There's no point in criticizing today's solutions if he cannot offer a competing product which can be bought and implemented today.
Most people in industry (who would presumably be the most interested target market for encryption) want a crypto solution which is safe against the neighbor competitor and does not have to be safe against NSA or CIA. They want to buy ready-made, easy-to-implement solutions at good price - he does not seem to offer one?
It greatly reduces the meaningless trolls or misplaced posts that thousands of abusive or clueless googlers would otherwise be posting in response to various ancient Usenet threads.
Ok, then. why not do the most efficient thing and disallow posting full stop. That should get rid of meaningless trolls and misplaced posts.
About a year ago, I found out that it was suddenly not possible to post anymore in "old" Google Groups discussion.
When you are ready to post, click on the "Post a Follow-up" link below the text of the message to which you wish to reply. Please note that follow-up links only appear on messages that are less than a month old.
I don't get it! At the time I found a solution to a problem that was posted, I just wanted to add that solution but could not! What's the point?
780,000 US$ that's a cool 10,000 US$ per phone call. I can see the VP of Marketing explaining that to the President: "We have this new marketing campaign, each point of contact costs only 10,000 US$, based on an average annual profit on one customer of 100 US$, we get a superb ROI of 100 years - presuming we can turn every point of contact into a customer!"
It doesn't have to hurt to work...
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This is like asking: Enterprises have so much money - why don't they give it to me?
SAP or Baan usually costs 200K$ for a mid-sized company site, add another 200K$ for the implementation consultants.
If you can save half of that money, you could save a job or two. Besides, as has been often argued in these forums, open-source is not just about free as in free beer. There are thousands of enterprise legacy systems out there without support because of merged, acquired or bankrupt software companies.
And to add to the former arguments: to pay off software from one of the major players, you need to be in the league of 10M$+ - also, developing countries companies could benefit from this.
You have this small box thing which you put in a cradle to connect to a monitor -> This is your desktop. To become mobile you insert the small box into a PDA shaped thingie -> This is your notebook/palmtop. Why the hell did they not just integrate the small box into their PDA receptacle, making it probably overall smaller and then run the PDA in a cradle as your Desktop PC???
The question is: will it even be able to produce cheap junk cheaply?
I am sorry, but this sounds too much like stories of "Desktop Publishing" will replace the need for printers - companies, for example, will print all their brochures in-house...
just turns out that economies of scale, laziness and cheap logistics quite often beats decentralized manufacturing. Why do you think do many Americans buy cut salad in bags?
I discounted the weight of the Apple to account for the earlier introduction time compared to Toashiba. With current technology at Apple's hand, it's laptop would have been 5.4 pounds...
yeah well, do you really think you get your money's worth having to carry around the EXTRA 5 lb of the Toshiba (Apple weight: 5.4 pounds, Toshiba weight: 10 pounds)
...buy those singles you can buy from the Apple Music Store, because it's convenient, reliable, good quality. Those singles you can't get, you get off P2P, because the cost of buying a whole album easily outweighs the cost of getting that one song you want from P2P.
...and a Google search doesn't yield anything that really works.
A simple Google search of:
us international mac keyboard...reveals as a first hit a website which has tips on implementing this by yourself. As a second hit a ready-made keyboard layout for US International.
If in the future "survival of the fittest" boils down to understanding Google searches, I pity the author...
I don't get it, why do Slashdotters always claim that it is impossible to trace spam. And if they do come up with ways to trace spam, then it is a technical approach.
In fact, all it really takes is a plain-old vanilla "criminal investigation". Spam is now illegal:
1. Set up a special police unit to fight spam.
2. They set up a "honeypot" email address and post it on the web.
3. After a couple of hours they receive their first spam.
4. They then look at this spam - 99% of all the spam I receive does have some feedback channel as they try to sell you something and they need you to get back to them.
5. They trace the given website, phone number, office address or email and connect it to a person. This is something which police do everyday for all sorts of crime: commercial, etc.
6. This person gets charged with "sending illicit spam". To get a more lenient sentence, this person will whistleblow on the spammers they have paid to do the spamming.
7. All of the culprits pay a heavy fine, end up in prison or, more appropriately, get the electric chair.
8. The culprits learn their lesson.
So now, what's so tough about this? This is more or less everyday police work - it's even easier than that because the criminals leave a trace, a contact point.
The only real problem here is that the criminals will claim "We did not know the email address was in Virginia". For some email addresses it might be possible to prove that they could have known that, but to make police work easier, what we really need is national law (or even better international, but one step at a time).
Few people will have heard of Fischli/Weiss and if you would know the original you would know how much the Honda ad was inspired by it. (The Honda ad for sure was not inspired by Goldberg, but by Fischli/Weiss)
Therefore I think it is important to mention the original.
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There's no point in criticizing today's solutions if he cannot offer a competing product which can be bought and implemented today.
Most people in industry (who would presumably be the most interested target market for encryption) want a crypto solution which is safe against the neighbor competitor and does not have to be safe against NSA or CIA. They want to buy ready-made, easy-to-implement solutions at good price - he does not seem to offer one?
Windows Media, Real and QT all run on Mac no problem
Here is my email to him:
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yes, they are alive, but they are going through restructuring and repositioning. I hope they succeed.
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Ok, then. why not do the most efficient thing and disallow posting full stop. That should get rid of meaningless trolls and misplaced posts.
I don't get it! At the time I found a solution to a problem that was posted, I just wanted to add that solution but could not! What's the point?
Yes, but how long until you will find those same kiosks vandalized by upright citizens?
780,000 US$ that's a cool 10,000 US$ per phone call. I can see the VP of Marketing explaining that to the President: "We have this new marketing campaign, each point of contact costs only 10,000 US$, based on an average annual profit on one customer of 100 US$, we get a superb ROI of 100 years - presuming we can turn every point of contact into a customer!"
It doesn't have to hurt to work...
http://www.ramalila.net/Adventures/AI/rule_based_s ystems.html
This is like asking: Enterprises have so much money - why don't they give it to me?
SAP or Baan usually costs 200K$ for a mid-sized company site, add another 200K$ for the implementation consultants.
If you can save half of that money, you could save a job or two. Besides, as has been often argued in these forums, open-source is not just about free as in free beer. There are thousands of enterprise legacy systems out there without support because of merged, acquired or bankrupt software companies.
And to add to the former arguments: to pay off software from one of the major players, you need to be in the league of 10M$+ - also, developing countries companies could benefit from this.
You have this small box thing which you put in a cradle to connect to a monitor -> This is your desktop. To become mobile you insert the small box into a PDA shaped thingie -> This is your notebook/palmtop. Why the hell did they not just integrate the small box into their PDA receptacle, making it probably overall smaller and then run the PDA in a cradle as your Desktop PC???
grow up! rim jobs can be given to the other sex.
I fear the American's fear... and all its consequences
The question is: will it even be able to produce cheap junk cheaply?
I am sorry, but this sounds too much like stories of "Desktop Publishing" will replace the need for printers - companies, for example, will print all their brochures in-house...
just turns out that economies of scale, laziness and cheap logistics quite often beats decentralized manufacturing. Why do you think do many Americans buy cut salad in bags?
... set up a special Google site
... so that the author can find all the tulips and apples he wants.
www.google.com/botanist
I discounted the weight of the Apple to account for the earlier introduction time compared to Toashiba. With current technology at Apple's hand, it's laptop would have been 5.4 pounds...
yeah well, do you really think you get your money's worth having to carry around the EXTRA 5 lb of the Toshiba (Apple weight: 5.4 pounds, Toshiba weight: 10 pounds)
...buy those singles you can buy from the Apple Music Store, because it's convenient, reliable, good quality.
Those singles you can't get, you get off P2P, because the cost of buying a whole album easily outweighs the cost of getting that one song you want from P2P.
Do as I do, avoid printing at all cost and work on implementing the paperless office.
I don't get it, why do Slashdotters always claim that it is impossible to trace spam. And if they do come up with ways to trace spam, then it is a technical approach.
In fact, all it really takes is a plain-old vanilla "criminal investigation".
Spam is now illegal:
1. Set up a special police unit to fight spam.
2. They set up a "honeypot" email address and post it on the web.
3. After a couple of hours they receive their first spam.
4. They then look at this spam - 99% of all the spam I receive does have some feedback channel as they try to sell you something and they need you to get back to them.
5. They trace the given website, phone number, office address or email and connect it to a person. This is something which police do everyday for all sorts of crime: commercial, etc.
6. This person gets charged with "sending illicit spam". To get a more lenient sentence, this person will whistleblow on the spammers they have paid to do the spamming.
7. All of the culprits pay a heavy fine, end up in prison or, more appropriately, get the electric chair.
8. The culprits learn their lesson.
So now, what's so tough about this?
This is more or less everyday police work - it's even easier than that because the criminals leave a trace, a contact point.
The only real problem here is that the criminals will claim "We did not know the email address was in Virginia".
For some email addresses it might be possible to prove that they could have known that, but to make police work easier, what we really need is national law (or even better international, but one step at a time).
Couldn't agree less - any foreseeable trend for video should have happened with music before. Now I never listen to music on demand.
You know, you shouldn't get your works published DUE TO horrible and confusing spelling mistakes.
the difference is that everyone knows Pong, etc.
Few people will have heard of Fischli/Weiss and if you would know the original you would know how much the Honda ad was inspired by it.
(The Honda ad for sure was not inspired by Goldberg, but by Fischli/Weiss)
Therefore I think it is important to mention the original.