No, I never said Apple's formats are all open and DRM free. But your complaint was about QuickTime, which is. If your last comment is an oh-so-smart refernce to the fact that MPEG is "motion pictures", not audio, I'd suggest you look up "MPEG-1 layer 3" for history and "Advanced Audio Coding" for today.
They estimate that for every dollar outsourced to India, the US gains a 67c net direct benefit, plus between 45c and 47c net benefit from US labour re-employed.
1) By removing money from the US economy.
Outsourcing brings *more* money into the US economy by lowering costs and increasing profits.
2) By reducing the US tax base, because less internal jobs = less taxation
More profits = more corporate taxes. Companies can also invest more in the higher skilled, higher paid jobs when they've reduced costs. The outsourced work needs project managers in the US.
3)By reducing the skills base of your country in the long term.
Outsourcing has been proven created more jobs in the original country in the medium to long term, which are higher skilled and higher paid.
There is so much rubbish spoken about outsourcing, and the same tired lines get trotted out here whenever the subject comes up. The fact is that the number of jobs lost due to it are far fewer than those lost in the normal economic cycle. The biggest factor in the current 'jobless recovery' in the US is the reckless economic policies being pursued by the government, not a few thousand projects being outsourced.
The US economy seems to be surviving more or less on arms sales, advertising, and illegal tarriffs as far as its economy goes.
Protectionist policies such as illegal tariffs and trade-distorting subsidies are hurting the economy, not helping. Simple example: in the US, sugar prices over the past 10 years have averaged 3 times the world market price, thanks to tariffs and subsidies that benefit a few sugar producers in swing states who have well-paid lobbyists. Meanwhile consumers pay for this twice through increased prices on any food with sugar in it, and the taxes used to pay the subsidies.
The results of the surveys have been quite interesting actually. Mainly they seem to say that most people do think they're better off now than under Saddam, but oppose the continued presence of the coalition forces. The Economist has a graphic with some of the figures.
And if you think that drinking any cola is only slightly preferable to sucking the sweat from Steve Ballmer's jock strap, then you'be just wasted 21c on sink corrosive.
My experience is with the UK, so that's what I'll talk about. There are good arguments both for and against incorporating. If you're on your own it's probably best to not bother at first. The main point is to limit your liability, but with startups most creditors would want a persnal guarantee from you anyway, so that benefitis gone. If you get investors you'll need to incorporate, but if you have already they'll want new documents anyway, so you may as well not bother to start with.
There can be tax benefits, though the IR-35 rules are designed to put a stop to lots of them.
If you do want to incorporate it's pretty easy and cheap to do yoiurself, and certainly better than paying someone to do it for you. I did a writeup on everything2 explaining how to go about it: I've done it a couple of times now. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so and 20.
...Apple Mail has done this since Panther came out. Emails can be viewed as threaded discussions. It's clever, and doesn't just go on subject line, but also pays attention to in-reply-to headers (or whatever it's really called).
My UN representative was appointed by the elected government of my country. That's one of the things we appoint them to do. Did you vote for your Defense Secretary? Your Trade Representatives? Your Supreme Court Justices? No. They were appointed by your government in a similar manner as they appointed your UN representatives. You don't like their choices, elect a new one.
Except that's not how it is at the moment. ICANN was set up by the US govt. Verisign (or NetSol then) was awarded its monopoly by the US govt. The US govt is the one who can decide to disband ICANN if they so wish.
OK, makes sense. While you're at it, Richard Trevithick built the first train. Therefore Senedh Kernow (what, you haven't heard of the Cornish Assembly?) should regulate the world's railways.
Funny how people get so indignant when it's a "controlling multinational entity", but you seem happy with the status quo: one controlling national entity. Anyone in control, so long as it's the US, then?
This is about taking control of the internet (which transcends borders) away from the control of one country (the US, if you hadn't guessed) and putting it into the hands of a supranational organisation (the UN).
Sure, the UN makes mistakes, and there are some bloopers in its treaties and resolutions, but I'd venture that none would really come close to the legal absurdities that have been coming out of the US in recent years. That said, the more important point is that the internet shouldn't be in the hands of any one government. It's too important for that. You can counter by saying that it was created by DARPA, etc. But then the brits could equally counter by claiming HTTP and HTML. Or maybe the Swiss would like to claim that.
Some are saying that we should leave it to the governemtns to regulate. Does this mean that each country should have its own root servers? There are some things that do need to be agreed between everyone, and there needs to be an authority to make the final call. ICANN and Verisign has shown how lousy the US govt has been at delegating that power itself.
This isn't about having the big scary new world order coming in and making you speak french and accept universal healthcare, it's about accepting that there are some things that affect all of us that use the internet, so they should be in the hands of all of us, not of one country.
Very good point. In the years since I first got my beloved TiVo, I've grown to really appreciate it when shows are screened at weird times like 4am or 1pm when I'm at work. That way they don't clash with other stuff, and my housemates aren't going to stop the recording (KILL KILL KILL!).
A year or so ago I went to a shitty conference in the hell-hole that is Cannes. One of the very few interesting seminars was a discussion involving someone from TiVo, another from the BBC and one from the advertising dept of Proctor & Gamble. The BBC guy was saying how PVRs were making them more likely to do things like repeat whole series in the middle of the night. The woman from P&G actually said she was a big fan of PVRs, as she thinks the 30 second commercial is a terrible format. This coming form one of the world's biggest TV advertisers. She said PVRs encourage new, more imaginative forms of advertisiong. She was essentially saying that they only have the ad format because everyone else uses it and they cant concede any ground in such a comptitive market.
How does this work if the mails aren't going through the ISP's server? Are you expeting them to scan all traffic on port 25? Even this doesn't help with the viruses that turn the PCs into a zombie relay, through which the spammers then send non-virus spam. Blocking 25 outbound is an excellent way to stop this as well as the direct spreading of viruses. If your ISP has a crap relay, get a better ISP. If you really need outbound SMTP then get a static address.
SMTP isn't really designed for dynamic IP though. You're supposed to have a reliable return address for bounces. Get a better provider that gives you static. Demon DSL is good in the UK. They give static IP, including in-addr.arpa records in your domain. We use them, and they aren't in any blocklists apart from the specific "All-DSL" ones.
I'm assuming that by "running your own SMTP server" you mean you're running one at the end of a DSL line or similar. If so, why don't you use your ISP's server as smarthost and relay through them? Avoids DSL/dialup/dynamic blacklisting, and reduces the strain on your server. Win-win, surely?
First off, the hardware is not proprietary. The BIOS, however, is.
No. There is no BIOS. Macs use Open Firmware, which is (you've guessed it) open. The motherboard, however, is proprietory, which is one of the reasons why you can't build your own Mac.
Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychology at John Hopkins has written a book that investigates the links between creativity, intelligence and bipolar disorder. She explores the possibility that many famous "great minds" were manic depressive. The book is a fascinating read, though very technical in its language and with lots of charts and tables. She also covers this subject in the definitive textbook on the illness, of which she is a co-author.
Maybe if you'd look at the photo you'd've seen that this install *does* have IE and My Computer and from my brief glance looks just like a default Win 2K install.
I saw one crashed the other day and was so amused that I took a photo of the screen. It's poor quality: taken with a phone, at night. The sheet of paper at the bottom of the picture was taped over the screen, saying "Out of order". Of course I was curious and peeled it down.
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No, I never said Apple's formats are all open and DRM free. But your complaint was about QuickTime, which is. If your last comment is an oh-so-smart refernce to the fact that MPEG is "motion pictures", not audio, I'd suggest you look up "MPEG-1 layer 3" for history and "Advanced Audio Coding" for today.
So you don't want MPEG-4 either then, as that's based on the QuickTime file format?
First one I can find is a McKinsey report: *summary *PDF of full report
They estimate that for every dollar outsourced to India, the US gains a 67c net direct benefit, plus between 45c and 47c net benefit from US labour re-employed.
1) By removing money from the US economy.
Outsourcing brings *more* money into the US economy by lowering costs and increasing profits.
2) By reducing the US tax base, because less internal jobs = less taxation
More profits = more corporate taxes. Companies can also invest more in the higher skilled, higher paid jobs when they've reduced costs. The outsourced work needs project managers in the US.
3)By reducing the skills base of your country in the long term.
Outsourcing has been proven created more jobs in the original country in the medium to long term, which are higher skilled and higher paid.
There is so much rubbish spoken about outsourcing, and the same tired lines get trotted out here whenever the subject comes up. The fact is that the number of jobs lost due to it are far fewer than those lost in the normal economic cycle. The biggest factor in the current 'jobless recovery' in the US is the reckless economic policies being pursued by the government, not a few thousand projects being outsourced.
The US economy seems to be surviving more or less on arms sales, advertising, and illegal tarriffs as far as its economy goes.
Protectionist policies such as illegal tariffs and trade-distorting subsidies are hurting the economy, not helping. Simple example: in the US, sugar prices over the past 10 years have averaged 3 times the world market price, thanks to tariffs and subsidies that benefit a few sugar producers in swing states who have well-paid lobbyists. Meanwhile consumers pay for this twice through increased prices on any food with sugar in it, and the taxes used to pay the subsidies.
The results of the surveys have been quite interesting actually. Mainly they seem to say that most people do think they're better off now than under Saddam, but oppose the continued presence of the coalition forces. The Economist has a graphic with some of the figures.
And if you think that drinking any cola is only slightly preferable to sucking the sweat from Steve Ballmer's jock strap, then you'be just wasted 21c on sink corrosive.
In the past half hour or so it seems that they have removed the A record. Try dig +trace www.sco.com now.
There can be tax benefits, though the IR-35 rules are designed to put a stop to lots of them.
If you do want to incorporate it's pretty easy and cheap to do yoiurself, and certainly better than paying someone to do it for you. I did a writeup on everything2 explaining how to go about it: I've done it a couple of times now. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so and 20.
Double-clicking an app in the dock doesn't open it in the background. Dragging the border doesn't do anything.
...Apple Mail has done this since Panther came out. Emails can be viewed as threaded discussions. It's clever, and doesn't just go on subject line, but also pays attention to in-reply-to headers (or whatever it's really called).
I defer to The Onion in this matter.
My UN representative was appointed by the elected government of my country. That's one of the things we appoint them to do. Did you vote for your Defense Secretary? Your Trade Representatives? Your Supreme Court Justices? No. They were appointed by your government in a similar manner as they appointed your UN representatives. You don't like their choices, elect a new one.
Except that's not how it is at the moment. ICANN was set up by the US govt. Verisign (or NetSol then) was awarded its monopoly by the US govt. The US govt is the one who can decide to disband ICANN if they so wish.
OK, makes sense. While you're at it, Richard Trevithick built the first train. Therefore Senedh Kernow (what, you haven't heard of the Cornish Assembly?) should regulate the world's railways.
Funny how people get so indignant when it's a "controlling multinational entity", but you seem happy with the status quo: one controlling national entity. Anyone in control, so long as it's the US, then?
Sure, the UN makes mistakes, and there are some bloopers in its treaties and resolutions, but I'd venture that none would really come close to the legal absurdities that have been coming out of the US in recent years. That said, the more important point is that the internet shouldn't be in the hands of any one government. It's too important for that. You can counter by saying that it was created by DARPA, etc. But then the brits could equally counter by claiming HTTP and HTML. Or maybe the Swiss would like to claim that.
Some are saying that we should leave it to the governemtns to regulate. Does this mean that each country should have its own root servers? There are some things that do need to be agreed between everyone, and there needs to be an authority to make the final call. ICANN and Verisign has shown how lousy the US govt has been at delegating that power itself.
This isn't about having the big scary new world order coming in and making you speak french and accept universal healthcare, it's about accepting that there are some things that affect all of us that use the internet, so they should be in the hands of all of us, not of one country.
Very good point. In the years since I first got my beloved TiVo, I've grown to really appreciate it when shows are screened at weird times like 4am or 1pm when I'm at work. That way they don't clash with other stuff, and my housemates aren't going to stop the recording (KILL KILL KILL!). A year or so ago I went to a shitty conference in the hell-hole that is Cannes. One of the very few interesting seminars was a discussion involving someone from TiVo, another from the BBC and one from the advertising dept of Proctor & Gamble. The BBC guy was saying how PVRs were making them more likely to do things like repeat whole series in the middle of the night. The woman from P&G actually said she was a big fan of PVRs, as she thinks the 30 second commercial is a terrible format. This coming form one of the world's biggest TV advertisers. She said PVRs encourage new, more imaginative forms of advertisiong. She was essentially saying that they only have the ad format because everyone else uses it and they cant concede any ground in such a comptitive market.
How does this work if the mails aren't going through the ISP's server? Are you expeting them to scan all traffic on port 25? Even this doesn't help with the viruses that turn the PCs into a zombie relay, through which the spammers then send non-virus spam. Blocking 25 outbound is an excellent way to stop this as well as the direct spreading of viruses. If your ISP has a crap relay, get a better ISP. If you really need outbound SMTP then get a static address.
SMTP isn't really designed for dynamic IP though. You're supposed to have a reliable return address for bounces. Get a better provider that gives you static. Demon DSL is good in the UK. They give static IP, including in-addr.arpa records in your domain. We use them, and they aren't in any blocklists apart from the specific "All-DSL" ones.
I'm assuming that by "running your own SMTP server" you mean you're running one at the end of a DSL line or similar. If so, why don't you use your ISP's server as smarthost and relay through them? Avoids DSL/dialup/dynamic blacklisting, and reduces the strain on your server. Win-win, surely?
No. There is no BIOS. Macs use Open Firmware, which is (you've guessed it) open. The motherboard, however, is proprietory, which is one of the reasons why you can't build your own Mac.
Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychology at John Hopkins has written a book that investigates the links between creativity, intelligence and bipolar disorder. She explores the possibility that many famous "great minds" were manic depressive. The book is a fascinating read, though very technical in its language and with lots of charts and tables. She also covers this subject in the definitive textbook on the illness, of which she is a co-author.
Maybe if you'd look at the photo you'd've seen that this install *does* have IE and My Computer and from my brief glance looks just like a default Win 2K install.
I tried pressing buttons, but the damn thing wouldn't give me a DOS prompt...ATM.exe --dispense=20000...
I saw one crashed the other day and was so amused that I took a photo of the screen. It's poor quality: taken with a phone, at night. The sheet of paper at the bottom of the picture was taped over the screen, saying "Out of order". Of course I was curious and peeled it down.