Of course, AMD's problem is finding a way to try to communicate that concept to the average user.
AMD does certainly not have to explain such concepts to Joe Sixpack. Joe anyway doesn't have the foggiest clue what AMD is about. His only potential encounter with AMD is when he buys a computer and then he probably couldn't care less.
Who AMD must convince as their primary target is OEMs and most of them (hopefully) know their shit and can be bothered with technical whitepapers.
Now if AMD wants to launch an image - or brand campagn (ala Intel Inside) that's a completely different issue. But then again I don't think that you have to explain the NX bit implementation to the general public in order to pull this off.
So according to the second link Walmart achieves 60% accuracy with the scanning of the tags?
I know that they are considered to be top-of-the-pops in logistics, but when you achieve 40% failures in stock maintenance and merchandise flow I wouldn't call that state of the art, I'd call that outright shoddy (even considering that accuracy _might_ get to 95% one day)
By calling up the psychic hotline (9$99 a minute) they probably achieve more accurate results..
(But then again, maybe it's just an engenious way to piss of their suppliers).
That was one of the things I really liked about Tokyo. You get out of the house with a wicked hangover and don't have to walk more then 100metres to the next desperately needed vending machines.
The noodle shops are also pretty cool, if you're in search fo a cheap, filling and mostly even good meal. Not understanding Japanese adds to the fascination, since the ticket machines are in Japanese of course and a gajin has the choice of a soup for 400, 550, or 850yen.
I'm not being cynical here, since I eat just about everything and it was always a thrill what I might get. A friend of mine, who hates fish was less lucky.
Sorry, I'm rambling but I wish I could go back. Especially this time of the year.
I don't really know Mr. Puck. I've seen his name during a couple visits in the US on some outfit. Seems to be sort of a famous chef branching out to a number of franchises.
Such a product was introduced to Switzerland some 4 years ago. Appart from the environmental unfriendliness it tasted like shit!. I don't think that it's still available, but I'm not sure.
So why the hell launches such a famous guy such a product? Sure he can probably add a 50 cents premium on a product that he most likely doesn't manufacture himself since he is a big chef and in the process ruin his name as a commercial whore, who turns just about any trick for a buck.
Well, if a Microsoft Employee writes a lengthy article about why Firebird is untrustworthy, due to the reason that the binaries are not signed, then I don't think it's intellectually dishonest to point out that digital signatures are not the cure for all evils.
And handing out certificates issued to microsoft.com to just about any pimply faced teenager (yes, I know that I don't know that) wearing a suit and walking into the Verisign offices doesn't really support the argument that Firbird is untrustworthy since the Mozilla project didn't cough up 500$ or so for a cert.
If anybody bothered to click on those links he could have easily determined that this blunder was not Microfts, but Verisigns fault.
I do however accuse the author of this pamphlet to be either very ignorant or full of shit.
I so hope so. I really hope they DEMAND that you read and sign the EULA right there before you buy software.
I think you have an excellent point. Just imagine standing at the cashier for 25 minutes, while carefully reading the EULA. For bonus points you can ask the clerk for legal help:
"Excuse me sir: What means non-exclusive int this context?"
Sure, the folks in line will go ballistic and the shop won't be happy: But maybe they finally get the point and either kick the products out or start to apply real pressure to the vendors.
Adobe has a long hard battle to fight if they even want so much as remote credibility with the FOSS crowd.
It's not only Dmitry Skylarow who is remembered very vividly, but their general attitude towards Linux. What they made available (i.e. Adobe Reader) has a stench of being released reluctantly and the quality is not up to par as compared with the Win/OSX version.
But hey: Suddenly there's money to be made and just wait and see: Adobe is suddenly "very committed to the Linux community", or other such utter crap.
I disagree. As much I appreciate his point and very much agree on the issue, I think it's shoddily written.
I found two typos and English isn't even my mother tongue and I didn't bother to read the whole thing, since it's just too long winded and in parts redundant.If you get something published on Linuxworld you may want to have it reviewed before publishing, alas it might not have been intended for broad publication.
Regarding not-knowledge of Windows issues. Maybe he was one of the lucky ones who never had to use Windows and thus also didn't read up about it. You can't fathom how crappy Windows security really is, unless you have some knowledge in it and work with it for a while. And this is due to some extremely hairy design decisions (ActiveX anyone?), which are very, very hard to plug.
At one time Sony was a true innovator. Legend goes that Mr. Morita (sp?)- then CEO of Sony - put his head on the block in order to get the first Walkman into manufacturing. A legend was born.
They had other, great, intersting (remember the electronic picture frame?) and innovative products. But that's quite some time ago.
Since Sony purchased CBS and Columbia pictures this company went apeshit.
It nowadys seems to be run by a bunch of paranoid, MBA'd marketing droids with neither a knack for innovation, nor a clue what the customer wants.*)
What a shame!
*) I mean: releasing a portable music player in the year 2004 without native MP3 support? Yeah I know, they finally provided (or promised to provide) a firmware upgrade. But how frigging dim can you actually be to even get such ideas...
In a "Godless socialised education" system, there's no incentive to succeed whatsoever. When public schools do bad, they just get more money, and their "customers" have no choice. They are forced to go to them. Monopolies are bad, especially when the Government has them.
Well, the most recent PISA study pretty much debunks your argument.
While the godless, pinko, commie, socialist, anti-american, linux-using Finns with their wicked socialist public school system came ahead just of about everybody, students from the free enterprise, privatized great nation of the US of A didn't look too well.
Also, Apple had been working on iTunes for some time before the registration date. Do you think a new product magically appears in a month? (Even thought it was based on SoundJam, it still represented many changes.)
Not that I have sympathy for the guy (I really don't know enough about the whole issue), but if Apple worked on iTunes for years, knew that they would call it iTunes and didn't register the trademark during the development phase, then they are dumber then a dim light bulb for a billion $ company.
My home network has a server that handles a lot of tasks, including email, faxing and caller ID services. I have the capability to simply hang up on any unrecognized incoming calls (if the call comes in blocked or private all the other side hears is a "click*.) If you're blocking your number I presume you're someone I don't care to hear from. *click*. If the FTC neuters the DoNotCall list in this way, I'll have to configure my system to ignore any calls not on the accepted list. I would allow emergency calls to go through with a touchtone bypass code, but that alone would stop automated telemarketing.
I went even further then that and block all calls that come in anonymously. You can set that up via a simple code (*99# here, ask your friendly telco if there is such a thing in your area) and reset it at any time.
An anonymous caller just gets a message around the lines that "This Swisscom customer does not accept calls from blocked numbers".
The beauty is that foreign calls, which sometime don't submit the number (very rare nowadays but it happens) get routed through. The system can dsistinguish that.
Hey, it cut down my phone spam 100% and has only one disadvantage: doctors, lawyers and banks must block their numbers by law and they can't get through. But they either have my cell #, or they find other creative ways like writing a letter.
(Disclaimer: I was working for Sybase Professional Serives from 95-99)
You may want to have a look at a Sybase product called Replication Server, which permits you to distribute your data in near real time.
Even though it is not a simple product, setting up a warm standby is fairly straight forward and relatively simple. By setting up appropriate firewall rules you can ensure that the connection is in one direction only. As an added bonus you are better set up in case of a desaster.
The RDBMS in question need not to be Sybase ASE. It works fine with just about any major RDBMS. In fact: There are Sybase customers that use Rep Server in order to replicate from Oracle to Oracle, since Oracle "Replication" just plain sucks!
Knoppix users are pushy and aggressive. It's not at all unusual for them to hand you a CD and tell you to boot from it.
What a cincidence and a true story.
One of the broad minded Windows admins in [insert major logistics company] yelled at me "Linux for President" when I passed his office before yesterday.
It turns out that one of his laptops was fuxored and no matter what he wasn't able to boot it under Windows.
Since he is broadminded and a good admin (even though he's an MCSE) he has his tools ready and one of it is Knoppix.
The laptop booted like a charm, made the partition visible, the files where saved to another laptop and Linux oughta be president.
Now they are throwing in a bunch of free and discounted stuff including Photo Story 3 and the Holiday Fun Pack to try to get more volunteers.
Since I am an extremely savvy and smart customer I shall certainly enroll in this program.
Just imagine how nice the Holiday Fun Pack will look at my recently purchased time share appartment in Cabo San Lucas.
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and code signing doesn't really help much, because since *all* ActiveX controls have to be signed to have any chance of being safe
Even if signing the code would be secure it doesn't help a hell of a lot if the good burgers at Verisign hand out the keys to every pimply faced teenager walking in.
This advisory describes this spectacular goof in detail. I quote:
In mid-March 2001, VeriSign, Inc., advised Microsoft that on January
29 and 30, 2001, it issued two VeriSign Class 3 code-signing digital
certificates to an individual who fraudulently claimed to be a
Microsoft employee. The common name assigned to both certificates is
"Microsoft Corporation". The ability to sign executable content using
keys that purport to belong to Microsoft would clearly be
advantageous to an attacker who wished to convince users to allow the
content to run.
In the German speaking sticks of the globe there's an institution called "Presserat", which translates roughly to press council.
It's not a government organisation, but rather a self control entity by the press.
The idea is, that the public or victim of a press campaign can file a complaint and they will determine if the general agreed upon press ethics where violated by that media and/or journalist.
Of course there are a lot of frivolous complaints around the lines "they shortened my letter to the editor" (which is perfectly fine as long the meaning is not distorted) or "this article hurt my feelings" (which a paper is not obliged to respect in the first place, you can stop reading it after all).
What is a clear violation is to publish gross accusations (Politico Suchnsuch embezzled the church bingo fund and then fucked a pig) without confronting the victim with such allegations prior to publishing. A practical example was a paper being reprimanded for fotoshoping water stains to a blood red color, to make the site of a terror attack more ghoulish.
Of course lying outright, possibly knowingly and heaven forbid! taking payola for such an outrage (alas I don't know if this was the case and would never accuse a fine member of the press of such an atrocity) is about as much violation of press ethics as humanly possible.
Finding are published and the idea is that the media in question is publicly hung up high and dry and shamed into humility.
It doesn't replace a libel court case, though but overall it seems to work pretty nicely.
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AMD does certainly not have to explain such concepts to Joe Sixpack. Joe anyway doesn't have the foggiest clue what AMD is about. His only potential encounter with AMD is when he buys a computer and then he probably couldn't care less.
Who AMD must convince as their primary target is OEMs and most of them (hopefully) know their shit and can be bothered with technical whitepapers.
Now if AMD wants to launch an image - or brand campagn (ala Intel Inside) that's a completely different issue. But then again I don't think that you have to explain the NX bit implementation to the general public in order to pull this off.
I know that they are considered to be top-of-the-pops in logistics, but when you achieve 40% failures in stock maintenance and merchandise flow I wouldn't call that state of the art, I'd call that outright shoddy (even considering that accuracy _might_ get to 95% one day)
By calling up the psychic hotline (9$99 a minute) they probably achieve more accurate results..
(But then again, maybe it's just an engenious way to piss of their suppliers).
They must have gotten their inspiration from military spending.
Fucking spammers!
Uzi is fine. But when he shows you his monkey dance then you know youre in deep trouble.
Especially when he sits on you afterwards.
The noodle shops are also pretty cool, if you're in search fo a cheap, filling and mostly even good meal. Not understanding Japanese adds to the fascination, since the ticket machines are in Japanese of course and a gajin has the choice of a soup for 400, 550, or 850yen.
I'm not being cynical here, since I eat just about everything and it was always a thrill what I might get. A friend of mine, who hates fish was less lucky.
Sorry, I'm rambling but I wish I could go back. Especially this time of the year.
Such a product was introduced to Switzerland some 4 years ago. Appart from the environmental unfriendliness it tasted like shit!. I don't think that it's still available, but I'm not sure.
So why the hell launches such a famous guy such a product? Sure he can probably add a 50 cents premium on a product that he most likely doesn't manufacture himself since he is a big chef and in the process ruin his name as a commercial whore, who turns just about any trick for a buck.
Not really a smart move, methinks.
And handing out certificates issued to microsoft.com to just about any pimply faced teenager (yes, I know that I don't know that) wearing a suit and walking into the Verisign offices doesn't really support the argument that Firbird is untrustworthy since the Mozilla project didn't cough up 500$ or so for a cert.
If anybody bothered to click on those links he could have easily determined that this blunder was not Microfts, but Verisigns fault.
I do however accuse the author of this pamphlet to be either very ignorant or full of shit.
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I think you have an excellent point. Just imagine standing at the cashier for 25 minutes, while carefully reading the EULA. For bonus points you can ask the clerk for legal help:
"Excuse me sir: What means non-exclusive int this context?"
Sure, the folks in line will go ballistic and the shop won't be happy: But maybe they finally get the point and either kick the products out or start to apply real pressure to the vendors.
I think not!
It's not only Dmitry Skylarow who is remembered very vividly, but their general attitude towards Linux. What they made available (i.e. Adobe Reader) has a stench of being released reluctantly and the quality is not up to par as compared with the Win/OSX version.
But hey: Suddenly there's money to be made and just wait and see: Adobe is suddenly "very committed to the Linux community", or other such utter crap.
Well, fuck them!
I disagree. As much I appreciate his point and very much agree on the issue, I think it's shoddily written.
I found two typos and English isn't even my mother tongue and I didn't bother to read the whole thing, since it's just too long winded and in parts redundant.If you get something published on Linuxworld you may want to have it reviewed before publishing, alas it might not have been intended for broad publication.
Regarding not-knowledge of Windows issues. Maybe he was one of the lucky ones who never had to use Windows and thus also didn't read up about it. You can't fathom how crappy Windows security really is, unless you have some knowledge in it and work with it for a while. And this is due to some extremely hairy design decisions (ActiveX anyone?), which are very, very hard to plug.
Betamax was also better then VHS. I would still never get a Betamax VCR.
This paranoid, little island solution called ATRAC will be Sonys downfall in the portable music business.
They once where the main innovator in this field.
They had other, great, intersting (remember the electronic picture frame?) and innovative products. But that's quite some time ago.
Since Sony purchased CBS and Columbia pictures this company went apeshit.
It nowadys seems to be run by a bunch of paranoid, MBA'd marketing droids with neither a knack for innovation, nor a clue what the customer wants.*)
What a shame!
*) I mean: releasing a portable music player in the year 2004 without native MP3 support? Yeah I know, they finally provided (or promised to provide) a firmware upgrade. But how frigging dim can you actually be to even get such ideas...
And I totally agree.
I agree that it's bad for consumers. If it's good for the companies has yet to be seen.
Well, the most recent PISA study pretty much debunks your argument.
While the godless, pinko, commie, socialist, anti-american, linux-using Finns with their wicked socialist public school system came ahead just of about everybody, students from the free enterprise, privatized great nation of the US of A didn't look too well.
Get a clue!
Not that I have sympathy for the guy (I really don't know enough about the whole issue), but if Apple worked on iTunes for years, knew that they would call it iTunes and didn't register the trademark during the development phase, then they are dumber then a dim light bulb for a billion $ company.
I went even further then that and block all calls that come in anonymously. You can set that up via a simple code (*99# here, ask your friendly telco if there is such a thing in your area) and reset it at any time.
An anonymous caller just gets a message around the lines that "This Swisscom customer does not accept calls from blocked numbers".
The beauty is that foreign calls, which sometime don't submit the number (very rare nowadays but it happens) get routed through. The system can dsistinguish that.
Hey, it cut down my phone spam 100% and has only one disadvantage: doctors, lawyers and banks must block their numbers by law and they can't get through. But they either have my cell #, or they find other creative ways like writing a letter.
You may want to have a look at a Sybase product called Replication Server, which permits you to distribute your data in near real time.
Even though it is not a simple product, setting up a warm standby is fairly straight forward and relatively simple. By setting up appropriate firewall rules you can ensure that the connection is in one direction only. As an added bonus you are better set up in case of a desaster.
The RDBMS in question need not to be Sybase ASE. It works fine with just about any major RDBMS. In fact: There are Sybase customers that use Rep Server in order to replicate from Oracle to Oracle, since Oracle "Replication" just plain sucks!
What a cincidence and a true story.
One of the broad minded Windows admins in [insert major logistics company] yelled at me "Linux for President" when I passed his office before yesterday.
It turns out that one of his laptops was fuxored and no matter what he wasn't able to boot it under Windows.
Since he is broadminded and a good admin (even though he's an MCSE) he has his tools ready and one of it is Knoppix.
The laptop booted like a charm, made the partition visible, the files where saved to another laptop and Linux oughta be president.
There was really no need to push Knoppix on him.
Since I am an extremely savvy and smart customer I shall certainly enroll in this program.
Just imagine how nice the Holiday Fun Pack will look at my recently purchased time share appartment in Cabo San Lucas.
Even if signing the code would be secure it doesn't help a hell of a lot if the good burgers at Verisign hand out the keys to every pimply faced teenager walking in.
This advisory describes this spectacular goof in detail. I quote:
In mid-March 2001, VeriSign, Inc., advised Microsoft that on January 29 and 30, 2001, it issued two VeriSign Class 3 code-signing digital certificates to an individual who fraudulently claimed to be a Microsoft employee. The common name assigned to both certificates is "Microsoft Corporation". The ability to sign executable content using keys that purport to belong to Microsoft would clearly be advantageous to an attacker who wished to convince users to allow the content to run.
It's not a government organisation, but rather a self control entity by the press.
The idea is, that the public or victim of a press campaign can file a complaint and they will determine if the general agreed upon press ethics where violated by that media and/or journalist.
Of course there are a lot of frivolous complaints around the lines "they shortened my letter to the editor" (which is perfectly fine as long the meaning is not distorted) or "this article hurt my feelings" (which a paper is not obliged to respect in the first place, you can stop reading it after all).
What is a clear violation is to publish gross accusations (Politico Suchnsuch embezzled the church bingo fund and then fucked a pig) without confronting the victim with such allegations prior to publishing. A practical example was a paper being reprimanded for fotoshoping water stains to a blood red color, to make the site of a terror attack more ghoulish.
Of course lying outright, possibly knowingly and heaven forbid! taking payola for such an outrage (alas I don't know if this was the case and would never accuse a fine member of the press of such an atrocity) is about as much violation of press ethics as humanly possible.
Finding are published and the idea is that the media in question is publicly hung up high and dry and shamed into humility.
It doesn't replace a libel court case, though but overall it seems to work pretty nicely.
OK, I correct you :)
They generate revenue by selling business solutions and 3rd party access to their search.
But you're not far off in the sense that 90% of their revenues are generated by ads.