brand of inkjet over the past 10 years, I just won't buy another inkjet - EVER.
I wouldn't call the Ricoh a photo printer, but at 1200x1200 it's better than inkjet's were just a few years ago, so the output is nice enough. If I want true photo quality, I use my little thermal transfer kodak 4x6 printer, or upload them to a photo site. It also has true Postscript / PCL support, and works with all OS's with no special drivers (although the drivers give you access to advanced features.)
As for your HP, the only thing the 5550 has over the ricoh is 11x17 support (my office has a 5550 too.) The Ricoh beats the HP hands down in all other areas. IMHO, HP printers are overpriced (base unit and supplies.)
Where did I ask for CODE? I asked for DOCS. CODE != DOCS.
It's up to the device manufacturers to work with their vendors that they work with to ensure that documentation for subcomponents is available if needed in order to write a driver. They should make the subcomponent vendor aware that they can't use their parts unless this information is made available to third party developers. The VALUE of the part is less without documentation as it makes the hardware less compatible.
The fact is, in days gone past we USED to be able to get all the technical docs we wanted. IBM even used to release the source code to their BIOS. I've already debunked the "trade secret" red herring in another post.
Frankly, that's total bullshit and you know it. Developers have been asking politely for years, and the problem has gotten WORSE, not better. It used to be that you could get technical programming docs for damn near EVERYTHING. Now it's the other way around where it's nearly impossible to get technical docs for ANYTHING. Manufacturers that used to cooperate are no longer doing so. It has NOTHING to do with user attitude and ALL to do with manufacturers wanting to keep data secret from competitors (which is short sighted, as their competitors have the know how to reverse engineer if they wish), and thinking that it's too costly to maintain public documents. It is also an attitude that everyone uses windows, and therefore releasing docs serves no purpose.
I also agree, but there are open source 2D drivers for nvidia... True, they aren't nearly as complete, but for basic stuff they work fine.
I really don't want DRIVERS from ATI or NVidia though, I want DOCS. We hear all sorts of whining about proprietary secret data, blah blah blah, but I DON'T CARE. If you want to sell me a fucking device, release the damn docs already. This goes for all the winmodems, winprinters, winscanners, wincameras, winwifi cards, winethernet, winsound cards, winkeyboards, winmice, winharddrive controllers too!!! I'm not buying WINDOWS hardware, I'm buying COMPUTER hardware. I want to be able to use it with ANY operating system. There is nothing so damn secret about how to program your device that would put you at a competitive disadvantage if everyone is releasing information. And if there really is? Tough shit. That is the price of being in the business.
Hah! With Linux, it's so much easier. I just don't give them a login for the system at all! Those pesky users just get to look at a pristine monitor and keyboard, but are not allowed to touch... Can't have them fucking up my nice clean install now can I?
Muahahaha!
I agree for the most part...
using CE to disrupt Palm and limit that avenue of attack on Windows
Palm had no intention of ever encroaching on Windows. They were after the mobile market. What has all-but destroyed Palm in the market is their own self-mutilation. They forgot that the OS was important, and therefor it basically hasn't changed from the point it was at 10 years ago. Let's spin it off, no, let's buy it back... If they were serious about remaining in the market, they would have had a multi-tasking version of PalmOS by now... Where is the investment in improving their product?
The Nokia N800 platform is looking good about now...