AJAX is getting used for many company Intranets to simplify IT support and service delivery. Hosts in the company network will be trusted hosts so Javascript can be left on. Once you are certain that a public service can also be trusted, include them in your list of trusted hosts. If you follow random links off of the pirate bay, turn js off....
One of the all time classic Microsoft jabs since the PC DOS days was "What Andy Giveth, Bill taketh away". Every time there is an increase in Hardware performance by Intel, run at the time by Andy Grove, a new st of products would arrive from Microsoft that would utilize this newly available power, making the newest version of a spreadsheet or word processor perform as well as or worse than the performance of the previous generation. This is the latest round of a cycle that has been going on since Windows 1.0.
IIRC, Sarbanes Oxley only affects publicly traded companies. The economic motor of the US is small and medium privately funded ventures. Sarbanes-Oxley does not affect them, and it would be a terrible mistake for any small or medium sized business to use gmail for corporate mail. Our small business (non-US) has a webmail fronted(s) provided by the ISP that hosts our mail (yes, choice of webmail frontends..). It works great, and you don't have to send important private company email via yahoo or hotmail or some other company that brings their own lube to an FBI subpoena party.
Interesting that the article talks about compression ratio and compression speed. When considering compression, Decompression time is extremely relevant. I don't mind witing more to compress the fileset, as long as decompression is fast. I normally compress once, and then decompress various times (media files and games for example).
This person is laying out unprovable assertions all over this article.
This policy has pitted those in favor of government mandates to meet "larger considerations" against others in the industry who favor a more market-oriented approach.
The approach of MA is market based. Anyone can play.
Others believe that it represents a mandate for a single type of software model, one purposely imposed to limit competition, not strengthen it.
No, it makes the competitors compete in a way that is favourable to MA, not the supplier. It also levels the playing field so that the competition can be more fair.
"Here we have a true conflict between the notion of intellectual property and the notion of sovereignty, and I'd say that 100 percent of the time in a democracy, sovereignty trumps intellectual property."
This sounds positively pre-Boston Tea Party to me.
Huh? Nobody is seizing anyone's copyrights, trademarks, patents, or trade secrets here.
Through privately owned and developed IP, American and European IP companies have given back untold public benefit.
What? Last time I checked there was very little true public benefit, and the recent extension of copyright has 'tolled' the public for 25 years more. For the benefit to be truly public, the work, device, or mark must be public domain. If not, it remains a private benefit.
It may be human nature to wish for the demise of your competitors. Yet to do so through the tool of blunt, confiscatory government policy is a tidal wave that can't be controlled. Regardless of the development model, the IP community in depends on strong IP rights to prosper and grow. Governments must resist the temptation to take this property.
Here is more with the confiscation business. Perhaps someone should let her know that NO IP IS BEING CONFISCATED. Even were it being confiscated, it would still not be 'Pre Boston Tea Party'. IP Rights are granted by the government to create incentives and benefit the public. If the government, as instructed by the electorate, makes the decision that the public is not being benefitted or the artificial monopoly created does more harm than good, it is within their rights to take back what rightly belongs to everyone.
Chicken Little, please go back inside and suck on a MicroTeat.
If your are a 'computer noob' then find someone to help you with the transition and ignore the rest of this message, the rest of this message contains information that could leave your computer inoperable until an expert checks it. If you are a relatively experienced computer user that has reinstalled Windows on more than one occasion, moving to Linux should be relatively painless.
If you are using a computer to do web browsing, email, office tasks, and instant messaging just back up your personal files, download and burn an install disk (check distrowatch.com for links). Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora are pretty good for noobs. Just reboot your machine with the CD in, and follow the directions. This will of course destroy your windows installation. If you are tied to certain Windows software you will probably want to create a dual boot system. Most installers will happily set themselves up dual boot if you leave them some partition space before installing (I'd recommend leaving at least 10-20GB for Linux.
If you are a performance freak, then some crazy disk patitioning may be in order before installing. I commit the security sin of sharing my user files between Windows and Linux via a big FAT32 partition, leaving the main OS files in their appropriate filesystems. I also set up my partitions by attempting to have the swap partitions as close to the middle of the disk as possible, reducing average latency to the swapfile.
Before doing anything, I suggest googling on Linux HOWTO's.
Just like any other encryption, if you make it illegal in the states, then it will just get produced somewhere else. At on point during the PGP debacle, Scott McNealy said something along the lines of 'Oh we don't buy encryption products from the US, we buy them from Russia as Russian encryption is much better. After all, these are trade secrets we're talking about'
Unless the US implements a 'great firewall', this will never work for catching people that really don't want to be caught.
Why worry about whether IE breaks it.. Good AJAX starts with standards, and there are many browsers available for all platforms that support standards. If IE breaks your app, stop using it it. Good developers test their apps on more than one browser. I suspect that the day Firefox does something that breaks its current standards support, it will get forked and the previous version will continue to advance. AJAX shows us once again the importance of open standards and the adherence to them by mainstream software.
Do you have the F150 with a 540 hp V8 that only ever fires 4 cylinders and only ever generates 180hp?
Why are you charging more for this version than the version that actually fires on 8 cylinders and generates 250hp?
Will you chase me down and sue me if I enable those 8 cylinders, turning on funcionality that you crippled on purpose?
I can understand with or without ABS, so your F150 Datacenter Edition is OK, but why can't I get a cigarette lighter with the Home Premium F150 since, like being able to log on to a domain, it's really old tech and doesn't really add to the cost.
Sorry mate, you've left your correct analogy at the front door, leaving the false one here.
Samsung has also teamed with Microsoft to create a hybrid Flash/Platter device that uses less power, is quieter, and more shock resistant. You'll have to wait for Shorthorn, though.
In Chile the Internal Revenue Service already does this. I did it with my return last year. I have a very simple tax situation and the Chilean Government already has all of the information required to do it. I simply connected to the website, reviewed the proposal against my slips (3 minutes), and clicked OK. To help get this system popular, all people that file this way receive their electronic bank deposits 2 weeks earlier than those who file an online form, and a month earlier than those who file with paper. Chile reached 98% of total returns filed electronically via their website. Next year the paper forms go away. Those with complex tax situations can still attach all forms and upload relevant documents. Chilean Internal revenue went from completely inefficient to extremely efficient in 3 years. Very impressive bit of work. Every aspect of the previous system exists, but without the paper and manual keying of returns. The keying of returns is done by the millions of taxpayers, employers, and financial institutions; not by the hundreds of tax agents.
Go for it California. The results are worth it. For the tinfoil hat types: This system works with information that the government already has already been given to them by your employer or financial institution, so forget about saying invasion of privacy or anything like that. It can actually work in your favor with undeclared income, as the reviewers basically ignore the pre prepared returns because they assume them to be correct.
Around 25% (7 million of 30 million) Canadians regularly use file sharing networks. I don't think this legislation will pass 3 readings. There's a minority government in charge right now, and it wouldn't take much to knock them out if this bill fails. I'm quite surprised that they're even willing to take a chance on this one at this point in time. During Chretien's time, there'd be no problem. Now it's a little bit tougher.
I use DVD Decrypter all the time to make backups. I have a 3 year old daughter and she turns DVDs to mincemeat fairly quickly. I have a real need for backup software. I buy a lot of DVDs, but I'm just not interested in buying 10 copies of Shrek in the next 5 years.
Can anyone recommend a quality replacement? DVD Decrypter was really very easy to use.
How long before an enterprising individual buys several hundred of these, tests them to ensure that all of the pipelines work, and resell them as the higher end card?
Worst case scenario, you sell the 'defective' ones at face value.
I'm not an accountant, so I'll agree with you on the first part. I will however, go a little deeper with the explanation.
Assets are something that you own, supposedly to produce some positive result. If I produce 1 million dollars in sales with 500K in Assets, the performance ratio=1M/500K=2. If I currently have 250K in computer assets and I switch to a leasing plan, the performance ratio changes from 2 to 4 (1M/250K). This indicates that I am using the things that I own (Assets) to produce more sales. Thus, asset turnover is an important measure of efficiency. However, this has the effect of moving the cost to the Operating Statment, which shows how much real money the company made or lost during the year. Principally it is a measure that investors use. If there are healthy operating results on the operating statment, but a poor use of assets on the balance sheet, there's probably something fishy going on. If you have a company with very high asset turnover with good operating results, you are probably looking at a winner. Of course there are many more measures. These measures are useful when investing, and they are also useful when managing a company. Generally speaking, if all the indicators look good Investors will come because the company is doing well. If you have your own company and you are the only investor, these measures are also useful.
If you need to know more, you might want to google on 'financial ratios' or something along those lines.
Leasing effectively moves the value of the leased item out of the Fixed Assets of the balance sheet, reducing the overall fixed assets. This has the result of improving the ratio of asset turnover, a prime measure of business performance. It also has an effect on the operating statement, as it becomes a straight cost. It is a much more transparent way to deal with something that will probably get cycled out within 3 years. As others have mentioned, your tax benefit mileage may vary.
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AJAX is getting used for many company Intranets to simplify IT support and service delivery. Hosts in the company network will be trusted hosts so Javascript can be left on. Once you are certain that a public service can also be trusted, include them in your list of trusted hosts. If you follow random links off of the pirate bay, turn js off....
K to J during Men in Black:
This is going to replace the CD soon, so I'll have to buy the White Album again, Ah...
One of the all time classic Microsoft jabs since the PC DOS days was "What Andy Giveth, Bill taketh away". Every time there is an increase in Hardware performance by Intel, run at the time by Andy Grove, a new st of products would arrive from Microsoft that would utilize this newly available power, making the newest version of a spreadsheet or word processor perform as well as or worse than the performance of the previous generation. This is the latest round of a cycle that has been going on since Windows 1.0.
IIRC, Sarbanes Oxley only affects publicly traded companies. The economic motor of the US is small and medium privately funded ventures. Sarbanes-Oxley does not affect them, and it would be a terrible mistake for any small or medium sized business to use gmail for corporate mail. Our small business (non-US) has a webmail fronted(s) provided by the ISP that hosts our mail (yes, choice of webmail frontends..). It works great, and you don't have to send important private company email via yahoo or hotmail or some other company that brings their own lube to an FBI subpoena party.
Interesting that the article talks about compression ratio and compression speed. When considering compression, Decompression time is extremely relevant. I don't mind witing more to compress the fileset, as long as decompression is fast. I normally compress once, and then decompress various times (media files and games for example).
This person is laying out unprovable assertions all over this article.
This policy has pitted those in favor of government mandates to meet "larger considerations" against others in the industry who favor a more market-oriented approach.
The approach of MA is market based. Anyone can play.
Others believe that it represents a mandate for a single type of software model, one purposely imposed to limit competition, not strengthen it.
No, it makes the competitors compete in a way that is favourable to MA, not the supplier. It also levels the playing field so that the competition can be more fair.
"Here we have a true conflict between the notion of intellectual property and the notion of sovereignty, and I'd say that 100 percent of the time in a democracy, sovereignty trumps intellectual property."
This sounds positively pre-Boston Tea Party to me.
Huh? Nobody is seizing anyone's copyrights, trademarks, patents, or trade secrets here.
Through privately owned and developed IP, American and European IP companies have given back untold public benefit.
What? Last time I checked there was very little true public benefit, and the recent extension of copyright has 'tolled' the public for 25 years more. For the benefit to be truly public, the work, device, or mark must be public domain. If not, it remains a private benefit.
It may be human nature to wish for the demise of your competitors. Yet to do so through the tool of blunt, confiscatory government policy is a tidal wave that can't be controlled. Regardless of the development model, the IP community in depends on strong IP rights to prosper and grow. Governments must resist the temptation to take this property.
Here is more with the confiscation business. Perhaps someone should let her know that NO IP IS BEING CONFISCATED. Even were it being confiscated, it would still not be 'Pre Boston Tea Party'. IP Rights are granted by the government to create incentives and benefit the public. If the government, as instructed by the electorate, makes the decision that the public is not being benefitted or the artificial monopoly created does more harm than good, it is within their rights to take back what rightly belongs to everyone.
Chicken Little, please go back inside and suck on a MicroTeat.
That goes 'ping'... That's the most expensive machine in the country
If your are a 'computer noob' then find someone to help you with the transition and ignore the rest of this message, the rest of this message contains information that could leave your computer inoperable until an expert checks it. If you are a relatively experienced computer user that has reinstalled Windows on more than one occasion, moving to Linux should be relatively painless.
If you are using a computer to do web browsing, email, office tasks, and instant messaging just back up your personal files, download and burn an install disk (check distrowatch.com for links). Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora are pretty good for noobs. Just reboot your machine with the CD in, and follow the directions. This will of course destroy your windows installation. If you are tied to certain Windows software you will probably want to create a dual boot system. Most installers will happily set themselves up dual boot if you leave them some partition space before installing (I'd recommend leaving at least 10-20GB for Linux.
If you are a performance freak, then some crazy disk patitioning may be in order before installing. I commit the security sin of sharing my user files between Windows and Linux via a big FAT32 partition, leaving the main OS files in their appropriate filesystems. I also set up my partitions by attempting to have the swap partitions as close to the middle of the disk as possible, reducing average latency to the swapfile.
Before doing anything, I suggest googling on Linux HOWTO's.
I was hoping someone would notice. Thanks.
Perfect, the hackers will have all weekend to come up with an exploit so that our help desk lights up like a christmas tree on Monday..
Just like any other encryption, if you make it illegal in the states, then it will just get produced somewhere else. At on point during the PGP debacle, Scott McNealy said something along the lines of 'Oh we don't buy encryption products from the US, we buy them from Russia as Russian encryption is much better. After all, these are trade secrets we're talking about'
Unless the US implements a 'great firewall', this will never work for catching people that really don't want to be caught.
Why worry about whether IE breaks it.. Good AJAX starts with standards, and there are many browsers available for all platforms that support standards. If IE breaks your app, stop using it it. Good developers test their apps on more than one browser. I suspect that the day Firefox does something that breaks its current standards support, it will get forked and the previous version will continue to advance. AJAX shows us once again the importance of open standards and the adherence to them by mainstream software.
looks like the poster only showed US box office. Overall take of Episode III is 808 Million
Secunia has very informative pages about the relative security of IE and firefox.
Firefox
IE
The problems with firefox compared to IE are:
IE bugs are more frecuently critical
IE critical bugs take longer to patch
Fully patched IE is less secure than Fully patched Firefox
How about this:
Do you have the F150 with a 540 hp V8 that only ever fires 4 cylinders and only ever generates 180hp?
Why are you charging more for this version than the version that actually fires on 8 cylinders and generates 250hp?
Will you chase me down and sue me if I enable those 8 cylinders, turning on funcionality that you crippled on purpose?
I can understand with or without ABS, so your F150 Datacenter Edition is OK, but why can't I get a cigarette lighter with the Home Premium F150 since, like being able to log on to a domain, it's really old tech and doesn't really add to the cost.
Sorry mate, you've left your correct analogy at the front door, leaving the false one here.
Java on a chip was tried by SUN quite some time ago. It was a flop.
heres a link
Forget about phone calls and other written records. Just insist that all of your messages with the source go through Mixmaster.
Samsung has also teamed with Microsoft to create a hybrid Flash/Platter device that uses less power, is quieter, and more shock resistant. You'll have to wait for Shorthorn, though.
Samsung teams with Microsoft
In Chile the Internal Revenue Service already does this. I did it with my return last year. I have a very simple tax situation and the Chilean Government already has all of the information required to do it. I simply connected to the website, reviewed the proposal against my slips (3 minutes), and clicked OK. To help get this system popular, all people that file this way receive their electronic bank deposits 2 weeks earlier than those who file an online form, and a month earlier than those who file with paper. Chile reached 98% of total returns filed electronically via their website. Next year the paper forms go away. Those with complex tax situations can still attach all forms and upload relevant documents. Chilean Internal revenue went from completely inefficient to extremely efficient in 3 years. Very impressive bit of work. Every aspect of the previous system exists, but without the paper and manual keying of returns. The keying of returns is done by the millions of taxpayers, employers, and financial institutions; not by the hundreds of tax agents.
Go for it California. The results are worth it. For the tinfoil hat types: This system works with information that the government already has already been given to them by your employer or financial institution, so forget about saying invasion of privacy or anything like that. It can actually work in your favor with undeclared income, as the reviewers basically ignore the pre prepared returns because they assume them to be correct.
Reasonably speaking, yes. The Digital Media Consumers Rights Act allows me to remove the broadcast flag for fair use.
Around 25% (7 million of 30 million) Canadians regularly use file sharing networks. I don't think this legislation will pass 3 readings. There's a minority government in charge right now, and it wouldn't take much to knock them out if this bill fails. I'm quite surprised that they're even willing to take a chance on this one at this point in time. During Chretien's time, there'd be no problem. Now it's a little bit tougher.
I use DVD Decrypter all the time to make backups. I have a 3 year old daughter and she turns DVDs to mincemeat fairly quickly. I have a real need for backup software. I buy a lot of DVDs, but I'm just not interested in buying 10 copies of Shrek in the next 5 years.
Can anyone recommend a quality replacement? DVD Decrypter was really very easy to use.
How long before an enterprising individual buys several hundred of these, tests them to ensure that all of the pipelines work, and resell them as the higher end card?
Worst case scenario, you sell the 'defective' ones at face value.
I'm not an accountant, so I'll agree with you on the first part. I will however, go a little deeper with the explanation.
Assets are something that you own, supposedly to produce some positive result. If I produce 1 million dollars in sales with 500K in Assets, the performance ratio=1M/500K=2. If I currently have 250K in computer assets and I switch to a leasing plan, the performance ratio changes from 2 to 4 (1M/250K). This indicates that I am using the things that I own (Assets) to produce more sales. Thus, asset turnover is an important measure of efficiency. However, this has the effect of moving the cost to the Operating Statment, which shows how much real money the company made or lost during the year. Principally it is a measure that investors use. If there are healthy operating results on the operating statment, but a poor use of assets on the balance sheet, there's probably something fishy going on. If you have a company with very high asset turnover with good operating results, you are probably looking at a winner. Of course there are many more measures. These measures are useful when investing, and they are also useful when managing a company. Generally speaking, if all the indicators look good Investors will come because the company is doing well. If you have your own company and you are the only investor, these measures are also useful.
If you need to know more, you might want to google on 'financial ratios' or something along those lines.
Leasing effectively moves the value of the leased item out of the Fixed Assets of the balance sheet, reducing the overall fixed assets. This has the result of improving the ratio of asset turnover, a prime measure of business performance. It also has an effect on the operating statement, as it becomes a straight cost. It is a much more transparent way to deal with something that will probably get cycled out within 3 years. As others have mentioned, your tax benefit mileage may vary.