What I am really wondering is: is there at the current moment ANY company/application/whatever that required this amount of storage?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) basically need as much storage space as they can get - the more room there is, the higher precision the maps can be, and the more extra dimensions can be included. (like rainfall, soil acidity, etc.)
I'd hate to have to come up with a backup strategy for these babies, though...
If you just walked into your normal everyday porn shop, you would be a customer.
But if you came to this house, out of the blue, and just let yourself in, you would be a tresspasser. Because their customers don't visit the physical premises.
That's why the court decided that Voyeur Dorm wasn't violating the community's "decency"-related zoning rules - they don't draw unsavory customers into the neighborhood, as part of their regular business operations.
go into "a software field with deep structure and long-term challenges...
For some reason, when I first read that, I mis-read it as a softball field, and got really confused. I mean, structures on a softball field are _dangerous_...
True democracy cannot exist unless it is a) localized, with each community receiving the autonomy to make the decisions that affect their livelihood,
Like, when a state (or a town) decides that homosexual sex is criminal, or that the schools should stay segregated? There shouldn't be an overarching court system to strike down offensive local legislation?
b) pervasive, so that the vote is carried into every part of society, whether organization, production, education, etc.,
Well, causality in the legal sense, at least. They have to do this to avoid a lawsuit.
If you run a mine/factory/mad scientist HQ, and you pollute the environment, and a disproportionate number of people in the area start dying of cancer, it's next to impossible to prove conclusively in a court of law that the pollution caused the cancer.
If, on the other hand, something that you put in orbit falls out of orbit, crashes into a building, and kills a number of people, the legal chain of causality is much shorter.
Granted, a company that's going bankrupt doesn't exactly have a lot to lose (assuming nobody buys it). But I believe that, if death and injury is involved, it's also possible to hold the company execs personally liable. So they have to have a "crash and burn" plan to cover their asses.
If this happened, I wonder exactly how long it would take the Seattle media to turn on Microsoft. They've been very easy on them in the past, but who knows what kind of dirt the local (or formerly local) news hounds can dig up...
I'm also seeing all sorts of new questions and restrictions at border crossings. ("Any software to declare?") Anyone entering Washington from Canada with a laptop would have to submit to a full hard-drive search.
"Would the last Microsoft employee out of Redmond please turn out the lights."
This reminds me of Compaq's Linux trial program, where you can log in to a remote machine, to try out linux on an Alpha, or whatever. Now people can try out the Gimp, with pretty much no up-front cost.
Could this be a viable Open Source evangelism approach, to offer free-access, web-based versions of popular programs? I wonder how Evolution would do as the back-end for a web-based mail service...
Lower stock price, shrinking talent pool.
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If the stock price keeps dropping, how long until Microsoft starts hemorrhaging talent?
Since stock options make up a significant part of most Microsoft employees' compensation, a dropping stock price, coupled with the anti-trust decision, could be a crippling blow for the company. They could lose their best and brightest employees to companies with better compensation plans, be forced to give up market share, and have no realistic way to get the market share back.
Do you seriously think a website that is going to have serious problems breaking even is worth $250K?
Well, let's see, according to the Amazon model, the more money you're losing, the more valuable your company is. Therefore, the more trouble they have breaking even, the higher their price, right?
No one running a website today is doing it for current profits, they're doing it for growth and future profits. Looking at today's bottom line for a site valuation just doesn't make sense.
Has your ad revenue been static at $20,000 a year for a while now? (Like, say, annualized for each month over the last 12 months.)
Odds are, you're experiencing some growth, and, assuming you're going to keep putting work into the site, you'll probably keep seeing growth in ad revenue and page views. You should be sure to take projected revenues into account, along with your current revenues. (If you think of your asking price based on your projected revenues, it may not seem like such a high multiple anymore.)
If you're serious about your website, you're probably in it primarily for the growth potential, not to merely maintain your current revenue stream. Your asking price should reflect that.
Down at the bottom, it says "The seven-page 'assignment agreement'... gives Mattel 'all rights' to the program's source code and binaries and an explanatory essay he wrote."
I know next to nothing about the recording industry, but don't they have to spend a lot of money, in the current system, on bands that don't end up being popular enough? Don't the flops (commercially speaking) drive up the cost of CDs in general?
If so, then it seems like one solution is for the recording companies to develop lower-cost distribution and promotion systems for less-popular bands. Mp3s seem like an ideal approach - the record company, or the band, sets up an official website for the band, where users can download mp3s of their latest songs, with links for purchasing "hard-media" copies of the music, when those become available. (If you're recording specifically for mp3 distribution, would you need as expensive a studio setup?) As the band becomes more popular, the record company could shift to higher-powered, old-fashioned methods of distribution and promoting, with a much higher chance of commercial return.
Does this code leak help the Samba team in any way? Seems like any inside peek into Windows code would be a great help in the reverse-engineering that they're doing. Do Win2000 systems have any interaction with Domain Controllers, that would show up in the code?
If Peacefire was able to figure this out so easily, even after having to decrypt the URL data, why isn't Symantec doing exactly the same thing, as a form of quality control? How hard could it possibly be for them to do this?
And, if Peacefire had numbers like "76% of.edu blocks are incorrect", why doesn't Symantec respond by questioning their methodology, or providing statistics of their own about precision and recall in their filtering software?
Either they have the data, and would rather resort to lawsuits instead of defending their product, or they don't even bother to do the most basic quality control on their product. Either way, that's a really friggin' lazy corporation.
The most important question here, of course, is how this win2k feature can be used to greatest/silliest effect in an Outlook virus:
When comparing files, the SIS will treat the strings "Microsoft" and "hot grits" as identical.
When saving duplicate data in the common store, 10 backup copies will be made, reducing the 80 to 90% savings to, say, -40%.
When saving data, any occurrence of the string "Micro" will be converted to "hot". Likewise, "soft" to "grits". (Yeah, like you didn't see that one coming from a mile away.)
Before saving any data to the common store, it will first be read aloud, using Microsoft's innovative text-to-speech engine. Of course, the system may lock up until the data transfer is complete...
Three words: "Reboot to continue."
SIS will automagically monitor your hard drive performance, identify the sectors most likely to experience imminent hardware failure, and put the common data store there.
Rather than risk data corruption on a local hard drive, the common data store will be kept on the net someplace, on an old retrofitted Mac 512 that's only up three hours a day. The system may lock up while waiting to write to remote disk.
Check out this article on Fast Company about taxing the Internet, and why they think it'll never happen. The author's claim is that the new reality of cyber-democracy (where, for example, Congressmen get almost instantaneous e-mail feedback from their constituents) will prevent any internet taxes from happening.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hello, Slashdot? This is the Mozilla QA team. Um, can we have 500 moderator points? We, um, need to test out this bug..."
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4. Don't go berserk.
(From "Odd Job", I forget which issue)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) basically need as much storage space as they can get - the more room there is, the higher precision the maps can be, and the more extra dimensions can be included. (like rainfall, soil acidity, etc.)
I'd hate to have to come up with a backup strategy for these babies, though...
Yes.
But if you came to this house, out of the blue, and just let yourself in, you would be a tresspasser. Because their customers don't visit the physical premises.
That's why the court decided that Voyeur Dorm wasn't violating the community's "decency"-related zoning rules - they don't draw unsavory customers into the neighborhood, as part of their regular business operations.
For some reason, when I first read that, I mis-read it as a softball field, and got really confused. I mean, structures on a softball field are _dangerous_...
The Iron Chef drinking game. (Take a drink whenever someone says, "I think he's going to steam that.")
The fruity, fruity fashion history of Chairman Kaga.
All the history on prior Iron Chefs, and how the current ones came into power.
More?
I bet it's a really expensive one, too.
Like, when a state (or a town) decides that homosexual sex is criminal, or that the schools should stay segregated? There shouldn't be an overarching court system to strike down offensive local legislation?
"Etc"? Like, say, religion? Or the family?
If you run a mine/factory/mad scientist HQ, and you pollute the environment, and a disproportionate number of people in the area start dying of cancer, it's next to impossible to prove conclusively in a court of law that the pollution caused the cancer.
If, on the other hand, something that you put in orbit falls out of orbit, crashes into a building, and kills a number of people, the legal chain of causality is much shorter.
Granted, a company that's going bankrupt doesn't exactly have a lot to lose (assuming nobody buys it). But I believe that, if death and injury is involved, it's also possible to hold the company execs personally liable. So they have to have a "crash and burn" plan to cover their asses.
I'm also seeing all sorts of new questions and restrictions at border crossings. ("Any software to declare?") Anyone entering Washington from Canada with a laptop would have to submit to a full hard-drive search.
"Would the last Microsoft employee out of Redmond please turn out the lights."
Could this be a viable Open Source evangelism approach, to offer free-access, web-based versions of popular programs? I wonder how Evolution would do as the back-end for a web-based mail service...
Since stock options make up a significant part of most Microsoft employees' compensation, a dropping stock price, coupled with the anti-trust decision, could be a crippling blow for the company. They could lose their best and brightest employees to companies with better compensation plans, be forced to give up market share, and have no realistic way to get the market share back.
Well, let's see, according to the Amazon model, the more money you're losing, the more valuable your company is. Therefore, the more trouble they have breaking even, the higher their price, right?
No one running a website today is doing it for current profits, they're doing it for growth and future profits. Looking at today's bottom line for a site valuation just doesn't make sense.
Odds are, you're experiencing some growth, and, assuming you're going to keep putting work into the site, you'll probably keep seeing growth in ad revenue and page views. You should be sure to take projected revenues into account, along with your current revenues. (If you think of your asking price based on your projected revenues, it may not seem like such a high multiple anymore.)
If you're serious about your website, you're probably in it primarily for the growth potential, not to merely maintain your current revenue stream. Your asking price should reflect that.
Down at the bottom, it says "The seven-page 'assignment agreement' ... gives Mattel 'all rights' to the program's source code and binaries and an explanatory essay he wrote."
If so, then it seems like one solution is for the recording companies to develop lower-cost distribution and promotion systems for less-popular bands. Mp3s seem like an ideal approach - the record company, or the band, sets up an official website for the band, where users can download mp3s of their latest songs, with links for purchasing "hard-media" copies of the music, when those become available. (If you're recording specifically for mp3 distribution, would you need as expensive a studio setup?) As the band becomes more popular, the record company could shift to higher-powered, old-fashioned methods of distribution and promoting, with a much higher chance of commercial return.
And, if Peacefire had numbers like "76% of .edu blocks are incorrect", why doesn't Symantec respond by questioning their methodology, or providing statistics of their own about precision and recall in their filtering software?
Either they have the data, and would rather resort to lawsuits instead of defending their product, or they don't even bother to do the most basic quality control on their product. Either way, that's a really friggin' lazy corporation.
When comparing files, the SIS will treat the strings "Microsoft" and "hot grits" as identical.
When saving duplicate data in the common store, 10 backup copies will be made, reducing the 80 to 90% savings to, say, -40%.
When saving data, any occurrence of the string "Micro" will be converted to "hot". Likewise, "soft" to "grits". (Yeah, like you didn't see that one coming from a mile away.)
Before saving any data to the common store, it will first be read aloud, using Microsoft's innovative text-to-speech engine. Of course, the system may lock up until the data transfer is complete...
Three words: "Reboot to continue."
SIS will automagically monitor your hard drive performance, identify the sectors most likely to experience imminent hardware failure, and put the common data store there.
Rather than risk data corruption on a local hard drive, the common data store will be kept on the net someplace, on an old retrofitted Mac 512 that's only up three hours a day. The system may lock up while waiting to write to remote disk.
Ideas, anyone?