There have been no publically known hijackings since 9/11/01. Are you seriously trying to say that Al-Queda could not perform a repeat of the 9/11 attacks today?
If so, I got a bridge to sell you with a GREAT view of Brooklyn.
During the 70's, the Soviets bought a hunting cottage that was within line of sight of two AT&T microwave transmission towers. These towers were the long-distance telephone link between Silicon Valley and a number of US Gov't facilities, like Edwards AFB and various national labs.
The Soviets were able to record almost every telephone call made over those lines for about 6-7 years!
Now while the Soviets are gone, plenty of other groups, including competing companies, poking their eyes and ears where they do not belong.
My parents have a picture of my grandfather and a friend sitting in an airline seat with rifles between them while traveling on a hunting trip.
While I wouldn't be very comfortable sitting next to a guy with a gun on an airplane, I'd also observe that banning guns, knives and toenail clippers from airplanes has done little to discourage hijacking.
"Does he know that that's not really how Barry Bonds acts out on the field? Does he know that Nomar [Garciaparra] can't punch somebody?"
If you don't think that the game is appropriate for your kid, don't buy it. Professional sports is a scummy business... maybe kids wouldn't be affected by the portrayal of athletes if we didn't program them to idolize athletes.
How does that contradict what I said? My dad got well over 40 in his Escort... when I lived in the countryside and had a 30 mile commute, it made sense to drive an economy car.
I'm getting 20-28 miles per gallon now because I'm driving a big Cadillac with a 300hp V-8. I drive it because I'm a big guy well over 6 feet tall and despise wedging myself into squeezebox cars. I'm not driving a Daihatsu or Civic, ever. I drive 8 miles to work, so the relatively low mileage doesn't mean much to me.
SUVs are a different matter. Why it is cool in the US to drive around in a jacked up station wagon with a ton of unused off-road equipment is beyond me.
No. There are two parties at work when you use a credit card, the issuing bank and the payment network. (Except in the case of American Express)
The payment network makes money from levying transaction fees on each and every transaction. The issues bank makes money on an additional transaction fee and off of the suckers who pay 15% interest.
The issuing bank, not the network (MasterCard, Visa) is responsible for the liability for handing arbitration and chargebacks.
The problem with micropayments is the "micro". Payments are payments.
I consult for an organization with a billing system that sends out bills for as little as $0.01 and as much as $5-6 million for a quarter. If the app supported it, they could probaly bill to the tenth of a penny if need be. The system doesn't care.
The only difference between MasterCard and a micropayment system is scale and profit. Given a scalable global system, an transaction is a transaction. Each transaction has a distinct cost associated with it, which is really not relevant to the value of the transaction. The cost of a $15,000 transaction is nearly the same as a $0.015 transaction.
And therein lies the problem. In order to make micropayments affordable, you need to drop highly profitable fees on small transactions... plus your customers will start to question your high fees on larger transactions.
The banking system makes far too much on "macropayments" to scuttle the whole thing to accomodate small payments.
Spoken like someone whose car is an extension of his genitals.
I've never owned a BMW, but have driven in several. The cars handle well, but I'm a big guy and I just don't like the feel of the car.
I prefer large cars, but I don't like SUVs... I'm driving a Cadillac Deville DTS right now, which has been the best car that I have ever known. It's fast, looks great and handles pretty well, although obviously isn't in the same league as an M3.
If you're dumb and have enough disposable income to buy a BMW 3-Series or SUV in the first place, you'll be buying the latest and greatest iPod every few months anyway.
And you have no idea what kinds of records that the college has to retain and for how long. Federal regulations may require that data to be retained for a certain number of years for grant purposes.
Who knows?
One reason why you pay vendors big $$ for "Enterprise" apps is that the vendor knows about those regulations and will be around to adapt to new ones.
You are right that technical issues do not drive projects. Politics and requirements ARE the heart of a project. If I want a system to do x, the price doesn't really matter. The function does.
Experts became experts by READING the appropriate documentation.
Building a renderfarm has been done before and is a well-documented process. Choosing the software that you're going to be using should be based on the work you're going to perform -- not some random/.'ers opinion.
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There have been no publically known hijackings since 9/11/01. Are you seriously trying to say that Al-Queda could not perform a repeat of the 9/11 attacks today?
If so, I got a bridge to sell you with a GREAT view of Brooklyn.
I said:
During the 70's, the Soviets bought a hunting cottage that was within line of sight of two AT&T microwave transmission towers. These towers were the long-distance telephone link between Silicon Valley and a number of US Gov't facilities, like Edwards AFB and various national labs.
The Soviets were able to record almost every telephone call made over those lines for about 6-7 years!
Now while the Soviets are gone, plenty of other groups, including competing companies, poking their eyes and ears where they do not belong.
My parents have a picture of my grandfather and a friend sitting in an airline seat with rifles between them while traveling on a hunting trip.
While I wouldn't be very comfortable sitting next to a guy with a gun on an airplane, I'd also observe that banning guns, knives and toenail clippers from airplanes has done little to discourage hijacking.
Sun recursively fucked up version numbers...
ie...
SunOS 4 became Solaris 1
Solaris 2 is aka known as as SunOS 5.x...
I've never had a signifigant or regular disapearing email problem.
If you don't think that the game is appropriate for your kid, don't buy it. Professional sports is a scummy business... maybe kids wouldn't be affected by the portrayal of athletes if we didn't program them to idolize athletes.
How does that contradict what I said? My dad got well over 40 in his Escort... when I lived in the countryside and had a 30 mile commute, it made sense to drive an economy car.
I'm getting 20-28 miles per gallon now because I'm driving a big Cadillac with a 300hp V-8. I drive it because I'm a big guy well over 6 feet tall and despise wedging myself into squeezebox cars. I'm not driving a Daihatsu or Civic, ever. I drive 8 miles to work, so the relatively low mileage doesn't mean much to me.
SUVs are a different matter. Why it is cool in the US to drive around in a jacked up station wagon with a ton of unused off-road equipment is beyond me.
My dad used to do extreme highway miles on a series of Ford Escorts. EPA mileage was 36, but he would regularly get 44-48 mpg.
I'm driving a '97 Cadillac Deville, and have gotten as high as 28 mpg on a long interstate trip. City mileage is around 20.
No. There are two parties at work when you use a credit card, the issuing bank and the payment network. (Except in the case of American Express)
The payment network makes money from levying transaction fees on each and every transaction. The issues bank makes money on an additional transaction fee and off of the suckers who pay 15% interest.
The issuing bank, not the network (MasterCard, Visa) is responsible for the liability for handing arbitration and chargebacks.
I'm sure CmdrTaco wouldn't like being liable for revenue lost due to a critical failure of his GPL's Slash code.
And I'm sure that Apache developers would think twice about contributing anything.
The problem with micropayments is the "micro". Payments are payments.
I consult for an organization with a billing system that sends out bills for as little as $0.01 and as much as $5-6 million for a quarter. If the app supported it, they could probaly bill to the tenth of a penny if need be. The system doesn't care.
The only difference between MasterCard and a micropayment system is scale and profit. Given a scalable global system, an transaction is a transaction. Each transaction has a distinct cost associated with it, which is really not relevant to the value of the transaction. The cost of a $15,000 transaction is nearly the same as a $0.015 transaction.
And therein lies the problem. In order to make micropayments affordable, you need to drop highly profitable fees on small transactions... plus your customers will start to question your high fees on larger transactions.
The banking system makes far too much on "macropayments" to scuttle the whole thing to accomodate small payments.
"under a written agreement to negotiate the license for that code from us"
That probally means nothing. You need to see a good attorney ASAP, because you probally don't have any kind of valid contract.
Spoken like someone whose car is an extension of his genitals.
I've never owned a BMW, but have driven in several. The cars handle well, but I'm a big guy and I just don't like the feel of the car.
I prefer large cars, but I don't like SUVs... I'm driving a Cadillac Deville DTS right now, which has been the best car that I have ever known. It's fast, looks great and handles pretty well, although obviously isn't in the same league as an M3.
I'm not jealous of a 3-series BMW. I just think that it's the most overpriced and overrated car ever.
If you want to overpay for a car, at least get a comfortable and efficient Mercedes Turbodiesel or a Caddy.
If you're dumb and have enough disposable income to buy a BMW 3-Series or SUV in the first place, you'll be buying the latest and greatest iPod every few months anyway.
Apple keeps coming out with these breathtaking new applications that nobody in the IT world can seem to deliver!
$500/admin for Inventory, Remote Scripting AND GUI control??? It's a miracle and a bargain at the same time.
Apple is clearly the leader.
Sit very still and slowly turn around. The Microsoft gremlins are monitoring you right now!
The only protection from their mind-control rays is a tinfoil hat. Get one while you still can!
Sell for about $15 on ebay. Buy one and stop worrying about stupid stuff like this.
One of things that advances like email and voicemail have cost us is the elimination of secretaries and clerks.
Those workers carried alot of instituional knowledge and brought alot of unseen benefits to organizations.
Another /.'er who doesn't get it, and uses his command of useless detail to point that out.
Who gives a shit? Disk is cheap. It's better to waste some space that wouldn't be doing anything anyway than fuck up something important.
Guess what? It works.
And you have no idea what kinds of records that the college has to retain and for how long. Federal regulations may require that data to be retained for a certain number of years for grant purposes.
Who knows?
One reason why you pay vendors big $$ for "Enterprise" apps is that the vendor knows about those regulations and will be around to adapt to new ones.
You are right that technical issues do not drive projects. Politics and requirements ARE the heart of a project. If I want a system to do x, the price doesn't really matter. The function does.
Experts became experts by READING the appropriate documentation.
/.'ers opinion.
Building a renderfarm has been done before and is a well-documented process. Choosing the software that you're going to be using should be based on the work you're going to perform -- not some random
That would be true if Amazon.com was the only retailer.
Since there are any number of competing web and brick&mortar retailers out there, people will simply go somewhere else.
I was once a big user of ISP mail, then I had to move, which forced me to change ISPs.
That's a traumatic experience.