"I think the most this will do is trim out the lame ass monkeys that can only work through GUI tools and maybe slow new job growth."
Actually, what it'll probably do is trim out everybody who knows what they're doing and replace them with GUI monkeys. Now isntead of all your scripts and programs, there's a 'run script' button with a built-in script..
So this is their antitrust punishment? Legal mandate to use their software?
Y'know, if the idea of M$ handling US national cyberdefence works as badly as it sounds, that'll be one hell of a punishment. "Hackers took down X again - and this time we're damned sure it's a Microsoft issue..."
The downside of this is you'd have the increased cost of canvassing/shopping for ads, ad design, etc. Plus you'd have to convince the pizza joint around the corner that a banner ad on your wireless network is worth it..... hm.. maybe they could pay in pizza?
Actually, you'd probably see a lot of shots of them drinking pepsi products on the trip. Pepsi will probably use a lot of the footage in future advertising...
Where I'm working, we use an IM program called E-pop by wiredred software. Works fairly niftily. They've got several groups set up so you can message an individual or an entire group. (Which is always a fun option for the newbies to play with.)
"I'm willing to bet that at least 60% of Canadians are happy with such legislation. Very few people care about there privacy."
That's not what I've come across. I work for a Canadian ISP and we are required to jump through some pretty big hoops in authenticating users before we change passwords, etc. Some people (about 1 in 15 or so*) complain about the process that we have to go through, usually after we've failed to properly authenticate them. Another small group (about 3 in 15*) complain about it, then agree with it when it's pointed out that anybody with their username could call up and pretend to be them, so this prevents anybody else from changing their password and getting their email. The rest either don't care or are happy with the procedure.
* all stats are guessed at based on experience, not somesort of scientific method.
I've studied computer security in Canada and that involved discussing with the police what's involved with their investigations into IT crimes. In most of the cases, they can't really do much due to lack of resources and manpower. Logs would really help them out a lot in terms of tracking things down and trying to build cases. Our class was told that if we're working for a coproration and we're attacked, they can't really do much for us - the best thing we can do is use our logs to track down the attacker's ISP and deal with them directly.
I also now work for a Canadian ISP, so I've got a general idea as to how likely this is and how soon it'll be implemented...
"Show me a foriegn television show anyone finds worth watching! Show me the foriegn-language version of/.! Show me which country invented and continues to invent nearly every single thing you use nearly every single day."
The widespread use of English means US quality of living is increasing? That's.. uhm.. yeah.
Maybe it means that us Canadians have been very successful in infiltrating the rest of the world and preparing to take over.
I was speaking to a friend of mine a few days ago about this topic. I'm not sure about the accuracy, but he said something about using the species in the northern areas of the world as a grazing animal. Could also be used for the same type of jobs people use elephants for. Makes me wonder how they taste tho...
I was working for a company that was starting to ask similar questions with their IT security group. "How does our spending money here help our bottom line?" Other comments above have mentioned trying to work this out on a spreadsheet. It's damned difficult because if you're spending the right amount of money on something like IT security, you see everything working fine and start looking at cutbacks..
I'm not sure that this applies to the field of IT as a whole, but it seems to ring true for the security field.
"let's not forget that that shouldn't include people who were validly entering into the industry at that time, regardless of the boom"
I was one of those people. A bit of a geek, I entered university to learn more, then found out that you could make money at this stuff. Then I graduated and found out you couldn't. So now I work in a helldesk and convenience store to make ends meet & pay back student loans..
On a related note, I just finished reading Gibson's Idoru. One of the lead characters is a software sim of a singer. The interesting thing was, she made the society pages & gossip only because of who she was engaged to..
Which brings up an interesting idea: what happens when you get realistic CGI sims of actors/actresses? Or at least realistic enough to fool most of the people out there?
Still, labour for config, downtime, etc all included, MS still has licencing fees that open-sourced software doesn't. Unless MS is willing to cut a deal for service to bring the total cost down to the same level (which they may do in this case), I still can't see how the TCO would not be lower for an open-sourced solution. There's that nasty licencing cost for every copy of the software involved which when multiplied across all the computers, probably adds up to a nice sum.
"Hamilton said that while the United States doesn't oppose the development of open-source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the product can determine the issue. " Like MPAA, RIAA, etc, etc.
"Free-software advocates also claim that besides the operational advantages, open-source programs are less costly, a claim that has been energetically denied by Microsoft Peru." Maybe I just don't get this. If I can download it or obtain it for free and use it and modify it in any way I see fit (releasing code if I redistribute), how is that not less costly then buying a MS product, paying for licences to mod it and then paying again to redistribute it (if required)?
Listen to the poster who said you should make a web accessible database of recipes. Then anyone can search based on available ingredients ("what can I make with this crap in my pantry?"), dish-name ("what can I bring to a theme-potluck?"), and holiday affilation (obvious applications).
Kinda like this? The idea sounds pretty much the same. Select from a list of ingredients what you've got on hand and it'll give a list of recipies. Maybe modify it so it'll check main ingredients or list all recipies with your ingredients and give you a shopping list for the rest..
I have to agree about "Ballad of Fallen Angels". That one scene is just mindblowing.
Another nifty shot is the standoff where Vicious has the sword to Spike's shoulder and Spike has his gun on Vicious'. The demonic look on the "hero's" face is a bit chilling..
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You know, that may actually prove cheaper in the long run. Rather than developing a whole new system, you could cut down on unemployment at the same time as performing DRM.
It'd probably be easier to bribe the bouncers though..
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I'm guessing I'd feel a bit squooshy..
"I think the most this will do is trim out the lame ass monkeys that can only work through GUI tools and maybe slow new job growth."
Actually, what it'll probably do is trim out everybody who knows what they're doing and replace them with GUI monkeys. Now isntead of all your scripts and programs, there's a 'run script' button with a built-in script..
So this is their antitrust punishment? Legal mandate to use their software?
Y'know, if the idea of M$ handling US national cyberdefence works as badly as it sounds, that'll be one hell of a punishment. "Hackers took down X again - and this time we're damned sure it's a Microsoft issue..."
The downside of this is you'd have the increased cost of canvassing/shopping for ads, ad design, etc. Plus you'd have to convince the pizza joint around the corner that a banner ad on your wireless network is worth it... .. hm.. maybe they could pay in pizza?
Actually, you'd probably see a lot of shots of them drinking pepsi products on the trip. Pepsi will probably use a lot of the footage in future advertising...
Where I'm working, we use an IM program called E-pop by wiredred software. Works fairly niftily. They've got several groups set up so you can message an individual or an entire group. (Which is always a fun option for the newbies to play with.)
"I'm willing to bet that at least 60% of Canadians are happy with such legislation. Very few people care about there privacy."
That's not what I've come across. I work for a Canadian ISP and we are required to jump through some pretty big hoops in authenticating users before we change passwords, etc. Some people (about 1 in 15 or so*) complain about the process that we have to go through, usually after we've failed to properly authenticate them. Another small group (about 3 in 15*) complain about it, then agree with it when it's pointed out that anybody with their username could call up and pretend to be them, so this prevents anybody else from changing their password and getting their email. The rest either don't care or are happy with the procedure.
* all stats are guessed at based on experience, not somesort of scientific method.
Hm.. I've seen "Good" and "Excellent", but I'm not sure there's a "Sweet"..
I've studied computer security in Canada and that involved discussing with the police what's involved with their investigations into IT crimes. In most of the cases, they can't really do much due to lack of resources and manpower. Logs would really help them out a lot in terms of tracking things down and trying to build cases. Our class was told that if we're working for a coproration and we're attacked, they can't really do much for us - the best thing we can do is use our logs to track down the attacker's ISP and deal with them directly.
I also now work for a Canadian ISP, so I've got a general idea as to how likely this is and how soon it'll be implemented...
"Show me a foriegn television show anyone finds worth watching! Show me the foriegn-language version of /.! Show me which country invented and continues to invent nearly every single thing you use nearly every single day."
The widespread use of English means US quality of living is increasing? That's.. uhm.. yeah.
Maybe it means that us Canadians have been very successful in infiltrating the rest of the world and preparing to take over.
Permission? What's that?
I was speaking to a friend of mine a few days ago about this topic. I'm not sure about the accuracy, but he said something about using the species in the northern areas of the world as a grazing animal. Could also be used for the same type of jobs people use elephants for. Makes me wonder how they taste tho...
"You were thinking about killing somebody, so.."
Wait.. isn't this one copyrighted already?
But it hasn't been sitting in a garage - they've been using it regularly. That makes it even more amazing that it hasn't broken down yet..
Y'know, you could combine the super scope, the glove, and the doom system administration 'tool' for a very fun office environment.
I can see it now, trying to strangle the life out of a process, giving up and pulling out the Super Scope as your boss comes by..
I was working for a company that was starting to ask similar questions with their IT security group. "How does our spending money here help our bottom line?" Other comments above have mentioned trying to work this out on a spreadsheet. It's damned difficult because if you're spending the right amount of money on something like IT security, you see everything working fine and start looking at cutbacks..
I'm not sure that this applies to the field of IT as a whole, but it seems to ring true for the security field.
"let's not forget that that shouldn't include people who were validly entering into the industry at that time, regardless of the boom"
I was one of those people. A bit of a geek, I entered university to learn more, then found out that you could make money at this stuff. Then I graduated and found out you couldn't. So now I work in a helldesk and convenience store to make ends meet & pay back student loans..
On a related note, I just finished reading Gibson's Idoru. One of the lead characters is a software sim of a singer. The interesting thing was, she made the society pages & gossip only because of who she was engaged to..
Which brings up an interesting idea: what happens when you get realistic CGI sims of actors/actresses? Or at least realistic enough to fool most of the people out there?
Still, labour for config, downtime, etc all included, MS still has licencing fees that open-sourced software doesn't. Unless MS is willing to cut a deal for service to bring the total cost down to the same level (which they may do in this case), I still can't see how the TCO would not be lower for an open-sourced solution. There's that nasty licencing cost for every copy of the software involved which when multiplied across all the computers, probably adds up to a nice sum.
"Hamilton said that while the United States doesn't oppose the development of open-source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the product can determine the issue. "
Like MPAA, RIAA, etc, etc.
"Free-software advocates also claim that besides the operational advantages, open-source programs are less costly, a claim that has been energetically denied by Microsoft Peru."
Maybe I just don't get this. If I can download it or obtain it for free and use it and modify it in any way I see fit (releasing code if I redistribute), how is that not less costly then buying a MS product, paying for licences to mod it and then paying again to redistribute it (if required)?
Listen to the poster who said you should make a web accessible database of recipes. Then anyone can search based on available ingredients ("what can I make with this crap in my pantry?"), dish-name ("what can I bring to a theme-potluck?"), and holiday affilation (obvious applications).
Kinda like this? The idea sounds pretty much the same. Select from a list of ingredients what you've got on hand and it'll give a list of recipies. Maybe modify it so it'll check main ingredients or list all recipies with your ingredients and give you a shopping list for the rest..
"some point, unfortunately, this system will all crash"
You have read/seen the financial news for the last couple of days, right?
Should the US be allowed to shut down a site in China because it was written by an American political dissident?
I have to agree about "Ballad of Fallen Angels". That one scene is just mindblowing.
Another nifty shot is the standoff where Vicious has the sword to Spike's shoulder and Spike has his gun on Vicious'. The demonic look on the "hero's" face is a bit chilling..
You know, that may actually prove cheaper in the long run. Rather than developing a whole new system, you could cut down on unemployment at the same time as performing DRM.
It'd probably be easier to bribe the bouncers though..