When carrying a laptop, you should remember: - Crypto import/export rules vary from country to country - Pornography rules vary from country to country - Etc.
What may be "OK" on your laptop in the US, may not be in another country... and someone might just decide to look to find out.
I use an "Umbrella Company" known as MyBizOffice for all my contracting. MBO holds the contracts, then employs me to service the contracts. As an employee, I am provided health insurance. How does this work? When $$$ come in to MBO to pay me, they take their nominal fee off the top, then put the money in my "fund". Health insurance comes out of that fund. Then when I want a pay check, I tell the online system to cut me a check, and both the employee and employer portions of the tax come out of that fund, along with my net pay.
Sure I have to pay MBO a small fee to do this... but they make benefits as well as a W2 employment history (very beneficial when buying a house, etc.) available to me.
They've also got a 401(k), and an expense reimbursement system that makes it easy to pay for things pre-tax.
I definitely recommend looking at MyBizOffice or their competitors... I researched competitors in 2002, but decided on MBO and have stuck with them.
My car (2004 Mazda 3) has a fully electronic throttle body. It's all servo-driven, no linkage between the throttle and the gas pedal at all. If I had thought to check stuff like that I wouldn't have bought it.
Many transit buses, over the road buses (motorcoaches), and tractors (semi's) have electronic throttles. While it takes some getting used to the first time or two (and when switching between the two), it's _far_ preferable on large vehicles...
For a farmer to replant seed, they generally "clean" it. Practically speaking this means taking the crop to a "seed plant" where they run it through a series of filters to filter out the weeds and other impurities. It's then bagged and stored for replanting the following year.
It's now virtually impossible to get soybeans cleaned in most parts of the country. Monsanto has taken to suing seed plants / seed cleaning operations who clean patented seed. Because there's no easy (read- can be done by the fellow running the seed plant) way to tell patented seed from the regular stuff, the seed cleaner could be liable.
Many people are asking, "Why'd the farmer plant it?" One big reason is that he can't get the regular stuff cleaned. Replanting is quickly becoming "not an option". Alas. No more open source veggies.
Your reference of "system heat up" is more important than you may think. It's important to know:
- How well does the system react to overheating? - How well does the system react to unexpected shutdown? - How well does the system react in general?
While big iron often goes into controlled environments (generators, air conditioners, etc.), those systems sometimes fails. Whether their failure causes an inconvenience or a catastrophic problem is a significant question.
For example- does the system detect the heat and shut itself down, or does it overheat and fry itself?
Notification systems- Is the user notified when a fan fails? (Is it via a proprietary protocol or something standard like SNMP?)
User replaceable parts- Can I keep a stock of extra fans in the back room, or does a tech have to come out to replace things that *do go wrong*?
In short, a review should come from the perspective of running a production data center and the issues one faces in this environment:
- What is necessary for high uptimes? - What is necessary for long lifes? - What is necessary for solid performance?
I did work under a similar arrangement for a while. I used a company called mybizoffice.com for the benefits. They're generally called an "umbrella company" or an "employer of record". It made getting a mortgage recently _much_ easier.
I had no complaints with MyBizOffice. There are other options, but they were the only ones with a good web interface at the time I was in the market (July 2003).
My grandfather has long told me of the dairy in Hereford, Texas running entirely on their own methane (and actually loading it out for others) in the 20's...
SCO Germany must pay 10,000 euro order money. Basis for the decision of the regional court Munich I is a provisional order of the enterprise Tarent and the LinuxTags against SCO. thereafter may not the enterprise not maintain, of Linux contains illegitimately acquired mental property of SCO. against it is to SCO on its homepage to have offended, why Tarent had requested an order procedure in June.
The court accuses negligent behavior "according to a report of the Tarent GmbH SCO" with the enterprise of its firm homepage . There the statement is to have read be also after the provisional order that "final users, who use the software Linux for protection injuries of the mental property can be made liable by SCO".
Tarent lawyer Till hunter sees itself confirmed in the decision of the court that the statements of SCO as "substantial business-damaging expressions" are to be regarded, which concern a "extremely sensitive range". With unproven statements expense the expense third a business with the fear one make. With SCO Germany to time anybody for a statement cannot be attained; to request on a procedure stress Hans Bavarian, Managing director of SCO Germany, already beginning June opposite c't: "our intention was to hold back us conformal." The offence against the provisional order did not happen deliberately. ( anw/c't)
The Ethernut is more for a doityourselfer, the Slimp3 is existing product. They operate over ethernet which is not quite within scope for the abovementioned project, but might meet the same goals.
I haven't gotten around to either of these yet, but the Slimp3 in particular sounds quite cool.
Clearly Apple and chums have made some sort of special deal with the credit card companies, but there's no doubt there's a percentage coming out for the credit card companies.. and their chart just doesn't address it.
Generally, credit card fees come out of the retailer's piece of the pie. How do they afford it? We're only talking about 2-4%. Yes, 2-4%. What about the transaction fees? While many internet merchants do pay per transaction fees for credit cards, this is not a "requirement" of the deal. The CC companies have and do setup some accounts on a strictly percentage basis. I'm sure it's particularly easy to negotiate this when you're Apple and not joescomputershack.com... but it's not particularly a "special deal'.
Have doubt? Try googling for "merchant account 'no per transaction'".
[T]hat has nothing to do with Microsoft. That's completely the responsibility of the college... Microsoft isn't doing anything wrong, and it sounds like the college isn't either.
On the other hand, asking a customer to do something illegal is in the shady category. The open records / freedom of information rules vary from state to state (and IANAL), so it's hard to say what's legal and illegal.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson,
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
To not disclose the terms of large financial deals in an educational institution brings to mind questions of financial propriety and of academic independence. (Is this "deal" encouraging the insitutions to teach with these products?) Of course, I can't even make a full list of questions this raises... because I can't see the deal.
Transparency in government is necessary for an effective democracy. Public colleges and universities must be transparent. Private ones must be transparent enough to assure academic integrity...
Crypto is an essential part of making this usable for corporations. The security implications of a network with no wires and all hardware relaying traffic are rather substantial.
Before this tech. gets too far, it will have to deal with the whole "wireless security issue"... which is quite a beast.
Of course, tunnelling traffic through a proxy of some kind (VPN-style) could help matters, but it will of course affect speed.
Too bad this didn't get posted before the comment deadline:
Public comments on this draft report should be submitted by e-mail to org-eval@icann.org on or before 29 August 2002. A final version of this Staff Report, taking into account comments received, will be posted on 5 September 2002, and comments will also be invited on that final version.
Of course, IMHO, 10 days is an awfully short public comment period.
Surprise, surprise, the reviewer comments that, In closing, once again it seems as though Intel has one upped AMD in their clash for the PC processor performance superiority. The edge goes decidedly to Intel's 2.8GHz flagship, in most all areas of performance, with perhaps the rare exception of older legacy code based applications.
According to them, "older legacy code based applications" are applications without Pentium 4 optimizations.
Will we ever get reviewers that aren't incredibly biased... and stupid? Of course P4s do better on software with P4 optimization! And software w/o it isn't "older legacy software"... it's software that isn't written to favor a particular chip in the marketplace...
The last time I wrote a big app, I built in a layer to talk to multiple databases. It could speak w/o any adaptation to MySQL, Informix, Oracle, etc. (Never released a version that actually talked to MySQL, though, back then no one wanted anything but Oracle or Informix.) My feeling was that because it wasn't _dependent_ on MySQL, I wouldn't have to release it under GPL if I didn't want to. Never became an issue, though.
I received one of these recently. Was quite confused. The domain was with register.com... I *knew* it wasn't with netsol. Took me doing a whois, etc., to determine that netsol was just misleading me.
Strange, a lot [apache.org] of projects [kernel.org] I'm [tigris.org] familiar [freebsd.org] with [sourceforge.net] don't use any one of those languages. I think it depends who you talk to.
Exactly!
The author is sensationalizing... and forgetting the multitude of languages out there being used for applications. I think if people [people != geeks, people == lusers like this guy] were to really know what the apps they use were made from, they'd *freak*. I'm thinking of the apps I deal with on a daily basis... and the number of languages is tremendous!
The diversity in languages, runtimes, and platforms is a good thing. It allows us to use the best tool for the job (and there usually is one) and to accomplish our tasks quickly and painlessly.
-jbn
(Former VB addict. Now healed and addicted to perl.)
This doesn't sound like an argument, it's a counterargument, they're trying to disprove the argument of the media companies by reduction to the absurd (excuse the mistranslated latin).
Exactly!
This kind of thing is just like blaming Xerox and Weyerhauser (paper) for illegal photocopies... something that the courts have thrown out.
My take is that this simply needs to make its way through the courts, and it will all (eventually) get resolved (in favor of these defendants), assuming that the courts can find _some use_ for the software that is legal and legitimate.
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When carrying a laptop, you should remember:
... and someone might just decide to look to find out.
- Crypto import/export rules vary from country to country
- Pornography rules vary from country to country
- Etc.
What may be "OK" on your laptop in the US, may not be in another country
Good luck!
I use an "Umbrella Company" known as MyBizOffice for all my contracting. MBO holds the contracts, then employs me to service the contracts. As an employee, I am provided health insurance. How does this work? When $$$ come in to MBO to pay me, they take their nominal fee off the top, then put the money in my "fund". Health insurance comes out of that fund. Then when I want a pay check, I tell the online system to cut me a check, and both the employee and employer portions of the tax come out of that fund, along with my net pay.
... but they make benefits as well as a W2 employment history (very beneficial when buying a house, etc.) available to me.
Sure I have to pay MBO a small fee to do this
They've also got a 401(k), and an expense reimbursement system that makes it easy to pay for things pre-tax.
I definitely recommend looking at MyBizOffice or their competitors... I researched competitors in 2002, but decided on MBO and have stuck with them.
-jbn
Many transit buses, over the road buses (motorcoaches), and tractors (semi's) have electronic throttles. While it takes some getting used to the first time or two (and when switching between the two), it's _far_ preferable on large vehicles...
-jbn
Try this:
... current president George W. Bush, and the granddaughter of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush.
Who is George HW Bush?
You get:
Noelle Bush
Property:
Looks like they've still got a few bugs to work out.
-jbn
Even more, I regularly see jobs requiring masters degrees. These are quite often in niches (like PKI) or at big consulting firms.
Big consulting firms charge extra for folks with degrees...
-jbn
For a farmer to replant seed, they generally "clean" it. Practically speaking this means taking the crop to a "seed plant" where they run it through a series of filters to filter out the weeds and other impurities. It's then bagged and stored for replanting the following year.
It's now virtually impossible to get soybeans cleaned in most parts of the country. Monsanto has taken to suing seed plants / seed cleaning operations who clean patented seed. Because there's no easy (read- can be done by the fellow running the seed plant) way to tell patented seed from the regular stuff, the seed cleaner could be liable.
Many people are asking, "Why'd the farmer plant it?" One big reason is that he can't get the regular stuff cleaned. Replanting is quickly becoming "not an option". Alas. No more open source veggies.
-jbn
Your reference of "system heat up" is more important than you may think. It's important to know:
- How well does the system react to overheating?
- How well does the system react to unexpected shutdown?
- How well does the system react in general?
While big iron often goes into controlled environments (generators, air conditioners, etc.), those systems sometimes fails. Whether their failure causes an inconvenience or a catastrophic problem is a significant question.
For example- does the system detect the heat and shut itself down, or does it overheat and fry itself?
Notification systems- Is the user notified when a fan fails? (Is it via a proprietary protocol or something standard like SNMP?)
User replaceable parts- Can I keep a stock of extra fans in the back room, or does a tech have to come out to replace things that *do go wrong*?
In short, a review should come from the perspective of running a production data center and the issues one faces in this environment:
- What is necessary for high uptimes?
- What is necessary for long lifes?
- What is necessary for solid performance?
-jbn
I did work under a similar arrangement for a while. I used a company called mybizoffice.com for the benefits. They're generally called an "umbrella company" or an "employer of record". It made getting a mortgage recently _much_ easier.
I had no complaints with MyBizOffice. There are other options, but they were the only ones with a good web interface at the time I was in the market (July 2003).
-jbn
http://election.cbsnews.com/election2004/ is asserting _thousands_ of electoral votes already cast. Looks like they've got problems.
:-)
Wonder if they're reporting these numbers on TV...
-jbn
My grandfather has long told me of the dairy in Hereford, Texas running entirely on their own methane (and actually loading it out for others) in the 20's...
-jbn
SCO Germany must pay 10,000 euro order money. Basis for the decision of the regional court Munich I is a provisional order of the enterprise Tarent and the LinuxTags against SCO. thereafter may not the enterprise not maintain, of Linux contains illegitimately acquired mental property of SCO. against it is to SCO on its homepage to have offended, why Tarent had requested an order procedure in June
The court accuses negligent behavior "according to a report of the Tarent GmbH SCO" with the enterprise of its firm homepage . There the statement is to have read be also after the provisional order that "final users, who use the software Linux for protection injuries of the mental property can be made liable by SCO".
Tarent lawyer Till hunter sees itself confirmed in the decision of the court that the statements of SCO as "substantial business-damaging expressions" are to be regarded, which concern a "extremely sensitive range". With unproven statements expense the expense third a business with the fear one make. With SCO Germany to time anybody for a statement cannot be attained; to request on a procedure stress Hans Bavarian, Managing director of SCO Germany, already beginning June opposite c't: "our intention was to hold back us conformal." The offence against the provisional order did not happen deliberately. ( anw
The Ethernut is more for a doityourselfer, the Slimp3 is existing product. They operate over ethernet which is not quite within scope for the abovementioned project, but might meet the same goals.
I haven't gotten around to either of these yet, but the Slimp3 in particular sounds quite cool.
-jbn
Generally, credit card fees come out of the retailer's piece of the pie. How do they afford it? We're only talking about 2-4%. Yes, 2-4%. What about the transaction fees? While many internet merchants do pay per transaction fees for credit cards, this is not a "requirement" of the deal. The CC companies have and do setup some accounts on a strictly percentage basis. I'm sure it's particularly easy to negotiate this when you're Apple and not joescomputershack.com... but it's not particularly a "special deal'.
Have doubt? Try googling for "merchant account 'no per transaction'".
-jbn
On the other hand, asking a customer to do something illegal is in the shady category. The open records / freedom of information rules vary from state to state (and IANAL), so it's hard to say what's legal and illegal.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson,
To not disclose the terms of large financial deals in an educational institution brings to mind questions of financial propriety and of academic independence. (Is this "deal" encouraging the insitutions to teach with these products?) Of course, I can't even make a full list of questions this raises... because I can't see the deal.Transparency in government is necessary for an effective democracy. Public colleges and universities must be transparent. Private ones must be transparent enough to assure academic integrity...
-jbn
Do you have an FTP site for download?
-jbn
-jbn
Username: guest Password:guest
It doesn't have much, but there is a pretty picture!
-jbn
Before this tech. gets too far, it will have to deal with the whole "wireless security issue"... which is quite a beast.
Of course, tunnelling traffic through a proxy of some kind (VPN-style) could help matters, but it will of course affect speed.
-jbn
-jbn
According to them, "older legacy code based applications" are applications without Pentium 4 optimizations.
Will we ever get reviewers that aren't incredibly biased... and stupid? Of course P4s do better on software with P4 optimization! And software w/o it isn't "older legacy software"... it's software that isn't written to favor a particular chip in the marketplace...
Gotta love it.
-jbn
The last time I wrote a big app, I built in a layer to talk to multiple databases. It could speak w/o any adaptation to MySQL, Informix, Oracle, etc. (Never released a version that actually talked to MySQL, though, back then no one wanted anything but Oracle or Informix.) My feeling was that because it wasn't _dependent_ on MySQL, I wouldn't have to release it under GPL if I didn't want to. Never became an issue, though.
-jbn
-jbn
Exactly!
The author is sensationalizing... and forgetting the multitude of languages out there being used for applications. I think if people [people != geeks, people == lusers like this guy] were to really know what the apps they use were made from, they'd *freak*. I'm thinking of the apps I deal with on a daily basis... and the number of languages is tremendous!
The diversity in languages, runtimes, and platforms is a good thing. It allows us to use the best tool for the job (and there usually is one) and to accomplish our tasks quickly and painlessly.
-jbn
(Former VB addict. Now healed and addicted to perl.)
Exactly!
This kind of thing is just like blaming Xerox and Weyerhauser (paper) for illegal photocopies... something that the courts have thrown out.
My take is that this simply needs to make its way through the courts, and it will all (eventually) get resolved (in favor of these defendants), assuming that the courts can find _some use_ for the software that is legal and legitimate.
-jbn
Isn't the whole point that we _don't show_ anything as we type?
-jbn