Pricey, what do they offer in terms of real-world savings? $990 for a house fan is going to be a steep hill to climb in the Lowes/Home Depot retail space.
Explain how windows media player isn't enough to play music? Oh, and don't forget to include the reason it increases your productivity and either makes the company revenue, or saves them cost. If something like PDF converter is a usefull tool to you, why not propose it up the management chain as a STANDARD install on all desktops.
It sounds like you want to use a business PC as a personal PC. I understand the need to feel comfortable in a work environment, but you have obviously never had to work in an IT support environment. Standard PC builds are much easier to troubleshoot and support than having 100 desktops/laptops that are "almost" standard, except for the 100 odd programs randomly installed all over the network.
If you really need something to be productive, no management or IT chain is going to limit you, unless you've been a PITA in the past. Reap what you sow.
Actually, that's not it at all. The key word in your argument is willing. You are willing to compensate someone for a product. IN the case of music or movie downloads there's two groups. Those willing to give something equal to what they consider the value, if the value is offered by someone other than the owner for free they will take that offer, but if that value is taken away they have no choice but to compensate the owner for that item. The other group is those that are unwilling to compensate if the price of the item is more than free.
The first group is contributing to theft, as in the absense of the ability to obtain it for free the owner would have gained something of value. The second group is not, they would not have contributed either way.
It's not stealing based on one assumption, that every single person that downloaded would not have purchased at the rate set by the copyright holder.
In the heyday of Napster my father downloaded every piece of music he could find. He is your Joe Blow six pack user, and in todays market he purchases legally via itunes. Given the choice he would always choose to download the free copy, but when that avenue is removed from him he purchases.
That is lost revenue in any sense of the word. Sure there will be comments made that it's not theft, which is a grey area of interpretation. If you could confidently say 100% of the people download would not have purchased anyways, you are correct. But if even 1 person would have purchased except for the option of download for free, they have lost revenue and it could be construed as theft.
Obviously you work for a larger organization, while I'm not exactly in a large organization, we spent over 250,000$ on laptops, desktops, and servers last year, 65K$ of that went to Dell. I call and get an indian every time, and go around the support queue talking to "bob" "joe" and the likes, they are still clueless. This of course pushed me to IBM for hardware which I'm happy to say I have yet to speak to an indian(or really to have an issue).
The install is basically an external box that separates the fiber, they drill a hole to the nearest power outlet for the battery backup, and run Cat5 + Cat3 to a single drop anywhere in the house. Then they give you the crappiest D-Link wired router possible.
Is the editor seriously advocating jail time for spamming? I'm all for punishment, but I think taking every piece of property and dime of wealth is going to make a much bigger impact than sending them to a place that fosters the criminal mentality rather than reforming it. Reserve jail for hardcore felons that perform a physically harmful crime to someone else.
So, when your daughter marries a man 20-30 years her elder you're not going to have an issue are you? I 'd agree a good majority of the population relies on the "tv-nanny" too much, but never allowing your daughter to experience the things her inevitable peers do will make her an outcast and probably eventually hate you(expecially in the 13-18 ages when they are MOST vulnerable to the species of man I like to call the ASSHOLE). Find some common ground, allow her a bit of freedom with respect to television and movies, and at the same time spend time talking and interacting.
Could you further explain how Japanese-AMERICAN citizens are a security risk? Are you saying that during wartimes people who were born here and raised by families that were born here should be interned because they are a "security risk" based on their heritage?
The problem is Encryption of said satellite signals, until this device is authorized by Dish/Echostar it'll receive nothing but FTA(Free To Air) television which is all crap in the USA.
I wholeheartedly agree with the parent poster. To quote the summary
so when a mother discovered her nine-year-old playing online poker to feed his virtual pet
The key word here is "online." This is yet another example of a Mother too busy with her own personal social life to actually involve herself in the rearing of her children. Since when did it become a mandate that her child had to have the neopet from McDonalds? Last time I looked the Internet was a pretty menacing place for children that are using it UNSUPERVISED. Get a grip and tell your kid NO! for once.
The current trend to outsourcing jobs in India is purely a financially driven maneuver. AFAIK there are still no hard facts pointing to lower costs by moving these jobs overseas. From what I understand the code generally has to be re-worked in America due to a language barrier and general fundamental difference in the philosopy of western business and culture. I can see this trend continuing for 3-4 more years. And as this trend goes along you're going to see more American engineers start businesses and compete with overseas. How you ask? When developing customer oriented software that eventually has to be used and supported, who would YOU rather talk to, an american who can at least understand the cultural and language references you present, or an Indian who can't divert from what's written in his current 3" binder.
If you read your EULA or whatever relevant document that you implicitly agreed to by buying your service, you'll probably notice the CIR(commited information rate) is MUCH lower than 2/256. DSL circuits are the typical example of this, but Cable has the same limitations. a 1.5/384k dsl circuit usually has a CIR of 384/128k. If they can reasonably prove they are providing the CIR for you, your contract is fullfilled. That's another reason why T1 and greater are more expensive, they typically have a CIR close to their full speed maximum.
It's not exactly that easy. You will also typically need a working(and supported) soundcard. The modem list with support is slim. Asterisk is really designed to do FXO/FXS integration for T1 circuits to carry voice signals across them. It can also do H.323 and SIP out of the box(so to speak).
This will never put one of the large providers out of business, the only thing it will do is drive an SBC or AT&T to up any plans they might have for rolling out VoIP to your door. Imagine if your DSL circuit came with a VoIP phone service bundled in. You just can't compete with the volume and reach that these two giants have amassed.
Contrary to what you might think, It'd be easier to admin such a situation. If you allow for centralized file storage on a large file server, and then remotely boot images of Linux in a terminal server type situation, bugfixes would be cake. Simply update the bootp image and force a reboot of all machines, fixed. This of course assumes consistent hardware, but this type of situation calls for little to no client end hardware so the boxes can be cheap.
While wireless security is a trivial joke, that doesn't mean that all ISP's will use it and ONLY it. There are plenty of things such as MAC registration, VPN tunnels, etc that can make your wireless...well..yours....
Unless I'm blatently reading into this wrong, it appears that sony isn't intending on this hitting CD/DVD media. It appears that they are trying to legitimize purely digital content(MP3/DivX/etc) by tracking it. While I'm not for this type of behaviour, it's a legitimate attempt at creating a system of legal file swapping(I pay 5$ for an mp3 and they are satisfied that if I use the proprietary player it's not going to be copied to 1,000,000 people).
Nevermind those pesky "algorithm design and analysis" topics. Or the theories on how languages are derived(basically making you able to pickup any language in a few hours).
Don't get me wrong, I love just diving in and getting into coding. When I was pre-college I did that daily. Then when I actually learned how to plan what I was doing my code was 100x better. The only thing that diving in gets you is horrible style and structure.
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Novell was great in it's day. I've watched it mature from the old DOS versions to the 5.x flavor.
That being said, integrating novell with a Windows NT network is a pain in the a$$. I currently support an application that runs on a Novell base(which in 3 weeks will be changed to a NT based network). The performance of this application is HORRIBLE. It constantly locks up our server, constantly(probably 2-3 times a day) locks up the print queue so I have to totally reboot the server.
Samba has provided the perfect tool for me to integrate Unix environments seamlessly into our NT network, I wish I could say the same for Novell.
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Pricey, what do they offer in terms of real-world savings? $990 for a house fan is going to be a steep hill to climb in the Lowes/Home Depot retail space.
Explain how windows media player isn't enough to play music? Oh, and don't forget to include the reason it increases your productivity and either makes the company revenue, or saves them cost. If something like PDF converter is a usefull tool to you, why not propose it up the management chain as a STANDARD install on all desktops.
It sounds like you want to use a business PC as a personal PC. I understand the need to feel comfortable in a work environment, but you have obviously never had to work in an IT support environment. Standard PC builds are much easier to troubleshoot and support than having 100 desktops/laptops that are "almost" standard, except for the 100 odd programs randomly installed all over the network.
If you really need something to be productive, no management or IT chain is going to limit you, unless you've been a PITA in the past. Reap what you sow.
Actually, that's not it at all. The key word in your argument is willing. You are willing to compensate someone for a product. IN the case of music or movie downloads there's two groups. Those willing to give something equal to what they consider the value, if the value is offered by someone other than the owner for free they will take that offer, but if that value is taken away they have no choice but to compensate the owner for that item. The other group is those that are unwilling to compensate if the price of the item is more than free.
The first group is contributing to theft, as in the absense of the ability to obtain it for free the owner would have gained something of value. The second group is not, they would not have contributed either way.
It's not stealing based on one assumption, that every single person that downloaded would not have purchased at the rate set by the copyright holder.
In the heyday of Napster my father downloaded every piece of music he could find. He is your Joe Blow six pack user, and in todays market he purchases legally via itunes. Given the choice he would always choose to download the free copy, but when that avenue is removed from him he purchases.
That is lost revenue in any sense of the word. Sure there will be comments made that it's not theft, which is a grey area of interpretation. If you could confidently say 100% of the people download would not have purchased anyways, you are correct. But if even 1 person would have purchased except for the option of download for free, they have lost revenue and it could be construed as theft.
Obviously you work for a larger organization, while I'm not exactly in a large organization, we spent over 250,000$ on laptops, desktops, and servers last year, 65K$ of that went to Dell. I call and get an indian every time, and go around the support queue talking to "bob" "joe" and the likes, they are still clueless. This of course pushed me to IBM for hardware which I'm happy to say I have yet to speak to an indian(or really to have an issue).
Explain please, why would you put a deposit on a 12 pack? I can understand a keg....
The install is basically an external box that separates the fiber, they drill a hole to the nearest power outlet for the battery backup, and run Cat5 + Cat3 to a single drop anywhere in the house. Then they give you the crappiest D-Link wired router possible.
Is the editor seriously advocating jail time for spamming? I'm all for punishment, but I think taking every piece of property and dime of wealth is going to make a much bigger impact than sending them to a place that fosters the criminal mentality rather than reforming it. Reserve jail for hardcore felons that perform a physically harmful crime to someone else.
So, when your daughter marries a man 20-30 years her elder you're not going to have an issue are you? I 'd agree a good majority of the population relies on the "tv-nanny" too much, but never allowing your daughter to experience the things her inevitable peers do will make her an outcast and probably eventually hate you(expecially in the 13-18 ages when they are MOST vulnerable to the species of man I like to call the ASSHOLE). Find some common ground, allow her a bit of freedom with respect to television and movies, and at the same time spend time talking and interacting.
Could you further explain how Japanese-AMERICAN citizens are a security risk? Are you saying that during wartimes people who were born here and raised by families that were born here should be interned because they are a "security risk" based on their heritage?
The problem is Encryption of said satellite signals, until this device is authorized by Dish/Echostar it'll receive nothing but FTA(Free To Air) television which is all crap in the USA.
The key word here is "online." This is yet another example of a Mother too busy with her own personal social life to actually involve herself in the rearing of her children. Since when did it become a mandate that her child had to have the neopet from McDonalds? Last time I looked the Internet was a pretty menacing place for children that are using it UNSUPERVISED. Get a grip and tell your kid NO! for once.
The current trend to outsourcing jobs in India is purely a financially driven maneuver. AFAIK there are still no hard facts pointing to lower costs by moving these jobs overseas. From what I understand the code generally has to be re-worked in America due to a language barrier and general fundamental difference in the philosopy of western business and culture. I can see this trend continuing for 3-4 more years. And as this trend goes along you're going to see more American engineers start businesses and compete with overseas. How you ask? When developing customer oriented software that eventually has to be used and supported, who would YOU rather talk to, an american who can at least understand the cultural and language references you present, or an Indian who can't divert from what's written in his current 3" binder.
It's coming to Keller TX . As we speak they are pushing conduit down my street.
If you read your EULA or whatever relevant document that you implicitly agreed to by buying your service, you'll probably notice the CIR(commited information rate) is MUCH lower than 2/256. DSL circuits are the typical example of this, but Cable has the same limitations. a 1.5/384k dsl circuit usually has a CIR of 384/128k. If they can reasonably prove they are providing the CIR for you, your contract is fullfilled. That's another reason why T1 and greater are more expensive, they typically have a CIR close to their full speed maximum.
It's not exactly that easy. You will also typically need a working(and supported) soundcard. The modem list with support is slim. Asterisk is really designed to do FXO/FXS integration for T1 circuits to carry voice signals across them. It can also do H.323 and SIP out of the box(so to speak).
This will never put one of the large providers out of business, the only thing it will do is drive an SBC or AT&T to up any plans they might have for rolling out VoIP to your door. Imagine if your DSL circuit came with a VoIP phone service bundled in. You just can't compete with the volume and reach that these two giants have amassed.
I claim the patent on short articles devoid of detail, royalties must commence immediately.
So, how long till we see a warez scene release of the microsoft source code? I mean isn't taiwan one of the worst countries for piracy there is?
Contrary to what you might think, It'd be easier to admin such a situation. If you allow for centralized file storage on a large file server, and then remotely boot images of Linux in a terminal server type situation, bugfixes would be cake. Simply update the bootp image and force a reboot of all machines, fixed. This of course assumes consistent hardware, but this type of situation calls for little to no client end hardware so the boxes can be cheap.
I fail to see how opening your TV can help, but just be sure to discharge the caps...or perhaps we'll see another story about a NOC in flames :)
While wireless security is a trivial joke, that doesn't mean that all ISP's will use it and ONLY it. There are plenty of things such as MAC registration, VPN tunnels, etc that can make your wireless...well..yours....
Unless I'm blatently reading into this wrong, it appears that sony isn't intending on this hitting CD/DVD media. It appears that they are trying to legitimize purely digital content(MP3/DivX/etc) by tracking it. While I'm not for this type of behaviour, it's a legitimate attempt at creating a system of legal file swapping(I pay 5$ for an mp3 and they are satisfied that if I use the proprietary player it's not going to be copied to 1,000,000 people).
Nevermind those pesky "algorithm design and analysis" topics. Or the theories on how languages are derived(basically making you able to pickup any language in a few hours).
Don't get me wrong, I love just diving in and getting into coding. When I was pre-college I did that daily. Then when I actually learned how to plan what I was doing my code was 100x better. The only thing that diving in gets you is horrible style and structure.
Novell was great in it's day. I've watched it mature from the old DOS versions to the 5.x flavor.
That being said, integrating novell with a Windows NT network is a pain in the a$$. I currently support an application that runs on a Novell base(which in 3 weeks will be changed to a NT based network). The performance of this application is HORRIBLE. It constantly locks up our server, constantly(probably 2-3 times a day) locks up the print queue so I have to totally reboot the server.
Samba has provided the perfect tool for me to integrate Unix environments seamlessly into our NT network, I wish I could say the same for Novell.
*cringing at the thought of Zen*
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