Again, the point of this ruling is that ONLY THE FCC CAN REGULATE SPECTRUM USE.
In other words.. if anyone else does it, it's invalid.
Your landlord could make you sign a contract banning the presence of wifi equipment befor ehe rents you the house, however if he permits you to have such equipment in the house, he CANNOT regulate your use if ot.
This is for unlicensed bands. If you need spectrum upon which NATIONAL SECURITY rests, you use LICENSED spectrum, where it is a FELONY to use without permission. Duh. Airlines DO use licensed spectrum... and unlicensed.
THe issue here is an airport using commonly used unlicensed equipment and insising that the airlines that use it are NOT ALLOWED to use similar equipment on their own, but instead must use the airport's and pay the airport for that use..
I've never seen options where the company could "call" and require you to pony up the strike value of the options you hold...
The only time you have to pay the company is when you are exercising your option.. not a moment before. And generally, unless you have to exercise or imminently lose them because they will expire / you got fired/etc, you ONLY exercise when you are ready to sell.
Of course the company requires the strike value be paid when you exercise.. that's what options are, as you said.. the option to buy a limited amount of stock from the company at a certain price. Some companies have things set so if you want to sell immediately, they will do it all for you with no up front. Any broker will also deal with this for you.. you generally don't need cash up front.
Do you have an example of an employee stock offering somewhere wher ethe company had the ability to prematurely demand payment?
Right.. so what? The shareholders approved the option offering, and take that stock dilution into account when figuring out what the stock is worth. It's not like the company is somehow stealing from it's shareholders by offering options.
I understand the need to balance out control; in my corporate situation, we do insist that anyone who wants to use their windows PC in the office must allow us to add it to the windows domain and have full administrative control, as well as use the corporate antivirus. IN all cases so far, this is welcomed, but that's due to the users in question who really just want to do their work and take a bit of it home.. they are more than happy to let us manage it. Certainly, a university is a very different situation.
How about a situation like this: In order ot use the network, there would be a custom authentication agent. Said agent makes sure your windows PC has the appropriate patches and virus updates, and if not, ASKS you if you would like to perform them in order to use the network. Presented the right way, this could work well... and still leaves control in the hands of the user.. balance is restored.
Before you scream about your rights, though, you have to realize the fact that a significant number of poeple do not keep their computers up to date, and that a few misbehaving, out of date, worm infected computer can cause large problems.. if they didn't, then sysadmins wouldn't be bother with policies like this... we are control freaks, but we really would rather NOT have access to your personal computer.. managing that is YOUR problem, not ours... our power just comes from unplugging you from the rest of our beloved networks.
- When Americans use jetpacks, they don't generally use a tether. It's not a backup.
- Tethers have NEVER broken, they are EXTREMELY strong.
- If there is no practical reason for a rock climber to have a tether.. why on earth would a spacewalker need one? Both will die if their tether breaks (the rock climber, a lot faster)
Backups for backups for backups is great.. but there is also increased risk with complexity.
You want a backup for a tether? How about.. 2 tethers!
Manned russian spacecraft/aircraft have fantastic ejection systems. I saw one video of a rocket explode on the launch pad... a split second before the explosion the pilot hit eject, and they capsule rocketed up and away, FAST, and then parachuted down. though I'm sure that felt like getting hit by a dumptruck to the occupants, it beats burning up in a million or so pounds of rocket fuel.
Why would it be pressurized? methanol exists as a liquid at standard temperature & pressure. It would be like refilling a zippo, or a lawnmower, or a motorbike.. not like refilling propane or a butane lighter or anything like that.
- Give me a reasonably quiet place to work, where I don't have to be distracted and/or bothered by anyone on a regular basis.
- Give me a reasonably comfortable workstation with enough space to do my job comfortably.
The things that make us not like cube farms or open areas or what have you is when it's very impersonal. You have employees, not drones. Having the workspace fit the job.. period.
SO get a Sipura, which lets you plug in any phone you like.
there is no reason to involve the computer in this task.. there are a number of cheap broadband telephone adapters out there, and SIP is easy to use.
Saying "Keep it digital as long as possible" only makes sense if you aren't transcoding things with lossy codecs along the way in order to accomplish it.
How long do you think it takes the average packet to travel from your machine to your girlfriend's? I'll wager that it's less than a tenth of a second, and that the round-trip time on a ping is probably less than 200ms... this is typical of any two points on the net in north america.
unless some links are either badly configured or saturated, or both, bandwidth isn't really an issue.
Your computer has auto-run.. that means on inserting ANY CD, your computer could potentially execute code and put it into memory. THis may involve temporary files, etc. At what point is it "intalled?" What if it doesn't actually INSTALl, but just stays memory resident until removed?
How do we legally differentiate this from an installer?
We could also say your computer knowingly allows untrusted code to execute.. tha'ts what autorun does.
but it sounds like the perfect opportunity to find a boss who works for you, not the other way around.
What I mean is, the Engineering Manager, say, is there to make sure the department is doing what the company needs.. but equally, there to make sure the company is providing the engineers with the resources and environment needed to do their jobs. Disciplinary action aside, a good manager in a position like that should almost NEVER have to exert authority over his staff, becuase the staff already do their job properly.. he's just there to deal with situations where a tiebreaker is needed, and to keep an extra focus on where the company really wants to go. Most of his work should be the other way around... going up the chain of command to get the staff what they need, and properly communicate how things are going to the rest of management.
In my experience, which obviously doesn't mean everything, certificates have nothing at all to do with how well someone understands a topic, or how well they will perform a job. Further, in my 8 or so years of professional sysadmin (meaning that's how I make my living), very few of the other sysadmins I've met, in relatively senior positions at other successful companies, have had any certificates to speak of, other than the odd certification their company made them go get (Firewalls, etc). I've met one with an MCSE , however, he obtained his MCSE becuase he was in a slump, quite a bit older than average, and needed to stay on top of some new stuff after coming out of a fairly long, routine syadmin job. He didn't at all think he knew it all.. he just used it as a good refresher (which it can be, if you already have some knowledge to start with)
Education is good. Certification, if you view it as education, is not a bad thing.. the danger is when certification, and the organizations issuing them, lead you to believe that they are VERY important, and that once you learn what they have to tell you you will be an expert, at the top of your game. You will not.. you will have proven a very basic level of technical knowledge that is somewhat revelant to the modern sysadmin.
Having certifications is not a bad thing.. but acting like your certifications are what make you valuable to a potential employer is not.
IF you already have several years of real work experience, certifications are not something you should really worry about.
If it actually installs software without asking, they deserve some kind of large lawsuit.. though I'm not sure what the damages would be... probably something similar to what we might charge virus writers with?
I bought an audio CD, and I have a fair expectation of what that means. It does NOT mean somthing that installs software silently and without asking on my pc.
I have 12 drives crammed into a case designed for about 6 running 24/7 for over a year, it seems to be holding up fine. I do mean crammed.... some are wedged in spots where there should be no drives.
It has a couple extra fans, but nothing weird.. just all the fan ports are populated.. 3 fans + power supply I think.
Maintaining perfect backward compatability leads to bloat.
Those eyecandy apps you talk about, which use private interfaces that apple makes very clear will NOT necessarily be supported or even acknowledged in future versions or updates... most mac users don't install those.. and they are *eyecandy*... they don't have a whole lot to do with functionality, and do have a lot to do with inconsistency and bloat.
Most mac users do not install eyecandy.
I'm not sure what situation you mean with java.. can you elaborate?
They have a sizeable customer base of unixware installs out there, people who would most likely spend money to continue to upgrade unixware rather than switch to linux. It will be a dwindling market.. but it still represents value to SCO. If they drop unixware, they hang those customers out to dry, and lose even more money.
It's one thing to throw up a rediculous lawsuit and pit the world against you and destroy your image totally.. it's quite another to also drop everything of value you already had.. the former is ambitious, the latter, gets you sued by the shareholders.
"UnixWare 7.1.4 -- A major upgrade to the UnixWare product line, 7.1.4 includes many enhancements that continue to keep UnixWare as the most reliable, stable, scalable and affordable operating system in its class."
Now, I must say.. I agree with that totally! Finally, SCO Understands.
UnixWare is SO SHITTY that it's in a class all to itself.. nothing else is even close. As far as ultra-shitty operating systems go... it's the most reliable, stable, scalable, and affordable.;)
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Again, the point of this ruling is that ONLY THE FCC CAN REGULATE SPECTRUM USE.
In other words.. if anyone else does it, it's invalid.
Your landlord could make you sign a contract banning the presence of wifi equipment befor ehe rents you the house, however
if he permits you to have such equipment in the house, he CANNOT regulate your use if ot.
What???
This is for unlicensed bands. If you need spectrum upon which NATIONAL SECURITY rests, you use LICENSED spectrum, where it is a FELONY to use without permission. Duh. Airlines DO use licensed spectrum... and unlicensed.
THe issue here is an airport using commonly used unlicensed equipment and insising that the airlines that use it are NOT ALLOWED to use similar equipment on their own, but instead must use the airport's and pay the airport for that use..
I've never seen options where the company could "call" and require you to pony up the strike value of the options you hold...
/etc, you ONLY exercise when you are ready to sell.
The only time you have to pay the company is when you are exercising your option.. not a moment before. And generally, unless you have to exercise or imminently lose them because they will expire / you got fired
Of course the company requires the strike value be paid when you exercise.. that's what options are, as you said.. the option to buy a limited amount of stock from the company at a certain price. Some companies have things set so if you want to sell immediately, they will do it all for you with no up front. Any broker will also deal with this for you.. you generally don't need cash up front.
Do you have an example of an employee stock offering somewhere wher ethe company had the ability to prematurely demand payment?
Right.. so what? The shareholders approved the option offering, and take that stock dilution into account when figuring out what the stock is worth.
It's not like the company is somehow stealing from it's shareholders by offering options.
As a private establishment, movie theaters were already within their rights to ban videotaping in most places.
The fact that money and time was wasted passing a specific law is *absurd*... yet another useless law on the books.
I understand the need to balance out control; in my corporate situation, we do insist that anyone who wants to use their windows PC in the office must allow us to add it to the windows domain and have full administrative control, as well as use the corporate antivirus. IN all cases so far, this is welcomed, but that's due to the users in question who really just want to do their work and take a bit of it home.. they are more than happy to let us manage it. Certainly, a university is a very different situation.
How about a situation like this: In order ot use the network, there would be a custom authentication agent. Said agent makes sure your windows PC has the appropriate patches and virus updates, and if not, ASKS you if you would like to perform them in order to use the network. Presented the right way, this could work well... and still leaves control in the hands of the user.. balance is restored.
Before you scream about your rights, though, you have to realize the fact that a significant number of poeple do not keep their computers up to date, and that a few misbehaving, out of date, worm infected computer can cause large problems.. if they didn't, then sysadmins wouldn't be bother with policies like this... we are control freaks, but we really would rather NOT have access to your personal computer.. managing that is YOUR problem, not ours... our power just comes from unplugging you from the rest of our beloved networks.
The Russians fly unmanned resupply missions to the ISS on a fairly regular basis, for a small fraction of the cost of sending up the shuttle.
- When Americans use jetpacks, they don't generally use a tether. It's not a backup.
- Tethers have NEVER broken, they are EXTREMELY strong.
- If there is no practical reason for a rock climber to have a tether.. why on earth would a spacewalker need one? Both will die if their tether breaks (the rock climber, a lot faster)
Backups for backups for backups is great.. but there is also increased risk with complexity.
You want a backup for a tether? How about.. 2 tethers!
Manned russian spacecraft/aircraft have fantastic ejection systems. I saw one video of a rocket explode on the launch pad... a split second before the explosion the pilot hit eject, and they capsule rocketed up and away, FAST, and then parachuted down. though I'm sure that felt like getting hit by a dumptruck to the occupants, it beats burning up in a million or so pounds of rocket fuel.
Why would it be pressurized? methanol exists as a liquid at standard temperature & pressure.
It would be like refilling a zippo, or a lawnmower, or a motorbike.. not like refilling propane or a butane lighter or anything like that.
Why would depressurization blow a fuel cell?
methanol does not require pressurization.
No...
1 inch is by definition *exactly* 2.54 cm. This is not rounded off, or an approximation. It is the definition of an inch.
so 1 yard, which is 3 feet, which is 36 inches, is 91.44 cm.
- Give me a reasonably quiet place to work, where I don't have to be distracted and/or bothered by anyone on a regular basis.
- Give me a reasonably comfortable workstation with enough space to do my job comfortably.
The things that make us not like cube farms or open areas or what have you is when it's very impersonal. You have employees, not drones. Having the workspace fit the job.. period.
SO get a Sipura, which lets you plug in any phone you like.
there is no reason to involve the computer in this task.. there are a number of cheap broadband telephone adapters out there, and SIP is easy to use.
Saying "Keep it digital as long as possible" only makes sense if you aren't transcoding things with lossy codecs along the way in order to accomplish it.
Half of streaming radio? Far, far less than that.
The VoIP codecs I've commonly seen use about 6kbps. That's nothing by today's standards.. acceptable quality for voice is far, far below radio.
You can make voip calls quite easily over a 28.8kbps modem dialup connection.
How long do you think it takes the average packet to travel from your machine to your girlfriend's? I'll wager that it's less than a tenth of a second, and that the round-trip time on a ping is probably less than 200ms... this is typical of any two points on the net in north america.
unless some links are either badly configured or saturated, or both, bandwidth isn't really an issue.
define install?
Your computer has auto-run.. that means on inserting ANY CD, your computer could potentially execute code and put it into memory. THis may involve temporary files, etc. At what point is it "intalled?"
What if it doesn't actually INSTALl, but just stays memory resident until removed?
How do we legally differentiate this from an installer?
We could also say your computer knowingly allows untrusted code to execute.. tha'ts what autorun does.
but it sounds like the perfect opportunity to find a boss who works for you, not the other way around.
What I mean is, the Engineering Manager, say, is there to make sure the department is doing what the company needs.. but equally, there to make sure the company is providing the engineers with the resources and environment needed to do their jobs. Disciplinary action aside, a good manager in a position like that should almost NEVER have to exert authority over his staff, becuase the staff already do their job properly.. he's just there to deal with situations where a tiebreaker is needed, and to keep an extra focus on where the company really wants to go. Most of his work should be the other way around... going up the chain of command to get the staff what they need, and properly communicate how things are going to the rest of management.
In my experience, which obviously doesn't mean everything, certificates have nothing at all to do with how well someone understands a topic, or how well they will perform a job. Further, in my 8 or so years of professional sysadmin (meaning that's how I make my living), very few of the other sysadmins I've met, in relatively senior positions at other successful companies, have had any certificates to speak of, other than the odd certification their company made them go get (Firewalls, etc). I've met one with an MCSE , however, he obtained his MCSE becuase he was in a slump, quite a bit older than average, and needed to stay on top of some new stuff after coming out of a fairly long, routine syadmin job. He didn't at all think he knew it all.. he just used it as a good refresher (which it can be, if you already have some knowledge to start with)
Education is good. Certification, if you view it as education, is not a bad thing.. the danger is when certification, and the organizations issuing them, lead you to believe that they are VERY important, and that once you learn what they have to tell you you will be an expert, at the top of your game. You will not.. you will have proven a very basic level of technical knowledge that is somewhat revelant to the modern sysadmin.
Having certifications is not a bad thing.. but acting like your certifications are what make you valuable to a potential employer is not.
IF you already have several years of real work experience, certifications are not something you should really worry about.
My point was that stating it's definite suicide to cram extra drives in a case isn't necessarily correct at all.
MOst cases are not operating at thermal capacity.
If it actually installs software without asking, they deserve some kind of large lawsuit.. though I'm not sure what the damages would be... probably something similar to what we might charge virus writers with?
I bought an audio CD, and I have a fair expectation of what that means. It does NOT mean somthing that installs software silently and without asking on my pc.
I have 12 drives crammed into a case designed for about 6 running 24/7 for over a year, it seems to be holding up fine. I do mean crammed.... some are wedged in spots where there should be no drives.
It has a couple extra fans, but nothing weird.. just all the fan ports are populated.. 3 fans + power supply I think.
Maintaining perfect backward compatability leads to bloat.
Those eyecandy apps you talk about, which use private interfaces that apple makes very clear will NOT necessarily be supported or even acknowledged in future versions or updates... most mac users don't install those.. and they are *eyecandy*... they don't have a whole lot to do with functionality, and do have a lot to do with inconsistency and bloat.
Most mac users do not install eyecandy.
I'm not sure what situation you mean with java.. can you elaborate?
They have a sizeable customer base of unixware installs out there, people who would most likely spend money to continue to upgrade unixware rather than switch to linux. It will be a dwindling market.. but it still represents value to SCO. If they drop unixware, they hang those customers out to dry, and lose even more money.
It's one thing to throw up a rediculous lawsuit and pit the world against you and destroy your image totally.. it's quite another to also drop everything of value you already had.. the former is ambitious, the latter, gets you sued by the shareholders.
"UnixWare 7.1.4 -- A major upgrade to the UnixWare product line, 7.1.4 includes many enhancements that continue to keep UnixWare as the most reliable, stable, scalable and affordable operating system in its class."
;)
Now, I must say.. I agree with that totally! Finally, SCO Understands.
UnixWare is SO SHITTY that it's in a class all to itself.. nothing else is even close. As far as ultra-shitty operating systems go... it's the most reliable, stable, scalable, and affordable.