Good point, but it is really hard to enforce extraterritorial laws. Just because something is patented in the US does not mean tht it applies anywhere else in the world (or the universe).
I don't know the patent but I do know SEH from VMS extremely well (call frames, signal and exception handling). It is very similar to that implemented for NT and I have a VAX architecture guide for prior art.
I don't know the Borland patent, but I am intimately familiar with the VMS call frames, signal handling as well as exception handling. It is *very* similar to SEH. If someone wants prior, I believe I have a VAX architecture guide from way long ago!
It wasn't the 750, it used different technology, probably the 780/785 and you are probably referring to the microcode. Here you could do a lot of things including tweaking the clock.
The firmware upgrade was usually predicated on you having a certain spec level of boards. Systems started at the lower spec, but as the engineers only carried one variety, machines tended to get upgraded by default. In truth most machines more than a couple of years old could run faster but some were crippled by the slower microcode.
There are underpaid or out of work techies all over the world who want to make $$$ from home.
The thing is that if somebody offers a product over the Internet, they want paying. You don't get V1agra or C1alis for free!
In the end a Spamming business needs bank accounts and in particular, card clearing services. Sure, technical solutions can help but it is an Arms Race. The best way is surely to close down their source of funds, or at least make it uneconomic for them to work over the internet.
I agree with your point. In any case, it isn't for Linux geeks, it is for Asterisk geeks.
If you have ever tried configuring a real PBX, i.e, more than 8 lines, you will find it rather unfriendly to the casual user. Even small PBX systems can be far from easy when you start to get feature rich.
In fact, having seen the configs they use for big PBX systems, Asterisk with its wizards is definitely easier!
TCS were charging only 5% less for on-site consulting in Germany than local contractors. Some of the work was very good, but most needed major rework.
Indian companies are fairly used to having to pay backhanders to get work. Whereas, I'm sure that a major company like TCS is fairly straight, the fact that major companies can parcel off work to remote locations with inadequate monitoring does raise questions.
I saw a lovely system at the Central Bank of Russia. Yes, really!
Money is stored in cassettes in a fully automatic warehouse. The actual warehouse uses an automatic system, (if you have seen a storage robot, it isn't a whole lot different). However money is shipped from the loading/unloading dock to the procssing stations and then from the processing stations to the warehouse loading/unloading station using robot forklifts.
The forklift control system was German, but I can't remember whose. They used a pulsed transmission system and used the arrival time for navigation. The main control computer knew where the forklifts were to the centimetre and gave them orders.
Also, if Oracle is already purchased and paid for, you will have a difficult time making a business case for PostgreSQL.
I thought that until I saw the running costs and how much the extra users cost. We started to use MySQL instead. PostgresSQL may have more possibilities (also with licensing) but it was easier to use MySQL under the circumstances.
Those mega-hack spreadsheets are a nightmare because Excel is very flexible. It is extremely difficult to place Excel Spreadsheets + Macros under any kind of formal change control. Essentially this means that a large organisation or a financial institution should be looking at actual programming languages for the stuff on the critical path (P&L, Risk, etc.).
Good point, just create two profiles. The only problem is that the message centre is per profile. To create the second profile, you will need an alternate eMail address.
As an added benifit to the railroad, they could transmit GPS data and telemetry over the connection as well as send signals from dispatch telling the train to modify its speed so it doesn't have to stop at signals.
On the German high-speed trains the signalling is fairly high-tech. It has to be, you don't see redlights at 300 kph!
In 77, as a summer student, I started working with
grad students and techs on a DEC minicomputer
(Nova). The precurser to the Eclipse (Soul of a
New Machine).
The Nova was from Data General (DG) not DEC. DEC minicomputer systems certainly could do a lot more than microcomputers in the time frame you mentioned. However, they were very expensive.
It means that you have mostly Greeks around. Note that the Turkish variety is usually Hallal and is lamb based due to the high proportion of Muslims there.
The NT Kernel design was well engineered. Unfortunately Microsoft started compromising this when they decided to include the GDI into the kernel. It wasn't the only new kernel in recent times and in reality.
The problem is whilst the kernel is clean, there is a lot of crap around it that compromise integrity.
What I like about Clarkson is that he unashamedly likes big toys and admits it. He slagged off an H2 but then went onto say how much fun he had in it. Sure, he likes penis extensions, but he has style about it (hey, a Vanquish!).
Top-Gear is actually shown on BBC World which does carry advertising, although not a lot by US standards. They tend to be for major companies and generally aimed at the better off, i.e., private banking.
Personally I pay for a German TV license which is more expensive and the channels still carry ads (although a lot less). I must pay for that license whether I watch the public channels or not. Enforcement ads do appear but they tend to be somewhat milder.
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Good point, but it is really hard to enforce extraterritorial laws. Just because something is patented in the US does not mean tht it applies anywhere else in the world (or the universe).
Interestingly enough, this discrepency over IP juridiction was used by NASA to organise multi-region DVD players for the ISS.
Why the microdrive? Ok, I know that they are significantly cheaper than flash, but they are so much slower and they need much more power.
I don't know the patent but I do know SEH from VMS extremely well (call frames, signal and exception handling). It is very similar to that implemented for NT and I have a VAX architecture guide for prior art.
I don't know the Borland patent, but I am intimately familiar with the VMS call frames, signal handling as well as exception handling. It is *very* similar to SEH. If someone wants prior, I believe I have a VAX architecture guide from way long ago!
The firmware upgrade was usually predicated on you having a certain spec level of boards. Systems started at the lower spec, but as the engineers only carried one variety, machines tended to get upgraded by default. In truth most machines more than a couple of years old could run faster but some were crippled by the slower microcode.
The thing is that if somebody offers a product over the Internet, they want paying. You don't get V1agra or C1alis for free!
In the end a Spamming business needs bank accounts and in particular, card clearing services. Sure, technical solutions can help but it is an Arms Race. The best way is surely to close down their source of funds, or at least make it uneconomic for them to work over the internet.
If you have ever tried configuring a real PBX, i.e, more than 8 lines, you will find it rather unfriendly to the casual user. Even small PBX systems can be far from easy when you start to get feature rich.
In fact, having seen the configs they use for big PBX systems, Asterisk with its wizards is definitely easier!
I work at a bank. Guess which is the only browser allowed on the production network!
WiFi is much cheaper to roll out than, for example, UMTS or GPRS data. However they don't want to undermine their cellular data business model.
T-Mobile is the mobile spin-off from Deutsche Telekom. They are active in many countries, and overcharge in all of them!!!!
Indian companies are fairly used to having to pay backhanders to get work. Whereas, I'm sure that a major company like TCS is fairly straight, the fact that major companies can parcel off work to remote locations with inadequate monitoring does raise questions.
Money is stored in cassettes in a fully automatic warehouse. The actual warehouse uses an automatic system, (if you have seen a storage robot, it isn't a whole lot different). However money is shipped from the loading/unloading dock to the procssing stations and then from the processing stations to the warehouse loading/unloading station using robot forklifts.
The forklift control system was German, but I can't remember whose. They used a pulsed transmission system and used the arrival time for navigation. The main control computer knew where the forklifts were to the centimetre and gave them orders.
Those mega-hack spreadsheets are a nightmare because Excel is very flexible. It is extremely difficult to place Excel Spreadsheets + Macros under any kind of formal change control. Essentially this means that a large organisation or a financial institution should be looking at actual programming languages for the stuff on the critical path (P&L, Risk, etc.).
Good point, just create two profiles. The only problem is that the message centre is per profile. To create the second profile, you will need an alternate eMail address.
It means that you have mostly Greeks around. Note that the Turkish variety is usually Hallal and is lamb based due to the high proportion of Muslims there.
The problem is whilst the kernel is clean, there is a lot of crap around it that compromise integrity.
What I like about Clarkson is that he unashamedly likes big toys and admits it. He slagged off an H2 but then went onto say how much fun he had in it. Sure, he likes penis extensions, but he has style about it (hey, a Vanquish!).
Does it really look like a key without detailed examination? I guess it would under X-rays.
Personally I pay for a German TV license which is more expensive and the channels still carry ads (although a lot less). I must pay for that license whether I watch the public channels or not. Enforcement ads do appear but they tend to be somewhat milder.
Very offtopic, Doner = Turkish, Gyros = Greek. A good way of making yourself popular is to ask for a Gyros in a Turkish run place or vice versa.