This has not been tested in court. This is the BS that software companies like to spew but in reality, what can they do about it?
But seriously, is MS going to sue people who install Vista Home Basic on Paralells? The real intention of the "No virtualization" is to milk more money out of corporate development environments so they can't just buy cheap copies of Vista to throw on their testing VMs.
Corporations are really the only ones at any risk of seeing the "licensing police" (the SPA, the software equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA.) Small businesses and individuals just aren't worth their time.
Texas is conservative, but it's more of a libertarian, small government kind of conservativism. Bush won by a large margin here because he used to be the governor and (this was probably more of it) east-cost snobs like Al Gore and John Kerry are despised here.
Apple became profitable and successful, and thus a target. Much of their marketing strategy relies on secrecy and misdirection; it makes sense if you're developing new products that are unique in design, you don't want your competitors ripping off your hard-worked design before your product has a chance to establish itself as a "brand-name." Nobody would have cared back in the pre-iMac days, but Apple is a trendsetter now, so competitors watch them closely.
Right around the time CSS was cracked, DVD blanks were about $2 a pop, so the kid down the hall charged the extra $3 for copying it. Now, yeah, the blanks are so cheap it would never cost that much.:)
I'm always curious though... DVD never really took off (it was popular, but not in-every-living-room popular) until CSS was cracked and people could copy their own DVDs (or rather buy copied DVD movies for $5 from the kid down the hall.) That was the real death knell for VHS.
But which comes first? The widespread adoption of a format or the ability to easily copy the format's content? I have a feeling it's the latter; which is why strong DRM provides not only a false sense of security, but may actually be the single biggest reason customers choose to shun a format.
There are plenty of better ways to game Google than Wikipedia links. The entire SEO industry is designed to increase your pagerank on given keywords, and if you have enough money, they will produce results. You can pay your way to a #1 google ranking relatively easily and inexpensively (well, inexpensive for a corporate marketing department at least.)
This just probably will slow the crapflood of googlebombing links on Wikipedia, which take editors' resources to find, remove and keep removing. Most of the 'noise' on google is created by linkblogs run by the SEO companies or indexing services trying to boost their own pagerank. Adding 'nofollow' to wikipedia links won't do anything to change that.
Even then, the "Wanna touch my Wii?" jokes go away after a week or two because everyone has heard them. If you make it obvious enough, people won't think they're being clever.
"Drinking age" is subjective anyway. Yeah, it's the age you can drink in bars, but honestly, when you're 18-21 you probably can't afford to drink in many bars anyway (bars are expensive.) Otherwise, you probably know someone of age who will go buy beer for you. I certainly never had problems finding and drinking alcohol between 18 and 21, and enforcement of drinking laws is very strict where I live.
It's pretty funny, I drank a lot more before I was 21 than I have since. Being drunk doesn't have quite the appeal when it goes from "breaking the rules" to "doesn't know when to stop drinking."
4 gb is not a very large database at all.:) It's pretty much for small shop developers to try Oracle before considering dropping six to seven figures on it. Many younger developers don't see that mySQL and Postgres just don't have the features of a mature commercial product like Oracle, and this seems like a way to introduce them in a manner similar to mySQL and Postgres without sacrificing Oracle's bread and butter of million dollar database licenses.
For the record, IBM has a free version of DB2 with similar limitations (I don't believe there's a cap on data size, but it rather caps it at 1 CPU and 2 GB RAM or something similar.)
The general rule on the internet these days is to assume that any product promotion is actually created by a marketing company. "Fanboys" and the like are more likely just marketroids paid to post good things about PSPs on internet forums.
I've always wondered how many of those "fanboys" are 22 year old peons at a marketing firm designed to start "internet hype."
Seriously, for about $50,000 you could pay a small army of net nerds to hype your product for a few weeks and get more exposure to clients than spending that money on a national TV spot. You think marketing companies don't know this? They've been astroturfing internet forums for years, and they've gotten really good at not looking like astroturfing.
This is why you have SLAs with your service providers. Often these will get into specifying details like backups, SOX compliance and uptime with financial penalties associated for missing them.
I can put this in different terms: How is storing your data offsite much different than hiring employees to do it? At least if you run into problems on an offsite solution, you can sue and get some compensation; if your employees fuck up all you can do is fire them. You just have to be picky about service vendors like you would be about employees.
Does it matter? Can you protect your data better than they can? Probably not.
If someone really wants to steal your data, there are other ways of doing it. SaaS vendors take security very seriously, and if you're a small or medium sized company, the SaaS vendor's production environment is likely a far safer place for your data than on your network (they are likely running a combination of NIDS and host-based IDS and probably have a 3rd-party security firm doing regular testing, as well as good coding practices in development.)
You're right, security is always a big question from prospective buyers. There are security assurance clauses in most SaaS sales contracts, it's another item in the SLA. Anything you can do to secure your data, your SaaS vendor is probably already doing. The cost of securing the network and application is less than the cost of getting 0wned and losing all your clients, most businesses understand that.
I can see that being a bit confusing; the warner brothers characters are used at Six Flags, and I could see how the memories could blur in the mind of a child. They may have actually met Bugs, but it just wasn't at Disneyworld.
Actually many scanners will not deliver encrypted attachments for this reason. It's a setting you can change in MailScanner, but it's defaulted to block them.
Because it's not about the desktop, but yes, desktop users benefit.
As backbone providers get more capacity, they can deliver faster speeds to their customers (your ISP and the ISPs of the websites you visit.) Ethernet is a very cost-effective physical transport layer as it removes some of the administration headaches involved with point-to-point links. This will eventually drive down the cost of fast backbones, allowing more bandwidth for less money.
Your average desktop user doesn't have a need for 10G, muchless 100G ethernet. By the time he needs 100G ethernet, there will be a bus capable of supplying it. Right now his hard drive can't even read anywhere close to fast enough to saturate a 1G link, so we have a ways to go in other areas first.
Because they WANTED to get caught. Litvinenko was a critic of Russia who had fled because he didn't want to "disappear." There are others like him. The best way to get them to shut up is to kill one where he thinks he is safe, and let everyone figure out exactly how you did it. The whole incident will get blamed on a mid-level military officer, but the message it sent is clear.
Go look on eBay now, those PS3s that were going for $8000 are now down to about $700-800, not even $100 over retail price once tax is figured in some cases. Most of the auction reserves aren't even being met. There was this mass hysteria about buying one of them, but IMO most of that was because people figured they could make an easy $500 by sitting in line for a day or two and selling the thing on eBay. Now there's a flood on the market, and nobody wants to buy the damn things.
Also... 400,000 PS3s? You realize the Wii launch is about 10 times that large. There was a lot of pent up demand, but a week later, the PS3 is already losing its "shiny new hotness" feeling. The real PS3 launch is gonna come in spring, so we'll see if there are any better games available then, but I have a feeling many people may be getting an X360 for Xmas this year and not care.
The first 10 amendments were ratified shortly after the constitution. Several states tied ratification of the constitution to the bill of rights. In essence, the first 10 'amendments' are considered part of the original constitution (this is elementary stuff for us yankees, but I can see how it might be confusing if you've never taken a US govt class.)
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The way people vote and the way politicians act are totally unrelated. It's why all forms of government run into trouble.
This has not been tested in court. This is the BS that software companies like to spew but in reality, what can they do about it?
But seriously, is MS going to sue people who install Vista Home Basic on Paralells? The real intention of the "No virtualization" is to milk more money out of corporate development environments so they can't just buy cheap copies of Vista to throw on their testing VMs.
Corporations are really the only ones at any risk of seeing the "licensing police" (the SPA, the software equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA.) Small businesses and individuals just aren't worth their time.
Texas is conservative, but it's more of a libertarian, small government kind of conservativism. Bush won by a large margin here because he used to be the governor and (this was probably more of it) east-cost snobs like Al Gore and John Kerry are despised here.
What changed?
Apple became profitable and successful, and thus a target. Much of their marketing strategy relies on secrecy and misdirection; it makes sense if you're developing new products that are unique in design, you don't want your competitors ripping off your hard-worked design before your product has a chance to establish itself as a "brand-name." Nobody would have cared back in the pre-iMac days, but Apple is a trendsetter now, so competitors watch them closely.
I read the title and thought, "Games journalists are respected?"
Seriously, the only way to get respect as a journalist is to uncover something important. Ain't gonna happen in video games.
So that you can know when you entered in the wrong formula and your calculations are wrong that it is the wrong formula.
Right around the time CSS was cracked, DVD blanks were about $2 a pop, so the kid down the hall charged the extra $3 for copying it. Now, yeah, the blanks are so cheap it would never cost that much. :)
I'm always curious though... DVD never really took off (it was popular, but not in-every-living-room popular) until CSS was cracked and people could copy their own DVDs (or rather buy copied DVD movies for $5 from the kid down the hall.) That was the real death knell for VHS.
But which comes first? The widespread adoption of a format or the ability to easily copy the format's content? I have a feeling it's the latter; which is why strong DRM provides not only a false sense of security, but may actually be the single biggest reason customers choose to shun a format.
The funny part is that this wasn't supposed to be funny. :)
It only lasted as long as it did because not enough people are using Blu-ray or HD-DVD to care.
There are plenty of better ways to game Google than Wikipedia links. The entire SEO industry is designed to increase your pagerank on given keywords, and if you have enough money, they will produce results. You can pay your way to a #1 google ranking relatively easily and inexpensively (well, inexpensive for a corporate marketing department at least.)
This just probably will slow the crapflood of googlebombing links on Wikipedia, which take editors' resources to find, remove and keep removing. Most of the 'noise' on google is created by linkblogs run by the SEO companies or indexing services trying to boost their own pagerank. Adding 'nofollow' to wikipedia links won't do anything to change that.
Even then, the "Wanna touch my Wii?" jokes go away after a week or two because everyone has heard them. If you make it obvious enough, people won't think they're being clever.
How do you arrive at your figures of "losses" from piracy? Do you assume that every song downloaded is a lost sale?
"Drinking age" is subjective anyway. Yeah, it's the age you can drink in bars, but honestly, when you're 18-21 you probably can't afford to drink in many bars anyway (bars are expensive.) Otherwise, you probably know someone of age who will go buy beer for you. I certainly never had problems finding and drinking alcohol between 18 and 21, and enforcement of drinking laws is very strict where I live.
It's pretty funny, I drank a lot more before I was 21 than I have since. Being drunk doesn't have quite the appeal when it goes from "breaking the rules" to "doesn't know when to stop drinking."
4 gb is not a very large database at all. :) It's pretty much for small shop developers to try Oracle before considering dropping six to seven figures on it. Many younger developers don't see that mySQL and Postgres just don't have the features of a mature commercial product like Oracle, and this seems like a way to introduce them in a manner similar to mySQL and Postgres without sacrificing Oracle's bread and butter of million dollar database licenses.
For the record, IBM has a free version of DB2 with similar limitations (I don't believe there's a cap on data size, but it rather caps it at 1 CPU and 2 GB RAM or something similar.)
The general rule on the internet these days is to assume that any product promotion is actually created by a marketing company. "Fanboys" and the like are more likely just marketroids paid to post good things about PSPs on internet forums.
I've always wondered how many of those "fanboys" are 22 year old peons at a marketing firm designed to start "internet hype."
Seriously, for about $50,000 you could pay a small army of net nerds to hype your product for a few weeks and get more exposure to clients than spending that money on a national TV spot. You think marketing companies don't know this? They've been astroturfing internet forums for years, and they've gotten really good at not looking like astroturfing.
This is why you have SLAs with your service providers. Often these will get into specifying details like backups, SOX compliance and uptime with financial penalties associated for missing them.
I can put this in different terms: How is storing your data offsite much different than hiring employees to do it? At least if you run into problems on an offsite solution, you can sue and get some compensation; if your employees fuck up all you can do is fire them. You just have to be picky about service vendors like you would be about employees.
Does it matter? Can you protect your data better than they can? Probably not.
If someone really wants to steal your data, there are other ways of doing it. SaaS vendors take security very seriously, and if you're a small or medium sized company, the SaaS vendor's production environment is likely a far safer place for your data than on your network (they are likely running a combination of NIDS and host-based IDS and probably have a 3rd-party security firm doing regular testing, as well as good coding practices in development.)
You're right, security is always a big question from prospective buyers. There are security assurance clauses in most SaaS sales contracts, it's another item in the SLA. Anything you can do to secure your data, your SaaS vendor is probably already doing. The cost of securing the network and application is less than the cost of getting 0wned and losing all your clients, most businesses understand that.
I can see that being a bit confusing; the warner brothers characters are used at Six Flags, and I could see how the memories could blur in the mind of a child. They may have actually met Bugs, but it just wasn't at Disneyworld.
Actually many scanners will not deliver encrypted attachments for this reason. It's a setting you can change in MailScanner, but it's defaulted to block them.
Because it's not about the desktop, but yes, desktop users benefit.
As backbone providers get more capacity, they can deliver faster speeds to their customers (your ISP and the ISPs of the websites you visit.) Ethernet is a very cost-effective physical transport layer as it removes some of the administration headaches involved with point-to-point links. This will eventually drive down the cost of fast backbones, allowing more bandwidth for less money.
Your average desktop user doesn't have a need for 10G, muchless 100G ethernet. By the time he needs 100G ethernet, there will be a bus capable of supplying it. Right now his hard drive can't even read anywhere close to fast enough to saturate a 1G link, so we have a ways to go in other areas first.
Because they WANTED to get caught. Litvinenko was a critic of Russia who had fled because he didn't want to "disappear." There are others like him. The best way to get them to shut up is to kill one where he thinks he is safe, and let everyone figure out exactly how you did it. The whole incident will get blamed on a mid-level military officer, but the message it sent is clear.
Go look on eBay now, those PS3s that were going for $8000 are now down to about $700-800, not even $100 over retail price once tax is figured in some cases. Most of the auction reserves aren't even being met. There was this mass hysteria about buying one of them, but IMO most of that was because people figured they could make an easy $500 by sitting in line for a day or two and selling the thing on eBay. Now there's a flood on the market, and nobody wants to buy the damn things.
Also... 400,000 PS3s? You realize the Wii launch is about 10 times that large. There was a lot of pent up demand, but a week later, the PS3 is already losing its "shiny new hotness" feeling. The real PS3 launch is gonna come in spring, so we'll see if there are any better games available then, but I have a feeling many people may be getting an X360 for Xmas this year and not care.
The first 10 amendments were ratified shortly after the constitution. Several states tied ratification of the constitution to the bill of rights. In essence, the first 10 'amendments' are considered part of the original constitution (this is elementary stuff for us yankees, but I can see how it might be confusing if you've never taken a US govt class.)