IANAL: There is a thing called tortius interference in (at least American) law, which has to do with a third party facilitating the violation of a contract. So, that's probably at least one line of legal thinking that MS is going take in the case.
Looks like I need to add another quote to my long standing list of jack-assery from Dvorak:
1998 Folks, the Mac platform is through - totally. 1990 I think Windows 3.0 will get a lot of attention; people will check it out, and before long they'll all drift back to... DOS. 1986 UNIX is dead, but no one bothered to claim the body. 1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John Dvorak
I am uninformed by current statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if Cobol is still the defacto standard for enterprise application by many measure that matter (codebase size, installed base, executions per second, users per second etc)
Developers per second may go to sexier technologies.
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The annoying thing about American Airline's reponse is that cell phones aren't really the danger. Airlines have to ask you to turn off all wireless devices so that numskulls don't bring ham radios on-board and use them ("Uh sorry, I thought it was a cell phone). Cell phones don't interfere with airplane radios. Proof of that was when my boss gave me a ride in his corporate jet (whoopee!). Those pilots couldn't care less what we did with our cell phones, since they knew that all we had were plain old telephones.
On the other hand, we didn't have to buckle up either.
My advice is to just use the dang thing, and tell the flight crew that it's a PDA not a phone. Safety's not the issue, it's liability (as usual).
I don't read daily Newspapers because I can't get the news I want in a format that I like. I read the Guardian Weekly, a weekly news digest out of the UK, as the ratio of ads and fluff to news is acceptable. I hate flipping through the front section of a paper and finding maybe one article of interest, interspersed with ads and whatnot. I'm willing to pay the relatively high cost of the Guardian Weekly to avoid this problem.
Also, I read a lot of editoral mags like The Nation and Science News, as these help me similarly to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The daily newspaper will only compete when it's concise and relevant. Personally I prefer to have a weekly summary to a lot of blather daily. If I want that I can just hop on the Internet any old time.
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IANAL: There is a thing called tortius interference in (at least American) law, which has to do with a third party facilitating the violation of a contract. So, that's probably at least one line of legal thinking that MS is going take in the case.
Looks like I need to add another quote to my long standing list of jack-assery from Dvorak:
1998 Folks, the Mac platform is through - totally.
1990 I think Windows 3.0 will get a lot of attention; people will check it out, and before long they'll all drift back to... DOS.
1986 UNIX is dead, but no one bothered to claim the body.
1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John Dvorak
Fair enough, but my worst-case math (everything stored in plaintext ascii, no compression) shows:
40,000,000 cards
16 acct digits per card
4 date digits per card
3 security digits per card
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7.1526 gig of data
If you use any compression or if the data were stored in a more efficient manner than ascii, the size drops dramatically.
Even a full 7.1 gig can go down a DS3 in ~25 minutes. Even T1 takes less than 12 hours (read: start at 6pm finish at 6am).
I am uninformed by current statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if Cobol is still the defacto standard for enterprise application by many measure that matter (codebase size, installed base, executions per second, users per second etc)
Developers per second may go to sexier technologies.
The annoying thing about American Airline's reponse is that cell phones aren't really the danger. Airlines have to ask you to turn off all wireless devices so that numskulls don't bring ham radios on-board and use them ("Uh sorry, I thought it was a cell phone). Cell phones don't interfere with airplane radios. Proof of that was when my boss gave me a ride in his corporate jet (whoopee!). Those pilots couldn't care less what we did with our cell phones, since they knew that all we had were plain old telephones.
On the other hand, we didn't have to buckle up either.
My advice is to just use the dang thing, and tell the flight crew that it's a PDA not a phone. Safety's not the issue, it's liability (as usual).
I don't read daily Newspapers because I can't get the news I want in a format that I like. I read the Guardian Weekly, a weekly news digest out of the UK, as the ratio of ads and fluff to news is acceptable. I hate flipping through the front section of a paper and finding maybe one article of interest, interspersed with ads and whatnot. I'm willing to pay the relatively high cost of the Guardian Weekly to avoid this problem.
Also, I read a lot of editoral mags like The Nation and Science News, as these help me similarly to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The daily newspaper will only compete when it's concise and relevant. Personally I prefer to have a weekly summary to a lot of blather daily. If I want that I can just hop on the Internet any old time.
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