Not only that, but wouldn't you want to watch what your competitor is beating you on and try to improve on it?
Of course, in Microsoft's world, this means copying the and shoving it down people's throats and claiming its yours (anyone seen longhorn shots?! looks kinda like brushed steel look of apple's eh?!).
I find it kind of obsurd they fired the guy though. Industry standard practice to keep your eyes open to your competitors.
how people who spend hours and hours working on a machine to make it pur like a kitten and run at its peak efficiency can eat garbage, fatty, high-carb food. and on top of it, not exercise.
WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR BODY, IS EQUIVALENT TO WHAT YOU GET OUT!
It's like putting a 486SX with 8MB RAM in a cluster of decent machines and expecting it to do the same amount of work. I doesn't happen.
Lots of water, vitamins, no fatty foods, moderate exercise = better quality of life, self-esteem, etc.
And speaking as someone who has lost 40 lbs. in the last year, I can attest to that.
All your reasons rely on the ignorance of the subject matter.
If they knew anything, do you think they would use Windows & Windows Apps?
I'm a VP of a company and we have ZERO Windows servers. We use outlook in certain departments and Evolution in others. I'm not going to have my company pay a Microsoft fee for anything.
As far as patches, twice daily all my *nix machines are updated with the latest versions of whatever is important.
Simply put, just because the business world knows NOTHING about computers, doesn't mean its good to stick to Windows.
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...virus comes out. exploits the software you use. patch from microsoft is released. terms include installing DRM. you don't notice it. you now have DRM installed....or......virus comes out. exploits the software you use. patch from microsoft is released. you install it. your stuff doesn't work so great anymore. microsoft sends you a sales guy saying you really need to upgrade to the latest greatest os and office suite and utilities.
either way, do you really want your business to be 100% static in what they use? because 1 day, believe it or not, something else will be needed of the employees.
From my favorite artists, yeah, I'd be willing to pay a bit more than $10 for a tangible instance of their old work in order to support their future work; but from an unknown (like you), where there's no emotional connection between us and where there's already an abundance of other art to choose from, the price point would be a bit less.
For the first DVD, I would give it out to key people. Free as in beer. They don't have the right to modify and resell it. They do have the right to put it on their computer, put on an Ogg CD, etc. etc. But not to freely distribute the ENTIRE work. I will have samples of all my stuff online (around 1/2 my work).
Another major factor, for me, would be under what license your art released. If you RESERVED ALL RIGHTS(C)(R)(TM)(!!!), then, well, eh, I'm more likely to pass than if you allowed others to conditionally redistribute and incorporate it into their own works.
I have no problem people conditionally giving it out to others. But not in its entirity in an exact copy. As far as incorporating it into their own works I'm a lot more against that. I'd rather people be inspired by it than use it to copy + paste.
Look for independent (sometimes local) artists. Not just for music, but also for art, and multimedia (combination of the 2).
Personally, I'm a photographer, pixel artist, and a musician (piano, guitar, bass, sing, blah blah blah). I'm about 5 weeks from the release of my DVD (containing all my previous art and music in the form of a motion picture). This is the first DVD like this for me and I'm not sure if others do the same thing or not, but I'm going to have around 300-500 pressed and give them out to key people.
Instead of following the droves of musicians and artists going the traditional route, I'm making my own route.
Question for the masses here...Would you purchase a DVD from your favorite local artist for $10? (Such as the one I'm working on now)
MPAA is on its way out just like the RIAA and SCO. The last gasps of a company are usually harsh and misguided. Its unfortunate our government is so easily bought, though. If they weren't, these last gasps wouldn't be so easily distributed.
my phone is a private phone number. I didn't give these people to harvest my telephone number and call me unsolicited all the time. you may view your phone number as a public spot in the open but mine isn't. its in my home and i use it for personal use.
It basically boils down to what I've been screaming for years now: I'M A CITIZEN! NOT A CONSUMER!
truly this binary beast has revolutionized information in any form (audio, video, text, etc.) in EVERY WAY. It has even changed and obseleted many business models and created even many more.
I, for one, would lose a LOT if I lost my internet access. Communications to family, my artwork, my music (created and downloaded), library of technical information, cultural exposure (there's not much here in the scrubs of FL)...
most of all... the Internet has given Al Gore something to be proud of! [/sarcasm]
Trust me, if I could get everyone running debian, bsd, redhat, mandrake, etc., I would definitely do so. Point being roughly 7-8% of the customers are non-windows. And split all those up between Apple and Linux/Unix derivatives.
Point being, my boss like the 92-93% of income coming from the windows users.
Why would my residential customers need those 2 open? So they could get features from a hosting/commercial account for free?
I didn't mention before but only our residential customers are put on the ACL's. Commercial accounts are usually more responsible about virus protection and may use the ports.
If its a residential customer who just happens to have services running, and they call and complain, thats the better for me. They weren't paying for something they were using anyways.
The commercial accounts we have setup do not get affected like the residential accounts. And if anyone called and complained, I set them up on a static IP (free), then removed the block from their IP address.
I even had some people I had to unblock 135 on. They were some local realtors running some colaborating software.
Unfortunately for me (and my company), we have to pay for bandwidth. If all ISP's would have blocked this port, the worms would have stopped dead in its tracks (this eliminating a LOT of traffic).
ISP's such as Earthlink are setup to be in bed with Telcos (Sprint in Earthlink's case) where they do not pay for bandwidth. They don't care to spend the time working on ACL's and conserving bandwidth because they have better things to do (like send people CD's in the mail).
My company is not setup as a CLEC or have the partner of a Telco. Therefore, less bandwidth expended = less cash expended. To my boss, cash = good.
And besides the cash factor, my users' actions on the net affect everyone (speedwise). Nobody likes to have their access slowed down to nothing because the latest windows worm is running rampant (yes I do know it did happen to some point but it would have been worse).
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Not only that, but wouldn't you want to watch what your competitor is beating you on and try to improve on it?
Of course, in Microsoft's world, this means copying the and shoving it down people's throats and claiming its yours (anyone seen longhorn shots?! looks kinda like brushed steel look of apple's eh?!).
I find it kind of obsurd they fired the guy though. Industry standard practice to keep your eyes open to your competitors.
how people who spend hours and hours working on a machine to make it pur like a kitten and run at its peak efficiency can eat garbage, fatty, high-carb food. and on top of it, not exercise.
WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR BODY, IS EQUIVALENT TO WHAT YOU GET OUT!
It's like putting a 486SX with 8MB RAM in a cluster of decent machines and expecting it to do the same amount of work. I doesn't happen.
Lots of water, vitamins, no fatty foods, moderate exercise = better quality of life, self-esteem, etc.
And speaking as someone who has lost 40 lbs. in the last year, I can attest to that.
yes, but you would then have to assume that SCO had a case
before an iPod adapter for this? Kinda like the Siruis boombox.
Seems like a hell of a digital hub product. As long as there are no ads and same price (or cheaper) for the iTunes music store, I see this doing well.
But then again... I'm not very good at holding my breath.
All your reasons rely on the ignorance of the subject matter.
If they knew anything, do you think they would use Windows & Windows Apps?
I'm a VP of a company and we have ZERO Windows servers. We use outlook in certain departments and Evolution in others. I'm not going to have my company pay a Microsoft fee for anything.
As far as patches, twice daily all my *nix machines are updated with the latest versions of whatever is important.
Simply put, just because the business world knows NOTHING about computers, doesn't mean its good to stick to Windows.
its called THE STORY
what now people don't even know there is an A to RTFA!?
A Gaming Web-Server Station Survive the Slashdot Effect 'omatic.
...ran out of SCO stories :(
* sigh *
But it's all okay to post a story for all the PC zealots?
What? Apple STILL hasn't ported humor to OS X?! It was a joke. I own a G4 Cube and an iMac, so I can make jokes.
...you'll wake the Mac zealots!
...virus comes out. exploits the software you use. patch from microsoft is released. terms include installing DRM. you don't notice it. you now have DRM installed. ...or... ...virus comes out. exploits the software you use. patch from microsoft is released. you install it. your stuff doesn't work so great anymore. microsoft sends you a sales guy saying you really need to upgrade to the latest greatest os and office suite and utilities.
either way, do you really want your business to be 100% static in what they use? because 1 day, believe it or not, something else will be needed of the employees.
Basically what I meant was I don't mind them giving away the same content that I give away myself (like I said, around 1/2 of my work).
From my favorite artists, yeah, I'd be willing to pay a bit more than $10 for a tangible instance of their old work in order to support their future work; but from an unknown (like you), where there's no emotional connection between us and where there's already an abundance of other art to choose from, the price point would be a bit less.
For the first DVD, I would give it out to key people. Free as in beer. They don't have the right to modify and resell it. They do have the right to put it on their computer, put on an Ogg CD, etc. etc. But not to freely distribute the ENTIRE work. I will have samples of all my stuff online (around 1/2 my work).
Another major factor, for me, would be under what license your art released. If you RESERVED ALL RIGHTS(C)(R)(TM)(!!!), then, well, eh, I'm more likely to pass than if you allowed others to conditionally redistribute and incorporate it into their own works.
I have no problem people conditionally giving it out to others. But not in its entirity in an exact copy. As far as incorporating it into their own works I'm a lot more against that. I'd rather people be inspired by it than use it to copy + paste.
I agree.
Look for independent (sometimes local) artists. Not just for music, but also for art, and multimedia (combination of the 2).
Personally, I'm a photographer, pixel artist, and a musician (piano, guitar, bass, sing, blah blah blah). I'm about 5 weeks from the release of my DVD (containing all my previous art and music in the form of a motion picture). This is the first DVD like this for me and I'm not sure if others do the same thing or not, but I'm going to have around 300-500 pressed and give them out to key people.
Instead of following the droves of musicians and artists going the traditional route, I'm making my own route.
Question for the masses here...Would you purchase a DVD from your favorite local artist for $10? (Such as the one I'm working on now)
MPAA is on its way out just like the RIAA and SCO. The last gasps of a company are usually harsh and misguided. Its unfortunate our government is so easily bought, though. If they weren't, these last gasps wouldn't be so easily distributed.
my phone is a private phone number. I didn't give these people to harvest my telephone number and call me unsolicited all the time. you may view your phone number as a public spot in the open but mine isn't. its in my home and i use it for personal use.
It basically boils down to what I've been screaming for years now:
I'M A CITIZEN! NOT A CONSUMER!
The government seems to have forgotten that.
If it takes 5 minutes to do it, and can be reversed in less than that, and its fun to do, then sign me up.
or small towns in the northwest sold on ebay...
truly this binary beast has revolutionized information in any form (audio, video, text, etc.) in EVERY WAY. It has even changed and obseleted many business models and created even many more.
I, for one, would lose a LOT if I lost my internet access. Communications to family, my artwork, my music (created and downloaded), library of technical information, cultural exposure (there's not much here in the scrubs of FL)...
most of all... the Internet has given Al Gore something to be proud of! [/sarcasm]
You're in luck. I think "Anything to keep money in my pocket" is the Bush campaign slogan for '04.
Yeah the only problem is, this was voted by the House of Rep. Bush hasn't seen the proposal yet.
any employee that sets up a server on an iMac will be asked to turn in their favorite red stapler.
Trust me, if I could get everyone running debian, bsd, redhat, mandrake, etc., I would definitely do so. Point being roughly 7-8% of the customers are non-windows. And split all those up between Apple and Linux/Unix derivatives.
Point being, my boss like the 92-93% of income coming from the windows users.
Why would my residential customers need those 2 open? So they could get features from a hosting/commercial account for free?
I didn't mention before but only our residential customers are put on the ACL's. Commercial accounts are usually more responsible about virus protection and may use the ports.
If its a residential customer who just happens to have services running, and they call and complain, thats the better for me. They weren't paying for something they were using anyways.
Yes. I'm also part of the team who gets the users' machines patched and updated and aware of the issue.
The commercial accounts we have setup do not get affected like the residential accounts. And if anyone called and complained, I set them up on a static IP (free), then removed the block from their IP address.
I even had some people I had to unblock 135 on. They were some local realtors running some colaborating software.
There are always exceptions to the rule.
Unfortunately for me (and my company), we have to pay for bandwidth. If all ISP's would have blocked this port, the worms would have stopped dead in its tracks (this eliminating a LOT of traffic).
ISP's such as Earthlink are setup to be in bed with Telcos (Sprint in Earthlink's case) where they do not pay for bandwidth. They don't care to spend the time working on ACL's and conserving bandwidth because they have better things to do (like send people CD's in the mail).
My company is not setup as a CLEC or have the partner of a Telco. Therefore, less bandwidth expended = less cash expended. To my boss, cash = good.
And besides the cash factor, my users' actions on the net affect everyone (speedwise). Nobody likes to have their access slowed down to nothing because the latest windows worm is running rampant (yes I do know it did happen to some point but it would have been worse).
If you're running a plan with hosting included, then they should not block it.
I'm guessing you're not but you want the benefits of such, correct?
Why should you get something you didn't pay for (and yes I see both sides of the arguement)?