1) What I bought was a version that works as a plug-in to Microsoft Outlook that runs client-side in a Outlook/Exchange environment. It's a specific implementation of the code that I wanted. I could have taken the GPL code and changed it to do this, but it is simpler and cheaper to buy it.
2) These guys deserve the money. They worked hard and made a good piece of software. Paying them for their work is a good incentive to continue writing good, useful code.
Perhaps we techno-geeks need to stop thinking about everything in the real world in binary terms.
The world is an analog place, not a digital one.
Dang, keep this quiet!
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I saw this early this morning and I began the download. It's at 66% now. If the hordes of/. break my d/l (the ftp is NO RESUME), I'm gunna be fit to be tied.
I ask the users, my clients, what business problems they need help with. I don't ask them, do you want the new Yoyodyne 1.27gigawatt laptop?
I ask them what process or capabilites they need or want to do their job better. It's my job to translate their needs into a actual plan for implementing technology. Sometimes they do ask for specific technologies, like Blackberry PDAs. Unless there is a good reason not to fufill their requests, give them what they want.
Let me say that again, 'Give them what they want'. I'm not saying make your facility insecure or wasteful, but playing the BOFH gatekeeper of technology is a bad place to be.
You may not think that all the requests for laptops or special applications are absolutely necessary, but for the most part you need to trust your clients that they know their business needs.
Compromise is the key. Having an ivory tower attitude toward which technology you use will not help you show value to the organization.
They won't be expensive either, really they won't. Current DTV tuners are >$500. The TV manfacturers say it's a minimum cost of $250 per TV. Who is going to pay all this money?
This is not HDTV. It specifically is for HDTV.
This is OTA broadcasts. Digital transmissions will use much less bandwith than the current analog ones, the govn't really has a good reason to push this! DTV broadcasts use the same amount of bandwidth (6 MHz) as NTSC TV. There is no bandwidth savings.
The problem is that government is not mandating a format or spectrum allocation. They've already done that. What they are doing is creating rules to make the business plan of DTV broadcasters work. It's basically the same as the government requiring that all computers can run Windows.
In the past, broadcasters tried to promote the idea of using DTV spectrum for non-HDTV uses. You can read a little here about the process. Preston Padden of Disney/ABC got slammed by congress for even suggesting they wouldn't broadcast HDTV.
The broadcast networks are committed to HDTV at this point.
The problem is that there is no business model that pays for the increased cost of HDTV production and broadcast with increased revenue. Sad but true.
I originally wrote it to explain HDTV to my buddies on our fraternity mailing list. The reference to "your asses back to Sun-day!" is an inside joke reference to our hell week process.
I'll officially GPL it, so repost it as you see fit. Mentioning my name would be nice.:) I tossed it up on a web page for reference.
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
I am assuming that the Chinese are using a simple analog transmission over the transponder without any CA (conditional access/security).
If you have a big enough dish and enough power, you could get the transponder to lock to your carrier and get rebroadcast. The picture would look crappy, but it can be done.
There's no great defense against it other than implementing a secured digital transmission system where the IRDs (integrated receiver/demodualtors) do not have analog reception capability.
All the Falun Gong needed was an Earth Station anywhere in Asia that could see the bird and was willing to transmit. I doubt it was done from inside China. They'd know where all the 5+ meter dishes are in China and who was working them.
Information warfare of this type has a bit of a financial barrier to overcome to engage in, but once on the offensive, it is quite tough to defend against. The Soviet Union and Cuba were unable to stop the US radio and TV propaganda broadcasts throughout the cold war, no matter how much they spent.
"But now I am getting worked up. I'll settle down. Deep breath, in, out, in, out. That's the thing about being a Mac user, Kelby points out: passion. Passion for Apple and its products, even the ones that stink, because Apple is more than just a company, it is an organization that changes our lives in important ways, by making products that make a difference to us. "
What is he talking about? Are we supposed to understand exactly how Apple has "changes our lives in important ways" without him mentioning how?
Look, I've got PCs & Macs running Windows, Linux, and Mac OSs. They each have their good and bad points. But none of them have something so special that they "change our lives in important ways". They are all jusy fscking operating systems. We'd all be doing fine if we were using OS2 or Amiga or Be.
It's what people do with computers that makes a difference.
You absolutely need your legal counsel involved in this. An IT department is generally unsuited to handle these type of business/legal affairs.
By sucking in the legal folks you turn it from an IT problem to a 'university as a whole' problem.
Do not let them strong arm you into anything. Play hardball. Tell them you are doing an internal review that could take months.
Remember, they will be very reluctant to force the issue into a courtroom. It is very bad PR for them to take an impoverished college to court. A jury would be filled with people who all have 'unlicensed' software on their home PCs.
But in the end, you will have to make a reasonable effort to be in compliance and generally pay for the software you use. That, my friend, will be unavoidable. Unless, you switch IT platforms to a free or close-to-free software environment.
Be prepared for the costs involved for a serious analysis.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and we had one of the Big 5 consultants do a 2 day port scan for us. We wanted a third party as well. They wanted $12k for 2 days work.
Is the/. crowd in favor of privacy legislation or do we take a Libertarian viewpoint on this as well and call privacy legistlation an affront to free speech?
Viddy well my droogs, you don't want to be hypocritical here.
Privacy bills like this will have a huge impact on the consumer's protection, but also have a huge cost to growing internet companies.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
I run the broadcast engineering and IT groups for the cable TV arm of a large entertainment company.
There is a wide range of jobs in the TV technology field.
There is a main split between the creatives that understand technology (like producers, graphics people, etc.) and the geeks that keep the technology running (maintenance, design, configuration, operations, etc.)
If you are a creative guy, I can't help much. That's not what I do.
What exactly are you interested in? "TV Production" would denote that you are involved with lighting, camera setup, etc. "Geek" would denote that you are involved with system design, signal quality, operations, etc.
The real hub of this kind of work is in Los Angeles. There is a huge amount of post-production done here at every level. Typically, people take lower end jobs to learn the 'real world' of production before being able to get a 'good' job doing it. Alot has to do with who you know in the business.
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Well, two reasons.
1) What I bought was a version that works as a plug-in to Microsoft Outlook that runs client-side in a Outlook/Exchange environment. It's a specific implementation of the code that I wanted. I could have taken the GPL code and changed it to do this, but it is simpler and cheaper to buy it.
2) These guys deserve the money. They worked hard and made a good piece of software. Paying them for their work is a good incentive to continue writing good, useful code.
I bought a copy to use at home and 30 licenses for the office. The stuff works good.
They've continued to update the program and add more features. I get 50-100 spams per day and the program might miss one of them.
I hope they are getting a nice tasty payout from Network Associates.
Are there only two choices? Good or evil?
Perhaps we techno-geeks need to stop thinking about everything in the real world in binary terms.
The world is an analog place, not a digital one.
I saw this early this morning and I began the download. It's at 66% now. If the hordes of /. break my d/l (the ftp is NO RESUME), I'm gunna be fit to be tied.
Their intergration of Spam Assassin into an Outlook component is great.
I use it at home and even bought licenses fr the office as well.
The software is well worth the money.
I ask the users, my clients, what business problems they need help with. I don't ask them, do you want the new Yoyodyne 1.27gigawatt laptop?
I ask them what process or capabilites they need or want to do their job better. It's my job to translate their needs into a actual plan for implementing technology. Sometimes they do ask for specific technologies, like Blackberry PDAs. Unless there is a good reason not to fufill their requests, give them what they want.
Let me say that again, 'Give them what they want'. I'm not saying make your facility insecure or wasteful, but playing the BOFH gatekeeper of technology is a bad place to be.
You may not think that all the requests for laptops or special applications are absolutely necessary, but for the most part you need to trust your clients that they know their business needs.
Compromise is the key. Having an ivory tower attitude toward which technology you use will not help you show value to the organization.
They won't be expensive either, really they won't.
Current DTV tuners are >$500. The TV manfacturers say it's a minimum cost of $250 per TV. Who is going to pay all this money?
This is not HDTV.
It specifically is for HDTV.
This is OTA broadcasts. Digital transmissions will use much less bandwith than the current analog ones, the govn't really has a good reason to push this!
DTV broadcasts use the same amount of bandwidth (6 MHz) as NTSC TV. There is no bandwidth savings.
The problem is that government is not mandating a format or spectrum allocation. They've already done that. What they are doing is creating rules to make the business plan of DTV broadcasters work. It's basically the same as the government requiring that all computers can run Windows.
In the past, broadcasters tried to promote the idea of using DTV spectrum for non-HDTV uses. You can read a little here about the process. Preston Padden of Disney/ABC got slammed by congress for even suggesting they wouldn't broadcast HDTV.
The broadcast networks are committed to HDTV at this point.
The problem is that there is no business model that pays for the increased cost of HDTV production and broadcast with increased revenue. Sad but true.
TV people curse worse than sailors.
That's mild language compared to what is normally heard.
I work in TV and wrote this piece a while ago.
:) I tossed it up on a web page for reference.
I originally wrote it to explain HDTV to my buddies on our fraternity mailing list. The reference to "your asses back to Sun-day!" is an inside joke reference to our hell week process.
I'll officially GPL it, so repost it as you see fit. Mentioning my name would be nice.
Here is a download site for Zork for Mac OS X.
Enjoy.
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
-Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939
I doubt this was a computer hack, just a RF hack.
I am assuming that the Chinese are using a simple analog transmission over the transponder without any CA (conditional access/security).
If you have a big enough dish and enough power, you could get the transponder to lock to your carrier and get rebroadcast. The picture would look crappy, but it can be done.
There's no great defense against it other than implementing a secured digital transmission system where the IRDs (integrated receiver/demodualtors) do not have analog reception capability.
All the Falun Gong needed was an Earth Station anywhere in Asia that could see the bird and was willing to transmit. I doubt it was done from inside China. They'd know where all the 5+ meter dishes are in China and who was working them.
Information warfare of this type has a bit of a financial barrier to overcome to engage in, but once on the offensive, it is quite tough to defend against. The Soviet Union and Cuba were unable to stop the US radio and TV propaganda broadcasts throughout the cold war, no matter how much they spent.
My bad, I meant 802.1x
Sorry.
I am faced with deploying a wireless environment that requires such security.
Does the book discuss the security aspect of these new standards?
This is probably the 100th time there's been mention of trouble with the free webmail systems like Yahoo and Hotmail that people have had.
It really is worth the money to own a domain and get an email address that no one can fsck with.
Benefits:
Not based on your ISP
No privacy issues
Multiple email accounts for different purposes
Can utilize forwarding to webmail
The offical model number for the joysticks is CX40.
You can ususally track them down on eBay or via google.
I quote the article:
"But now I am getting worked up. I'll settle down. Deep breath, in, out, in, out. That's the thing about being a Mac user, Kelby points out: passion. Passion for Apple and its products, even the ones that stink, because Apple is more than just a company, it is an organization that changes our lives in important ways, by making products that make a difference to us. "
What is he talking about? Are we supposed to understand exactly how Apple has "changes our lives in important ways" without him mentioning how? Look, I've got PCs & Macs running Windows, Linux, and Mac OSs. They each have their good and bad points. But none of them have something so special that they "change our lives in important ways". They are all jusy fscking operating systems. We'd all be doing fine if we were using OS2 or Amiga or Be.
It's what people do with computers that makes a difference.
Can you do that trick where you raise just one tire in the air while you drive down the road. I saw a guy do that last week. very r33t.
But he had a WinXP sticker on the car so I think he was running LowRide2000...
I would suggest that you 'lawyer up'.
You absolutely need your legal counsel involved in this. An IT department is generally unsuited to handle these type of business/legal affairs.
By sucking in the legal folks you turn it from an IT problem to a 'university as a whole' problem.
Do not let them strong arm you into anything. Play hardball. Tell them you are doing an internal review that could take months.
Remember, they will be very reluctant to force the issue into a courtroom. It is very bad PR for them to take an impoverished college to court. A jury would be filled with people who all have 'unlicensed' software on their home PCs.
But in the end, you will have to make a reasonable effort to be in compliance and generally pay for the software you use. That, my friend, will be unavoidable. Unless, you switch IT platforms to a free or close-to-free software environment.
Good luck.
Be prepared for the costs involved for a serious analysis.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and we had one of the Big 5 consultants do a 2 day port scan for us. We wanted a third party as well. They wanted $12k for 2 days work.
Is the /. crowd in favor of privacy legislation or do we take a Libertarian viewpoint on this as well and call privacy legistlation an affront to free speech?
Viddy well my droogs, you don't want to be hypocritical here.
Privacy bills like this will have a huge impact on the consumer's protection, but also have a huge cost to growing internet companies.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Robert Heinlein's Life-Line
I run the broadcast engineering and IT groups for the cable TV arm of a large entertainment company.
There is a wide range of jobs in the TV technology field.
There is a main split between the creatives that understand technology (like producers, graphics people, etc.) and the geeks that keep the technology running (maintenance, design, configuration, operations, etc.)
If you are a creative guy, I can't help much. That's not what I do.
What exactly are you interested in? "TV Production" would denote that you are involved with lighting, camera setup, etc. "Geek" would denote that you are involved with system design, signal quality, operations, etc.
The real hub of this kind of work is in Los Angeles. There is a huge amount of post-production done here at every level. Typically, people take lower end jobs to learn the 'real world' of production before being able to get a 'good' job doing it. Alot has to do with who you know in the business.
Email me if you want more info...
Project Gutenberg has all of Burrough's works available in electronic format.
Princess of Mars