Cannot tell you the number of times I have thought about implementing the exact same application. The idea of wireless streaming means the storage device can be kept off-site or in a very discreet location within the premises.
One question I have is about the detection analysis, and how the threshold for analysis is set. For instance, there are a number of trees beside my front driveway and they sway and shake a lot. How does one go about making sure Zoneminder does not record the trees continuously?
I am aware of the Democrats and the Republicans, but never have I heard this 'liberal' party you speak of. They sound dangerous and probably should be avoided.
Well, for all the times SCO has claimed Groklaw is just doing a hatchet job on them, I would like to hear those comments explained.
Groklaw always presents the actual transcripts of courtroom discussions and I am careful to read the source documents before looking at anyone's interpretations of events. The commentary on Groklaw tends to closely match the substance of what was said and (unless there is some conspiracy to create counterfeit documents) there is a conspicuous lack of rebuttal from the other side.
IANAL, but SCO should speak up if they legitimately think they are being wronged.
The tactics you mention are part of a broader set of activities known as voter suppression and they are standard fare for winning elections. Besides telling people to vote on the wrong date or implying there will be negative consequences to voting, parties use (sometimes) very strongarm tactics to reduce the turnout of their opponent's constituency.
In Florida in 2000, the Republican-controlled state registrar's office 'purged' the voter rolls of ineligible voters. This has been shown to include as many as 8,000 eligible voters who simply had the same name as a felon. While voter roll purges were done on a county-by-county basis, the overwhelming majority of people striken from the list were from counties more likely to vote Deomcratic.
Redistricting can be another form of voter suppression. Look at a district map of Texas and you will notice some bizarre gerrymandered shapes. The purpose here is to split constituencies into smaller groups where the value of their vote will be diluted.
Can any of you people even conceive of the fact that the product cost never reflects the actual cost to get a system to where it's suitable for usage? With any Adobe, Microsoft, CAD or 3D application the MSRP is where you start before factoring in the cost of plug-ins, support, etc. The MSRP is really only useful as a baseline for telling how bad you were ripped off when all the dust settles.
If you were ever responsible for making a purchase that affects an operation you would know this. Instead, all you can do is point out superficial equivalencies that do *NOT* actually provide a useful alternative and call other people ignorant.
I have researched the facts and the $30k number is probably the conservative estimate.
I can use MySQL / PostGres as a db solution for the backend, but not as a substitute for reports (not to mention views, which MySQL does not feature).
But the problem is not that I need to produce Access dbs, but that I need to work with ones I receive from clients who have standardized on Access. I cannot open an Access database on a Mac and would need to find a tool for importing them into whatever I moved to. People have suggested FileMaker as a solution but I really haven't taken the time to evaluate it, nor am I that motivated to do so.
The reason I use Publisher is to ensure compliance with my client's publishing standards, which include a myriad of solutions such as Acrobat / Quark / PageMaker / Publisher / Word / PowerPoint. Publisher is actually a complex tool that cannot be replaced simply with InDesign or Acrobat, and I really wonder what it means about someone who would simply assume this is the case.
As far as business goes, yes, I run my own business and we do a lot of interesting things. The cost to migrate I mentioned is per desktop and would actually be closer to $400,000 per office. (You don't think I could get away with just migrating myself, do you?)
You mentioned the theme of insanity in your message. It would be insanity for me to move my company to a Mac given the lack of support for very commonly used tools like Access and the increased cost for new desktops. When Apple finds a way to close these gaps it could become an option.
The price for me to move starts at around $30k. It would cost me $12k for ArcView, $3k for 3DSMax (is there a 3DSMax for Mac?), $4k for Maya, $4k for Adobe products, $1k for Office, and that is just for everyday usage. There are also a number of CAD programs without Mac equivalents that would force me to keep a Windows box around and introduce the issue of cross flatform files.
Ironically, I actually have a G4 sitting upstairs that I used until about 6 months ago when I determined it was becoming a paperweight. High end users really have issues when it comes to talking about migration.
I was unaware anyone had conclusively identified the party affiliations of any of the people having taken part in these events.
A popular technique in engineering consent to an issue is to generate a sympathetic response to you candidate. One way to do this is to stage an attack on the candidate, not necessarily a physical one but one where people will feel sorry for him / her.
It is entirely possible these attacks were staged as part of an effort to generate sympathy for GOP candidates. No one should pretend to know any different.
The Justice League is based on a comic that has been around at least since the 70's, with characters that have been around at least since the 30's. I do not see how any comic book show can be considered original.
Took an american studies class back in college, we did a critical comparison of 'Miss America' to 'The Great Gatsby'. While I agree with you Howard is capable of only one joke, I don't think you've found it yet.
The whole reason for people's interest in Howard is that he is always something other than how he presents himself. He comes off as a juvenile, but he is also a shrewd businessman. He comes off as a pervert, but he was married and had a family for over 20 years. He loves the low-brow humor, but also engages in serious political commentary. He provokes the worst from people, but also manages to keep a strong core audience. It's impossible to have a well-defined concept of him without contradiction, which is at the root of people's fascination with him.
People like to know who other people are, you like to be able to count on something from the people around you. Howard Stern's ability to change his persona is what makes him more than a crass boob joke, the joke is that he can be many different people and move so easily from one 'type' of person to the other.
Yeah, well, lets see how you feel when you walk in on your kid watching a snuff film, some hot guy on guy action or Excellence in Broadcasting's Justice Scalia law hour. There's a difference between ideals and reality.
I am about as liberal as they come in regards to people being able to do and say what they want. Trust me, I would probably start my own station where people can watch a fat guy code naked 24x7 if broadcasting moved to this type of model.
My real argument is that the overall quality of broadcasting will drop because the signal to noise ratio will become so great. Protecting our kids, or knowing what to protect them from, is an impossible standard to meet and cannot be enforced with the way things are now. Just as you probably don't want to watch me code naked, you probably also don't want to see millions of other people doing that or worse.
Think about it: for about 2 years, no one will know what to watch because everything will be mislabelled in order to generate interest. Every current spammer will become a television executive, and we will spend more time sorting out real episodes of the Power Rangers from infomercials than we do actually watching the shows.
Then the advertising will begin. Imagine pop-ups in the black space beneath the picture box on widescreen movies, and advertisers breaking in every 5 miuntes when you are trying to watch a show.
Then, when we finally do figure out how to find the shows we want to see, the unthinkable happens and the broadcasters build a wonderful new drm model that prevents us from actually seeing anything without paying for it. Or meeting a monthly quota of watching advertising. Or whatever.
Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good enough, and in this case ideal is the enemy of some better option less prone to abuse.
The real problem with this idea is ubiquity of signal. Anyone can post anything they want, even if broadcasters closed off a single p2p service just their programs there would always be competing services. Pr0n, wicked graphic hunting shows, and real-life stuff would dominate the bandwidth, things we may want to keep our kids away from.
The only thing that came out of that interview is that Chris Matthews is a verbal bully and incapable of rational thought. The only thing I heard during that entire 'interview' was ad hominem attacks on the author.
When I signed up for Vonage, it cost me $40 a month which was a huge savings off the $60 a month I was paying for traditional service.
Now the price is going down to $25 a month? This is amazing. I was briefly considering building my own VoIP system, this news makes it not the worth the trouble to go out and buy the parts I would need.
The whole issue has to do with redistributing the code. I think this is actually a sneak attack on the GPL, and someone is trying to make an end run by saying the GPL doesn't count if the person with the rights chooses not to redistribute the code.
If all an author has to do is claim he did not intend to release code for people to be liable for damages (or that someone stole the code and released it) the GPL becomes meaningless.
Here's my case, GPL quoted to save anyone from looking it up:
--- (selectively quoting what supports my argument...) ---
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:...
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
--------------------
The only restrictions placed on licensing come as part of a discussion about redistribution. The GPL says you must release any work that you redistribute to be free, not that any derivative works you make must be free.
There does not appear to a restriction on licensing for people who are not distributing their work. Anyone could claim any kind of license they want on a derivative work of a GPLed project.
Wait a minute guys, this is a TV SCI-FI SERIES we are talking about here. There is no problem with them making Star Wars into the next Babylon 5, and here's why:
What do you always get in a TV Sci-Fi series?
Cheesecake.
That's right, Cheesecake. The only compelling reason to watch sci-fi, and directors like to serve up big, heaping slices topped with insincere gravitas and skin tight costumes.
Jerri Ryan, that Vulcan from 'Enterprise', Erin Grey, Lt. Orora, Tasha Yar (I think that was her name), Debbie from Sealab, um... someone from Babylon 5, uh...
I actually don't watch that much TV, so I don't really know the whole list. I am certain there are some other people who can help fill in the details.
But you get the drift, and I, for one, cannot wait until the first time someone has to swing across a vast chasm.
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Cannot tell you the number of times I have thought about implementing the exact same application. The idea of wireless streaming means the storage device can be kept off-site or in a very discreet location within the premises.
One question I have is about the detection analysis, and how the threshold for analysis is set. For instance, there are a number of trees beside my front driveway and they sway and shake a lot. How does one go about making sure Zoneminder does not record the trees continuously?
M
I am aware of the Democrats and the Republicans, but never have I heard this 'liberal' party you speak of. They sound dangerous and probably should be avoided.
Anyways, I have responded to comments like this before to similarly anonymous morons. Can anyone say Reichstag?
M
Well, for all the times SCO has claimed Groklaw is just doing a hatchet job on them, I would like to hear those comments explained.
Groklaw always presents the actual transcripts of courtroom discussions and I am careful to read the source documents before looking at anyone's interpretations of events. The commentary on Groklaw tends to closely match the substance of what was said and (unless there is some conspiracy to create counterfeit documents) there is a conspicuous lack of rebuttal from the other side.
IANAL, but SCO should speak up if they legitimately think they are being wronged.
M
The tactics you mention are part of a broader set of activities known as voter suppression and they are standard fare for winning elections. Besides telling people to vote on the wrong date or implying there will be negative consequences to voting, parties use (sometimes) very strongarm tactics to reduce the turnout of their opponent's constituency.
In Florida in 2000, the Republican-controlled state registrar's office 'purged' the voter rolls of ineligible voters. This has been shown to include as many as 8,000 eligible voters who simply had the same name as a felon. While voter roll purges were done on a county-by-county basis, the overwhelming majority of people striken from the list were from counties more likely to vote Deomcratic.
Redistricting can be another form of voter suppression. Look at a district map of Texas and you will notice some bizarre gerrymandered shapes. The purpose here is to split constituencies into smaller groups where the value of their vote will be diluted.
M
LOL
There is no BOFH club, and there is no project 'Project Misery'.
I was told you were going to say that.
M
The results are a BOFH trick. You see, it is in the interests of U.K. IT managers to make everyone believe no one is interested in their jobs.
By keeping up this illusion, their vast network of power and influence can be maintained and competition can be eliminated.
M
Can any of you people even conceive of the fact that the product cost never reflects the actual cost to get a system to where it's suitable for usage? With any Adobe, Microsoft, CAD or 3D application the MSRP is where you start before factoring in the cost of plug-ins, support, etc. The MSRP is really only useful as a baseline for telling how bad you were ripped off when all the dust settles.
If you were ever responsible for making a purchase that affects an operation you would know this. Instead, all you can do is point out superficial equivalencies that do *NOT* actually provide a useful alternative and call other people ignorant.
I have researched the facts and the $30k number is probably the conservative estimate.
M
I can use MySQL / PostGres as a db solution for the backend, but not as a substitute for reports (not to mention views, which MySQL does not feature).
But the problem is not that I need to produce Access dbs, but that I need to work with ones I receive from clients who have standardized on Access. I cannot open an Access database on a Mac and would need to find a tool for importing them into whatever I moved to. People have suggested FileMaker as a solution but I really haven't taken the time to evaluate it, nor am I that motivated to do so.
The reason I use Publisher is to ensure compliance with my client's publishing standards, which include a myriad of solutions such as Acrobat / Quark / PageMaker / Publisher / Word / PowerPoint. Publisher is actually a complex tool that cannot be replaced simply with InDesign or Acrobat, and I really wonder what it means about someone who would simply assume this is the case.
As far as business goes, yes, I run my own business and we do a lot of interesting things. The cost to migrate I mentioned is per desktop and would actually be closer to $400,000 per office. (You don't think I could get away with just migrating myself, do you?)
You mentioned the theme of insanity in your message. It would be insanity for me to move my company to a Mac given the lack of support for very commonly used tools like Access and the increased cost for new desktops. When Apple finds a way to close these gaps it could become an option.
M
Yeah, whatever.
The cost to replace Office is accurate.
$500 for professional edition and I am including some cash to purchase alternatives for Access and Publisher.
The Abobe figures are accurate.
$450 for Acrobat, $1250 for Creative Suite, $1500 for Video Collection, and I'm not going into the cost of all those plug ins.
M
I'm in the same boat, please no flames.
The price for me to move starts at around $30k. It would cost me $12k for ArcView, $3k for 3DSMax (is there a 3DSMax for Mac?), $4k for Maya, $4k for Adobe products, $1k for Office, and that is just for everyday usage. There are also a number of CAD programs without Mac equivalents that would force me to keep a Windows box around and introduce the issue of cross flatform files.
Ironically, I actually have a G4 sitting upstairs that I used until about 6 months ago when I determined it was becoming a paperweight. High end users really have issues when it comes to talking about migration.
M
I was unaware anyone had conclusively identified the party affiliations of any of the people having taken part in these events.
A popular technique in engineering consent to an issue is to generate a sympathetic response to you candidate. One way to do this is to stage an attack on the candidate, not necessarily a physical one but one where people will feel sorry for him / her.
It is entirely possible these attacks were staged as part of an effort to generate sympathy for GOP candidates. No one should pretend to know any different.
M
The Justice League is based on a comic that has been around at least since the 70's, with characters that have been around at least since the 30's. I do not see how any comic book show can be considered original.
M
Took an american studies class back in college, we did a critical comparison of 'Miss America' to 'The Great Gatsby'. While I agree with you Howard is capable of only one joke, I don't think you've found it yet.
The whole reason for people's interest in Howard is that he is always something other than how he presents himself. He comes off as a juvenile, but he is also a shrewd businessman. He comes off as a pervert, but he was married and had a family for over 20 years. He loves the low-brow humor, but also engages in serious political commentary. He provokes the worst from people, but also manages to keep a strong core audience. It's impossible to have a well-defined concept of him without contradiction, which is at the root of people's fascination with him.
People like to know who other people are, you like to be able to count on something from the people around you. Howard Stern's ability to change his persona is what makes him more than a crass boob joke, the joke is that he can be many different people and move so easily from one 'type' of person to the other.
M
Yeah, well, lets see how you feel when you walk in on your kid watching a snuff film, some hot guy on guy action or Excellence in Broadcasting's Justice Scalia law hour. There's a difference between ideals and reality.
I am about as liberal as they come in regards to people being able to do and say what they want. Trust me, I would probably start my own station where people can watch a fat guy code naked 24x7 if broadcasting moved to this type of model.
My real argument is that the overall quality of broadcasting will drop because the signal to noise ratio will become so great. Protecting our kids, or knowing what to protect them from, is an impossible standard to meet and cannot be enforced with the way things are now. Just as you probably don't want to watch me code naked, you probably also don't want to see millions of other people doing that or worse.
Think about it: for about 2 years, no one will know what to watch because everything will be mislabelled in order to generate interest. Every current spammer will become a television executive, and we will spend more time sorting out real episodes of the Power Rangers from infomercials than we do actually watching the shows.
Then the advertising will begin. Imagine pop-ups in the black space beneath the picture box on widescreen movies, and advertisers breaking in every 5 miuntes when you are trying to watch a show.
Then, when we finally do figure out how to find the shows we want to see, the unthinkable happens and the broadcasters build a wonderful new drm model that prevents us from actually seeing anything without paying for it. Or meeting a monthly quota of watching advertising. Or whatever.
Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good enough, and in this case ideal is the enemy of some better option less prone to abuse.
M
The real problem with this idea is ubiquity of signal. Anyone can post anything they want, even if broadcasters closed off a single p2p service just their programs there would always be competing services. Pr0n, wicked graphic hunting shows, and real-life stuff would dominate the bandwidth, things we may want to keep our kids away from.
M
Yeah, and how about putting Bonzai Buddy and my Comet Cursor in Unix too?
M
How do I get to my C:\ drive on a Unix box?
M
The only thing that came out of that interview is that Chris Matthews is a verbal bully and incapable of rational thought. The only thing I heard during that entire 'interview' was ad hominem attacks on the author.
M
When I signed up for Vonage, it cost me $40 a month which was a huge savings off the $60 a month I was paying for traditional service.
Now the price is going down to $25 a month? This is amazing. I was briefly considering building my own VoIP system, this news makes it not the worth the trouble to go out and buy the parts I would need.
Now I have time to focus on all the other projects I've been thinking about.
M
In the future, Muff is pronounced Moff.
M
Yes, that is what you said. Just laying out the case another way for clarity.
M
The whole issue has to do with redistributing the code. I think this is actually a sneak attack on the GPL, and someone is trying to make an end run by saying the GPL doesn't count if the person with the rights chooses not to redistribute the code.
If all an author has to do is claim he did not intend to release code for people to be liable for damages (or that someone stole the code and released it) the GPL becomes meaningless.
M
Here's my case, GPL quoted to save anyone from looking it up:
...
--- (selectively quoting what supports my argument...) ---
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
--------------------
The only restrictions placed on licensing come as part of a discussion about redistribution. The GPL says you must release any work that you redistribute to be free, not that any derivative works you make must be free.
There does not appear to a restriction on licensing for people who are not distributing their work. Anyone could claim any kind of license they want on a derivative work of a GPLed project.
Show me where I am wrong.
M
Wait a minute guys, this is a TV SCI-FI SERIES we are talking about here. There is no problem with them making Star Wars into the next Babylon 5, and here's why:
What do you always get in a TV Sci-Fi series?
Cheesecake.
That's right, Cheesecake. The only compelling reason to watch sci-fi, and directors like to serve up big, heaping slices topped with insincere gravitas and skin tight costumes.
Jerri Ryan, that Vulcan from 'Enterprise', Erin Grey, Lt. Orora, Tasha Yar (I think that was her name), Debbie from Sealab, um... someone from Babylon 5, uh...
I actually don't watch that much TV, so I don't really know the whole list. I am certain there are some other people who can help fill in the details.
But you get the drift, and I, for one, cannot wait until the first time someone has to swing across a vast chasm.
Hoping to see Pam Anderson as a Grand Moff,
M
I sense the sarcasm in the parent poster.
M