Ironically enough, I think that's the principle which best applies to razor selection. Simpler *is* better--I get the best results with single-bladed razors. For years, Gillette has been a "new products" company, relying on advertizing hype for the latest and greatest to keep the brand in customers' minds. The problem with that strategy is there always needs to be something new. Hence the Blade Wars, which really are just marketing hype.
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I think you're exactly right that CME is trying to do for malware identifiers what CVE has done for vulnerability ids. CVE's adoption is a good example of how a voluntary standard can make real progress. Seems from the article that the major players (Symantec, McCaffee, Trend Micro, Kaspersky) are already on board with CME, too, which is very encouraging.
One clarification, though: I believe CVE is run by MITRE, and funded by US-CERT. CERT/CC uses CVE IDs in their publications, but doesn't control the effort. (Not sure who you meant by "CERT.")
Also, the UK title of 'The Gripping Hand' is 'The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye'. Have you ever felt like meeting that guy who came up with that awful title in a dark alley? Is a baseball bat involved? At the very least, he deserves half his head shaved in a proper asymmetrical beard.
Actually, I believe "The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye" was the authors' original title. Larry said so in either "N-Space" or "Playgrounds of the Mind", if I remember right. I couldn't tell if the OP knew this already and was just being snide, but I prefer their title to the one the U.S. publishers forced on them.
The drawback to the far side of the moon (aka the "dark side") is the lack of earthshine. The moon's face which is tidally locked towards the earth gets the benefit of sunlight reflected off the earth, much like moonlight here on earth. When the earth is full, it's a lot of light; aparently as much as 45 times what we get from a full moon.
See this paper Google threw at me for some interesting facts on the earth-moon system.
--Arthen
"Inquisition this, you science dinks!" -- The Tick
Ugh, nasty experience. I hope that if and when I have problems, their customer service is a bit better.
Seems like they've updated their policy information on their website since you were with them, at least. When friends first suggested Netflix to me, and I was checking it out before subscribing, I did pretty easily find a reference to this part of their policy:
If you decide to cancel, remember that cancellation is effective immediately, and all discs must be returned to NetFlix within 7 days. [More info is at Netflix.]
It definitely could suck to pay, say, an extra month's subscription fee just to make sure all the disks I sent back arrived. But I suppose that's one of the drawbacks that balances the convenience of never having to go to the video store.
I dunno if it was in place when you were a subscriber either, but there's a way to report DVDs that never arrived as well. Fortunately I haven't had to use this (yet?) so I don't know what they actually do if you report a shipping problem, but at least there's an established process.
Unfortunately the idea can't fly. In these weak iEconomic times it seems like another dot com idea claiming to make the most simple of things (renting a movie) simpler, would be discounted quickly if not ignored at all.
But the idea is already flying. According to Netflix they've been in business since 1998 and currently have 500,000 subscribers. That's over $10 million a month in subscription revenue, assuming subscriptions average out to the $20/3-movie level. In fact, since there's only one lower level (2 movies a month at $14) but three upgrades available, they most likely average higher than that.
Of course, since Netflix is privately held, we don't know what their bottom line looks like. But they're also not exposed to anti-dot.com feeling in the stock markets.
I'd say that they're well past the point of a new dot.com idea with no proven business plan, and pretty well established. Will they last long-term? Who'd want to predict that? Of course, they're potentially vulnerable to rate hikes by the USPS, but they've got plenty of allies to help them lobby against extreme ones, and I'm sure their number-crunchers have run plenty of scenarios to plan for higher postage costs.
The patent may also infringe on the RDF Site Summary standard...
Don't we normally talk of things infringing on patents, and not the other way round? I wonder whether this was just a slip by the author of the article, or a subtle editorial comment.
This makes it even more unfortunate that the GC doesn't play DVDs...~$400 is fairly steep for a portable DVD player, but not bad for both DVDs and games on the road.
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Ironically enough, I think that's the principle which best applies to razor selection. Simpler *is* better--I get the best results with single-bladed razors. For years, Gillette has been a "new products" company, relying on advertizing hype for the latest and greatest to keep the brand in customers' minds. The problem with that strategy is there always needs to be something new. Hence the Blade Wars, which really are just marketing hype.
I think you're exactly right that CME is trying to do for malware identifiers what CVE has done for vulnerability ids. CVE's adoption is a good example of how a voluntary standard can make real progress. Seems from the article that the major players (Symantec, McCaffee, Trend Micro, Kaspersky) are already on board with CME, too, which is very encouraging.
One clarification, though: I believe CVE is run by MITRE, and funded by US-CERT. CERT/CC uses CVE IDs in their publications, but doesn't control the effort. (Not sure who you meant by "CERT.")
Somebody modded this *troll*? Ignorant youth! Best update of classic Yakov Smirnoff I've seen in a long time.
Also, the UK title of 'The Gripping Hand' is 'The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye'. Have you ever felt like meeting that guy who came up with that awful title in a dark alley? Is a baseball bat involved? At the very least, he deserves half his head shaved in a proper asymmetrical beard.
Actually, I believe "The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye" was the authors' original title. Larry said so in either "N-Space" or "Playgrounds of the Mind", if I remember right. I couldn't tell if the OP knew this already and was just being snide, but I prefer their title to the one the U.S. publishers forced on them.
--Arthen
The drawback to the far side of the moon (aka the "dark side") is the lack of earthshine. The moon's face which is tidally locked towards the earth gets the benefit of sunlight reflected off the earth, much like moonlight here on earth. When the earth is full, it's a lot of light; aparently as much as 45 times what we get from a full moon.
See this paper Google threw at me for some interesting facts on the earth-moon system.
--Arthen
"Inquisition this, you science dinks!" -- The Tick
Seems like they've updated their policy information on their website since you were with them, at least. When friends first suggested Netflix to me, and I was checking it out before subscribing, I did pretty easily find a reference to this part of their policy:
If you decide to cancel, remember that cancellation is effective immediately, and all discs must be returned to NetFlix within 7 days. [More info is at Netflix.]
It definitely could suck to pay, say, an extra month's subscription fee just to make sure all the disks I sent back arrived. But I suppose that's one of the drawbacks that balances the convenience of never having to go to the video store.
I dunno if it was in place when you were a subscriber either, but there's a way to report DVDs that never arrived as well. Fortunately I haven't had to use this (yet?) so I don't know what they actually do if you report a shipping problem, but at least there's an established process.
Inquisition this, you science dinks! --The Tick
But the idea is already flying. According to Netflix they've been in business since 1998 and currently have 500,000 subscribers. That's over $10 million a month in subscription revenue, assuming subscriptions average out to the $20/3-movie level. In fact, since there's only one lower level (2 movies a month at $14) but three upgrades available, they most likely average higher than that.
Of course, since Netflix is privately held, we don't know what their bottom line looks like. But they're also not exposed to anti-dot.com feeling in the stock markets.
I'd say that they're well past the point of a new dot.com idea with no proven business plan, and pretty well established. Will they last long-term? Who'd want to predict that? Of course, they're potentially vulnerable to rate hikes by the USPS, but they've got plenty of allies to help them lobby against extreme ones, and I'm sure their number-crunchers have run plenty of scenarios to plan for higher postage costs.
Inquisition this, you science dinks! --The Tick
Don't we normally talk of things infringing on patents, and not the other way round? I wonder whether this was just a slip by the author of the article, or a subtle editorial comment.
This makes it even more unfortunate that the GC doesn't play DVDs...~$400 is fairly steep for a portable DVD player, but not bad for both DVDs and games on the road.
"Inquisition this, you science dinks!" --The Tick