You don't have to travel out of state if you don't want to. What jurisdiction does an out of state court have over you? You have a couple of options.
a) Mail in a motion to dismiss and ask that because of it's trivial nature you'd like to participate over the phone. It doesn't take a lawyer to fill out that form in most states.
b) If (a) fails, or if you can't be bothered travelling to another state let them get their judgement. It's a worthless piece of paper, they have to come to your state to collect and they need to go before a local judge to enforce an out of state order. Thats when you can defend yourself much better.
For example I just had somebody sue me in CA and the FL judge wiped his arse with it. Doesn't even touch your credit either.
Let them get on a plane and come to you. Chances are they won't bother.
Bottom line. A good lawyer would have no problems with a suit like this.
It's actually always been my fear that M$ would jump on the OS bandwagon. Imagine for a moment the multi billion dollar company pushing their OS product and selling support for it vs. RedHat or even IBM. They've proven time and time again that they can market better than anyone else around.
If the approach that makes OS software great was applied across the board to M$ software, everyone here would have a lot more to whine about.
If it doesn't come directly via the Windows line, and I doubt it ever could politically, then watch out for a M$ Linux distro through some other company or means. They could easily do it, and with the licenses' blessing. Then twist it however they wanted via marketing and legal wrangling. Be very afraid.
They never cared about the source outside of the control it gave them. If there's another easier way to get the same thing who thinks they're really going to care. Heck they've got the resources to maintain Windows, a Linux distro, a FreeBSD distro, anything they want.
Generally this book is badly researched, but there are one or two things that really stand out.
First the main character Susan is supposed to be a top brain at the NSA. The only problem is that she's thick as concrete. I'm not saying she's slow on the uptake, merely my cat could have figured out the general plot before her.
Inventing new types of computers and math seems okay, but keep it on planet Earth. This stuff is too far fetched for most anyone to absorb and stay in a state of suspended disbelief.
Well then "some people" can get off their butts, or cough up the cash to do it themselves. It's amazing how some people who use free software think that the developers owe them something.
Erm, no. They wrote it, they can do what they like, how they like and when they like. They don't have to put in features if they don't want to. They certainly don't have to justify their work or decisions to anyone except their contributing peers. If you don't like it please whine to somebody else. Nobody is stopping you from backporting code or doing it yourself.
Hardly surprising. All children learn through play. When you make trial and error fun it's called play. All animals are the same. Take a look at a kitten playing with a ball. They didn't evolve to please humans for being cute. That's a learned hunting skill.
That's one of the reasons why we have a pleasure sense. It propels us to learn and helps us survive.
Rule 11 of the Federal Civil Rules of Civil Procedure. Basically you aim at the attorney for wasting court time. It carries heavy fines and eventually the possibility of license revocation.
That's even worse. Now it just looks in your sent folder and sends your messages all over the place. You'll never be able to deny it was you and just some silly virus.
Really? What you fail to understand is that this is needed much less in a total RAM environment because seek time is almost none. Think about what cache is for a moment. Move frequently used data to your fastest access medium (typically ram). If you operate entirely from your fastest medium. Duh. Not much need for storgae cache.
Other types of cache help in calculating starting points and other 'access helper' functions. Things like caching optimizer results etc. A lot of this is done, but I admit there is a long way to go. None of this goes anywhere to deciding where to store the main data though.
You also seem to think MySQL is any sort of database, it really isn't. It's an SQL front end to a database engine, of which there are many. MyISAM, InnoDB, bDB, etc. Take your pick.
Turn your anonymous filter off and post something useful for a change.
You really don't know what you're talking about do you?
a) Of course MySQL has RAM cache. Here is one part of it: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bych apter/manual_Reference.html#Query_Cache
b) More than a bit here or there and your disk data is probably toast also. Where do you think the data on the disk is computed from?
c) There are hot-swap/raid type RAM motherboards available also. But that's not really the point.
I run a master MySQL/innodb database from disks and I replicate to 20 slaves each of which has the data that I need to move fastest on a 6GB ramdisk. Load balancing software ensures that should one drop dead (and it happens occasionally) it just tries another. You ought see my throughput, I'll put it against your disk array anytime.
Quite. A real difference between most scripting vs 'traditional' programming is the library support. If you took Perl and removed it's regex, handy functions like split/join etc. and did away with the CGI library it might not be as popular.
Similarly take C/C++ and add natively add regex, split/join and a nice CGI system (some call it Java, save the VM) and all of a sudden C++ becomes real easy to 'script' in.
What goes across the line is mostly a hash of the pin and some data stored on the card. That's why ATM transactions can only typically occur with card present. I believe this vunerability is based on a weak hash algorithm or something in that region that allows you to derive the original pin much quicker than the 5000 or so guess normally required.
Therefore you'd also need to steal the physical card and make a dupe, so I'm not sure of the potential loss here. Other places where pins are asked for such as online banking may be vunerable however.
I'm probably missing something here, but I'm fairly sure from the Visa transaction specs I've got sitting here you need data from the card and the pin to initiate a transaction. Could be wrong:)
Seeing as many people here rely on Internet jobs of one kind or another, and this could be a rather large nail in the coffin of online sales, it's far from fun.
Amazon and others are part of a growing lobby group and as such their opinions are industry wide, not just for themselves.
These companies already pay a large tax to the country. They exist and employ people who pay taxes and consume goods. I see no point in reducing the effectiveness of their business model thereby hurting all the people below them in the chain.
Didn't read the article did you? It's averaged over a month so go ahead and download your distro and porn. Just don't do it every day.
That's the point of limited broadband, as you ask. It's not that customers sit on an always on service they never use, it's that customers sit on an always on service with normal use.
I doubt this move is to stop piracy or anything else except to stop them bleeding cash. It's kind of like flipping the closed sign on your buffet restaurant when the Klumps pull into the parking lot. Not that nice but good business sense, especially when too many of your customers are like that.
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Err, no. The most oft reasonings for limiting pain medication are:
1. It often interferes with blood pressure and other systems. 2. It most often interferes with diagnosis. 3. It very often makes anaesthesia more difficult in case of surgery.
Anyone who thinks that a screaming patient just rushed in from the ambulance should be given something like morphine just because they 'hurt real bad' without a proper exam and consultation is insane.
Indeed - you only have to look at the fine examples of capitalistic ethics provided recently by companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing etc to realise how unnecessary government regulation in the free market is.
Please don't do that. That's fraud and theft nothing more.
And of course, limiting access to healthcare according to personal wealth or employability is such a fair way of arranging things, isn't it? After all, it's obviously entirely your own fault if you're poor or unemployed.
Whose fault is it then? Mine? Yours? The evil corporation? If you want my taxpaying help to send your poor sorry corpse to the doctor at least have some grace about it.
Incidentally, which socialist countries are you thinking of? How about Cuba as a counter-example? The health service there is excellent, and completely free at the point of use.
It might be free, if you don't count the fact that you're not. They are also usually out of many medicines so they don't have much to charge you for. Been there? Used it? Not with that opinion.
Get a T1 installed and stop whining. You lost your rights to all that you claim when you signed up for the service. You did read the small print, right?
My biggest problem with Java so far also, but for a slightly different reason.
We develop algorithms that detect fraud and these are built from data that takes us years to gather. It's so easy to reverse a class these days that I can't deploy Java in any place my competitors could get ahold of it.
As you say it makes sense when running applets, but server side, installed or embedded it's a real pain. Check out gjc for work they're doing on compiling java to native code on x86. When this matures a bit, it may be the killer app for Java. When I figure out how to hook that stuff into Tomcat I can retire:)
Some seem to think that it doesn't matter if Microsoft loses millions or billions on the XBox, because they will just release the XBox 2, and everybody will buy that, according to some larger Microsoft "strategy" to "own the living room". Game consoles don't work that way, for some reason. If the XBox goes the way of the Dreamcast, nobody... NOBODY is going to be clamoring for the XBox 2 (how many millions of people are eagerly awaiting Dreamcast 2? That's right, zero million.)
If I were in their shoes I wouldn't have dropped the price. Instead I'd have launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign targeting why the XBox is so much better and how the other consoles were slashing prices in fear. Too late.
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I'll give you the Pokemon point. I'm way outta my depth on that one.
The over 18s have money to burn and buy the games instead of playing them in the stores That's kinda my point. Doesn't mean that parents aren't getting leant on hard from their kids to go and buy these things though. I'd value your opinion (seeing as you're in the market) on who's buying consoles at peak times like Xmas.
Its built-in NIC shouts broadband or nothing very loudly. Doesn't matter how it connects. If it does connect any way there will be a cost involved I'm sure.
I've kind of lost my way. I just wanted to point out that MS may not find this as popular as they thought because a large chunk on their customers might actually be fed up parents. Sod it, I'm going to bed..:)
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You're totally missing my point. Firstly it's my opinion that kids tend to always want the latest greatest NOW and put parents under that pressure. Pokemon is hardly a great game concept, but it is a great marketing concept to kids.
Secondly I'm not saying over 18s don't buy consoles, but there are so many more bought by parents for their kids. Wander into Target any day of the week and see what age is playing the consoles.
I have no idea where the phone jack is on an XBox, but unless it's going wireless directly to Redmond I assume you have to plug it in somewhere.
Shame on you for thinking your opinion is more important than anyone elses in a public forum.
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Oh, maybe I wasn't being clear. I was also indicating that parents have had enough and should say no like I did. From some of the other replies they seem to think I'm BooHooing and caving in. My point was that it sucks being constantly put under this pressure. It's like putting candy at the checkout.
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I don't own an XBox, I've gotta say that straight away. My main reason for this is that I'm not spending several hundred dollars on a box to play games on when I have an expensive PC sitting here. On top of that $50 per game is starting to get silly and the prices seem to only be going to one direction. That's comparable to PC games, but many tend to wait until they get discounted. This isn't as common in the console 'hot game' market.
This is because consoles tend to be bought by parents for their kids. A good chunk is bought by the over 18s, but lets be honest, parents buying these for their kids is the largest market. These poor parents get nagged to buy the box, then every few weeks they stump up $50 for the latest game. This isn't nice and it's true for almost everything aimed at kids these days from fast food to barbie dolls at Xmas. But subscription multiplayer gaming/online communities?
Are parents really going to be forced once again to stump up cash for MS accounts and phone bills to keep their kids happy. This even plays havoc with teenage owners living at home. Parents have to deal with credit card subscriptions and tied up phone lines. I'm not so sure this will sell in the numbers MS hopes. I'd be damned before I spent it after the hundreds on the console already. For all that money on the game itself you'd hope they'd build some multiplayer/online services into that cost.
This will of course have the opposite effect of making them money. Some entities increase charges when they need to make more money, this is typical of more socialist ideals and popular in Europe*. Others lower prices to make more money. This often sounds odd, but it's the principal of the bargain and reliance on good old marketing and upselling. Typically more a US ideal.
In England they need more money for whatever, so they raise taxes. In the US they lower taxes to stimulate the economy and produce more overall wealth.
As a US based company with British tech we get to see both sides of the coin quite clearly, and as a money making machine we're very confident of which works best. Here we sit processing an awful lot of credit card transactions every second, mostly for US customers because it's easy. Do you think any court in this land will force us to spend heaps of money supporting foreign tax laws? Do you think we're going to release those records without such an order? Even if we were forced to charge said tax, what would actually happen is it would be cheaper and more cost effective for us to not do business with those countries. End result: Those countries have less imports from the US. Their loss not ours. A good lesson in shooting yourself in the foot.
Same thing. Thinking of opening an office in London... Any idea how much company tax and fees they pay over there? Waaay to much. End result is we declined and the UK lost out on a company branch that produces loads in tax every month. Greed got them poor. Plain old stupid.
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Bit fuddy of you.
You don't have to travel out of state if you don't want to. What jurisdiction does an out of state court have over you? You have a couple of options.
a) Mail in a motion to dismiss and ask that because of it's trivial nature you'd like to participate over the phone. It doesn't take a lawyer to fill out that form in most states.
b) If (a) fails, or if you can't be bothered travelling to another state let them get their judgement. It's a worthless piece of paper, they have to come to your state to collect and they need to go before a local judge to enforce an out of state order. Thats when you can defend yourself much better.
For example I just had somebody sue me in CA and the FL judge wiped his arse with it. Doesn't even touch your credit either.
Let them get on a plane and come to you. Chances are they won't bother.
Bottom line. A good lawyer would have no problems with a suit like this.
It's actually always been my fear that M$ would jump on the OS bandwagon. Imagine for a moment the multi billion dollar company pushing their OS product and selling support for it vs. RedHat or even IBM. They've proven time and time again that they can market better than anyone else around.
If the approach that makes OS software great was applied across the board to M$ software, everyone here would have a lot more to whine about.
If it doesn't come directly via the Windows line, and I doubt it ever could politically, then watch out for a M$ Linux distro through some other company or means. They could easily do it, and with the licenses' blessing. Then twist it however they wanted via marketing and legal wrangling. Be very afraid.
They never cared about the source outside of the control it gave them. If there's another easier way to get the same thing who thinks they're really going to care. Heck they've got the resources to maintain Windows, a Linux distro, a FreeBSD distro, anything they want.
Generally this book is badly researched, but there are one or two things that really stand out.
First the main character Susan is supposed to be a top brain at the NSA. The only problem is that she's thick as concrete. I'm not saying she's slow on the uptake, merely my cat could have figured out the general plot before her.
Inventing new types of computers and math seems okay, but keep it on planet Earth. This stuff is too far fetched for most anyone to absorb and stay in a state of suspended disbelief.
It's the same thing. Make it a module? Create a fork? They don't have to include anything they don't feel is right. It's still tough.
Well then "some people" can get off their butts, or cough up the cash to do it themselves. It's amazing how some people who use free software think that the developers owe them something.
Erm, no. They wrote it, they can do what they like, how they like and when they like. They don't have to put in features if they don't want to. They certainly don't have to justify their work or decisions to anyone except their contributing peers. If you don't like it please whine to somebody else. Nobody is stopping you from backporting code or doing it yourself.
Hardly surprising. All children learn through play. When you make trial and error fun it's called play.
All animals are the same. Take a look at a kitten playing with a ball. They didn't evolve to please humans for being cute. That's a learned hunting skill.
That's one of the reasons why we have a pleasure sense. It propels us to learn and helps us survive.
Rule 11 of the Federal Civil Rules of Civil Procedure. Basically you aim at the attorney for wasting court time. It carries heavy fines and eventually the possibility of license revocation.
That's even worse. Now it just looks in your sent folder and sends your messages all over the place. You'll never be able to deny it was you and just some silly virus.
Really? What you fail to understand is that this is needed much less in a total RAM environment because seek time is almost none. Think about what cache is for a moment. Move frequently used data to your fastest access medium (typically ram). If you operate entirely from your fastest medium. Duh. Not much need for storgae cache.
Other types of cache help in calculating starting points and other 'access helper' functions. Things like caching optimizer results etc. A lot of this is done, but I admit there is a long way to go. None of this goes anywhere to deciding where to store the main data though.
You also seem to think MySQL is any sort of database, it really isn't. It's an SQL front end to a database engine, of which there are many. MyISAM, InnoDB, bDB, etc. Take your pick.
Turn your anonymous filter off and post something useful for a change.
You really don't know what you're talking about do you?
h apter /manual_Reference.html#Query_Cache
a) Of course MySQL has RAM cache. Here is one part of it:
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/byc
b) More than a bit here or there and your disk data is probably toast also. Where do you think the data on the disk is computed from?
c) There are hot-swap/raid type RAM motherboards available also. But that's not really the point.
I run a master MySQL/innodb database from disks and I replicate to 20 slaves each of which has the data that I need to move fastest on a 6GB ramdisk. Load balancing software ensures that should one drop dead (and it happens occasionally) it just tries another. You ought see my throughput, I'll put it against your disk array anytime.
Right tool, right job. Bias is not a tool.
So Captain Ace Rimmer should be turning up any moment now?
If I had points, I'd share the karma.
Quite. A real difference between most scripting vs 'traditional' programming is the library support. If you took Perl and removed it's regex, handy functions like split/join etc. and did away with the CGI library it might not be as popular.
Similarly take C/C++ and add natively add regex, split/join and a nice CGI system (some call it Java, save the VM) and all of a sudden C++ becomes real easy to 'script' in.
What goes across the line is mostly a hash of the pin and some data stored on the card. That's why ATM transactions can only typically occur with card present. I believe this vunerability is based on a weak hash algorithm or something in that region that allows you to derive the original pin much quicker than the 5000 or so guess normally required.
:)
Therefore you'd also need to steal the physical card and make a dupe, so I'm not sure of the potential loss here. Other places where pins are asked for such as online banking may be vunerable however.
I'm probably missing something here, but I'm fairly sure from the Visa transaction specs I've got sitting here you need data from the card and the pin to initiate a transaction. Could be wrong
Seeing as many people here rely on Internet jobs of one kind or another, and this could be a rather large nail in the coffin of online sales, it's far from fun.
Amazon and others are part of a growing lobby group and as such their opinions are industry wide, not just for themselves.
These companies already pay a large tax to the country. They exist and employ people who pay taxes and consume goods. I see no point in reducing the effectiveness of their business model thereby hurting all the people below them in the chain.
Didn't read the article did you? It's averaged over a month so go ahead and download your distro and porn. Just don't do it every day.
That's the point of limited broadband, as you ask. It's not that customers sit on an always on service they never use, it's that customers sit on an always on service with normal use.
I doubt this move is to stop piracy or anything else except to stop them bleeding cash. It's kind of like flipping the closed sign on your buffet restaurant when the Klumps pull into the parking lot. Not that nice but good business sense, especially when too many of your customers are like that.
Err, no. The most oft reasonings for limiting pain medication are:
1. It often interferes with blood pressure and other systems.
2. It most often interferes with diagnosis.
3. It very often makes anaesthesia more difficult in case of surgery.
Anyone who thinks that a screaming patient just rushed in from the ambulance should be given something like morphine just because they 'hurt real bad' without a proper exam and consultation is insane.
Indeed - you only have to look at the fine examples of capitalistic ethics provided recently by companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing etc to realise how unnecessary government regulation in the free market is.
Please don't do that. That's fraud and theft nothing more.
And of course, limiting access to healthcare according to personal wealth or employability is such a fair way of arranging things, isn't it? After all, it's obviously entirely your own fault if you're poor or unemployed.
Whose fault is it then? Mine? Yours? The evil corporation? If you want my taxpaying help to send your poor sorry corpse to the doctor at least have some grace about it.
Incidentally, which socialist countries are you thinking of? How about Cuba as a counter-example? The health service there is excellent, and completely free at the point of use.
It might be free, if you don't count the fact that you're not. They are also usually out of many medicines so they don't have much to charge you for. Been there? Used it? Not with that opinion.
Get a T1 installed and stop whining. You lost your rights to all that you claim when you signed up for the service. You did read the small print, right?
Bingo,
:)
My biggest problem with Java so far also, but for a slightly different reason.
We develop algorithms that detect fraud and these are built from data that takes us years to gather. It's so easy to reverse a class these days that I can't deploy Java in any place my competitors could get ahold of it.
As you say it makes sense when running applets, but server side, installed or embedded it's a real pain. Check out gjc for work they're doing on compiling java to native code on x86. When this matures a bit, it may be the killer app for Java. When I figure out how to hook that stuff into Tomcat I can retire
The article disagrees and so do I:
Some seem to think that it doesn't matter if Microsoft loses millions or billions on the XBox, because they will just release the XBox 2, and everybody will buy that, according to some larger Microsoft "strategy" to "own the living room". Game consoles don't work that way, for some reason. If the XBox goes the way of the Dreamcast, nobody... NOBODY is going to be clamoring for the XBox 2 (how many millions of people are eagerly awaiting Dreamcast 2? That's right, zero million.)
If I were in their shoes I wouldn't have dropped the price. Instead I'd have launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign targeting why the XBox is so much better and how the other consoles were slashing prices in fear. Too late.
I'll give you the Pokemon point. I'm way outta my depth on that one.
:)
The over 18s have money to burn and buy the games instead of playing them in the stores
That's kinda my point. Doesn't mean that parents aren't getting leant on hard from their kids to go and buy these things though. I'd value your opinion (seeing as you're in the market) on who's buying consoles at peak times like Xmas.
Its built-in NIC shouts broadband or nothing very loudly.
Doesn't matter how it connects. If it does connect any way there will be a cost involved I'm sure.
I've kind of lost my way. I just wanted to point out that MS may not find this as popular as they thought because a large chunk on their customers might actually be fed up parents. Sod it, I'm going to bed..
You're totally missing my point. Firstly it's my opinion that kids tend to always want the latest greatest NOW and put parents under that pressure. Pokemon is hardly a great game concept, but it is a great marketing concept to kids.
Secondly I'm not saying over 18s don't buy consoles, but there are so many more bought by parents for their kids. Wander into Target any day of the week and see what age is playing the consoles.
I have no idea where the phone jack is on an XBox, but unless it's going wireless directly to Redmond I assume you have to plug it in somewhere.
Shame on you for thinking your opinion is more important than anyone elses in a public forum.
Oh, maybe I wasn't being clear. I was also indicating that parents have had enough and should say no like I did. From some of the other replies they seem to think I'm BooHooing and caving in. My point was that it sucks being constantly put under this pressure. It's like putting candy at the checkout.
I don't own an XBox, I've gotta say that straight away. My main reason for this is that I'm not spending several hundred dollars on a box to play games on when I have an expensive PC sitting here. On top of that $50 per game is starting to get silly and the prices seem to only be going to one direction. That's comparable to PC games, but many tend to wait until they get discounted. This isn't as common in the console 'hot game' market.
This is because consoles tend to be bought by parents for their kids. A good chunk is bought by the over 18s, but lets be honest, parents buying these for their kids is the largest market. These poor parents get nagged to buy the box, then every few weeks they stump up $50 for the latest game. This isn't nice and it's true for almost everything aimed at kids these days from fast food to barbie dolls at Xmas. But subscription multiplayer gaming/online communities?
Are parents really going to be forced once again to stump up cash for MS accounts and phone bills to keep their kids happy. This even plays havoc with teenage owners living at home. Parents have to deal with credit card subscriptions and tied up phone lines. I'm not so sure this will sell in the numbers MS hopes. I'd be damned before I spent it after the hundreds on the console already. For all that money on the game itself you'd hope they'd build some multiplayer/online services into that cost.
This will of course have the opposite effect of making them money. Some entities increase charges when they need to make more money, this is typical of more socialist ideals and popular in Europe*. Others lower prices to make more money. This often sounds odd, but it's the principal of the bargain and reliance on good old marketing and upselling. Typically more a US ideal.
In England they need more money for whatever, so they raise taxes. In the US they lower taxes to stimulate the economy and produce more overall wealth.
As a US based company with British tech we get to see both sides of the coin quite clearly, and as a money making machine we're very confident of which works best. Here we sit processing an awful lot of credit card transactions every second, mostly for US customers because it's easy. Do you think any court in this land will force us to spend heaps of money supporting foreign tax laws? Do you think we're going to release those records without such an order?
Even if we were forced to charge said tax, what would actually happen is it would be cheaper and more cost effective for us to not do business with those countries. End result: Those countries have less imports from the US. Their loss not ours. A good lesson in shooting yourself in the foot.
Same thing. Thinking of opening an office in London... Any idea how much company tax and fees they pay over there? Waaay to much. End result is we declined and the UK lost out on a company branch that produces loads in tax every month. Greed got them poor. Plain old stupid.
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* Typically, IMHO, etc. etc.