However if the idea has not been implemented and he does not work for the company any more, he can tell them about the idea. For the company to get the idea he has to explain it to someone else (but forget all the details that make it special) or if he is unable to do that why and they are not willing to pay him for implementation everyone will end up with nothing. If he has left the company he could also claim some of the special ideas were later and give them all the generic all ready known ones.
Well same thing happened to me with my sony vaio laptop (moving the date the guantanee started to some manufacting date [they lost my orginal registration documents]), they wanted 16 quid to not put the phone down on me before they even start to sort out any problems, their loss really as I will NEVER buy another sony product of any kind ever again, and I have spent alot of money with them before. I bought an Iiyama monitor resently (as I had too look at non sony products) and one of the things that attracted me to them was the 3 year on site warranty, Nice! A switch broke on my hotpoint washing machine just after a year and they came out and fixed it for free, now thats good service and will make me by from them again.
The problem with on demand is you pay a small fee each time you want to view something, what then happens is people who have access to "on demand", decide they don't need to watch it at the moment (even though with most things they would save relative to buying the DVD), with a DVD you pay up front for never get watched much but the person is paying for the ability to watch it when ever they like. You would have a subscription model but what happens if they decide the show you want to watch is no longer worth the space? People will aways buy physical media if the choice is there.
There may be better media available in 10 years time, there is higher capacity stuff even now (just not in price per gig) however DVD are digital media and the protection we well broken I expect in 10 years time I will have access to all the content on a different device, however that does not mean I will be paying to replace my 200+ DVDs. This is in the same way people arn't racing out to replace all their CDs. I think in mean peoples minds DVDs will be "good enough" in the same way CDs are difficult to place as a standard as people don't need (willing to pay for) something "better" and DVDs for the first time give access to video in a format that "feels" perminate, after all most collections don't rewatch most the content they have, it will be hard to convice people to rebuy it all again!
Yes but IBM had bad press about hard disks, and many people (myself included) decided they would never buy another IBM drive (I had a dud). As a result selling the hard disk biz was a good move because everyone will rember ibm drives sucked, and forget hitachi use the same tech.
Currently there is a camera revolution going on so it is natural to expect to have alot of choice and new models. If you want to look at a mature market look at the VCR one, there is very little choice in the highstreet all are almost idendical, and the price is very low. I expect you will see the cameras that Minolta is removing are not well placed in the market, so they have taken the decision to replace a model that is only 6 months old with one that will perform better in the market, sound sensible to me! Considering the current size of the market and the lose of market share if they don't do this. I don't expect we will see a 6 months cycle, however to do expect to see poorly performing (in sales) cameras to be quickly replaced and better selling ones to be more slowly replaced.
All this will continue while the market is red hot (which is great for the customer). When it slows down the choice will not be so good but atleast everything will be cheap!
I expect you are right and they did build up some type of short position particularly when they were thinking of pulling out. However it with average trades only having a volume of 300,000 it would take quite a long time to build up a significant short position, because you do have to sell the shares you don't have to someone else, and the share price was moving all that time. I guess we will see, if they start to dump at the maximum rate they can, the probably do a short position to cover them and hope the market will make it even "better". If they are careful then they don't have a significant position.
Hopefully this will be the final thing to kill SCO.
Thats interesting 10% of the average volume (approx 300,000). Seeing they must have about 2.7 million shares its going to take them more like 80-90 working to clear that position. Its just not going to happen.
13 Million is 2.7 million shares assuming they shares at a rate of 4.7 bucks a share. No way they can dump that stake, turnover for today was only 260,000 shares. If they try and sell more than 50,000-75,000 shares a day they will make the stock plumb it in price. Even at a high rate of 75,000 it would take 36 trading days to clear that, other traders know about the common stock conversion so are going to watch out for the dump so are going to let the price fall, to buy "cheap".
Half? They got 13 Million of the 50 Million in cash, and 13 Million Shares. Your are assumming they will be able to dump 13 million in stock and get 13 million for it, I expect if they sell that stake they will get far less. At current levels, thats about 2.7 million shares, the daily volume for SCOX is just 260,000. No way they are going to be able to clear that stake. On the plus side if they dumped 2.7 million shares of scox on the market it would go into a nosedive it probably could not pull out of. I think the bank assumed they could get about third of the money back so took the deal, as they really could not see the stock going anywhere else other than down.
No, you miss understand completely, when forking, the address space is allocated however it is not used until a page is needed at which time it is copied (infact it would be copied to memory and something else mapped to disk). Allocated is not the same as copied! If you execing right after a fork memory is never touched so the copy never occurs hence your disk is as fast as RAM! The point is at forking you process splits in two, so it becomes double the size it was, normally right after that it becomes very small as it turns into something else. Its all about address space. Having more real memory would make NO difference to your system what so ever, it has to work that way because the kernel does not know your not going to use the memory! Having 512 Meg and no swap will mean your system will start to become unusable at the 450+ mark (depending on what your doing), with swap you could use right up to the 512 Meg point.
To answer your question it is only better to have 512 meg of memory if you use more than 256 meg! If infact you use 250 meg of memory, its cheaper to have 256 meg and 256 meg of swap. Forking processes will spike you over the 256, but the extra 256 meg NEVER ever actually be used.
Having swap space means you get to use all your ram for programs etc, having no swap space means some of your ram will be wasted as some address space is required in transient operations.
In a workstation else days thats a bit mute, but on a expensive multi-cpu server nmot being able to use all your memory is very costly.
The point is, you have 512 meg of memory the program you are using is supper massive and takes 300 meg of memory, it now wants to run another process to do this it needs to fork, then exec the other process which is tiny, 5 meg thing... However at the moment of your fork you MIGHT require 600+ meg of memory... Good night your out of memory, even though at "normal" levels your not. However with swap space you have it allocated and it will work if needed but be a bit slow. However in this case it will NEVER be needed. This of it as ironing out the peeks. Any system that is regularly using swap as main memory though will have problems.
Personally I have a gig of memory and 1/2 gig of swap.
There are good reasons for swap, for example when a program forks, You need spare ram for the complete process space, this space normally comes from swap, before being wiped out when a new command is execed. Another good thing to do with swap space is use tmpfs and use it from/tmp, that way if you have lots of memory/tmp will come from memory not disk, and if your stuck for space your use the swap space.
But books are that easy to copy, the 5th harry potter book was scanned, proofed and online within a day of it comming out. People by books because they want to own the book.
Personally, I think with HyperThreading and multiprocessor cores becomming the norm, microkernels will start to see their day, as they lend themselves well to multiprocessing/threaded environment. While your comment about requiring an extra context switch is correct, in a hyperthreading environment there is a much lower overhead on the context switches, annother complaint is latancy, modern processors can have up to 20 stages in a pipe, so keeping that "full" for it to run flat out is pretty hard, so latancy is becomming an issue for mono-kernels too, but as clock speed has increased, latancy is far less visiable, disks and (most) networking work a many times slower than the computer so latancy of the instruction cycle really isn't an issue there.
Hah but did you know about the "B" sizes? B4 is A4 in landscape mode, quite useful when photocoping A3 Journals, as you can do a 50% size reduction for the perfect fit.
Water looked alot better, still had some problems with key frames ghosting arround sharp edges the picture improved after a few deltas. It was pretty neat however sound is still a problem ogg is not high fi enough so they are going to license something.
Your employer can only make you work your contracted hours. If they want more they either have to pay (or more normally) offer you more work flexibility. Ie. Your there all night, fine go home don't bother about today. I can't rember the last time I had to take time off to get a delivery at home, because I have always been allowed to "Work from home" that day. Even though it wasn't that productive when you thing about it. Mandating overtime would require more hours tracking which will end up in the loss of flexibility because its easier to make sure people work 9-5. If they are not in the office they arn't putting in the hours, and if they don't all leave at the same time, that person is going to do an overtime claim....
Personally I have only ever been payed overtime for on call work, and I would not expect it any other way.
procmail can do that for you.... If your running spam assassin on an account by account basis your probably already using procmail. If your not, set up a.forward to pass it though procmail (if your mail server does not run user.procmailrc s):0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes mail/Z__SPAM__Z
If you add this rule at the end of your procmailrc, it will save any messages spamassassin lables as spam in the mail/Z__SPAM__Z folder...
If you wanna be more complex look for autolearn=no in the spam status line (along with the spam yes) and save these in a probably spam folder, and save the autolearn ones (spam ones) in the/dev/null folder.
Also don't forget to pass the spam you list into sa-learn --spam, to improve the filtering.
James
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Thats assuming they ever pay you. Perhaps they will offer to do a payment to your CC card or bank account. You really sure they will credit rather that debit it?
I assume they mean the right of free speech. Its odd how oftain people claim the right to free speech yet mistake it for the right to force people to listen to what they say, forcing people to listen is infact exactly what adware does!
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Do you have to even show a passport for internal flights? If other id is accepted how closely are they check for validity?
James
Pretty warped isn't it, one year in jail would be far easier than losing all my money/property.
However if the idea has not been implemented and he does not work for the company any more, he can tell them about the idea. For the company to get the idea he has to explain it to someone else (but forget all the details that make it special) or if he is unable to do that why and they are not willing to pay him for implementation everyone will end up with nothing. If he has left the company he could also claim some of the special ideas were later and give them all the generic all ready known ones.
James
Well same thing happened to me with my sony vaio laptop (moving the date the guantanee started to some manufacting date [they lost my orginal registration documents]), they wanted 16 quid to not put the phone down on me before they even start to sort out any problems, their loss really as I will NEVER buy another sony product of any kind ever again, and I have spent alot of money with them before. I bought an Iiyama monitor resently (as I had too look at non sony products) and one of the things that attracted me to them was the 3 year on site warranty, Nice! A switch broke on my hotpoint washing machine just after a year and they came out and fixed it for free, now thats good service and will make me by from them again.
James
The problem with on demand is you pay a small fee each time you want to view something, what then happens is people who have access to "on demand", decide they don't need to watch it at the moment (even though with most things they would save relative to buying the DVD), with a DVD you pay up front for never get watched much but the person is paying for the ability to watch it when ever they like. You would have a subscription model but what happens if they decide the show you want to watch is no longer worth the space? People will aways buy physical media if the choice is there.
James
There may be better media available in 10 years time, there is higher capacity stuff even now (just not in price per gig) however DVD are digital media and the protection we well broken I expect in 10 years time I will have access to all the content on a different device, however that does not mean I will be paying to replace my 200+ DVDs. This is in the same way people arn't racing out to replace all their CDs. I think in mean peoples minds DVDs will be "good enough" in the same way CDs are difficult to place as a standard as people don't need (willing to pay for) something "better" and DVDs for the first time give access to video in a format that "feels" perminate, after all most collections don't rewatch most the content they have, it will be hard to convice people to rebuy it all again!
James
Yes but IBM had bad press about hard disks, and many people (myself included) decided they would never buy another IBM drive (I had a dud). As a result selling the hard disk biz was a good move because everyone will rember ibm drives sucked, and forget hitachi use the same tech.
James
Currently there is a camera revolution going on so it is natural to expect to have alot of choice and new models. If you want to look at a mature market look at the VCR one, there is very little choice in the highstreet all are almost idendical, and the price is very low. I expect you will see the cameras that Minolta is removing are not well placed in the market, so they have taken the decision to replace a model that is only 6 months old with one that will perform better in the market, sound sensible to me! Considering the current size of the market and the lose of market share if they don't do this. I don't expect we will see a 6 months cycle, however to do expect to see poorly performing (in sales) cameras to be quickly replaced and better selling ones to be more slowly replaced.
All this will continue while the market is red hot (which is great for the customer). When it slows down the choice will not be so good but atleast everything will be cheap!
James
Certainly the horseless carriage manufacturers did not worry about the buggy whip people.
However Ford did have alot of problems with horseless carriage manufacturers and patents, there was a particular one that was only licensed to approved firms. (ie the ones that kept prices high and exclusive.) Ford had to wait for a patent to be removed before he could make the model T.
I expect you are right and they did build up some type of short position particularly when they were thinking of pulling out. However it with average trades only having a volume of 300,000 it would take quite a long time to build up a significant short position, because you do have to sell the shares you don't have to someone else, and the share price was moving all that time. I guess we will see, if they start to dump at the maximum rate they can, the probably do a short position to cover them and hope the market will make it even "better". If they are careful then they don't have a significant position.
Hopefully this will be the final thing to kill SCO.
James
Thats interesting 10% of the average volume (approx 300,000). Seeing they must have about 2.7 million shares its going to take them more like 80-90 working to clear that position. Its just not going to happen.
James
13 Million is 2.7 million shares assuming they shares at a rate of 4.7 bucks a share. No way they can dump that stake, turnover for today was only 260,000 shares. If they try and sell more than 50,000-75,000 shares a day they will make the stock plumb it in price. Even at a high rate of 75,000 it would take 36 trading days to clear that, other traders know about the common stock conversion so are going to watch out for the dump so are going to let the price fall, to buy "cheap".
James
Half? They got 13 Million of the 50 Million in cash, and 13 Million Shares. Your are assumming they will be able to dump 13 million in stock and get 13 million for it, I expect if they sell that stake they will get far less. At current levels, thats about 2.7 million shares, the daily volume for SCOX is just 260,000. No way they are going to be able to clear that stake. On the plus side if they dumped 2.7 million shares of scox on the market it would go into a nosedive it probably could not pull out of. I think the bank assumed they could get about third of the money back so took the deal, as they really could not see the stock going anywhere else other than down.
James
For 1800 bucks you could pay someone to do alot of cleaning for you!
James
No, you miss understand completely, when forking, the address space is allocated however it is not used until a page is needed at which time it is copied (infact it would be copied to memory and something else mapped to disk). Allocated is not the same as copied! If you execing right after a fork memory is never touched so the copy never occurs hence your disk is as fast as RAM! The point is at forking you process splits in two, so it becomes double the size it was, normally right after that it becomes very small as it turns into something else. Its all about address space. Having more real memory would make NO difference to your system what so ever, it has to work that way because the kernel does not know your not going to use the memory! Having 512 Meg and no swap will mean your system will start to become unusable at the 450+ mark (depending on what your doing), with swap you could use right up to the 512 Meg point.
To answer your question it is only better to have 512 meg of memory if you use more than 256 meg! If infact you use 250 meg of memory, its cheaper to have 256 meg and 256 meg of swap. Forking processes will spike you over the 256, but the extra 256 meg NEVER ever actually be used.
Having swap space means you get to use all your ram for programs etc, having no swap space means some of your ram will be wasted as some address space is required in transient operations.
In a workstation else days thats a bit mute, but on a expensive multi-cpu server nmot being able to use all your memory is very costly.
James
The point is, you have 512 meg of memory the program you are using is supper massive and takes 300 meg of memory, it now wants to run another process to do this it needs to fork, then exec the other process which is tiny, 5 meg thing... However at the moment of your fork you MIGHT require 600+ meg of memory... Good night your out of memory, even though at "normal" levels your not. However with swap space you have it allocated and it will work if needed but be a bit slow. However in this case it will NEVER be needed. This of it as ironing out the peeks. Any system that is regularly using swap as main memory though will have problems.
Personally I have a gig of memory and 1/2 gig of swap.
James
There are good reasons for swap, for example when a program forks, You need spare ram for the complete process space, this space normally comes from swap, before being wiped out when a new command is execed. Another good thing to do with swap space is use tmpfs and use it from /tmp, that way if you have lots of memory /tmp will come from memory not disk, and if your stuck for space your use the swap space.
James
But books are that easy to copy, the 5th harry potter book was scanned, proofed and online within a day of it comming out. People by books because they want to own the book.
James
Personally, I think with HyperThreading and multiprocessor cores becomming the norm, microkernels will start to see their day, as they lend themselves well to multiprocessing/threaded environment. While your comment about requiring an extra context switch is correct, in a hyperthreading environment there is a much lower overhead on the context switches, annother complaint is latancy, modern processors can have up to 20 stages in a pipe, so keeping that "full" for it to run flat out is pretty hard, so latancy is becomming an issue for mono-kernels too, but as clock speed has increased, latancy is far less visiable, disks and (most) networking work a many times slower than the computer so latancy of the instruction cycle really isn't an issue there.
James
Hah but did you know about the "B" sizes? B4 is A4 in landscape mode, quite useful when photocoping A3 Journals, as you can do a 50% size reduction for the perfect fit.
James
Water looked alot better, still had some problems with key frames ghosting arround sharp edges the picture improved after a few deltas. It was pretty neat however sound is still a problem ogg is not high fi enough so they are going to license something.
James
Your employer can only make you work your contracted hours. If they want more they either have to pay (or more normally) offer you more work flexibility. Ie. Your there all night, fine go home don't bother about today. I can't rember the last time I had to take time off to get a delivery at home, because I have always been allowed to "Work from home" that day. Even though it wasn't that productive when you thing about it. Mandating overtime would require more hours tracking which will end up in the loss of flexibility because its easier to make sure people work 9-5. If they are not in the office they arn't putting in the hours, and if they don't all leave at the same time, that person is going to do an overtime claim....
Personally I have only ever been payed overtime for on call work, and I would not expect it any other way.
James
procmail can do that for you.... If your running spam assassin on an account by account basis your probably already using procmail. If your not, set up a .forward to pass it though procmail (if your mail server does not run user .procmailrc s) :0:
/dev/null folder.
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
mail/Z__SPAM__Z
If you add this rule at the end of your procmailrc, it will save any messages spamassassin lables as spam in the mail/Z__SPAM__Z folder...
If you wanna be more complex look for autolearn=no in the spam status line (along with the spam yes) and save these in a probably spam folder, and save the autolearn ones (spam ones) in the
Also don't forget to pass the spam you list into sa-learn --spam, to improve the filtering.
James
Thats assuming they ever pay you. Perhaps they will offer to do a payment to your CC card or bank account. You really sure they will credit rather that debit it?
James
I assume they mean the right of free speech. Its odd how oftain people claim the right to free speech yet mistake it for the right to force people to listen to what they say, forcing people to listen is infact exactly what adware does!
James