Do you want reliable telephone service? Even if there is a power failure? No. I have a cell phone for local blackouts and it's not important enough for me to support a monopoly.
Do you want guaranteed availability of telephone service at uniform and reasonable rates, even if you live on a farm or in a slum? No. I'm really tired of this 'universal service' crap. Why should I pay more so someone who chooses to live on a mountaintop in the middle of nowhere can pay the same phone bill as people in the city? We should let the user pay. There are always tradeoffs and choices when you choose where to live.
Do you want 911 service that works? 1. Cellphones still work for 911 2. As mentioned before, Vonage has a 911 feature.
I got the CD "Now that's what I call Christmas" and it won't play in any of my PC drives or my wife's iMac. However, Nero reported it was copy protected, so I checked the box to override it and the copy works fine. There is NO warning on the CD about DRM.
The problem with this legislation is that it requires third parties to pay for the enforcement. i.e. device manufacturers and consumers via higher prices. A better solution would be require the people who want their copyright protected to pay the cost.
I propose a huge internet database containing all copyrighted works. If you want your work to be protected from internet theft, you must upload it to this database.
When users want to share a file, they must first download another copy of the file from the online database and compare it against the file they want to share. If they match, they cannot share the file.
Of course, this does depend on the honesty of the users not to share the file once they see it is a copyrighted work, but I can guarantee the system will stop all P2P and WAREZ piracy overnight!:)
A lot of the people replying to this question are giving advice worth what it costs: nothing.
Anyone can list the google search results for web reporting tools, but most of these aren't worth a crap if your requirements are for large loads.
Crystal Reports: Great design tool. Useful in an office environment. Requires a dedicated server. Falls on its face under large loads.
Formscape: Not useful for dynamically generated reports.
All other report engines : one of the above
HTML/text output: As mentioned, looks like crap printed. Real reporting requires grouping/subreports and even graphs. Have fun getting these to print.
My company required a web-reporting tool for use by tens of thousands of users nationwide via TCP/IP connections. This means being able to handle hundreds of simultaneous dynamically generated reports.
First, we tried a few of the products on the market but even the ones costing >$1,000,000 couldn't handle the load without a giant server farm.
Next we tried a "roll your own" servlet/PDF solution. Nice idea, but if you are trying to do this on your real time app servers, system response times will suffer.
The solution we settled on was:
1)custom report programs on a mid range server for each report type.
2) all report requests are submitted and processed by a batch manager which limits CPU load on the report server
3) finished reports are converted into PDF via a template file and stored in a table.
4) The users is directed to a pending reports page until the reports are complete. When complete, they can be downloaded as.pdf and viewed with the acrobat plug in
The lesson we learned - if you need to handle complex reports and heavy loads, you must custom code them. No reporting engine can handle it (yet).
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Do you want reliable telephone service? Even if there is a power failure?
No. I have a cell phone for local blackouts and it's not important enough for me to support a monopoly.
Do you want guaranteed availability of telephone service at uniform and reasonable rates, even if you live on a farm or in a slum?
No. I'm really tired of this 'universal service' crap. Why should I pay more so someone who chooses to live on a mountaintop in the middle of nowhere can pay the same phone bill as people in the city? We should let the user pay. There are always tradeoffs and choices when you choose where to live.
Do you want 911 service that works?
1. Cellphones still work for 911
2. As mentioned before, Vonage has a 911 feature.
I agree! Why here in the 7th century, we serfs rarely live past 20 years. I hear talk of try to "extend" the lifespan to more than 70 years!
What would you do with all those years? That's more than 3 times the current retirement age!
I think it's unnatural to live past 20 - anyone older than that should do us a favor and kill yourself - you've outlived your usefulness!
I got the CD "Now that's what I call Christmas" and it won't play in any of my PC drives or my wife's iMac.
However, Nero reported it was copy protected, so I checked the box to override it and the copy works fine.
There is NO warning on the CD about DRM.
If the passenger plays his OWN radio, is the driver still liable?
Maybe the passenger has to buy a licence!
The problem with this legislation is that it requires third parties to
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pay for the enforcement. i.e. device manufacturers and consumers
via higher prices. A better solution would be require the people
who want their copyright protected to pay the cost.
I propose a huge internet database containing all copyrighted works.
If you want your work to be protected from internet theft, you must
upload it to this database.
When users want to share a file, they must first download another copy
of the file from the online database and compare it against the file
they want to share. If they match, they cannot share the file.
Of course, this does depend on the honesty of the users not to share
the file once they see it is a copyrighted work, but I can guarantee
the system will stop all P2P and WAREZ piracy overnight!
A lot of the people replying to this question are giving advice worth what it costs: nothing. Anyone can list the google search results for web reporting tools, but most of these aren't worth a crap if your requirements are for large loads. Crystal Reports: Great design tool. Useful in an office environment. Requires a dedicated server. Falls on its face under large loads. Formscape: Not useful for dynamically generated reports. All other report engines : one of the above HTML/text output: As mentioned, looks like crap printed. Real reporting requires grouping/subreports and even graphs. Have fun getting these to print. My company required a web-reporting tool for use by tens of thousands of users nationwide via TCP/IP connections. This means being able to handle hundreds of simultaneous dynamically generated reports. First, we tried a few of the products on the market but even the ones costing >$1,000,000 couldn't handle the load without a giant server farm. Next we tried a "roll your own" servlet/PDF solution. Nice idea, but if you are trying to do this on your real time app servers, system response times will suffer. The solution we settled on was: 1)custom report programs on a mid range server for each report type. 2) all report requests are submitted and processed by a batch manager which limits CPU load on the report server 3) finished reports are converted into PDF via a template file and stored in a table. 4) The users is directed to a pending reports page until the reports are complete. When complete, they can be downloaded as .pdf and viewed with the acrobat plug in
The lesson we learned - if you need to handle complex reports and heavy loads, you must custom code them. No reporting engine can handle it (yet).