I don't see what is so special about these features (and I use Exchange at work). All of it can be built from existing pieces of software, and the usability features can be preformed automatically just the same... In addition you probably won't be limitted to 117 users/server (35,000 users on 300 servers is not scalable - it is government waste).
Based on the Wired story, it is a quite simple calculation: $15 per @home subscriber per month. 4.6 mil. subscribers: 828 million per year. Their maintenance cost for the existing network should be known, since they are a publicly traded company. The only assumption is that their subscribers will increase to 50 mil. by 2010. With a lower per subscriber fee ($12.5 per month) this would come to 7.5 billion/year. I think this is sufuccient data to make an educated guess whether and when @Home can pay off their 1 billion debt and be profitable. As noted, they already got rid of Excite, so the bleeding has stopped there.
I still think the creditors are the "villains" here. I also do not trust the cable companies, and would rather have them use a third party to provide broadband (just recall the DSL hell that Verizon and PacBell customers seem to experience).
This story on Wired sheds some light on what is going on with the @Home service. Seems like the debt holders are the ones who want the service shut down, while @Home has drawn plans (according to their chapter 11 filing) showing that they can pay all their debts and be profitable by 2010. It also seems that all cable companies which are currently providing the @Home service are on the debt holders side, since none of them are explaining this part. So make sure your cable companies hear from the @Home users who stand to lose their service - almost all of the cable companies are regulated local monopolies, which have to answer to a city/municipality board.
So besides failing to understand the difference between elected officials attempting to pass laws with which you don't agree, and authoritarian officals from The Party deciding what is good for you, you also cannot grasp the concept of a defense against the "tyrannical majority" (which is what the electoral college is supposed to provide).
BTW, I would be surprised if there were no other elections wherever you may live between the presidential elections and now...
If you cannot see the fundamental difference between the two cases, then you should leave and go live in The People's Republic of China. By the way, did you vote in the last elections?
He also states that there are currently NO real RDBMS out there - just SQL databases, which offer limitted support for the full relational calculus. To me this means that a hierarchical or an object database environment could be used to build a proper RDBMS. The thing Fabian Pascal warns about is not confuse the underlying technology with the relationsl model, if something uses tables, it does not mean it is an RDBMS.
Insightful, my posterior... Just last night in the US, Saturday Night Life made a parody of Dateline, a "news journal". Not only had they the trademarked logo of Dateline, they had a copy of the exact studio set...
This is no different - parodies are allowed to use the logos and other publicly available material of the subject of the parody...
It's been no surprise he has won by landslides in subsequent elections.
In case you didn't know, senate elections are every 6 years, therefore he has been re-elected only once. And it was a quite difficult election victory - the Dem National Committee had to help with election funds in order to offset the Republican stream of out of state money.
Well, they are asking for more info. Are you sure the SMTP server at earthlink is not at fault? Can you do a tcpdump on the connection (both when sending and receiving?
As participant in the standardization process for Lisp, what are your thoughts on standards for programming languages? What would you like to see different in this process? And speaking of standards, what do you think about the RAND licensing issue and the W3C?
I swear, I'm gunna run for some public office and end this crap.
You should. This is how things can be changed.
But you should consider that getting elected and preserving the principles for which you want to fight may be close to impossible. You need to study the actual and perceived needs of the people you are going to represent, and see if they are anywhere near the ideals you follow. You will also have to join a major political party, and learn to navigate the petty and not-so-petty conflicts, personalities, and agendas.
Utlimately you need to persuade the people that it will be to their benefit to elect you - and I believe there are very few people that can do that, and remain principled.
C|Net ran the story here last Thursday (my submission to/. was rejected). The part I think is most important (emphasis mine):
Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten release of ISS that is thoroughly and publicly tested. Sufficient operational testing should follow to ensure that the initial wave of security vulnerabilities every software product experiences has been uncovered and fixed. This move should include any Microsoft.Net Web service that requires the use of IIS.
Maybe this is the chance for Mono Miguel has already seen?
And how can you be sure it was him (other than that the suspected hijackers all came from somewhere in the middle east)?
Because there is a lot of evidence that the hijackers were part of his organization, including a direct link to the bombing of USS Cole. Of course, you can't be bothered by evidence, that requires just too much brain power...
Furthermore, he wants to be a martyr, and he wants to start a world war. Why ever would he deny it?
Because he is a coward, and scared shitless right now...
This is why the Arabs have NEVER attacked any Israeli religious targets. It is not the religion that bothers them. It is the lack of religion. It is the secular Israel that offends, not the Jewish one.
This BS is at best due to ignorance, at worst it is a calculated lie, designed to show moral equivalence between "one side" and the "other side".
We will be sorely tempted--because we strongly believe in our values---to attempt to impose them on those we aid. We will demand they embrace democracy?. We will demand they allow freedom of speech and yes, religion? Will we insist that they become as secular as we are? And if we do, will we just be creating more Osama Ben Ladens?
The answers are obvious to those who are not ignorant and learn from history. When was the last time suicide pilots attacked American targets? What was the outcome?
When Japan surrendered, a broad program and effort was put in place to change a nation of fanatics, who believed in a living god (the emperor), into one of the most advanced democratic nations in todays world.
"This is why the Arabs have NEVER attacked any Israeli religious targets. It is not the religion that bothers them. It is the lack of religion. It is the secular Israel that offends, not the Jewish one."
Exactly right. I have been more than a little bothered by the rhetoric from our leaders that would suggest this attack was "an attack on democracy," or "an attack on our way of life."
Taking a lie and basing your coments/conclusions on it, is a stupid thing to do.
ABC News just reported that contrary to earlier reports, rescue workers do need "small" things like gloves, work boots, Neosporin, flashlights, rain ponchos (rain is coming to the area), oxygen tanks, Kleenex, Band-Aids. If you are in the area, maybe you can point people to the proper places to help (and verify this info).
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Aparently CBS aired the Nostradamus pseudo-quote this morning... They should've checked here first...
I wondered how I should respond to this, and I came to the conclusion that I agree with the title, but not with the reasons. You wrote:
before I start, I am a normal American white guy, am open minded, and think every race in the world has a right to their own safety and piece (including Americans).. I have absolutely nothing to do with the Arab israeli conflict (I am not arab, or Jewish, or anything like that), nor do I know any of either side closely at all..
So you don't know much about the Middle Eastern conflict, but then you make broad conclusions based on your brief observations while being in Israel. This type of willful ignorance is what is most troubling in the US today.
Let's say your observations (and most of what you said sounds like propaganda, I don't believe you have witnessed all that you describe) disturbed you. What did you, the American citizen, do to change what you percieved as terrible US foreign policy? Did you inquire how your elected representatives see the Middle Eastern situation? Did you vote for the ones that were closer to your views? Did you vote at all?
I will take a wild guess and say that you didn't do any of these things. After all, you didn't even bother to get yourself educated about the Middle East, because if you had, you'd have learned that things are much less black and white than you see them.
So yes, this ignorance and apathy can be blamed to some degree of what happened today, but let's not shift the blame - the bastards who planned and did this should pay for it.
Oh, and BTW, Jews, Arabs, Europeans, Indians - they are all the same race...
Translation of the Russian Foreign Ministry announcement:
DECLARATION BY THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF RUSSIA
Regarding the trial of the Russian programmer D. Sklyarov, arrested in the USA
We carefully follow the developments of the trial of the Russian programmer Dmitriy Sklyarov, who was arrested in the USA based on the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act". This is the first application of this law in practice. Passed in 1998, it brings opposing reactions from lawyers, incuding those in the US, many of whom think that the law infringes on the consumer's rights of transmission of digital data(*).
The first trial meeting took place on August 30 this year, in San Jose, CA, where D. Sklyarov was charged on several counts, which may result in up to 25 years jail time. At the meeting D. Sklyarov entered a plea of not guilty. His lawyers believe the charges are unsubstantiated and they plan to prove that the arrest was a violation of the Russian citizen's free speech rights.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and its offices abroad keep in constant touch with the American authorities, the defendant, and his lawyers.
We would like to point out to all Russian professionals, who cooperate with American companies in the areas of computer software and programming, that regardless of the outcome of D. Sklyarov's trial, the Act of 1998 may be applicable to them on US teritory.
August 31, 2001
(*)I believe this is supposed to mean "Fair Use rights" but I chose to translate it literaly.
Commentary: I don't know how native Russian speakers would interpret the original (I am not one), but this sounds more like a warning to the Russian programmers not to violate the DMCA unless they want to be charged when/if they go to the US, rather than suggesting they should not go to the US. Maybe I am overreacting, but I see this as an indication that the DMCA is actually very close in spirit to the Communist laws of the Soviet past - so close that the Russian government is finding it understandable.
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I don't see what is so special about these features (and I use Exchange at work). All of it can be built from existing pieces of software, and the usability features can be preformed automatically just the same... In addition you probably won't be limitted to 117 users/server (35,000 users on 300 servers is not scalable - it is government waste).
... $15 per @home subscriber per month. 4.6 mil. subscribers: 828 million per year.
This should read 4.16 million subscribers: $748 million per year.
Based on the Wired story, it is a quite simple calculation: $15 per @home subscriber per month. 4.6 mil. subscribers: 828 million per year. Their maintenance cost for the existing network should be known, since they are a publicly traded company. The only assumption is that their subscribers will increase to 50 mil. by 2010. With a lower per subscriber fee ($12.5 per month) this would come to 7.5 billion/year. I think this is sufuccient data to make an educated guess whether and when @Home can pay off their 1 billion debt and be profitable. As noted, they already got rid of Excite, so the bleeding has stopped there.
I still think the creditors are the "villains" here. I also do not trust the cable companies, and would rather have them use a third party to provide broadband (just recall the DSL hell that Verizon and PacBell customers seem to experience).
This story on Wired sheds some light on what is going on with the @Home service. Seems like the debt holders are the ones who want the service shut down, while @Home has drawn plans (according to their chapter 11 filing) showing that they can pay all their debts and be profitable by 2010. It also seems that all cable companies which are currently providing the @Home service are on the debt holders side, since none of them are explaining this part. So make sure your cable companies hear from the @Home users who stand to lose their service - almost all of the cable companies are regulated local monopolies, which have to answer to a city/municipality board.
Yes, and I voted with the majority -- for Gore.
So besides failing to understand the difference between elected officials attempting to pass laws with which you don't agree, and authoritarian officals from The Party deciding what is good for you, you also cannot grasp the concept of a defense against the "tyrannical majority" (which is what the electoral college is supposed to provide).
BTW, I would be surprised if there were no other elections wherever you may live between the presidential elections and now...
Everyone who is blabbing: "Gee, it is the same as in the US" should read this over and over and attempt to use their brains somewhat.
Section Five -- No unit or individual may use the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit the following kinds of information:
(1) Inciting to resist or breaking the Constitution or laws or the implementation of administrative regulations;
(2) Inciting to overthrow the government or the socialist system;
(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;
Of course, this includes the unification of Tibet which rightfully belongs to the Chinese government.
(4) Inciting hatred or discrimination among nationalities or harming the unity of the nationalities;
(5) Making falsehoods or distorting the truth, spreading rumors, destroying the order of society;
(6) Promoting feudal superstitions, sexually suggestive material, gambling, violence, murder,
(7) Terrorism or inciting others to criminal activity; openly insulting other people or distorting the truth to slander people;
(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;
The State cannot do wrong, anyone who thinks The State can do wrong will be punished.
(9) Other activities against the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.
If you cannot see the fundamental difference between the two cases, then you should leave and go live in The People's Republic of China. By the way, did you vote in the last elections?
He also states that there are currently NO real RDBMS out there - just SQL databases, which offer limitted support for the full relational calculus. To me this means that a hierarchical or an object database environment could be used to build a proper RDBMS. The thing Fabian Pascal warns about is not confuse the underlying technology with the relationsl model, if something uses tables, it does not mean it is an RDBMS.
Insightful, my posterior... Just last night in the US, Saturday Night Life made a parody of Dateline, a "news journal". Not only had they the trademarked logo of Dateline, they had a copy of the exact studio set...
This is no different - parodies are allowed to use the logos and other publicly available material of the subject of the parody...
In case you didn't know, senate elections are every 6 years, therefore he has been re-elected only once. And it was a quite difficult election victory - the Dem National Committee had to help with election funds in order to offset the Republican stream of out of state money.
Well, they are asking for more info. Are you sure the SMTP server at earthlink is not at fault? Can you do a tcpdump on the connection (both when sending and receiving?
As participant in the standardization process for Lisp, what are your thoughts on standards for programming languages? What would you like to see different in this process? And speaking of standards, what do you think about the RAND licensing issue and the W3C?
I swear, I'm gunna run for some public office and end this crap.
You should. This is how things can be changed.
But you should consider that getting elected and preserving the principles for which you want to fight may be close to impossible. You need to study the actual and perceived needs of the people you are going to represent, and see if they are anywhere near the ideals you follow. You will also have to join a major political party, and learn to navigate the petty and not-so-petty conflicts, personalities, and agendas.
Utlimately you need to persuade the people that it will be to their benefit to elect you - and I believe there are very few people that can do that, and remain principled.
C|Net ran the story here last Thursday (my submission to /. was rejected). The part I think is most important (emphasis mine):
.Net Web service that requires the use of IIS.
Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten release of ISS that is thoroughly and publicly tested. Sufficient operational testing should follow to ensure that the initial wave of security vulnerabilities every software product experiences has been uncovered and fixed. This move should include any Microsoft
Maybe this is the chance for Mono Miguel has already seen?
And how can you be sure it was him (other than that the suspected hijackers all came from somewhere in the middle east)?
Because there is a lot of evidence that the hijackers were part of his organization, including a direct link to the bombing of USS Cole. Of course, you can't be bothered by evidence, that requires just too much brain power...
Furthermore, he wants to be a martyr, and he wants to start a world war. Why ever would he deny it?
Because he is a coward, and scared shitless right now...
Ogle is not hassle free enough?
Check out their site.
This is why the Arabs have NEVER attacked any Israeli religious targets. It is not the religion that bothers them. It is the lack of religion. It is the secular Israel that offends, not the Jewish one.
This BS is at best due to ignorance, at worst it is a calculated lie, designed to show moral equivalence between "one side" and the "other side".
We will be sorely tempted--because we strongly believe in our values---to attempt to impose them on those we aid. We will demand they embrace democracy?. We will demand they allow freedom of speech and yes, religion? Will we insist that they become as secular as we are? And if we do, will we just be creating more Osama Ben Ladens?
The answers are obvious to those who are not ignorant and learn from history. When was the last time suicide pilots attacked American targets? What was the outcome?
When Japan surrendered, a broad program and effort was put in place to change a nation of fanatics, who believed in a living god (the emperor), into one of the most advanced democratic nations in todays world.
We just need to have the resolve to do it again.
Exactly right. I have been more than a little bothered by the rhetoric from our leaders that would suggest this attack was "an attack on democracy," or "an attack on our way of life."
Taking a lie and basing your coments/conclusions on it, is a stupid thing to do.
ABC News again repeated the call for help - it is for the state workers (aparently the federal workers are well supplied).
The places to bring the donations (especially the rain gear) are Chelsea Pier (I believe this is the staging area), and the corner of 7 and 14th.
ABC News just reported that contrary to earlier reports, rescue workers do need "small" things like gloves, work boots, Neosporin, flashlights, rain ponchos (rain is coming to the area), oxygen tanks, Kleenex, Band-Aids. If you are in the area, maybe you can point people to the proper places to help (and verify this info).
Aparently CBS aired the Nostradamus pseudo-quote this morning... They should've checked here first...
I wondered how I should respond to this, and I came to the conclusion that I agree with the title, but not with the reasons. You wrote:
before I start, I am a normal American white guy, am open minded, and think every race in the world has a right to their own safety and piece (including Americans).. I have absolutely nothing to do with the Arab israeli conflict (I am not arab, or Jewish, or anything like that), nor do I know any of either side closely at all..
So you don't know much about the Middle Eastern conflict, but then you make broad conclusions based on your brief observations while being in Israel. This type of willful ignorance is what is most troubling in the US today.
Let's say your observations (and most of what you said sounds like propaganda, I don't believe you have witnessed all that you describe) disturbed you. What did you, the American citizen, do to change what you percieved as terrible US foreign policy? Did you inquire how your elected representatives see the Middle Eastern situation? Did you vote for the ones that were closer to your views? Did you vote at all?
I will take a wild guess and say that you didn't do any of these things. After all, you didn't even bother to get yourself educated about the Middle East, because if you had, you'd have learned that things are much less black and white than you see them.
So yes, this ignorance and apathy can be blamed to some degree of what happened today, but let's not shift the blame - the bastards who planned and did this should pay for it.
Oh, and BTW, Jews, Arabs, Europeans, Indians - they are all the same race...
As of 3:46 EDT:
Dow: -193.40
Nasdaq: -54.91
MSFT: -1.48
RHAT: -0.30
Looks like the preservation of Microsoft's illegal monopolistic practices will turn out very bad for the overall economy...
Translation of the Russian Foreign Ministry announcement:
DECLARATION BY THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF RUSSIA
Regarding the trial of the Russian programmer D. Sklyarov, arrested in the USA
We carefully follow the developments of the trial of the Russian programmer Dmitriy Sklyarov, who was arrested in the USA based on the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act". This is the first application of this law in practice. Passed in 1998, it brings opposing reactions from lawyers, incuding those in the US, many of whom think that the law infringes on the consumer's rights of transmission of digital data(*).
The first trial meeting took place on August 30 this year, in San Jose, CA, where D. Sklyarov was charged on several counts, which may result in up to 25 years jail time. At the meeting D. Sklyarov entered a plea of not guilty. His lawyers believe the charges are unsubstantiated and they plan to prove that the arrest was a violation of the Russian citizen's free speech rights.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and its offices abroad keep in constant touch with the American authorities, the defendant, and his lawyers.
We would like to point out to all Russian professionals, who cooperate with American companies in the areas of computer software and programming, that regardless of the outcome of D. Sklyarov's trial, the Act of 1998 may be applicable to them on US teritory.
August 31, 2001
(*)I believe this is supposed to mean "Fair Use rights" but I chose to translate it literaly.
Commentary: I don't know how native Russian speakers would interpret the original (I am not one), but this sounds more like a warning to the Russian programmers not to violate the DMCA unless they want to be charged when/if they go to the US, rather than suggesting they should not go to the US. Maybe I am overreacting, but I see this as an indication that the DMCA is actually very close in spirit to the Communist laws of the Soviet past - so close that the Russian government is finding it understandable.
Here is the original from the Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs. Translation to come later.