So an "nl" has to point out to a "us" where the usps FAQ is located? tsk tsk.
I'm quite sure "how mail works" was explained on a how-stuff-works kiddy tv show once..;-)
The document is useful but the post above goes into much more detail, and is more emphatic. Would be good to include these points in the USPS site AND make sure it gets out there
Well, the USPS is a bastion of bureaucracy, so the fact that they managed to publish the "inspiringly" titled publication 221 - Addressing For Success is quite a feat in itself.
Checkout postnet barcodes if you really want to make sure machines can read your address even though your not using e-stamps. (Many countries use postnet-alike barcodes, but the schemes can vary wildly, so make sure to check with your national postal service).
Then again, you'd think people would know by now that machine printed correct addresses get your mail sorted quickest..
Electronic stamps usually include the sender's and recipients address right in the funky looking 2D barcode - even better, because the error rate is much lower than OCR, and a printed address is still there for backwards compatibility.
Actually they used their existing access to gain new privileges, cracking (or guessing) passwords in the process.
Never the less, it's an important point to reflect on what "legitimate access" means. Most companies allow any employee access to all of their data, especially smaller companies. Publicly traded companies usually take better care of strategic information, but not of their customers' private data, at all.
While the army won't let you see any 'secret' data even if you have a 'secret' clearance and appropriate rank if you don't have a 'need to know', businesses often have no policies that describe need-to-know, abuse of privileges or abuse of authority, let alone do they audit/log who accesses/alters which data.
But the GameCube.. It's a CUBE!! I mean, how cool is that?! Even the psone isn't as cubic as the GC! Ok, so it's not entirely cube-shaped, but that's why you buy one of those gameboy adapters that slots underneath, et voila, it's a perfect cube!
If you stack two gameboy advance SPs.. It's a cube! *salivate*
Ok, so apple had a cube before nintendo did. But that wasn't a cube for games! This cube is! It's like Rubik's cube, only even more gamey!
Sony Interactive expressly forbids the selling of Everqest or Everquest II ingame items or characters for money, but why?
Because then they'd be 'creating' money, and they'd be subject to all sorts of interesting laws. At the very least they'd have to register as a financial institution or even bank. Not to mention the IRS.
You're absolutely right! I forgot about enum. Enum rules!;-) (Only the NAPTR records look funky with all of that regexp action going on.. not for lay persons..) Who's in charge of handing out +87810 numbers btw? And do any PSTN carriers interconnect to +87810 yet?
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious. I can assure you that when you have some kids of your own you'll understand me.
Your options are 1) don't have children 2) don't let your kids use the computer 3) don't let them use kazaa 4) use kazaa's filter option 5) educate your kids about approriate and inappropriate material (e.g. faces of death in the videostore, jack ass on mtv, top-shelf magazines, and on the internet) and behavior (e.g. copyright infringement). Foster an open atmosphere so your kids tell you when they run across anything that bothers them, rather than sneak around behind your back, or lie awake at night worrying about what they saw and what your reaction to hearing about it might be.
Summary of your options; 1) don't parent 2) don't parent 3) don't parent 4) don't parent 5) parent like a responsible adult.
Would you suggest banning the catholic faith because some of their clergy abused children? Or is it perhaps better to make sure that if your child is uncomfortable with any interaction with the world out there which it can't deal with, they will ask your guidance and help?
No shit, parenting is hard. Practice on pets. They don't use kazaa. If you're not ready for the fact that kids grow up and get to see the world, whether you like it or not, then wear a rubber.
Replying to myself.. Too bad you can't edit your own posts.. But then again, the goatse guy might crop up a lot!;-)
Free World Dialup is already running a directory that voip services can hook up to for free. For example "Dial 1010333number to reach iConnectHere subscribers" and "Dial **478number to reach any iptel subscriber."
Not as good as using DNS (you could just dial number@iptel.com if that were implemented correctly) or a global standard so that voip services would just have their own LD/country code for example (though the PSTN telco's are actually moving toward SIP rather than the other way around - using enum.)
I would think that this means a SIPPhone could call someone using Microsoft's Messenger on Windows XP. However, I was not able to confirm this with a breif perusal of the SIPPhone site, and they also state this only works with other SIPPhones.
Check out the product spec from the manufacturer. The SIPPhone page states the make and model.
Interoperable with various 3rd party SIP end user device, Proxy/Registrar/Server, and gateway products (e.g., MS Messenger, Cisco IP phone and gateway, etc)
Support popular vocoders including G.723.1 (5.3K/6.3K), G.729A/B, G.711 (a-law and u-law), G.726, G.728, and wide-band G.722 (Model 102D). Dynamic negotiation of codec and voice payload length
G.711 is the granddaddy of the voice codecs. It doesn't say it uses H.323, but I'm guessing it does, seeing as it interoperates with cisco and msn messenger voip.
You can probably even use a different directory service than SIPPhone.com's ; the phone has a web interface for configuring it.
You can pick up SIP phones, and even nice H323 videoconferencing hardware cheap these days from Taiwanese OEMs. Companies like vonage.com or pilmo.nl will even hook them up to the plain old telephone system for you.
The main problem is that each company that sells these things to end users uses it's own LDAP directory. So you can call other people who use the same brand easily by tapping a 'phone number' that's the same regardless of their everchanging IP number, but don't expect to call your buddy who's using netmeeting so easily. Also, if you place a call from one VOIP telco to another, chances are it will travel some distance over PSTN and will be billed in stead of free, despite the fact it could have been an end-to-end-over-IP connection which is usually free of charge.
Of course SIP can work over the real dns just beautifully (using SRV records), but do these phones support entering alphanumeric user/hostnames? And will hotmail support SIP? (Answer, yes it will, and it will tie in with MSN video/voiceconferencing and Microsoft SIP phones...)
I expect Novell kept rights to use UnixWare IP in their products when they sold the stuff to SCO, so I imagine they're untouchable.
Bring on Novell Red Hat Linux, Novell SuSe, Novell Debian;-)
As long as it's on a Novell server....
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You're subject to the laws of who ever can get at you. For example, some of the United States have "long arm statutes" that determine that if your "crime" has effect in a certain State, you're criminally liable in that State. Recently, a lot of people have been extradited from The Netherlands for crimes commited *in* The Netherlands, where you'd expect The Netherlands has complete jurisdiction. But owing to long arm statutes they were deported anyway, since how to interpret those statutes is up to a US judge, according to the extradition treaties.
To add insult to injury, evidence was collected against these people in a manner that would normally be illegal (entrapment etc.) but since it was done by "liason officers" of the US embassy, which have diplomatic immunity, and the US constitution (i.e. 4 amendmend etc.) do NOT apply in The Netherlands (while criminal statutes DO) they are totally fucked.
Usually these people succumb to some hefty offer from the US "diplomats" to produce and sell to the "diplomats" some synthetic drugs, and are then deported to the US, where they do NOT get their day in court, but rather take a plea bargain offer, and then rot away in US jails for a few years. (They are rarely allowed to sit out their sentences in Dutch jails, even though the US has agreed to this in the extradition treaty; but you see, the judiciary isn't bound to that treaty, because judges decide what the law is in the first place..)
In other words; you're fucked in any jurisdiction, because there will always be a country you will be deported to even if you're not doing anything illegal at that time and in that jurisdiction.
As someone else's post pointed out, the First Amendment gives you the right to peacefully speak your mind, petition the government on grievances, gather in assembly. You cannot entice riot, civil war, or anything else that seeks to start violence.
That's what the second amendment is for, isn't it?
I demand to pay at least $99 per user to keep SCO from sueing them for contributory copyright infringement! Also, I want to be extra sure SCO will not sue me for infringing any of their IP that is related to simultaneously walking and chewing bubblegum, or to wearing socks!
If any of you want to buy a license from me that guarantees you won't be sued by me for infringing any intellectual property pertaining to using wheels, please e-mail me, I can fix you up with a license for non-commercial use for only $599(hubcaps: add $39 per hubcap).
Does SCO has any bridges on offer, too? I'm interested!
It's true; I could typeset my documents with Emacs and LaTeX. That fact doesn't stop me from using Word though.
Actually, I much prefer vim and LaTeX. Word doesn't do typesetting btw, you'd be better off using Adobe InDesign/FrameMaker, quark xpress or even Microsoft Publisher(!)(an almost forgotten product, but even the windows 3.1 version was a whole lot better at typesetting than word is).
Word's market isn't typesetting (or even DTP) or complicated document management; it's general use word processing. You shouldn't compare it to LaTeX, but to OpenOffice for example. And ooO certainly does have clunky-UI issues!
Or, if you want to make things work better you could use even the correct syntax !!
\\server\sharename
Another example of judgemental comments about MS systems by someone who doesn't know even the basics of UNC formatting. I guess you must have used the command once in your career.
Awww.. It's hardly the fault that microsoft still used CP/M style path separators for it resource locators, is it? I bet you this dude will have no trouble at all remembering to substitute backslashes for slashes when windows throws a hissy fit. Unlike most windows users who'll gladly keep on typing backslashes and spaces in URLs.
At least MS-DOS 5.0 allowed you to set the path separator back to slash. And of course API calls always allowed you to use a slash for directories.
Also note that a 0.1%point change doesn't mean anything. 45.63241% of convincing sounding statistics are too accurate to be true (margin of error 41.553%) It may well be significant. Lets rewrite these interms of actually numbers sold. At a guess say 10,000,000 chips sold. Now 1.7% of 10 millions 170,000 and 1.8% is 180,000 would you say the difference between 170,000 and 180,000 is significant? As another post said thats a 6% increase enough to put a smile of Linus's face.
Percentages are not a golden standard, they only make sense when you know the sample size. Very large samples mean very small levels of significance.
If we assume the researchers used a survey, we don't know anything about n (the number or people interviewed), since the article doesn't mention it. If we assume the researchers took the numbers the manufacturers reported, for example in their quartely income reports, we know the size of the numbers reported.
However, while you're right that 0.1% of A LOT may well be a large amount of money, that doesn't make it a significant amount of money.
Presumably you'd want to use market share numbers to predict future income. If your market share has been declining for years, probability is it will decline some more. If all of a sudden your sales drops 30%, you'd better have some pretty good explanation to account for it. But it your sales drop 0.1%? Assuming your sales staff only works 200 days of the year, that's a drop of 20% of a day's work! I'd hardly call that significant.
What you should remember here is that the marketshare/sales is NOT n here. It's the quantity measured. The number of observations, or n, is only 1; namely the last quarterly statement (or projection) of sales.
Quoting insignificant numbers could get them seriously fried.
Of course it wouldn't. But they would also quote a confidence interval, which is not mentioned in this article. Unless it's raw data (such as sales) in which case they may or may not quote an error of measurement (remeber your science classes?). It's the interpretation that matters. If they make sweeping generalizations based on a 0.1% rise or fall of marketshare, like the people here on slasdot, THEN they'd get fired. Unless of course they're talking about a very, very small company which only grosses 0.05-0.2% of the market.
Let's put it this way; if the price of a barrel of oil rises 0.1%, is this significant? If you happen to own a huge amount of oil, or need to buy it, it translates into a huge amount of money. But does it mean you should be worried about the oil price in general, or longer term political stability in the Middle East? Or do you just chalk it up to day-to-day fluctuation in the price of oil?
Is this marketshare in units or dollars? AMD's prices are lower, so they may ship more units per %point than Intel does. Also, Intel may ship the same amount of processors, or even more, but lose a few bucks because people decide against buying bleeding edge and go for celerons etc.
Also, which market are we talking about? XBoxes count, but other console chip manufacuters such as Hitachi are not included. Or maybe they're just too cheap and included in the 'other' category?
Also note that a 0.1%point change doesn't mean anything. 45.63241% of convincing sounding statistics are too accurate to be true (margin of error 41.553%).
You'd be better of just looking at the fundamentals of the companies (or their divisions), like SEC filings, quarterly results etc. If you add up all the numbers of the competitors you've compared, hey presto, you can determine their relative marketshares in the market comprised of their aggregate customerbase.
Now of course, I'm not suggesting that y'all start firing up windows, but I find this point really intriguing - filesharing using the SMB protocol over port 139 a'la redmond. What (c|w)ould the RIAA do about that ?
Has been done. A company called scour.com used to use SMB. It got sued by the MPAA and RIAA and NMPA and subsequently went bankrupt.
The new technology, called Glossmark, can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."
1) place document on surface 2) mount digital SLR camera on tripod 3) tilt surface or camera until image appears 4) Xerox OCR 5) reprint using Xerox Glossmark 6).. 7) profit!
Google can't search on filename, whereas AllTheWeb does. So querying google for.bash_history will find indexes listing the files, not the files themselves.
Quite a few, from what google just returned. '.bash_history "parent directory"'
Actually a lot of those are 403 -- permission denied.
Using alltheweb (which has a bigger index anyway) to search only URLs that contain the phrase.bash_history and that contain "su" in the contents turns up only 2 history files. With no passwords.
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So an "nl" has to point out to a "us" where the usps FAQ is located? tsk tsk.
;-)
I'm quite sure "how mail works" was explained on a how-stuff-works kiddy tv show once..
The document is useful but the post above goes into much more detail, and is more emphatic. Would be good to include these points in the USPS site AND make sure it gets out there
Well, the USPS is a bastion of bureaucracy, so the fact that they managed to publish the "inspiringly" titled publication 221 - Addressing For Success is quite a feat in itself.
Checkout postnet barcodes if you really want to make sure machines can read your address even though your not using e-stamps. (Many countries use postnet-alike barcodes, but the schemes can vary wildly, so make sure to check with your national postal service).
This sounds like the making of a FAQ. Seriously.
It is a FAQ.
Then again, you'd think people would know by now that machine printed correct addresses get your mail sorted quickest..
Electronic stamps usually include the sender's and recipients address right in the funky looking 2D barcode - even better, because the error rate is much lower than OCR, and a printed address is still there for backwards compatibility.
To which I'd like to add..
My up2date doesn't update itself..
I tried to install apt for red hat, but I needed a newer version of rpm. Which needed a newer version of librpm, glibc etc.
Depedency hell lives!
A person with legitimate access to data went bad.
Actually they used their existing access to gain new privileges, cracking (or guessing) passwords in the process.
Never the less, it's an important point to reflect on what "legitimate access" means. Most companies allow any employee access to all of their data, especially smaller companies. Publicly traded companies usually take better care of strategic information, but not of their customers' private data, at all.
While the army won't let you see any 'secret' data even if you have a 'secret' clearance and appropriate rank if you don't have a 'need to know', businesses often have no policies that describe need-to-know, abuse of privileges or abuse of authority, let alone do they audit/log who accesses/alters which data.
Ok, so you can buy a PS/2 or an X-"box"...
But the GameCube.. It's a CUBE!! I mean, how cool is that?! Even the psone isn't as cubic as the GC! Ok, so it's not entirely cube-shaped, but that's why you buy one of those gameboy adapters that slots underneath, et voila, it's a perfect cube!
If you stack two gameboy advance SPs.. It's a cube! *salivate*
Ok, so apple had a cube before nintendo did. But that wasn't a cube for games! This cube is! It's like Rubik's cube, only even more gamey!
(must... stop.. reading.. pennyarcade...)
Sony Interactive expressly forbids the selling of Everqest or Everquest II ingame items or characters for money, but why?
Because then they'd be 'creating' money, and they'd be subject to all sorts of interesting laws. At the very least they'd have to register as a financial institution or even bank. Not to mention the IRS.
Who's in charge of handing out +87810 numbers btw?
As far as I know Telcordia. ENUM is done by Infonova. We're prodding iptel, FWD and earthlink to get blocks in some suitable +878 space.
Found it; according to enum.info RIPE is in charge of the technical stuff, and ITU-TSB is officially in charge of delegation.
You're absolutely right! I forgot about enum. Enum rules! ;-) (Only the NAPTR records look funky with all of that regexp action going on.. not for lay persons..)
Who's in charge of handing out +87810 numbers btw? And do any PSTN carriers interconnect to +87810 yet?
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious. I can assure you that when you have some kids of your own you'll understand me.
Your options are
1) don't have children
2) don't let your kids use the computer
3) don't let them use kazaa
4) use kazaa's filter option
5) educate your kids about approriate and inappropriate material (e.g. faces of death in the videostore, jack ass on mtv, top-shelf magazines, and on the internet) and behavior (e.g. copyright infringement). Foster an open atmosphere so your kids tell you when they run across anything that bothers them, rather than sneak around behind your back, or lie awake at night worrying about what they saw and what your reaction to hearing about it might be.
Summary of your options;
1) don't parent
2) don't parent
3) don't parent
4) don't parent
5) parent like a responsible adult.
Would you suggest banning the catholic faith because some of their clergy abused children? Or is it perhaps better to make sure that if your child is uncomfortable with any interaction with the world out there which it can't deal with, they will ask your guidance and help?
No shit, parenting is hard. Practice on pets. They don't use kazaa. If you're not ready for the fact that kids grow up and get to see the world, whether you like it or not, then wear a rubber.
Replying to myself.. Too bad you can't edit your own posts.. But then again, the goatse guy might crop up a lot! ;-)
Free World Dialup is already running a directory that voip services can hook up to for free. For example "Dial 1010333number to reach iConnectHere subscribers" and "Dial **478number to reach any iptel subscriber."
Not as good as using DNS (you could just dial number@iptel.com if that were implemented correctly) or a global standard so that voip services would just have their own LD/country code for example (though the PSTN telco's are actually moving toward SIP rather than the other way around - using enum.)
Oops! SIP is of course a replacement for H.323.
a comparison of the two.
I would think that this means a SIPPhone could call someone using Microsoft's Messenger on Windows XP. However, I was not able to confirm this with a breif perusal of the SIPPhone site, and they also state this only works with other SIPPhones.
Check out the product spec from the manufacturer.
The SIPPhone page states the make and model.
Interoperable with various 3rd party SIP end user device, Proxy/Registrar/Server, and gateway products (e.g., MS Messenger, Cisco IP phone and gateway, etc)
Support popular vocoders including G.723.1 (5.3K/6.3K), G.729A/B, G.711 (a-law and u-law), G.726, G.728, and wide-band G.722 (Model 102D). Dynamic negotiation of codec and voice payload length
G.711 is the granddaddy of the voice codecs. It doesn't say it uses H.323, but I'm guessing it does, seeing as it interoperates with cisco and msn messenger voip.
You can probably even use a different directory service than SIPPhone.com's ; the phone has a web interface for configuring it.
You can pick up SIP phones, and even nice H323 videoconferencing hardware cheap these days from Taiwanese OEMs. Companies like vonage.com or pilmo.nl will even hook them up to the plain old telephone system for you.
The main problem is that each company that sells these things to end users uses it's own LDAP directory. So you can call other people who use the same brand easily by tapping a 'phone number' that's the same regardless of their everchanging IP number, but don't expect to call your buddy who's using netmeeting so easily. Also, if you place a call from one VOIP telco to another, chances are it will travel some distance over PSTN and will be billed in stead of free, despite the fact it could have been an end-to-end-over-IP connection which is usually free of charge.
Of course SIP can work over the real dns just beautifully (using SRV records), but do these phones support entering alphanumeric user/hostnames? And will hotmail support SIP? (Answer, yes it will, and it will tie in with MSN video/voiceconferencing and Microsoft SIP phones...)
I expect Novell kept rights to use UnixWare IP in their products when they sold the stuff to SCO, so I imagine they're untouchable.
;-)
Bring on Novell Red Hat Linux, Novell SuSe, Novell Debian
As long as it's on a Novell server....
You're subject to the laws of who ever can get at you. For example, some of the United States have "long arm statutes" that determine that if your "crime" has effect in a certain State, you're criminally liable in that State. Recently, a lot of people have been extradited from The Netherlands for crimes commited *in* The Netherlands, where you'd expect The Netherlands has complete jurisdiction. But owing to long arm statutes they were deported anyway, since how to interpret those statutes is up to a US judge, according to the extradition treaties.
To add insult to injury, evidence was collected against these people in a manner that would normally be illegal (entrapment etc.) but since it was done by "liason officers" of the US embassy, which have diplomatic immunity, and the US constitution (i.e. 4 amendmend etc.) do NOT apply in The Netherlands (while criminal statutes DO) they are totally fucked.
Usually these people succumb to some hefty offer from the US "diplomats" to produce and sell to the "diplomats" some synthetic drugs, and are then deported to the US, where they do NOT get their day in court, but rather take a plea bargain offer, and then rot away in US jails for a few years. (They are rarely allowed to sit out their sentences in Dutch jails, even though the US has agreed to this in the extradition treaty; but you see, the judiciary isn't bound to that treaty, because judges decide what the law is in the first place..)
In other words; you're fucked in any jurisdiction, because there will always be a country you will be deported to even if you're not doing anything illegal at that time and in that jurisdiction.
As someone else's post pointed out, the First Amendment gives you the right to peacefully speak your mind, petition the government on grievances, gather in assembly. You cannot entice riot, civil war, or anything else that seeks to start violence.
That's what the second amendment is for, isn't it?
I demand to pay at least $99 per user to keep SCO from sueing them for contributory copyright infringement!
Also, I want to be extra sure SCO will not sue me for infringing any of their IP that is related to simultaneously walking and chewing bubblegum, or to wearing socks!
If any of you want to buy a license from me that guarantees you won't be sued by me for infringing any intellectual property pertaining to using wheels, please e-mail me, I can fix you up with a license for non-commercial use for only $599(hubcaps: add $39 per hubcap).
Does SCO has any bridges on offer, too? I'm interested!
It's true; I could typeset my documents with Emacs and LaTeX. That fact doesn't stop me from using Word though.
Actually, I much prefer vim and LaTeX. Word doesn't do typesetting btw, you'd be better off using Adobe InDesign/FrameMaker, quark xpress or even Microsoft Publisher(!)(an almost forgotten product, but even the windows 3.1 version was a whole lot better at typesetting than word is).
Word's market isn't typesetting (or even DTP) or complicated document management; it's general use word processing. You shouldn't compare it to LaTeX, but to OpenOffice for example. And ooO certainly does have clunky-UI issues!
Or, if you want to make things work better you could use even the correct syntax !!
\\server\sharename
Another example of judgemental comments about MS systems by someone who doesn't know even the basics of UNC formatting. I guess you must have used the command once in your career.
Awww.. It's hardly the fault that microsoft still used CP/M style path separators for it resource locators, is it? I bet you this dude will have no trouble at all remembering to substitute backslashes for slashes when windows throws a hissy fit. Unlike most windows users who'll gladly keep on typing backslashes and spaces in URLs.
At least MS-DOS 5.0 allowed you to set the path separator back to slash. And of course API calls always allowed you to use a slash for directories.
Also note that a 0.1%point change doesn't mean anything. 45.63241% of convincing sounding statistics are too accurate to be true (margin of error 41.553%)
It may well be significant. Lets rewrite these interms of actually numbers sold. At a guess say 10,000,000 chips sold. Now 1.7% of 10 millions 170,000 and 1.8% is 180,000 would you say the difference between 170,000 and 180,000 is significant? As another post said thats a 6% increase enough to put a smile of Linus's face.
Percentages are not a golden standard, they only make sense when you know the sample size. Very large samples mean very small levels of significance.
If we assume the researchers used a survey, we don't know anything about n (the number or people interviewed), since the article doesn't mention it.
If we assume the researchers took the numbers the manufacturers reported, for example in their quartely income reports, we know the size of the numbers reported.
However, while you're right that 0.1% of A LOT may well be a large amount of money, that doesn't make it a significant amount of money.
Presumably you'd want to use market share numbers to predict future income. If your market share has been declining for years, probability is it will decline some more. If all of a sudden your sales drops 30%, you'd better have some pretty good explanation to account for it. But it your sales drop 0.1%? Assuming your sales staff only works 200 days of the year, that's a drop of 20% of a day's work! I'd hardly call that significant.
What you should remember here is that the marketshare/sales is NOT n here. It's the quantity measured. The number of observations, or n, is only 1; namely the last quarterly statement (or projection) of sales.
Quoting insignificant numbers could get them seriously fried.
Of course it wouldn't. But they would also quote a confidence interval, which is not mentioned in this article. Unless it's raw data (such as sales) in which case they may or may not quote an error of measurement (remeber your science classes?). It's the interpretation that matters. If they make sweeping generalizations based on a 0.1% rise or fall of marketshare, like the people here on slasdot, THEN they'd get fired. Unless of course they're talking about a very, very small company which only grosses 0.05-0.2% of the market.
Let's put it this way; if the price of a barrel of oil rises 0.1%, is this significant? If you happen to own a huge amount of oil, or need to buy it, it translates into a huge amount of money. But does it mean you should be worried about the oil price in general, or longer term political stability in the Middle East? Or do you just chalk it up to day-to-day fluctuation in the price of oil?
What would you say to a 0.1% raise?
Is this marketshare in units or dollars? AMD's prices are lower, so they may ship more units per %point than Intel does. Also, Intel may ship the same amount of processors, or even more, but lose a few bucks because people decide against buying bleeding edge and go for celerons etc.
Also, which market are we talking about? XBoxes count, but other console chip manufacuters such as Hitachi are not included. Or maybe they're just too cheap and included in the 'other' category?
Also note that a 0.1%point change doesn't mean anything. 45.63241% of convincing sounding statistics are too accurate to be true (margin of error 41.553%).
You'd be better of just looking at the fundamentals of the companies (or their divisions), like SEC filings, quarterly results etc. If you add up all the numbers of the competitors you've compared, hey presto, you can determine their relative marketshares in the market comprised of their aggregate customerbase.
Lies, damn lies, and then this!
Now of course, I'm not suggesting that y'all start firing up windows, but I find this point really intriguing - filesharing using the SMB protocol over port 139 a'la redmond. What (c|w)ould the RIAA do about that ?
Has been done. A company called scour.com used to use SMB. It got sued by the MPAA and RIAA and NMPA and subsequently went bankrupt.
The new technology, called Glossmark, can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."
..
1) place document on surface
2) mount digital SLR camera on tripod
3) tilt surface or camera until image appears
4) Xerox OCR
5) reprint using Xerox Glossmark
6)
7) profit!
Did you check the caches on those 403's?
.bash_history will find indexes listing the files, not the files themselves.
Google can't search on filename, whereas AllTheWeb does. So querying google for
Quite a few, from what google just returned. '.bash_history "parent directory"'
.bash_history and that contain "su" in the contents turns up only 2 history files. With no passwords.
Actually a lot of those are 403 -- permission denied.
Using alltheweb (which has a bigger index anyway) to search only URLs that contain the phrase