The prices are a little bit on the high side, but you are buying support not the software for the most part and they are certainly not higher that Windows Server 2003 which they are setup to compete with.
RHS 3 is a pretty solid server IMHO, after using it for a few months on a web server and finding it far superior and simpler to manage than the Solaris box the company has its other website on.
Northern Virginia and the DC metro area are actually a great place to be in IT. Because of so many government jobs, we are largely recession proof. My advice is to get a job for Uncle Sam. There is not a lot of difference now between IT wages for the government and in the private sector at this point because the government still applies an IT bonus to your salary calculation and private sector salaries went down. New York City and DC are still the best places to be in IT.
A lot of routing protocols use MD5 as the password hash for authentication. If someone found a collision for some of the important internet router BGP peers then large chunks of the internet could get routed the wrong way or just small parts like the subnet your bank controls could get routed to a some black hat's basement in Romania where he could setup a mock intranet and webserver to steal customer info through a spoofing attack.
These same SOCIALIST CONSERVATIVES (i.e. bigots, Fascists, Nazi's etc.) are the ones who made us pay about $25 more per television for a V-chip (and its requisite "public service" ad campaign) that NO ONE USES. At most parents who don't want their kids watching porn on cable block it through the cable box and everything else on TV is not nearly sexually graphic or coarse enough to produce much more than an awkward moment and a funny question if a young kid were to see it. Only total nutjob parents worry about their kids television viewing, since kids don't like shows they won't understand anyways (although this may explain the dumbing down of grown-up television shows).
Parents should be far more worried about Car accidents, molestors, and hockey dad's than TV.
I read that in one of the more famous recent indicidents where the FCC issued a big fine. I can't remember if it was the guy who said "fuck" at that award show or not. There were only 3 unique complaint letters out of tens of thousands. All but 2 were form letters from this group.
I think someone should start a form letter accusing Fox News of saying a bad word like "liberal" and we will just flood them with complaints till they get run out of business.
I consider myself a libertarian but I don't think that Corporations need to exist or if they do then they need much stricter controls and no assumption of personhood.
A corporation at this point is basically a license to do anything in the name of profit without even individual criminal liability.
There are good arguments, reduced liability, being the primary one for why corporations exist but to assign them personhood and let their rights and interests trump that of real flesh and blood people is just ridiculous and that is what has happened.
Is there even a reason we vote anymore. I think I am about to become a principled non-voter based on the fact that our government is now so corrupt we only help legitimize it by voting. I think I will start a public ad drive next election cycle to encourage people not to vote with the goal of keeping the voting population below 50% and therefore keep our government illegitimate.
Its not so much like this is a bad law so much as corporations really have taken over (in place of the big churches) because they pay almost no taxes (because they know how to work the system) and they are both considered persons under the law regarding free expression but also act as a shield by their owners and executives through which great personal wealth can be created with no personal responsibility.
Lets face it. The BOD of Verizon or Haliburton could order me killed tommorrow and they would probably never even be charged. So much for a system of laws.
I always liked Netscape and all but please can they just die already. They lost the browser war. They were bought, kept on life support, allowed to die, resurrected, killed off again. Now they are back? I have never seen such amounts of money and effort put into something that they are just going to give away for free anyways. (oh wait I have but at least linux and freebsd has a market)
Oh well its a good way for AOL to hasten its own demise by burning more money on bad investments. If they charged one dollar a year for a not-shitty version of AIM they would probably get 500 million easy.
The solution is to think of your lies in advance in considerable detail and regurgitate them when needed. Only when a question is unexpected can this method work and if you actually need to lie to a serious question then you probably should have realized it was a likely question like "What were you doing the night of the murder?"
And "as well as city police"... What the fuck?! What do the police have to do with it?! That is really bizarre. That's like "If you miss a day of work, we're going to report it to your local police station"....?!
This is the real issue. School is for training obedient workers/consumers who don't care to think for themselves. Good workers never miss work. Good students never miss school. School children are taught that the quality/safety/usefullness of the school is secondary to their obedience to its demands including attendence. Just think of all those useless days with a substitute where you literally did nothing but had to be there.
If this is just for internal users and telecommuters then you really need to get an idea of how many people will actually be using the app and then put it on a server and simulate the effects of more and more users until it starts to tax the system. THen you can calculate how many users each server can support at 40-60% load and get that many servers behind a loadbalancing device. If its only few servers you can use a router to run the loadbalancing or get a dedicated load balancing device to do it.
I have had a great experience with Rackspace for managed servers and ServerBeach for unmanaged. They will hook you up. I have never had a more knowledgeable group of people on the other end of the phone trying to sell me something and later supporting it. Security question, they conference with a security guy, network question, they conference with a ccie.
Things like toy train sets, water/bathtub toys and other toys that require a lot of moving things and touching things are probably going to be with us for a long time. Video games still have almost no tactile feedback. Vibrations are a start but until you can literally feel a magnet pulling on another magnet or the buoyancy of a water toy and other forms of precise tactile-visual feedback that even adults find strangely curious and satisfying (like smacking her ass and watching her reaction) there is going to be plenty of demand for toys and kinky girlfriends.
While the sound quality on VOIP is probably not going to be quite as high at first compared to the 64kbps on a POTS line as data networks become more and more powerful and the technology is widely adopted it is likely that sound quality over data networks will someday be far better than POTS.
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I said I was literate, not perfect, especially when trying to post on/. before the first hundred posts go through and no one is even going to see what I wrote.
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I am continually amazed by the number of my fellow college students who can barely read. It has made me extremely cynical about college because a solid 2/3 of college students in all but the most selective schools are both cheating and/or functionally illiterate. I wish I was exaggerating but I am not.
This is what is making me want to jump ship and get a job instead because If I have one more group project where my group consists of people who are just in college because they are supposed to be I am going to just say fuck it and start a business which is probably what I should have done.
If 4 years of college costs about 100k on the average (including living expenses) then I think I would be a lot better off if I had just been handed 100k at 18 for a business or a property investment.
"Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. They've got theirs so I've got mine but, once you use them, they fuck up everything"--Danny Devito, Other Peoples Money
Try enforcing anything internationally and in about 10 years the WTO hearings will schedule you a preliminary hearing with a final ruling after at least one country in question no longer exists.
I think one good and easy way to make the patent system better would be to require the use of a patent in commerce like a trademark or at least commerce within 1 year of issue.
Now I am not sure from the article whether this company has been threatening smaller companies to build up a war chest and is only now suing a big fish like dell but I think it is a big mistake. Dell is a very wealthy company and their corporate image leads me to believe that they are not the type to settle on something like this. They certainly have the resources ($10 million) to fight this out to the bitter end and win and any percentage desired by these patent terrorists (if its ok for them to call me a pirate, then I can call them a terrorist), of Dell's international business, which is a big growth market, will be more than the cost of fighting it out and probably winning. They would have to find a one in a million appeals judge to enforce this patent and risk virtually the entire US export economy, of which almost all of it is going to involve electronic transactions or already does.
Funny that you mention schister. That is what I called him. And for the record I am going to small claims court which costs me a 20 bucks plus 30 to have him served by a sheriff so its not really a financial burden. And by all accounts he is probably on his way out of business as well since most of the deadlines they were talking about have passed since I left and they still don't have those revenue generating activities they were planning nor have they made the big deals they were saying were in the works. Its also a criminal offense to not pay an employee so depending on whether or not he chooses to defend the complaint I will swear out a criminal charge against him as well.
This is a guy who needs to lose because no one has ever stood up to him in his life.
There seems to be a lot of these con artists pretending to be business men. Their main skill is speaking well and convincing people that doing what they he wants is in their own interest.
I worked for Stelor Productions. www.stelorproductions.com which owns www.googles.com
The CEO is Steven Esrig, a lifelong con man who pretends to be a businessman. After discovering what kind of scum he really is I quit and he refuses to pay me my last few weeks of wages.
When I confronted him on this by sending him a letter telling him I intended to sue him he actually had the gall to threaten to sue me and members of my family frivolously and to accuse me of stealing documents which he knows I did not do and in fact the entire event where the accusation comes from where another former employee was accused of stealing documents was a complete fabrication on his part intended to force her to sign a release and relinquish claims on copyrighted works that she claimed she was never paid for. Of course I do kind of want him to accuse me of it because then instead of a few weeks pay I will have a million dollar slander open and shut slander lawsuit.
Software is going to become a commodity not hardware. Hardware already is pretty cheap even while hardware development costs and productions costs often exceed the costs of a disciplined software development project. Microsoft has two cash cows and almost everything else they make is a flop at least in part because they are not disciplined spenders. Office and Windows are gradually waning as all cash cows eventually do and that waning is increasing. The software market is undergoing a slow but very major correction in the form of FOSS. Because competition was blocked by a monopoly and because the equipment and knowledge needed to develop a competing product were relatively widespread would-be competitors reacted by building their product in such a way that Microsoft's bankroll it uses to compete (or anti-compete) becomes mostly irrelevent. You can't buy out FOSS, you can't sue it out of existence, you can't target any specific company or person in order to get rid of it. FOSS is a response to the heavy handed tactics of Microsoft and to a lesser extent it is also related to a number of other near-monopolies that developed in the software industry.
Windows and particularly Office cost way too much. One would never think that in this age of 3d-games and super computers in the home and screensavers that cure cancer that an unimpressive package that does word processing, spreadsheets, boring presentations, and a seldom used database would be sold for $400. They simply fought all their compeitors to death or scared them enough to stay out of that market.
Software is what is going to get cheaper. FOSS software makes it possible to get the most use out of each line of code by allowing it to be used over and over by different users who have different needs.
The ever shrinking cost of a low-end PC have already commoditized hardware to about as low as it can reasonably go given that hardware manufacturers are not going to waste their time building old parts to sell for pennies when they can build new technologies to sell at a higher price. Then mass market them at the midlevel and then drop down the price to move out the remaining inventory when they announce something new at the high end.
Some components can get cheaper especially when sold at retail chains like CompUSA and BestBuy where a hard drive still costs $80 no matter how small. Its their minimum hard drive price. You will often see a drive going for 80 or 85 and it will be double the size of the one going for 79.99.
Actually at least in Maryland. You have to serve the resident agent of the corporation or an officer officially. However I imagine that serving a corporate general counsel is acceptable as well.
I will say one thing though. Google has nothing on the credit card companies. Visa's network has more redundancies than anything I have ever heard of. I bet that my Visa card would work until the electricity went out even if the whole world went into social meltdown (mass riots/wars).
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The prices are a little bit on the high side, but you are buying support not the software for the most part and they are certainly not higher that Windows Server 2003 which they are setup to compete with.
RHS 3 is a pretty solid server IMHO, after using it for a few months on a web server and finding it far superior and simpler to manage than the Solaris box the company has its other website on.
Northern Virginia and the DC metro area are actually a great place to be in IT. Because of so many government jobs, we are largely recession proof. My advice is to get a job for Uncle Sam. There is not a lot of difference now between IT wages for the government and in the private sector at this point because the government still applies an IT bonus to your salary calculation and private sector salaries went down. New York City and DC are still the best places to be in IT.
A lot of routing protocols use MD5 as the password hash for authentication. If someone found a collision for some of the important internet router BGP peers then large chunks of the internet could get routed the wrong way or just small parts like the subnet your bank controls could get routed to a some black hat's basement in Romania where he could setup a mock intranet and webserver to steal customer info through a spoofing attack.
These same SOCIALIST CONSERVATIVES (i.e. bigots, Fascists, Nazi's etc.) are the ones who made us pay about $25 more per television for a V-chip (and its requisite "public service" ad campaign) that NO ONE USES. At most parents who don't want their kids watching porn on cable block it through the cable box and everything else on TV is not nearly sexually graphic or coarse enough to produce much more than an awkward moment and a funny question if a young kid were to see it. Only total nutjob parents worry about their kids television viewing, since kids don't like shows they won't understand anyways (although this may explain the dumbing down of grown-up television shows).
Parents should be far more worried about Car accidents, molestors, and hockey dad's than TV.
I read that in one of the more famous recent indicidents where the FCC issued a big fine. I can't remember if it was the guy who said "fuck" at that award show or not. There were only 3 unique complaint letters out of tens of thousands. All but 2 were form letters from this group.
I think someone should start a form letter accusing Fox News of saying a bad word like "liberal" and we will just flood them with complaints till they get run out of business.
I consider myself a libertarian but I don't think that Corporations need to exist or if they do then they need much stricter controls and no assumption of personhood.
A corporation at this point is basically a license to do anything in the name of profit without even individual criminal liability.
There are good arguments, reduced liability, being the primary one for why corporations exist but to assign them personhood and let their rights and interests trump that of real flesh and blood people is just ridiculous and that is what has happened.
Is there even a reason we vote anymore. I think I am about to become a principled non-voter based on the fact that our government is now so corrupt we only help legitimize it by voting. I think I will start a public ad drive next election cycle to encourage people not to vote with the goal of keeping the voting population below 50% and therefore keep our government illegitimate.
Its not so much like this is a bad law so much as corporations really have taken over (in place of the big churches) because they pay almost no taxes (because they know how to work the system) and they are both considered persons under the law regarding free expression but also act as a shield by their owners and executives through which great personal wealth can be created with no personal responsibility.
Lets face it. The BOD of Verizon or Haliburton could order me killed tommorrow and they would probably never even be charged. So much for a system of laws.
I always liked Netscape and all but please can they just die already. They lost the browser war. They were bought, kept on life support, allowed to die, resurrected, killed off again. Now they are back? I have never seen such amounts of money and effort put into something that they are just going to give away for free anyways. (oh wait I have but at least linux and freebsd has a market)
Oh well its a good way for AOL to hasten its own demise by burning more money on bad investments. If they charged one dollar a year for a not-shitty version of AIM they would probably get 500 million easy.
The solution is to think of your lies in advance in considerable detail and regurgitate them when needed. Only when a question is unexpected can this method work and if you actually need to lie to a serious question then you probably should have realized it was a likely question like "What were you doing the night of the murder?"
Keep your lies consistent too.
And "as well as city police"... What the fuck?! What do the police have to do with it?! That is really bizarre. That's like "If you miss a day of work, we're going to report it to your local police station"....?!
This is the real issue. School is for training obedient workers/consumers who don't care to think for themselves. Good workers never miss work. Good students never miss school. School children are taught that the quality/safety/usefullness of the school is secondary to their obedience to its demands including attendence. Just think of all those useless days with a substitute where you literally did nothing but had to be there.
If this is just for internal users and telecommuters then you really need to get an idea of how many people will actually be using the app and then put it on a server and simulate the effects of more and more users until it starts to tax the system. THen you can calculate how many users each server can support at 40-60% load and get that many servers behind a loadbalancing device. If its only few servers you can use a router to run the loadbalancing or get a dedicated load balancing device to do it.
I have had a great experience with Rackspace for managed servers and ServerBeach for unmanaged.
They will hook you up. I have never had a more knowledgeable group of people on the other end of the phone trying to sell me something and later supporting it. Security question, they conference with a security guy, network question, they conference with a ccie.
Things like toy train sets, water/bathtub toys and other toys that require a lot of moving things and touching things are probably going to be with us for a long time. Video games still have almost no tactile feedback. Vibrations are a start but until you can literally feel a magnet pulling on another magnet or the buoyancy of a water toy and other forms of precise tactile-visual feedback that even adults find strangely curious and satisfying (like smacking her ass and watching her reaction) there is going to be plenty of demand for toys and kinky girlfriends.
Brio wooden train sets. Lionel and HO size electric trains. Lego and other building sets.
While the sound quality on VOIP is probably not going to be quite as high at first compared to the 64kbps on a POTS line as data networks become more and more powerful and the technology is widely adopted it is likely that sound quality over data networks will someday be far better than POTS.
I said I was literate, not perfect, especially when trying to post on /. before the first hundred posts go through and no one is even going to see what I wrote.
I am continually amazed by the number of my fellow college students who can barely read. It has made me extremely cynical about college because a solid 2/3 of college students in all but the most selective schools are both cheating and/or functionally illiterate. I wish I was exaggerating but I am not.
This is what is making me want to jump ship and get a job instead because If I have one more group project where my group consists of people who are just in college because they are supposed to be I am going to just say fuck it and start a business which is probably what I should have done.
If 4 years of college costs about 100k on the average (including living expenses) then I think I would be a lot better off if I had just been handed 100k at 18 for a business or a property investment.
"Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. They've got theirs so I've got mine but, once you use them, they fuck up everything"--Danny Devito, Other Peoples Money
and it's enforcable internationally
Try enforcing anything internationally and in about 10 years the WTO hearings will schedule you a preliminary hearing with a final ruling after at least one country in question no longer exists.
I think one good and easy way to make the patent system better would be to require the use of a patent in commerce like a trademark or at least commerce within 1 year of issue.
Now I am not sure from the article whether this company has been threatening smaller companies to build up a war chest and is only now suing a big fish like dell but I think it is a big mistake. Dell is a very wealthy company and their corporate image leads me to believe that they are not the type to settle on something like this. They certainly have the resources ($10 million) to fight this out to the bitter end and win and any percentage desired by these patent terrorists (if its ok for them to call me a pirate, then I can call them a terrorist), of Dell's international business, which is a big growth market, will be more than the cost of fighting it out and probably winning. They would have to find a one in a million appeals judge to enforce this patent and risk virtually the entire US export economy, of which almost all of it is going to involve electronic transactions or already does.
This world is full of scammers and schisters.
Funny that you mention schister. That is what I called him. And for the record I am going to small claims court which costs me a 20 bucks plus 30 to have him served by a sheriff so its not really a financial burden. And by all accounts he is probably on his way out of business as well since most of the deadlines they were talking about have passed since I left and they still don't have those revenue generating activities they were planning nor have they made the big deals they were saying were in the works. Its also a criminal offense to not pay an employee so depending on whether or not he chooses to defend the complaint I will swear out a criminal charge against him as well.
This is a guy who needs to lose because no one has ever stood up to him in his life.
There seems to be a lot of these con artists pretending to be business men. Their main skill is speaking well and convincing people that doing what they he wants is in their own interest.
I worked for Stelor Productions. www.stelorproductions.com which owns www.googles.com
The CEO is Steven Esrig, a lifelong con man who pretends to be a businessman. After discovering what kind of scum he really is I quit and he refuses to pay me my last few weeks of wages.
When I confronted him on this by sending him a letter telling him I intended to sue him he actually had the gall to threaten to sue me and members of my family frivolously and to accuse me of stealing documents which he knows I did not do and in fact the entire event where the accusation comes from where another former employee was accused of stealing documents was a complete fabrication on his part intended to force her to sign a release and relinquish claims on copyrighted works that she claimed she was never paid for. Of course I do kind of want him to accuse me of it because then instead of a few weeks pay I will have a million dollar slander open and shut slander lawsuit.
Software is going to become a commodity not hardware. Hardware already is pretty cheap even while hardware development costs and productions costs often exceed the costs of a disciplined software development project. Microsoft has two cash cows and almost everything else they make is a flop at least in part because they are not disciplined spenders. Office and Windows are gradually waning as all cash cows eventually do and that waning is increasing. The software market is undergoing a slow but very major correction in the form of FOSS. Because competition was blocked by a monopoly and because the equipment and knowledge needed to develop a competing product were relatively widespread would-be competitors reacted by building their product in such a way that Microsoft's bankroll it uses to compete (or anti-compete) becomes mostly irrelevent. You can't buy out FOSS, you can't sue it out of existence, you can't target any specific company or person in order to get rid of it. FOSS is a response to the heavy handed tactics of Microsoft and to a lesser extent it is also related to a number of other near-monopolies that developed in the software industry.
Windows and particularly Office cost way too much. One would never think that in this age of 3d-games and super computers in the home and screensavers that cure cancer that an unimpressive package that does word processing, spreadsheets, boring presentations, and a seldom used database would be sold for $400. They simply fought all their compeitors to death or scared them enough to stay out of that market.
Software is what is going to get cheaper. FOSS software makes it possible to get the most use out of each line of code by allowing it to be used over and over by different users who have different needs.
The ever shrinking cost of a low-end PC have already commoditized hardware to about as low as it can reasonably go given that hardware manufacturers are not going to waste their time building old parts to sell for pennies when they can build new technologies to sell at a higher price. Then mass market them at the midlevel and then drop down the price to move out the remaining inventory when they announce something new at the high end.
Some components can get cheaper especially when sold at retail chains like CompUSA and BestBuy where a hard drive still costs $80 no matter how small. Its their minimum hard drive price. You will often see a drive going for 80 or 85 and it will be double the size of the one going for 79.99.
A guy I know works for a company with a 1888 number the the 1800 version of that number is a sex line. New employees make easy targets.
Actually at least in Maryland. You have to serve the resident agent of the corporation or an officer officially. However I imagine that serving a corporate general counsel is acceptable as well.
I will say one thing though. Google has nothing on the credit card companies. Visa's network has more redundancies than anything I have ever heard of. I bet that my Visa card would work until the electricity went out even if the whole world went into social meltdown (mass riots/wars).