The ambassador is wworking for the Department of State. He is probably working from a brief prepared by the Department of Commerce.
Complain politely but in quantity, ideally get Redhat and IBM to complain as well that Microsoft is seeking to exclude other american companies.
The ambassador is not a shill for Microsoft, he probably knows nothing of the business. He does try to represent US interests, but he needs to be told that there is a world outside Microsoft.
I agree about the legal stuff. How about a demonstration or two in front of the movie theatres. Do people realise that these guys have the right to break into their computers and cause damage on suspicion?
To be more precise, DT accounts don't tell any lies (at least according to German accounting law - but that doesn't say much). They wanted to divest before but were forbidden by the Government.
The original allocation process had a lot more in common with the.coms with the major banks front-running the issue and playing games with the supply of shares to kite prices up.
Both the Federal Highway system and the original railroads cost a bundle to build. Governments can take a long term view but corporations can't. The early railroad corps spent a bundle on creating infrastructure bu then tried to cover up their costs. Many went bankrupt as investors lost patience.
Someone mentioned the Federal highway system (note Federal), another analogy was the early days of the railroad. This is perhaps a better analogy because of the bubbles, corporate shenanigans and general dodgy practices involved during the early days.
Sorry, I didn't mean retail banking. As you say that continues to be quite slow, but investment banking eats throughput alive (mind you the revenue cost of your fibre lines is probably then tiny compared to that of your investment in Worldcom going bottom up).
For many other users having T1+ bandwidths is expensive and requires a lot of justification. I know this from when I worked in industry and we had arguments about the need for better performance for shipping CAD drawings around (we had installations scattered across a city, rather than a single campus).
The issue is that it is questionable whether the 85 billion investment should have been made, it is then even more doubtful about the 100 billion.
Is it really such a gamble, are the revenue models that bad or are the ones that get used somehat unrealistic? Unlit fibre isn't an issue, but overborrowing is.
Are the drives region-locked? Remember that the region lock is usually in the firmware as well as the player. All modern drives are shipped with a firmware region lock. Modified firmware is available from a number of places (such as this) to defeat the lock. After that, the data files should be easily accessible by DECSS.
Unfortunately this seems to have been the principle result of Microsoft's much vaunted house-keeping. Net result does not seem to be a reduction in the number of existing security bugs.
Nobody would put down a single fibre. It is too expensive to physically lay it. You lay two (or more) fibres instead but leave them unused (dark fibre). However, repeaters are there it is just they aren't attached wither end. Theoretically all you need is to connect a switch and you have your extra capacity.
This should have meant high bandwidth and low prices, but as suppliers like Worldcom had to borrow heavily for their infrastructure costs, they were stuck with high prices. Something similar happened with Deutsche Telekom in Germany. They built a fibre network through the former DDR but borrowed heavily to finance it. The things is that nobody was going to pay for that capacity at a premium price. Telekom didn't mess around with their predictions in the way that Worldcom did, but they also came unstuck.
The problem comes down to the revenue models and the telecom analysts in the banks. If I have a bank of 64K connections and I upgrade them to 1024K, I can't simply charge 16 times the price. A few customers can afford this (think banks), but many others can not.
Capacity including dark fibre definitely was doubling every 100 days but usage wasn't and certainly not revenue.
Um, not quite true. I once worked with a guy with a somewhat cavalier attitude to this.
I was running a backup on the system and the backup failed. The bastard had borrowed my tape drive while it was in operation. The backup was useless, but the other SCSI attached disks didn't even winge. What is interesting is that this system had a tape drive and one disk on an external tape drive. These were not on the SCA connectors.
The thing is that it preferred termination on the bus but didn't insist on it. Without the terminator, it would happily continue, retrying every so often, but still working.
You are right, for true hot swap you need controllers and drives that support it. Most high-end SCSI controllers with builtin RAID support this. However, it is interesting to see what one can get away with.
Um AFAIK, it wouldn't work, because you would have no locking across the file system. You would have the problem of trying to read incomplete files and directories. The system with read-only access will always need to fsck the file system before it can complete a clean mount unless the r/w system does a full umount.
I could stick a write protect switch on my drive, at least then I could synchronise the readers with the modifiers.
Having a read and a read-write cable doesn't really solve anything. You really have to take the web-site down while you are updating, otherwise you need a very interesting combo of web site and file system.
A while back, Phil Zimermann first put PGP up on an ftp server. Later the FBI went after him for breach of the munitions control act (which governed export of munitions). The Grand Jury decided that there was no case to answer as he had only placed a file on an ftp server.
Those persons making the copy were the ones that broke the export control regs. In this (criminal) case, it was decided simply making the files available was not the same as copying them.
Oh dear, why did I stick those MP3s of my personal music collection that I had made for my PDA in/pub?
Compare this to leaving a book in a public library. Someone borrows it and makes a cover to cover copy. Who commits the crime? The library or the copier.
Lets get closer to home, what happens with a record library?
I was lucky enough to see a total eclipse. I had been warned others hadn't got the message. I saw it through mylar and I think I didn't do any damage.
The pupil dilates as the light dies. This means the first beads of sunlight as the eclipse ends shining around the moon comes straight through a wide-open eye tracking across the retina like a magnifying glass onto paper. It is easy to look directly at those first beads for too long (a glance won't hurt though).
We have 30+MB of COBOL source code for one application, the C is less than 10MB. The applications runs on an OpenVMS Cluster and OpenVMS middle-layer systems. It runs like hot-shit off teflon shovels. The systems runs in two modes, "ONLINE" doing a few million transactions per day and batch, where is does some cleanup work at the end of the day. Don't even *think* of doing this on a PC, the I/O bandwidth sucks big time and the OS design lacks a lot (even Linux). Sure we pay people to look after things, but we only need two shifts.
We have a front-end implemented mostly in C and Java running under Win2K and Solaris. The GUI is just Java and it sucks big time.
At one stage I had to do a quick and dirty with some software that was hitting priority inversion problems. I was working AC who had caused the issue by sloppy coding - I commented the fix with a warning that this was a "Kludge" and needed a proper cleanup later. AC petitioned for and got the "Kludge" word removed.
A good one to leave for QA is 'FIXME:'. At some point I sprinkle a few of these during development whilst I'm sortuing things out. Of course, I scan through and remove them. On one occasiion, I forgot to remove the comment though - whoops!! QA were not amused
There was an epilogue which was dropped, however it was put on the DVD in the extras showing the perils of judging people by their heritage by listing some of the persons with defects and what they have achieved.
Excellent film, and very much a warning notice which is one of the functions of Sci-Fi.
An interesting side note is that one of the 'features' tested was how futuristic the film was. In Gattaca, the building where most of the action took place is a 70s public-library and the cars/clothing used was out of the 50s (but the cars had a turbine like whine to them).
Nyeman has also done a lot of music for the films of Peter Greenaway. Check out films such as Prospero's Books (a version of Shakespeare's The Tempest) or The Draughtsmans Contracts. Greenaway likes to think in a certain way and Nyeman's music compliment's the films beautifully.
Ok, you have ripped it, what will you do with it? 6GB or so of MPEG2 isn't much use to man or beast. You can watch it once, but that is a lot of HD space. Even if you want to keep it just for yourself, that is a problem.
If you want to dump it out into another format, say MPEG-4 or DiVX, there are a lot of fiddly bits, as regards how to get the best out of lossy compression. A non-action film may compress much better than an action film, trade-offs must be made. However, you can end up with 1-2CDs of data that are quirte viewable. It may take a couple of attempts though.
That's a pretty solipsistic attitude you've got there, buddy. Nobody cares about you. Nobody will ever care.
Sorry they do care. In this post cold-war world there are a lot of underemployed intelligence operatives who like to see conspiracies. It doesn't matter whether you are in the US, the former USSR or anywhere imbetween. Is this all protection?
Are you aware of the definition of clinical paranoia?
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get me?
Now of those law enforcement agencies, who do we trust with an all-encompassing portfolio, why people like John Hanssen. Please believe me, I have probably travelled a little wider than you, and giving the government a lot of extra information is never a good thing unless they really have a specific case to need it.
Tagging objects is a fine idea, but I would like to know where the information stops. Why do they need to know what an object is if it is physically in front of them?
Nobody is going to care - ever - that you bought the latest Pratchett, then sold it to your friend, who donated it to a charity shop, who then sold it to a guy who gets drug conviction.
Then why record which book I have bought and who has bought it later? Perhaps somebody might care that I have a copy of the Koran and the Los Alamos Primer?
A word and a number, Farenheit 451.
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Complain politely but in quantity, ideally get Redhat and IBM to complain as well that Microsoft is seeking to exclude other american companies.
The ambassador is not a shill for Microsoft, he probably knows nothing of the business. He does try to represent US interests, but he needs to be told that there is a world outside Microsoft.
I agree about the legal stuff. How about a demonstration or two in front of the movie theatres. Do people realise that these guys have the right to break into their computers and cause damage on suspicion?
The original allocation process had a lot more in common with the .coms with the major banks front-running the issue and playing games with the supply of shares to kite prices up.
Both the Federal Highway system and the original railroads cost a bundle to build. Governments can take a long term view but corporations can't. The early railroad corps spent a bundle on creating infrastructure bu then tried to cover up their costs. Many went bankrupt as investors lost patience.
Someone mentioned the Federal highway system (note Federal), another analogy was the early days of the railroad. This is perhaps a better analogy because of the bubbles, corporate shenanigans and general dodgy practices involved during the early days.
For many other users having T1+ bandwidths is expensive and requires a lot of justification. I know this from when I worked in industry and we had arguments about the need for better performance for shipping CAD drawings around (we had installations scattered across a city, rather than a single campus).
Is it really such a gamble, are the revenue models that bad or are the ones that get used somehat unrealistic? Unlit fibre isn't an issue, but overborrowing is.
Are the drives region-locked? Remember that the region lock is usually in the firmware as well as the player. All modern drives are shipped with a firmware region lock. Modified firmware is available from a number of places (such as this) to defeat the lock. After that, the data files should be easily accessible by DECSS.
Unfortunately this seems to have been the principle result of Microsoft's much vaunted house-keeping. Net result does not seem to be a reduction in the number of existing security bugs.
This should have meant high bandwidth and low prices, but as suppliers like Worldcom had to borrow heavily for their infrastructure costs, they were stuck with high prices. Something similar happened with Deutsche Telekom in Germany. They built a fibre network through the former DDR but borrowed heavily to finance it. The things is that nobody was going to pay for that capacity at a premium price. Telekom didn't mess around with their predictions in the way that Worldcom did, but they also came unstuck.
The problem comes down to the revenue models and the telecom analysts in the banks. If I have a bank of 64K connections and I upgrade them to 1024K, I can't simply charge 16 times the price. A few customers can afford this (think banks), but many others can not.
Capacity including dark fibre definitely was doubling every 100 days but usage wasn't and certainly not revenue.
I was running a backup on the system and the backup failed. The bastard had borrowed my tape drive while it was in operation. The backup was useless, but the other SCSI attached disks didn't even winge. What is interesting is that this system had a tape drive and one disk on an external tape drive. These were not on the SCA connectors.
The thing is that it preferred termination on the bus but didn't insist on it. Without the terminator, it would happily continue, retrying every so often, but still working.
You are right, for true hot swap you need controllers and drives that support it. Most high-end SCSI controllers with builtin RAID support this. However, it is interesting to see what one can get away with.
Um AFAIK, it wouldn't work, because you would have no locking across the file system. You would have the problem of trying to read incomplete files and directories. The system with read-only access will always need to fsck the file system before it can complete a clean mount unless the r/w system does a full umount.
Having a read and a read-write cable doesn't really solve anything. You really have to take the web-site down while you are updating, otherwise you need a very interesting combo of web site and file system.
Those persons making the copy were the ones that broke the export control regs. In this (criminal) case, it was decided simply making the files available was not the same as copying them.
Oh dear, why did I stick those MP3s of my personal music collection that I had made for my PDA in /pub?
Compare this to leaving a book in a public library. Someone borrows it and makes a cover to cover copy. Who commits the crime? The library or the copier.
Lets get closer to home, what happens with a record library?
The pupil dilates as the light dies. This means the first beads of sunlight as the eclipse ends shining around the moon comes straight through a wide-open eye tracking across the retina like a magnifying glass onto paper. It is easy to look directly at those first beads for too long (a glance won't hurt though).
We have a front-end implemented mostly in C and Java running under Win2K and Solaris. The GUI is just Java and it sucks big time.
If you can install generic and wait for an up2date, RH is patching 7.3 with a 2.4.18-4 Kernel. Note that you must force Kernel updates.
At one stage I had to do a quick and dirty with some software that was hitting priority inversion problems. I was working AC who had caused the issue by sloppy coding - I commented the fix with a warning that this was a "Kludge" and needed a proper cleanup later. AC petitioned for and got the "Kludge" word removed.
A good one to leave for QA is 'FIXME:'. At some point I sprinkle a few of these during development whilst I'm sortuing things out. Of course, I scan through and remove them. On one occasiion, I forgot to remove the comment though - whoops!! QA were not amused
Excellent film, and very much a warning notice which is one of the functions of Sci-Fi.
An interesting side note is that one of the 'features' tested was how futuristic the film was. In Gattaca, the building where most of the action took place is a 70s public-library and the cars/clothing used was out of the 50s (but the cars had a turbine like whine to them).
Nyeman has also done a lot of music for the films of Peter Greenaway. Check out films such as Prospero's Books (a version of Shakespeare's The Tempest) or The Draughtsmans Contracts. Greenaway likes to think in a certain way and Nyeman's music compliment's the films beautifully.
If you want to dump it out into another format, say MPEG-4 or DiVX, there are a lot of fiddly bits, as regards how to get the best out of lossy compression. A non-action film may compress much better than an action film, trade-offs must be made. However, you can end up with 1-2CDs of data that are quirte viewable. It may take a couple of attempts though.
Now of those law enforcement agencies, who do we trust with an all-encompassing portfolio, why people like John Hanssen. Please believe me, I have probably travelled a little wider than you, and giving the government a lot of extra information is never a good thing unless they really have a specific case to need it.
Tagging objects is a fine idea, but I would like to know where the information stops. Why do they need to know what an object is if it is physically in front of them?