Well, I don't know about the US, but in Canada you would definitely have to pay a royalty for each song you played, but it would probably be relatively small. I know for the 1000-seat auditorium where I used to work it was 8 cents, and for a radio station (with a large coverage area) where I worked, it was $1.25.
It's got nothing to do with lame servers. When you buy a Real server, you buy a license to serve up a certain amount of streams. When you've got that many connections already, everyone else gets the message about servers being at their capacity. Doesn't mater if the machine and the bandwidth could actually handle ten times as many users -- they just didn't pay Real enough money to serve this many users.
p.s. This is too on topic!:-) We're talking about the webcast and why we won't be able to see it.
DNS.. Always list YOURSELF as one of the contacts.. usually the billing contact so you can change your Internic information quickly to move your site.
The way I read NSI's descriptions of the different type of contacts, the billing contact does not have this authority. The tech contact and administrative contact can submit changes (While the registrant has the ultimate authority, exercising that authority can be difficult if the registrant is not also one of these two roles). The billing contact is just the address to which NSI sends the invoices.
This is not to say that this phenomenon is the exact thing that is happening with internet stocks -- but something of which everyone thinking of speculative trading should be aware. If you don't know about tulip bulb mania: read it.
I started out using a small webhosting company -- two or three guys with a server in the garage, or something like that. Customer service was awesome and the prices were dirt cheap. Then one day they had a major technical disaster and recovery required about an hour's attention to each of their hundreds of webhosting customers. That math didn't work too well.
So I switched to one of the big companies. They kept the servers running, but customer service was abysmal. They were overwhelmed by their tens of thousands of customers and couldn't provide actual answers to questions of the sort that they couldn't post on the FAQ site to start with. The had an 800 number and a big phone room, but the customer was of the scripted type (i.e. all about things I might be doing wrong, and no clue about what actually goes on in the server and no idea how to recognize a description of something that was actually wrong with the server). If I convinced the "customer service" people to actually pass me on to "tech support" (which seemed to be the extension in the server room), I got someone who knew their stuff and something about it but who, um, was not skilled in customer service. The last straw was one occaision when my site was down for 24 hours -- but the outage wasn't the problem. I called when the site first went down to ask what was up and once we established that it wasn't my fault, the phone rep called the server room and told me that Unix Server #10 (where my site was) was down and would be up again soon. After a few hours I called again to ask how things were progressing. This phone rep started taking me through all the things that I could be doing wrong, so I asked didn't she know that Unix server #10 was down and had been down four hours? She didn't and didn't believe me but patronizingly said she'd check it out. There were a few keyboard tapping sounds and then "Whoah!... It is down!" On subsequent calls I had to start all over. Once they actually passed me on to the techs, who weren't real keen on discussing their troubles with some pesky customer.
So now I'm with a "reseller" -- a guy who has his own servers on the networks of large companies. He provides the great one-on-one customer service, and the large companies provide the technical reliablity.
While I'm plugging him anyway, he's at thewebhost.net. His name is Mike (and yes, he'll give me a referral bonus if you say I sent you, but so would the places that sucked).
Both the no servers rule and the upload bandwidth limitiations are for residential customers only.
When you get business service, you can have servers, choose from many different levels of bandwidth limitation, have multiple static IP's (paying extra for each of these things, of course, after paying way more than residential users to start with).
Slashdot needs to get a logo for Caldera Systems-- an entirely seperate company from Caldera Inc.(Yes, this also means that this is not the company that just settled a lawsuit with Microsoft.)
The terms of the agreement are confidential (this is pretty common in settlements). Therefore, it means nothing to any other case. Microsoft could have said like "Woo-hoo, we used our monopoly to whup your butts and we plan to squeeze every software company but us out of business." Or Caldera might have said "oops. We just made it all up. Thanks for the cash."
It doesn't matter what they agreed. We'll never know. As far as anyone other than Microsoft and Caldera is concerned, this case just went "poof" and disappeared.
The duplicate posting of this story has disappeared from the front page, but there was a decent amount of discussion there too, so here's a link to it: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/10/0949 226&mode=thread
Forgot to include the fact that many/most people before the industrial revolution "worked out of the home" (yes, a huge generalization and there are exceptions, etc., etc.)
If you lived in a medieval town (or ancient Roman, etc.), wouldn't people would deliver your purchases for you if you paid them extra (i.e. shipping/delivery fee) for it? How does the Internet make staying in your home more possible than the telephone does? or an inky quill and a sheet of papyrus?
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- <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Roblimo left out the "http://" -- to see the photos, click here. - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
From what I read here and here: the "Juggernaut search Engine" and the "Juggernaut Search Engine Crawler" are two separate pieces of software. The former is GPLed. The latter is not for sale but you can purchase the database it creates (or get a demo/sampler subset of the database for free)
- <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
It seems to me that for each 'holy grail' in the sciences that has been achieved, the result has been that we discover things are far more complex than we realize.
Humans have this tendency (a "tower of Babel" complex?) to think "Ah, when we've achieved this thing, we will be in full control of the forces of nature" and when we get there, we often discover that even though we may have been "right" in our assumptions (e.g. the effect of each of these genes), there turn out to be an overwhelming number of other factors (e.g. eliminating the gene associated with X does not eliminate X). Sorta like the "butterfly effect" I guess (not that I want to start that argument up here). - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
What happens when companies keep merging and just add their names together? You get the longest name on the NYSE: PriceWaterhouseCoopers -- sorta old-fashioned in that they're retaining the surnames of their founders, but newfangled in not using spaces or puncuation. - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
My eyes musta moved up a row when looking at the list of idealab companies - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
CEOs name for letters: Mariam Naficy & Varsha Rao
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eToys CEOs are Mariam Naficy & Varsha Rao -- address your letters to them, so they at least get past the customer service level.
- <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Etoys stock has fallen from $70 to $55 since Monday, the day this ruling was given. - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
These claims are discussed in the Village Voice article -- they are pure FUD. "digital hijack" sounds bad but it was the name of a pretty tame demonstration of the innacuracy of search engines. The "shares" were another artistic project which no-one could confuse with etoys stock. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for mud to sling. - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Be sure to write etoys and (Very Politely) tell them this. - <SIG> "I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
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p.s. This is too on topic! :-) We're talking about the webcast and why we won't be able to see it.
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- Insertion fee for an item with an starting price over $50: $2.00
- Final Value Fee:
- 5% of the price up to $25: $1.25
- 2.5% of the amount between $25.01-$1000: $24.37
- 1.25% of the amount over $1000: $32.18 so far
This is based on the current high bid of $3575If the auction ended now, the total fees would be $59.80
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p.s. I know there are other registrars now (yay!), but NSI still has over 90% of the market, so this should be relevant to most.
- Tulip Bulb Mania
This is not to say that this phenomenon is the exact thing that is happening with internet stocks -- but something of which everyone thinking of speculative trading should be aware. If you don't know about tulip bulb mania: read it.So I switched to one of the big companies. They kept the servers running, but customer service was abysmal. They were overwhelmed by their tens of thousands of customers and couldn't provide actual answers to questions of the sort that they couldn't post on the FAQ site to start with. The had an 800 number and a big phone room, but the customer was of the scripted type (i.e. all about things I might be doing wrong, and no clue about what actually goes on in the server and no idea how to recognize a description of something that was actually wrong with the server). If I convinced the "customer service" people to actually pass me on to "tech support" (which seemed to be the extension in the server room), I got someone who knew their stuff and something about it but who, um, was not skilled in customer service. The last straw was one occaision when my site was down for 24 hours -- but the outage wasn't the problem. I called when the site first went down to ask what was up and once we established that it wasn't my fault, the phone rep called the server room and told me that Unix Server #10 (where my site was) was down and would be up again soon. After a few hours I called again to ask how things were progressing. This phone rep started taking me through all the things that I could be doing wrong, so I asked didn't she know that Unix server #10 was down and had been down four hours? She didn't and didn't believe me but patronizingly said she'd check it out. There were a few keyboard tapping sounds and then "Whoah!... It is down!" On subsequent calls I had to start all over. Once they actually passed me on to the techs, who weren't real keen on discussing their troubles with some pesky customer.
So now I'm with a "reseller" -- a guy who has his own servers on the networks of large companies. He provides the great one-on-one customer service, and the large companies provide the technical reliablity.
While I'm plugging him anyway, he's at thewebhost.net. His name is Mike (and yes, he'll give me a referral bonus if you say I sent you, but so would the places that sucked).
When you get business service, you can have servers, choose from many different levels of bandwidth limitation, have multiple static IP's (paying extra for each of these things, of course, after paying way more than residential users to start with).
oops. this one is the one with (more of) the details. (See what I mean about the poofreader thing? :-)
See this post from an employee for the gory details.
Slashdot needs to get a logo for Caldera Systems-- an entirely seperate company from Caldera Inc.(Yes, this also means that this is not the company that just settled a lawsuit with Microsoft.)
It doesn't matter what they agreed. We'll never know. As far as anyone other than Microsoft and Caldera is concerned, this case just went "poof" and disappeared.
The duplicate posting of this story has disappeared from the front page, but there was a decent amount of discussion there too, so here's a link to it:
9 226&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/10/094
Forgot to include the fact that many/most people before the industrial revolution "worked out of the home" (yes, a huge generalization and there are exceptions, etc., etc.)
If you lived in a medieval town (or ancient Roman, etc.), wouldn't people would deliver your purchases for you if you paid them extra (i.e. shipping/delivery fee) for it? How does the Internet make staying in your home more possible than the telephone does? or an inky quill and a sheet of papyrus?
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Roblimo left out the "http://" -- to see the photos, click here.
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
From what I read here and here: the "Juggernaut search Engine" and the "Juggernaut Search Engine Crawler" are two separate pieces of software. The former is GPLed. The latter is not for sale but you can purchase the database it creates (or get a demo/sampler subset of the database for free)
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Humans have this tendency (a "tower of Babel" complex?) to think "Ah, when we've achieved this thing, we will be in full control of the forces of nature" and when we get there, we often discover that even though we may have been "right" in our assumptions (e.g. the effect of each of these genes), there turn out to be an overwhelming number of other factors (e.g. eliminating the gene associated with X does not eliminate X). Sorta like the "butterfly effect" I guess (not that I want to start that argument up here).
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
What happens when companies keep merging and just add their names together? You get the longest name on the NYSE: PriceWaterhouseCoopers -- sorta old-fashioned in that they're retaining the surnames of their founders, but newfangled in not using spaces or puncuation.
-
<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
My eyes musta moved up a row when looking at the list of idealab companies
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
eToys CEOs are Mariam Naficy & Varsha Rao -- address your letters to them, so they at least get past the customer service level.
-
<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Etoys stock has fallen from $70 to $55 since Monday, the day this ruling was given.
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
These claims are discussed in the Village Voice article -- they are pure FUD. "digital hijack" sounds bad but it was the name of a pretty tame demonstration of the innacuracy of search engines. The "shares" were another artistic project which no-one could confuse with etoys stock. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for mud to sling.
-
<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht
Be sure to write etoys and (Very Politely) tell them this.
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<SIG>
"I am not trying to prove that I am right... I am only trying to find out whether." -Bertolt Brecht