Since they're using Windows they'd better back up often.
Ok, that looks like a swipe at Windows and probably not too justified unless you're insinuating this is a hedge against malicious worms.
I'd be more concerned about hard-drive quality. One of my 80GB drives (yeah, I know it's an antique at that size) is making funny noises so it's probably time to move the contents off to another drive (one of the nearly as antique 160GB drives.)
Once they found the consecutive letters A-L Q-A-E-D-A with an ASCII, EBCDIC, RADIX-50 or UNICODE dump you'd find your butt in the cell next to Moussaoui. Never mind it was utter chance. Better to have nothing to look through.
In principle, not a bad thing, considering Jane & Joe CtrlAltDel don't usually make backups and probably hardly
come close to the actual capacity of their hard drives. Not likely to be a realistic consideration for Slashdotters who
count their media, development tools, etc in the terabytes, though.
But there's the worry that if Google did this, how long before the Bureau of National Security Over Privacy and All
Else presses Google to make content of this online storage available to the FBI? RIAA? MPAA? Cheney Department of Vindictive Leaks?
Google recently squared up against the U.S. Justice Department which has subpoenaed a limited set of data on Google search habits, drawing an outcry from privacy advocates.
It's thought provoking, certainly. Then there's the inevitable:
Google, Inc.
1600 Ampitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear GDrive user, we are very concerned about recent activity with regard to your account. Please verify you User ID at the following link. www.google.com/accounts[links to: update.google-account.info/idpasswdstealer.html]
Remember never to give out your User ID or Password to people you don't know, those who spit while talking, people who do not wash their hands after using the lavatory, wombat ranchers, msn fanboys or anyone with the middle initial of J.
Best regards,
Google Internet Security
Google, Inc.
Zoellner, who says he has worked with both Oracle and SAP users throughout his career, believes that the Nucleus Research study cited by deHenry is right on in its conclusion that Oracle's average three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) is 48% lower than SAP's.
Wow. A real/. scoop. Excuse me, I was looking for News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters When did it become It is what IT is. ?
the way to Victory? Shoot, ya cain't miss it, it's a couple miles down the road then turn left at the crossroad and follow the signs
np. When I was in High School* Ricardo Montalban was on Johnny Carson**, where Johnny*** asked Ricardo what it really was, and Ricardo stated, "Alright, yes, it is vynil!"
*Usually an old fart starts statements like this, to help identify them as old farts.
**Another confirmation of old fartitude.
***Distant and deceased predecessor of Jay "the chin" Leno
... I'd want in too for profits on a $99 iPod case!
As much as I like to think that the iPod is rather overpriced for what it is, one almost has to believe it's a Loss-Leader when Apple is goug^H^H^H^Hoffering iPod mavens these ridi^H^H^H^Htrendy accessories. Is this where the profit really lies?
I've been fascinated, looking over financial statements from a variety of concerns, as to where they really make their money. All is not often as it so appears.
The bottom line is the for every King or Clancy there are 100,000 other writers who just get by. Same for musicians. But your line is that we need to demolish the system because someone has the potential to hit the Powerball.
More like there are a few hundred to each big success. I don't see too many Foyles-sized book shops around the cities I visit most, to accomodate the millions of starving authors to go with Clancy, King, Rowling, Pratchett, Crichton, et al.
What you rather shamefully overlooked is for most trade paperbacks, the initial order by distributors and bookstores, immediately after publication, is where most of these authors sales are going to occur. After the store has returned unsold extras or tossed them on the bargain table, you're hard pressed to find them again except at a used book shop. A second run of a relatively unknown author is an exceptional thing and I do know a few who have been lucky enough to have garnered enough of an audience to see that, after several years on the shelf. Nothing is preventing them from doing that. But you seem to assume there are greedy bastards lurking around the land itching to reprint obscure books which are three years after publication. Considering the overhead of the printing business that's pretty silly.
I think a 2 or 3 year copyright is rediculously short.
Rediculously, as opposed to Greendiculously or Bluediculously.
Let's face it, some films don't even make it to the screen but are marketed straight to DVD. Most popular music is going to see it's highest percentage of payoff in the first year, declining over time with only spurts when it comes back to public conciousness, as an old song in a movie (i.e. Satchmo's It's a Beautiful World, revived in Good Morning Viet Nam)
Films are in the theater and then on store shelves within the year, unless you are George "Let's actually have Han shoot first" Lucas.
Is it the copyright law as it now stands, or is it that the work of the Beatles specifically is in question? Does their work somehow present a "problem" because it is considered by the poster to be more important than someone else's work?
The Beatles themselves, and perhaps Paul in particular, knew there was money in the catalog of songs, but nothing like the amount brought in by performances. Sales of recordings and sheet music are typically small potatoes compared to touring stadiums and playing to crowds of tens of thousands who paid dearly for tickets.
Took them long enough. Throughout my entire childhood they made zilch and I was trying to figure out for the longest time what the association was between the company and the mouse.
I grew up with Bugs and Daffy, which eventually saw later life through tiny-toons or something like that.
Thats the entire point of copyright- a limited monopoly in exchange for greater incentive to produce.
But it's not an incentive to produce. Prior to copyright law content creators had to keep creating to feed themselves, whereas the system we have now says, "Create a winner, milk it for the rest of your life."
While consumers stand to benefit from competing releases of the materials, the copyright owners are of course terrified. And the artists? This one doesn't even seem to affect them."
Which is one of the reasons Disney was among those who fought tooth and nail to get copyrights extended to 70 years after the creator's death. Now they've re-acquired the rights to the first character Walt created and lost to someone else, back when he was paying his own dues.
Of course it's rarely the dead guy who cares about making more money, it's those who feel some eternal sense of entitlement.
Just imagine where we'd be if Mozart's works were still held by his heirs. Back in his day after the initial performance works fell to the public domain, which was to encourage the creator to be more productive. Now we have a system where the same tired crap gets dragged out for years and years and someone build theme parks around it.
When was the last time Mickey Mouse actually appeared in an original cartoon or film?
I prefer to go a few miles up the road to the local Native American casino. I figure it's the least I can do since my ancestors killed off most of their ancestors.
That's an interesting idea.
I have given this considerable thought over the years, since they enabled native american-run casinos in Michigan. If run with care, the proprietors could use the procedes to BUY back land which had been taken from them.
When all else fails, use the invader's rules against him.
This judge is my new personal hero (temporarily displacing Alton Brown), and exactly the type of person who SHOULD be a judge. He actually seems like he cares about people and knows what kind of stuff gets pulled behind the scenes.
Hear! Hear!
Was this guy elected or appointed? Clearly these sort of judges will rub both parties the wrong way and therefore haven't a chance of being on the US Supreme Court, which isn't as it should be.
He may as well have come out and said "Sorry, guys, you're full of shit. Give us ALL the records, and soon."
Then he'll mysteriously die in his sleep or be invited to a "hunting" trip with Dick Cheney.
I have no idea where these people are or whether they're treating any of my information with due discretion. When russian teens blast their sites with DoS attacks they're all over it, but how secure are they of names and CC's?
Sorry, I'll stick to nickels in slots when I have to go to Vega$.
I'm still on dial-up, as I have been for the last 8 years (at this address.) I see offers come and go, but they still boil down to an eventual rate of about $50/mo. I only need that speed now and then and it's hard to justify.
It's about the same with me as it has been with cell phones. I've had those 3 different times and always cancelled because I was shelling $35+/month and using the phone for less than 10 minutes a month. Only when seeking a new job or apartment do they seem genuinely necessary. I've got a pay-as-you-go plan now and I used about 20 minutes a month for each of December and January, so this is much more to my liking of ~$10/month. For service.
I'd like high speed for downloading Microsoft's bloated patches (why are these things always 15 MB? for a "few" fixes?) or the latest virus scan patterns (again, why are these things 5-10 MB?) Seems there's always a hell of a lot more than seems necessary, but I suppose developers of today didn't grow up trying to maximize 8K and could care less how much shit is in things as it's not their problem. For the most part, I get by and that's all I need.
I don't see why he should be banned , it sure does not help him getting better results at the Olympics.
I see him getting his just deserts when he's pressed on his past and gets irritated.
(not an actual interview, but how I'd love to see one go)
"Congratulations on making $40,000,000 on spy-ware and unethical business practices, Dale."
"Hey, I just won a gold medal, can we talk about that?"
"They give out gold medals now for hijacking browsers to porn sites?"
"No, it was for moguls!"
"Ah, yes, we see you're one of the top spy-ware people, so that does make you a mogul in the business."
"No, skiing moguls!"
"Oh, do you mean you have pop-up ads on the ski slopes?"
"Bwahhhh! I want me mum!"
Should the Olympic committee take a hint from him and throw the merchants out of the Olympics because it is a place for amateurs and not professionals? (By this I mean the merchants are basically buying their way in to the Olympics whereas before no blatant displays were allowed and now they are allowed.)
Hard to say. The IOC is about as big a whore as this guy. We tend to overlook it because they put on such a pretty show, but the IOC signs lucrative, exclusive deals with Television Networks, designates official press, sells the logo to "official sponsors" etc.
Maybe they would throw him out as he's probably their competition in some way.
The good side of all this is seeing a Lambourghini driving Gold Medalist getting bent out of shape because he wants to revel in his sporting accomplishment, but the questions about his unsavory activities are pecking away at him like a raven on roadkill.
I dunno about you, but it gives me the warm fuzzies.
(or are you going to tell me that you didn't need a PVR and large HD?)
My video card has a tuner and came with software to record to HD. Thanks to my bud who works at Seagate, i have about 1/2 Tb of HD for recording, among other things. Combined usage helps spread what else would be twice paid costs. I have the first week of the invasion of Iraq on drive D:
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Ok, that looks like a swipe at Windows and probably not too justified unless you're insinuating this is a hedge against malicious worms.
I'd be more concerned about hard-drive quality. One of my 80GB drives (yeah, I know it's an antique at that size) is making funny noises so it's probably time to move the contents off to another drive (one of the nearly as antique 160GB drives.)
That would probably only slow them down.
Once they found the consecutive letters A-L Q-A-E-D-A with an ASCII, EBCDIC, RADIX-50 or UNICODE dump you'd find your butt in the cell next to Moussaoui. Never mind it was utter chance. Better to have nothing to look through.
But there's the worry that if Google did this, how long before the Bureau of National Security Over Privacy and All Else presses Google to make content of this online storage available to the FBI? RIAA? MPAA? Cheney Department of Vindictive Leaks?
It's thought provoking, certainly. Then there's the inevitable: I'll pass.Wow. A real /. scoop. Excuse me, I was looking for News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters When did it become It is what IT is. ?
the way to Victory? Shoot, ya cain't miss it, it's a couple miles down the road then turn left at the crossroad and follow the signs
Sorry, couldn't resist.
np. When I was in High School* Ricardo Montalban was on Johnny Carson**, where Johnny*** asked Ricardo what it really was, and Ricardo stated, "Alright, yes, it is vynil!"
*Usually an old fart starts statements like this, to help identify them as old farts.
**Another confirmation of old fartitude.
***Distant and deceased predecessor of Jay "the chin" Leno
As much as I like to think that the iPod is rather overpriced for what it is, one almost has to believe it's a Loss-Leader when Apple is goug^H^H^H^Hoffering iPod mavens these ridi^H^H^H^Htrendy accessories. Is this where the profit really lies?
I've been fascinated, looking over financial statements from a variety of concerns, as to where they really make their money. All is not often as it so appears.
That's where you are wrong!
Apple is clearly undercutting the high-end market for $199 iPod holders, made of nothing less than Rich Corinthian Leather.*
* You must be an old fart to know what this means.
Hooray for those who set traps and await companies to develop and market products before suing them to protect their IP.
Sounds like Red October.
More like there are a few hundred to each big success. I don't see too many Foyles-sized book shops around the cities I visit most, to accomodate the millions of starving authors to go with Clancy, King, Rowling, Pratchett, Crichton, et al.
What you rather shamefully overlooked is for most trade paperbacks, the initial order by distributors and bookstores, immediately after publication, is where most of these authors sales are going to occur. After the store has returned unsold extras or tossed them on the bargain table, you're hard pressed to find them again except at a used book shop. A second run of a relatively unknown author is an exceptional thing and I do know a few who have been lucky enough to have garnered enough of an audience to see that, after several years on the shelf. Nothing is preventing them from doing that. But you seem to assume there are greedy bastards lurking around the land itching to reprint obscure books which are three years after publication. Considering the overhead of the printing business that's pretty silly.
Rediculously, as opposed to Greendiculously or Bluediculously.
Let's face it, some films don't even make it to the screen but are marketed straight to DVD. Most popular music is going to see it's highest percentage of payoff in the first year, declining over time with only spurts when it comes back to public conciousness, as an old song in a movie (i.e. Satchmo's It's a Beautiful World, revived in Good Morning Viet Nam)
Films are in the theater and then on store shelves within the year, unless you are George "Let's actually have Han shoot first" Lucas.
3 years is plenty of time.
The Beatles themselves, and perhaps Paul in particular, knew there was money in the catalog of songs, but nothing like the amount brought in by performances. Sales of recordings and sheet music are typically small potatoes compared to touring stadiums and playing to crowds of tens of thousands who paid dearly for tickets.
Took them long enough. Throughout my entire childhood they made zilch and I was trying to figure out for the longest time what the association was between the company and the mouse.
I grew up with Bugs and Daffy, which eventually saw later life through tiny-toons or something like that.
You don't even need the US congress! I got an email just today:
But it's not an incentive to produce. Prior to copyright law content creators had to keep creating to feed themselves, whereas the system we have now says, "Create a winner, milk it for the rest of your life."
Which is one of the reasons Disney was among those who fought tooth and nail to get copyrights extended to 70 years after the creator's death. Now they've re-acquired the rights to the first character Walt created and lost to someone else, back when he was paying his own dues.
Of course it's rarely the dead guy who cares about making more money, it's those who feel some eternal sense of entitlement.
Just imagine where we'd be if Mozart's works were still held by his heirs. Back in his day after the initial performance works fell to the public domain, which was to encourage the creator to be more productive. Now we have a system where the same tired crap gets dragged out for years and years and someone build theme parks around it.
When was the last time Mickey Mouse actually appeared in an original cartoon or film?
That's an interesting idea.
I have given this considerable thought over the years, since they enabled native american-run casinos in Michigan. If run with care, the proprietors could use the procedes to BUY back land which had been taken from them.
When all else fails, use the invader's rules against him.
Hear! Hear!
Was this guy elected or appointed? Clearly these sort of judges will rub both parties the wrong way and therefore haven't a chance of being on the US Supreme Court, which isn't as it should be.
He may as well have come out and said "Sorry, guys, you're full of shit. Give us ALL the records, and soon."
Then he'll mysteriously die in his sleep or be invited to a "hunting" trip with Dick Cheney.
I wouldn't make a bet on it either way.
I have no idea where these people are or whether they're treating any of my information with due discretion. When russian teens blast their sites with DoS attacks they're all over it, but how secure are they of names and CC's?
Sorry, I'll stick to nickels in slots when I have to go to Vega$.
eBay is rather annoying, though, as when you need to login it can take a while because they keep accessing your cookies.
seems when I read the fine print on these things there's a catch and eventually you end up paying a lot more.
I'm still on dial-up, as I have been for the last 8 years (at this address.) I see offers come and go, but they still boil down to an eventual rate of about $50/mo. I only need that speed now and then and it's hard to justify.
It's about the same with me as it has been with cell phones. I've had those 3 different times and always cancelled because I was shelling $35+/month and using the phone for less than 10 minutes a month. Only when seeking a new job or apartment do they seem genuinely necessary. I've got a pay-as-you-go plan now and I used about 20 minutes a month for each of December and January, so this is much more to my liking of ~$10/month. For service.
I'd like high speed for downloading Microsoft's bloated patches (why are these things always 15 MB? for a "few" fixes?) or the latest virus scan patterns (again, why are these things 5-10 MB?) Seems there's always a hell of a lot more than seems necessary, but I suppose developers of today didn't grow up trying to maximize 8K and could care less how much shit is in things as it's not their problem. For the most part, I get by and that's all I need.
I see him getting his just deserts when he's pressed on his past and gets irritated.
(not an actual interview, but how I'd love to see one go)
"Congratulations on making $40,000,000 on spy-ware and unethical business practices, Dale."
"Hey, I just won a gold medal, can we talk about that?"
"They give out gold medals now for hijacking browsers to porn sites?"
"No, it was for moguls!"
"Ah, yes, we see you're one of the top spy-ware people, so that does make you a mogul in the business."
"No, skiing moguls!"
"Oh, do you mean you have pop-up ads on the ski slopes?"
"Bwahhhh! I want me mum!"
Hard to say. The IOC is about as big a whore as this guy. We tend to overlook it because they put on such a pretty show, but the IOC signs lucrative, exclusive deals with Television Networks, designates official press, sells the logo to "official sponsors" etc.
Maybe they would throw him out as he's probably their competition in some way.
The good side of all this is seeing a Lambourghini driving Gold Medalist getting bent out of shape because he wants to revel in his sporting accomplishment, but the questions about his unsavory activities are pecking away at him like a raven on roadkill.
I dunno about you, but it gives me the warm fuzzies.
My video card has a tuner and came with software to record to HD. Thanks to my bud who works at Seagate, i have about 1/2 Tb of HD for recording, among other things. Combined usage helps spread what else would be twice paid costs. I have the first week of the invasion of Iraq on drive D: