This is a perfect deal for the multinationals though. Globalized labor, so they don't have to pay competetive wages, and non globalized consumers, so they don't have to charge competetive prices. A win-win solution, for management at least! No wonder politician purchases are such a big chunk of GDP...
It's more to do with regulatory compliance than anything else, especially for Western Union. Any company wanting to do business in foreign countries has to worry about credit card issues, regulations surrounding payment, sales/VAT taxes, import/export regulations, prohibited items (encryption, some knives, etc), collection in case of fraud, international shipping, etc. By the time they figure out who to talk to, file all the paperwork, do the extra accounting, check each order against a foreign set of regulations, arrange shipping, etc...why bother? In general, they are only losing a handful of sales a year. When 95% of your orders come from one country, how much hassle and extra work is it worth to get each additional 0.2%?
Too late. Most of the software is from India, and it has been a long time since the US companies made much of their own hardware, now it's all in South Korea or Taiwan.
1) Astronomical 2) Depends on the state. Some of the east coast has free states nearby, some you would have to drive for yours, or 20 minutes into the projects. 3) Very few, usually it is strict at the state level.
The correlation is tough to argue either way. Most of the states had bad murder rates and enacted gun control laws to look like they were doing something. The passage of the laws doesn't seem to have budged the crime rate much in either direction. The strategies that do drop violent crime are more in line with neighborhood patrolling, more foot/bike patrols (less sense of isolation from the community being the theory), and more follow up on minor crimes hoping to catch someone either in possession of something nasty or with a warrant out on them.
It is not just the problem when it becomes organized, but politicized as well. God is now used to annoint a leader's actions to imply that they follow the will of God, not far from the divine emperor of days past.
You do realize that most leagal action is taken with the intent that it never ends up in court. You just try to make it so expensive to defend in the court case that your target settles out of court. SCO was trying to either get a hefty settlement, or get bought outright. Very seldom does an action like this happen because the attacker believes that their action has merit.
I don't think the $ bit has to do strictly with companies making a profit, but refers to companies that try to make an incredible profit at the expense of discarding even the pretense of ethics.
MS has had to preserve Apple for the primary reason that Apple has to remain viable to provide at least some argument that they don't have a complete monopoly on the desktop. The various games with software support and their investments in Apple have all been to this end.
They don't lock out 3rd party software because they can't fill every need. However, they have a history of either rendering competing products subtly incompatible, making theirs appear faster through use of undocumented API's, and happily using other nasty tactics to take over any market they decide to dominate.
The problem with licensing is that it has not worked for any computer OS manufacturer. They can push pretty far, but if they push too hard, consumers may start looking longingly at Apple, who is opening more every month. They key is keeping the desktop monopoly, a few extra bucks is not worth losing that.
I highly doubt they would implement.Net on Unix. Platform lock-in is what has kept them on top all this time. All a nix implementation would do is take a lot of _very_ expensive server and CAL sales away from them, and encourage competition, neither of which interest Microsoft in the least.
And try implementing a lot of the same things in.Net. Both of them tie you into a framework where you can write code in any language, but the underlying (virtual )machine does not use any of the language specific goodies that make them valueable.
I think I can comment very easily, with or without using it. How about: I have enterprise customers, I need to deploy on Solaris or AIX,.Net is not portable, therefore any other perceived advantages to.Net are irrelevant.
For a lot of people, there are legitimate reasons for dismissing it out of hand. It is an incredible environment for developing apps on Windows, but beyond that problem space, it is not particularly useful.
I think you have a handle on the first two reasons, but there is a third major one, cross platform portability. There are a lot of environments where you have to run your software on the platform the customer has chosen. In many shops, this means you need to run on something other than Windows. Sure, Mono is trying, but it will never do the job. C# is not the hard part, the libraries are, and by the time they finish porting them, they will already be obseleted by new versions.
I think a lot of people are nervous because they don't know what it is. How many technologies did people get excited about during the dot bomb era, only to see them fall by the wayside or get buried with a dozen other competing protocols? A lot of companies are very nervous about being early adopters now.
As to staying away from.Net because they don't like Microsoft, that is not illogical at all. It is not like not using someone's idea, using.Net means giving money to Microsoft. A lot of people are careful who they buy from, not wishing to support corporate behavior they find unethical. A second legitimate worry is the number of times MS has pushed people in one direction, only to drop the project and push something else when it doesn't sell like they think it should. This has been less of a problem in recent years, but many developers have long memories.
I think.Net is great for Windows developers, but there are a lot of legitimate reasons for devs working on projects to dismiss it entirely. The open source projects will never be allowed to catch up (MS is famous for the ever changing libraries, almost-but-not-quite standards compliance, and undocumented API's), the libraries are the important part, and lots of people don't like having a single vendor with a bad history controlling them.
The protection relevant here is not methods of making it impossible to capture the images. The issue here is the images being thumbnailed by a search engine. All that needs to be done to stop it is to add a robots.txt file to stop the engine, or more extremely put the images behind a pushbutton or such that a web spider won't deal with.
If someone uses any copyrighted content under the very limited permissable circumstances of fair use, they are not breaking any law whatsoever. This has nothing to do with business models and the rest of your whining that was completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Similar to the guy below mentioning an app in Workstation Basic, the only user I know is a company running an ancient warehouse management app written in Business Basic.
SCO Open Server is a perfect fit for apps written in Basic though...
But how can I have a social life if I have to schedule vacations and the time to have a life around the demands of work. If I can just carry my laptop with me, I can address that 15 minute problem without having to spend the whole day in the office or having to interrupt what I'm doing to find a computer.
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This is a perfect deal for the multinationals though. Globalized labor, so they don't have to pay competetive wages, and non globalized consumers, so they don't have to charge competetive prices. A win-win solution, for management at least! No wonder politician purchases are such a big chunk of GDP...
Wow, exchange rates sure have changed since I was a kid...ouch. I stand humbly corrected.
It's more to do with regulatory compliance than anything else, especially for Western Union. Any company wanting to do business in foreign countries has to worry about credit card issues, regulations surrounding payment, sales/VAT taxes, import/export regulations, prohibited items (encryption, some knives, etc), collection in case of fraud, international shipping, etc. By the time they figure out who to talk to, file all the paperwork, do the extra accounting, check each order against a foreign set of regulations, arrange shipping, etc...why bother? In general, they are only losing a handful of sales a year. When 95% of your orders come from one country, how much hassle and extra work is it worth to get each additional 0.2%?
Too late. Most of the software is from India, and it has been a long time since the US companies made much of their own hardware, now it's all in South Korea or Taiwan.
Well yes, a free press can act as a watchdog, given an independant press and a free society. How is that relevant to the US?
And if you don't know the difference between dollars and yen, you have bigger concerns as well :)
1) Astronomical
2) Depends on the state. Some of the east coast has free states nearby, some you would have to drive for yours, or 20 minutes into the projects.
3) Very few, usually it is strict at the state level.
The correlation is tough to argue either way. Most of the states had bad murder rates and enacted gun control laws to look like they were doing something. The passage of the laws doesn't seem to have budged the crime rate much in either direction. The strategies that do drop violent crime are more in line with neighborhood patrolling, more foot/bike patrols (less sense of isolation from the community being the theory), and more follow up on minor crimes hoping to catch someone either in possession of something nasty or with a warrant out on them.
It is not just the problem when it becomes organized, but politicized as well. God is now used to annoint a leader's actions to imply that they follow the will of God, not far from the divine emperor of days past.
Might I suggest donating to Bush's reelection campaign then?
Suuure, you could listen to all of Celine Dion's albums and not get violent? Or maybe suicidal...
Definately, there are far too many religious in this country for it to ever be sane...
Hmm, with the speed of the US "justice" system, the Hurd should at least be in beta by when the case is done with appeal :)
You do realize that most leagal action is taken with the intent that it never ends up in court. You just try to make it so expensive to defend in the court case that your target settles out of court. SCO was trying to either get a hefty settlement, or get bought outright. Very seldom does an action like this happen because the attacker believes that their action has merit.
I don't think the $ bit has to do strictly with companies making a profit, but refers to companies that try to make an incredible profit at the expense of discarding even the pretense of ethics.
MS has had to preserve Apple for the primary reason that Apple has to remain viable to provide at least some argument that they don't have a complete monopoly on the desktop. The various games with software support and their investments in Apple have all been to this end.
They don't lock out 3rd party software because they can't fill every need. However, they have a history of either rendering competing products subtly incompatible, making theirs appear faster through use of undocumented API's, and happily using other nasty tactics to take over any market they decide to dominate.
The problem with licensing is that it has not worked for any computer OS manufacturer. They can push pretty far, but if they push too hard, consumers may start looking longingly at Apple, who is opening more every month. They key is keeping the desktop monopoly, a few extra bucks is not worth losing that.
I highly doubt they would implement .Net on Unix. Platform lock-in is what has kept them on top all this time. All a nix implementation would do is take a lot of _very_ expensive server and CAL sales away from them, and encourage competition, neither of which interest Microsoft in the least.
And try implementing a lot of the same things in .Net. Both of them tie you into a framework where you can write code in any language, but the underlying (virtual )machine does not use any of the language specific goodies that make them valueable.
I think I can comment very easily, with or without using it. How about: I have enterprise customers, I need to deploy on Solaris or AIX, .Net is not portable, therefore any other perceived advantages to .Net are irrelevant.
For a lot of people, there are legitimate reasons for dismissing it out of hand. It is an incredible environment for developing apps on Windows, but beyond that problem space, it is not particularly useful.
I think you have a handle on the first two reasons, but there is a third major one, cross platform portability. There are a lot of environments where you have to run your software on the platform the customer has chosen. In many shops, this means you need to run on something other than Windows. Sure, Mono is trying, but it will never do the job. C# is not the hard part, the libraries are, and by the time they finish porting them, they will already be obseleted by new versions.
.Net because they don't like Microsoft, that is not illogical at all. It is not like not using someone's idea, using .Net means giving money to Microsoft. A lot of people are careful who they buy from, not wishing to support corporate behavior they find unethical. A second legitimate worry is the number of times MS has pushed people in one direction, only to drop the project and push something else when it doesn't sell like they think it should. This has been less of a problem in recent years, but many developers have long memories.
.Net is great for Windows developers, but there are a lot of legitimate reasons for devs working on projects to dismiss it entirely. The open source projects will never be allowed to catch up (MS is famous for the ever changing libraries, almost-but-not-quite standards compliance, and undocumented API's), the libraries are the important part, and lots of people don't like having a single vendor with a bad history controlling them.
I think a lot of people are nervous because they don't know what it is. How many technologies did people get excited about during the dot bomb era, only to see them fall by the wayside or get buried with a dozen other competing protocols? A lot of companies are very nervous about being early adopters now.
As to staying away from
I think
But Sun, Oracle, and IBM require cross platform functionality. J2EE meets their needs, and .Net never will.
People in glass houses...
The protection relevant here is not methods of making it impossible to capture the images. The issue here is the images being thumbnailed by a search engine. All that needs to be done to stop it is to add a robots.txt file to stop the engine, or more extremely put the images behind a pushbutton or such that a web spider won't deal with.
If someone uses any copyrighted content under the very limited permissable circumstances of fair use, they are not breaking any law whatsoever. This has nothing to do with business models and the rest of your whining that was completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Thank God that some companies provide mental health benefits!
Similar to the guy below mentioning an app in Workstation Basic, the only user I know is a company running an ancient warehouse management app written in Business Basic.
SCO Open Server is a perfect fit for apps written in Basic though...
Or, in the context of a smartass like yourself, maybe "Fucking Useless Dickhead"
But how can I have a social life if I have to schedule vacations and the time to have a life around the demands of work. If I can just carry my laptop with me, I can address that 15 minute problem without having to spend the whole day in the office or having to interrupt what I'm doing to find a computer.