I think the lawmaker who thought this up just didn't know how these things worked. This wasn't thought up by a lawmaker, it was proposed by... Unspam, the company that stood to benefit from it. They wrote the legislation. This kind of thing happens all the time.
It was not a $15/mo. account. Markos of Daily Kos was making the assumption that the Liberman campaign used the cheapest possible account, but according to http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001304.php">t his article, which includes an interview with the ISP, this wasn't the case:
I asked Hubbell what kind of account the Lieberman campaign was paying for, and if earlier accounts were accurate that the senator's camp had taken only a minimal $15-a-month contract.
"They were actually paying quite a bit more, with over 400 gigs of bandwidth a month," Hubbell said. Hubbell declined to give an exact figure, but Geary said the campaign had been paying around $150 a month for the hosting service. (Earlier, Geary told Paul Kiel the campaign paid "a bit more" than the reported $15 monthly fee.)
"We have a range" of account types, myhostcamp.com's Hubbell said. "We do smaller ones, we do some larger ones."
Not that it's relevant, but I'm glad Lamont won (I contributed to his campaign), but I think that unsubstantiated BS is always worth correcting.
I ran into this over the weekend when trying to switch my Dell Latitude D400 to Ubuntu Dapper, after a 10-year hiatus from using Linux as my desktop OS. As of today, looks like there isn't even a working patch available:
$150K is high for an entry-level web designer, even for New York.
Salaries for law firms are actually easy to find. Big law firms have fixed pay for associates based on years of experience, and you can get this information on the web. Here are salaries for Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the more prestigious forms in NY. 1st year associates make $145K with a bonus on the low-end of $30K, and probably no much mor e than $45 or $50K on the high end.
Whenever I see this objection to a new music service, I feel compelled to point out the reason for this. It's because Steve Jobs will not license Fairplay, Apple's DRM system, to any other company! Believe me, the major music services would all love to support the iPod, but Jobs wants an end-to-end monopoly on digital music. It's always amazing to me how Apple gets a free pass on this stuff, whereas if Microsoft pulled the same thing the blame would be put in the right place.
I've co-founded several companies - a couple of them are gone, a couple of them are still around, none household names, but all were fairly serious efforts (VC-backed, one had 30 employees, etc.) I've got a CS background and started as a software engineer, and I've usually been CTO of the companies I've co-founded. One way to handle it is to be both CTO and chairman of the board of directors. One of the jobs of the board is to oversee the CEO.
If it really were to come down to firing the CEO, or other major decisions like taking investment or expanding the stock option pool, you'd need the board to vote on this, and it sounds like you're set on a 50/50 stock split so you'd have equal say. But having the chariman title would at least be a signal to the outside world that you don't "work for" the CEO, which is really what the issue sounds like here.
I have actually seen one instance where a co-CEO arrangement worked, but I do think it's the exception. Whatever you decide, good luck, I hope the company is a success!
(BE) ON A HIDING TO NOTHING -- "Face annililation. Or, less dramatically, 'face insuperable odds,' 'be without a prayer,' i.e., with no hope of success. 'Hiding,' in this expression, is synonymous with 'thrashing,' and a 'hiding to nothing' means 'a thrashing to bits.'" From "British English: A to Zed" by Norman W. Schur (Harper Perennial, New York, 1987).
"If a company wants to run a giant professional website and has money to throw at it, they'll get WebLogic or WebSphere to run it."
Or they'll forego bloated commercial app servers and EJB and go with a lightweight open-source framework. These aren't toys - in fact the EJB 3 standard being developed now is largely based on ideas copied from these frameworks, as well as the Hibernate open-source persistence service.
"Yahoo! has appointed Chief Data Officer Dr. Usama Fayyad to take on oversight of Yahoo! Research Labs. [...] He also spent time at Microsoft where he founded and led the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research and built and shipped data mining products for Microsoft's server division."
Flash to Javascript works, Javascript to Flash doesn't. NPAPI (should) fix that. See the first link in my original post - it's a mailing list post from the Safari Engineering Manager.
The feature I've been waiting for is NPAPI suppport in Safari, which should allow Javascript to interact with plugins. Specifically I need to communicate with Flash. This made me think that this would be coming with Tiger:
I'll concur with that. I'm VP Engineering at a venture-funded startup, and OSS contributions are a big plus. I'd qualify this a bit more than the parent, but if you've made a reasonably significant contribution to a "real" OSS project, then I probably want to talk with you. Likewise if you've done so much as a bug fix in a project that's related to what we're doing (our architecture is "J2EE without EJB" - Spring Framework, Hibernate, etc.)
Their investors are well-known and have funded or founded some very "real" companies. They include Benchmark Capital (who funded eBay), USVP (who provided initial funding for Sun), and the founders of Google (Brin and Page).
The entire article is based on a job ad. So the article itself is making a huge leap, and then this Slashdot story makes the further leap that this supposed VoIP network would be UK-based. This seems to be based on the fact that the article is from a British paper. Only problem is... as far as I can tell, the job with Google isn't in the UK and isn't specific to the UK.
There's a good chance it's apocryphal. Every company needs some sort of "creation myth", and it matters little if it's bogus, like eBay's
Pez story. PR flacks make up this stuff to add a human-interest element so that so-called business journalists will write about the company.
Companies give research grants to universities all the time. A DEC grant paid for two years of grad school for me in the early 90's, and gave my lab a bunch of sweet Alphas. Why is this news - because it's Apple?
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Not sure what you mean about McDonalds. I'm a vegetarian. And I'm not servicing anyone or anyting, just stating an opinion.
No one asked Netflix to redefine the video rental business, but they did, and they've pretty much toppled Blockbuster. What Microsoft is doing is to enable the "celestial jukebox," which has been talked about for many years - so in that sense, people have asked for it. Sure, I wish it wasn't Microsoft, and I'm sure others will provide the technology as well. But separate out your hate of Microsoft from the value of the product itself. Access to basically all the music in the world, anytime, anywhere, for a flat $10 per month. As a huge music fan, that's about the greatest thing I've ever heard of. To pretend otherwise is, well, Slashdot groupthink, exactly what you're accusing me of. Pot, kettle, black.
Wow, new, innovative thinking. Fire that man! Hasn't he learned the lesson of Netflix - that consumers just want to rent videos one at a time at Blockbuster? Oh, wait a minute, Netflix is a huge success and Blockbuster is toast!
Seriously, this product rocks! Access to basically all music ever recorded, wherever and whenever I want, for $10 per month? Fill up my 60GB player with tunes, grab every new release that comes out, like one song from an artist - grab their complete catalog? Sign me up!
You keep paying a buck a track. I'll be enjoying the celestial jukebox.
"I'll OWN every last song I can play for $9.99 a month"
You can already do this with Rhapsody, MusicNow, MusicNet and Napster. All of them have unlimited streaming to your PC for $10 per month. No need to transfer to your portable player.
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Here's the link to the story:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001304.php
Unfortunately the BCM43XX driver causes a kernel panic with > 1GB of RAM:
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0 6-June/001975.html
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/20
I ran into this over the weekend when trying to switch my Dell Latitude D400 to Ubuntu Dapper, after a 10-year hiatus from using Linux as my desktop OS. As of today, looks like there isn't even a working patch available:
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/20
I had to go back to using an external wifi card. Yech.
Salaries for law firms are actually easy to find. Big law firms have fixed pay for associates based on years of experience, and you can get this information on the web. Here are salaries for Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the more prestigious forms in NY. 1st year associates make $145K with a bonus on the low-end of $30K, and probably no much mor e than $45 or $50K on the high end.
Whenever I see this objection to a new music service, I feel compelled to point out the reason for this. It's because Steve Jobs will not license Fairplay, Apple's DRM system, to any other company! Believe me, the major music services would all love to support the iPod, but Jobs wants an end-to-end monopoly on digital music. It's always amazing to me how Apple gets a free pass on this stuff, whereas if Microsoft pulled the same thing the blame would be put in the right place.
"Apple is just Microsoft with a sense of style" - Robert Cringely
I've co-founded several companies - a couple of them are gone, a couple of them are still around, none household names, but all were fairly serious efforts (VC-backed, one had 30 employees, etc.) I've got a CS background and started as a software engineer, and I've usually been CTO of the companies I've co-founded. One way to handle it is to be both CTO and chairman of the board of directors. One of the jobs of the board is to oversee the CEO.
If it really were to come down to firing the CEO, or other major decisions like taking investment or expanding the stock option pool, you'd need the board to vote on this, and it sounds like you're set on a 50/50 stock split so you'd have equal say. But having the chariman title would at least be a signal to the outside world that you don't "work for" the CEO, which is really what the issue sounds like here.
I have actually seen one instance where a co-CEO arrangement worked, but I do think it's the exception. Whatever you decide, good luck, I hope the company is a success!
As seen on the Daily Show
(BE) ON A HIDING TO NOTHING -- "Face annililation. Or, less dramatically, 'face insuperable odds,' 'be without a prayer,' i.e., with no hope of success. 'Hiding,' in this expression, is synonymous with 'thrashing,' and a 'hiding to nothing' means 'a thrashing to bits.'" From "British English: A to Zed" by Norman W. Schur (Harper Perennial, New York, 1987).
"If a company wants to run a giant professional website and has money to throw at it, they'll get WebLogic or WebSphere to run it."
Or they'll forego bloated commercial app servers and EJB and go with a lightweight open-source framework. These aren't toys - in fact the EJB 3 standard being developed now is largely based on ideas copied from these frameworks, as well as the Hibernate open-source persistence service.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/Apr/1133111.htm
This was announced a few days ago:
"Yahoo! has appointed Chief Data Officer Dr. Usama Fayyad to take on oversight of Yahoo! Research Labs. [...] He also spent time at Microsoft where he founded and led the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research and built and shipped data mining products for Microsoft's server division."
Flash to Javascript works, Javascript to Flash doesn't. NPAPI (should) fix that. See the first link in my original post - it's a mailing list post from the Safari Engineering Manager.
The feature I've been waiting for is NPAPI suppport in Safari, which should allow Javascript to interact with plugins. Specifically I need to communicate with Flash. This made me think that this would be coming with Tiger:
S ep/msg00009.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/webcore-dev/2004/
But the list of Safari enhancements doesn't mention it:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/
Maybe it's just not a sexy enough end-user feature? Anyone know for sure if it's in there?
I'll concur with that. I'm VP Engineering at a venture-funded startup, and OSS contributions are a big plus. I'd qualify this a bit more than the parent, but if you've made a reasonably significant contribution to a "real" OSS project, then I probably want to talk with you. Likewise if you've done so much as a bug fix in a project that's related to what we're doing (our architecture is "J2EE without EJB" - Spring Framework, Hibernate, etc.)
Their investors are well-known and have funded or founded some very "real" companies. They include Benchmark Capital (who funded eBay), USVP (who provided initial funding for Sun), and the founders of Google (Brin and Page).
Mod parent up.
The entire article is based on a job ad. So the article itself is making a huge leap, and then this Slashdot story makes the further leap that this supposed VoIP network would be UK-based. This seems to be based on the fact that the article is from a British paper. Only problem is... as far as I can tell, the job with Google isn't in the UK and isn't specific to the UK.
Actual testimonial from... one of the employee's sons no doubt.
There's a good chance it's apocryphal. Every company needs some sort of "creation myth", and it matters little if it's bogus, like eBay's Pez story. PR flacks make up this stuff to add a human-interest element so that so-called business journalists will write about the company.
Just the latest example of brand necrophilia.
Companies give research grants to universities all the time. A DEC grant paid for two years of grad school for me in the early 90's, and gave my lab a bunch of sweet Alphas. Why is this news - because it's Apple?
There are four - you forgot Lineox.
No one asked Netflix to redefine the video rental business, but they did, and they've pretty much toppled Blockbuster. What Microsoft is doing is to enable the "celestial jukebox," which has been talked about for many years - so in that sense, people have asked for it. Sure, I wish it wasn't Microsoft, and I'm sure others will provide the technology as well. But separate out your hate of Microsoft from the value of the product itself. Access to basically all the music in the world, anytime, anywhere, for a flat $10 per month. As a huge music fan, that's about the greatest thing I've ever heard of. To pretend otherwise is, well, Slashdot groupthink, exactly what you're accusing me of. Pot, kettle, black.
Oh, and by the way, the use of "M$" look really doesn't help your cause.
Wow, new, innovative thinking. Fire that man! Hasn't he learned the lesson of Netflix - that consumers just want to rent videos one at a time at Blockbuster? Oh, wait a minute, Netflix is a huge success and Blockbuster is toast!
Seriously, this product rocks! Access to basically all music ever recorded, wherever and whenever I want, for $10 per month? Fill up my 60GB player with tunes, grab every new release that comes out, like one song from an artist - grab their complete catalog? Sign me up!
You keep paying a buck a track. I'll be enjoying the celestial jukebox.
"I'll OWN every last song I can play for $9.99 a month"
You can already do this with Rhapsody, MusicNow, MusicNet and Napster. All of them have unlimited streaming to your PC for $10 per month. No need to transfer to your portable player.