If they start releasing titles on HD-DVD, then the people who bought early on will be frozen out unless they fork out an extra couple hundred dollars for the upgrade (can you spell pised off?? I can't).
If, on the other hand, they don't release titles on HD-DVD, then the people who pay extra for the later models that come with hd-dvd are going to be wondering why they paid extra for a pink-elephant hardware 'feature'.
This was probably put in back around 2000, when going from a hub to a switch would have been an extra few hundred dollars per 24 ports. When multiplied by a few hundred rooms, it starts to add up -- and all for a 'free' service (piggybacked on the internal hotel network). "Why not just go with a hub. I mean it's not like we needed the extra performance right?" Things like privacy and security just don't sneak into some of these conversations, or go over the heads of the people who have signing authority. Sometimes the people who know better just don't raise the issue because the extra cost will ditch the whole idea.
These sorts of problems would now be almost trivial to fix -- either with a $50 switch, or more properly with a proper firewall (or just a BSD box with 3 ethernet ports). Although this would be easy enough for most of us here on/. to fix, most hotel owners are probably feeling pretty lost. To most of them the network and computer system are just a black box. If you explain the problem to them, they'll probably just nod their head like they understand what you're saying and then go hide in their office until the wierd words stop rattling around in their heads.
If you want a change, you'll have to get into contact with someone who (A) understands IT, and (B) has authority to spend the money on a fix. (good luck).
That explains it. I'm looking at my billing screen and I've got 2 views of 'Debbie Does Dallas'. For a second there I thought my girlfriend and her long lost sister had gone lesbian.
Don't even bother razzing me about the unix->uniz typo. I touch type, and my left hand was in the wrong place. (It's my story, and I'm sticking to it).
If SCO owns it and dies off will it become public domain? And can people legally say that Linux is a form of UNIX?
SCO doesn't own the the Unix Trademark. That's owned by The Open Group... if they did, and became bankrupt, the trademark wouldn't just disolve. It would become part of the property divied up and/or sold to pay off debtors.
As far as can be told, Novell owns the copyrights on SYSV, and licensed SCO to develop new versions, and administer the licenses. This is why they're claiming that SCO owes them 95% of the money that they got from SUN and M$. This also why they say they have the right to tell SCO to lay off of IBM (it's in the contract).
Saying that Linux is a form of Unix is like saying that the tap water in my glass is a form of Evian (or Perrier). The two may be chemically identical, but you're actually dealing with a Trademark issue, not physical reality. It would be more (legally -- but IANAL) appropriate to say that Linuxx is essentially the same as, equivalent to, or even like, but my guess is that saying that it's a form of is getting close enough to an equality statement to get an IP lawyer's pen finger itchy.
Most places I look say that it's a Uniz-like, or even a Uniz-family operating system. Note that all of the acceptable statements are similies and comparatives, not equality class statements.
Well, if I was rich enough that I could throw away that kind of money, I'd rather spend the $20M to go to ISS. On the other hand, there are a lot more people with $200K to trow away on getting 'into space' than $20M. I know a reasonable number of people with $200K equity that they could pull out of their savings/investments without ending up destitute. The number of people with $20M, on the other hand, I've mostly only seen on the news, or in passing.
Not that much of an investment.. You could put up the infrastructure with an old P2, and a new ($40) hard disk (the one likely failure point). You can do all sorts of things with Linux or BSD firewalls to control who does what for how long. If you can connect to the POS system, you could just print a serial number on each ticket.
When someone wants some extra time, they just need to type in the serial number and bill amount for another 1/2 hour. (or $2/hour for pure time).
OS does coexist with proprietary solutions... and the reason why content creators are using OS is that it generally produces improved value and improvements in time-to-result and/or quality.
Some of that improvements comes from the freedom that having access to the source code provides. Some of it comes from the quality that contributed solutions from so many sources provide.
It's unlikely that Open source will ever go away, but I would also say the same thing about closed source.
If you're going to arcweld with your UPS, you're probably better off to pull the batteries out and use them raw. This also takes you out of the charge loop for lightning -- but you may might need some sort of current limiter to prevent burnout.
Jell cells can put out some pretty nasty amperages.
18 months??? What the hell do you do to your units???. You might, however, just look at replacing the batteries, but they shouldn't be dieing that often. If you're getting real cheap UPS's, however, it might actually be worth replacing the (probably cheap) batteries with better quality jell cells. They might last you a few years.
It's not criminal if it's legal... It is only likely to be illegal for the likes of Microsoft, who already has a monopoly control of much of the market.
I think that I mentioned UPS, but 75% of people are unlikely to even think about putting their phone on a UPS.. half of them probably don't even know what a UPS is.
Congress just dumped this idea on the world without bothering to discuss it with the people that it might effect -- Like Systems administrators and... Canada.
There are areas where there's a huge volume of commerce and communication. The first that I heard about this proposed change was this week, and it looks like that may be the same for most Canadian legislators.
Time snafus can cause all sorts of problems, ranging from business meetings, manufacturing deliveries to ferry and aircraft schedules.
By the time Canadian parliaments and legislatures get on the ball and decide whether or not to follow suit, it will probably be September/Octopber. Parliament is either now on summer vacation or about to go. There's really no tie to sneak in this legislation before fall.
That could leave some people with about a month to reprogram their systems, switch schedules etc. etc.
The last thing you would want would be to have your insulin dispenser double-dose you because the clock changed at the wrong time (this is going to be more of a problem with Windows based software than Unix based).
It'll be interesting to se if Microsoft comes out with a zoneinfo patch for the millions of people still running '95, 98, NT and 2000.
(It really helps to RTFA)
It looks like what they're doing is making it easier for people to respond to spam sites --- I.e. Each person can grab any spam, and put it thru a program which spits out an website. I can then go that website, and fill out the information they're asking for (more or less).
One Spam, One response. perfectly legal.
If I'm accurately reading what this software does, however, I would dissent (bigtime) on one point: do not make a counter offer. The point of this communication is: do not contact me anymore. Making a counter-offer constitutes a business transaction, and legally opens you up to more spam. As far as I'm concerned, that would be a bad thing(tm).
If, on the other hand, that's not what they're doing, perhaps someone should write a thunderbird/mozilla plugin to do that.
If you're doing Thousands of runs from one spam, then I'd say that you're just asking to be called an attacker.
If, on the other hand, each of the recipients of that spam had, say a random 1% chance of responding with garbage, the spammers would have to sift thru thousands of garbage replies to get to one good response.
Also: I've noticed a couple of spammers using the 'verify this image' trick to keep out automated spam-bombing responses like in the article. (Distributed) human intervention is still the best response.
Have they patented the Business method of creating a bunch of (sometimes trivial) patents and tehn using them to litigate an opponent (where the opponent is a (possibly proper) subset of the Open source community) into oblivion?
oops.
Someone patent that quick. I don't have the money to do so!
I remember when M$ proudly claimed 99.9% uptime for NT. To me that sounded terrible. Over 3.5 FULL 24 HOUR DAYS of downtime every year. Horrid!
Eer, no. 99.9% would be 0.365 days per year or about 8.76 hours. 99%downtime would be 3.65 days per year.
On the other hand, I'm guessing that the way that they got 99.9% uptime was by having a monitoring system with an automated reboot everytime the system was non-responsive.
Most Linux boxes only go down when you have to upgrade the kernel -- and even then it's only as long as the reboot cycle.
The worst VOIP provider had an availability of 94.8% (which isn't bad) [cough cough]
Look at it this way: Out of 500 'emergency' calls, 26 would fail... If you presume that only 10% are potentially fatal, that's one or two dead bodies. VOIP is fine for cheap long distance, but when it comes to HA, I'm keeping my land line. It's the same reason that I will always have a 'dumb' phone on my phone line. Every once in a while I spend long enough on the phone that I wear out both my primary and backup battery.
Wireless is nice, but sometimes it's more important to just be able to keep talking. Similarly: Unless you attach your base-station to a UPS, it's hard to call when the power is out (although I've only had 2 outages in the last 5 years, and one of those was about 90 seconds).
They should correct the article to say that NASA will attempt to launch the shuttle on the 26th.
Just before the last launch attempt an interviewee on the CBC pointed out that the probability of any given launch actually occurring on any given launch day is somewhere under 50%. Nothing wrong with that. It's an incredibly complex machine. The redundancy is because you can't stop halfway thru the flight and say "oops. Can we start over again?" or call the AMA, so you don't want any of the thousands of redundant pieces non-functioning before you even start.
I never saw much of "Angel", but some of what I saw was brilliantly funny. Far more worth watching than most TV schlock. I just don't take much time out for TV.
I originally expected that Buffy was likely to be just schlock... A TV version of a really good bubble-gum movie. When I finally got around to watching it (because a friend had asked my roommate to tape all the episodes (then being brooadcast daily on the Space channel), I fell in love with it. It really is brilliant, and goes far beyond the delicious throw-away lines (which are worth it in their own right).
In grade 1, I kept on falling asleep in class. My final solution was to carry a D-cell in my pocket, and touch it to my fingers every once in a while 'for energy'. It seemed to work.
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Sex attracts our attention. That generates headlines (if only to attract advertising). Headlines attract politicians.
'nuff said.
If, on the other hand, they don't release titles on HD-DVD, then the people who pay extra for the later models that come with hd-dvd are going to be wondering why they paid extra for a pink-elephant hardware 'feature'.
These sorts of problems would now be almost trivial to fix -- either with a $50 switch, or more properly with a proper firewall (or just a BSD box with 3 ethernet ports). Although this would be easy enough for most of us here on /. to fix, most hotel owners are probably feeling pretty lost. To most of them the network and computer system are just a black box. If you explain the problem to them, they'll probably just nod their head like they understand what you're saying and then go hide in their office until the wierd words stop rattling around in their heads.
If you want a change, you'll have to get into contact with someone who (A) understands IT, and (B) has authority to spend the money on a fix. (good luck).
That explains it. I'm looking at my billing screen and I've got 2 views of 'Debbie Does Dallas'. For a second there I thought my girlfriend and her long lost sister had gone lesbian.
It's not permanently disabled. You just need the proper infrared code to unlock it. I've got it right here, on my laptop....
Don't even bother razzing me about the unix->uniz typo. I touch type, and my left hand was in the wrong place. (It's my story, and I'm sticking to it).
SCO doesn't own the the Unix Trademark. That's owned by The Open Group... if they did, and became bankrupt, the trademark wouldn't just disolve. It would become part of the property divied up and/or sold to pay off debtors.
As far as can be told, Novell owns the copyrights on SYSV, and licensed SCO to develop new versions, and administer the licenses. This is why they're claiming that SCO owes them 95% of the money that they got from SUN and M$. This also why they say they have the right to tell SCO to lay off of IBM (it's in the contract).
Saying that Linux is a form of Unix is like saying that the tap water in my glass is a form of Evian (or Perrier). The two may be chemically identical, but you're actually dealing with a Trademark issue, not physical reality. It would be more (legally -- but IANAL) appropriate to say that Linuxx is essentially the same as, equivalent to, or even like, but my guess is that saying that it's a form of is getting close enough to an equality statement to get an IP lawyer's pen finger itchy.
Most places I look say that it's a Uniz-like, or even a Uniz-family operating system. Note that all of the acceptable statements are similies and comparatives, not equality class statements.
Well, if I was rich enough that I could throw away that kind of money, I'd rather spend the $20M to go to ISS. On the other hand, there are a lot more people with $200K to trow away on getting 'into space' than $20M. I know a reasonable number of people with $200K equity that they could pull out of their savings/investments without ending up destitute. The number of people with $20M, on the other hand, I've mostly only seen on the news, or in passing.
When someone wants some extra time, they just need to type in the serial number and bill amount for another 1/2 hour. (or $2/hour for pure time).
Some of that improvements comes from the freedom that having access to the source code provides. Some of it comes from the quality that contributed solutions from so many sources provide.
It's unlikely that Open source will ever go away, but I would also say the same thing about closed source.
Jell cells can put out some pretty nasty amperages.
18 months??? What the hell do you do to your units???. You might, however, just look at replacing the batteries, but they shouldn't be dieing that often. If you're getting real cheap UPS's, however, it might actually be worth replacing the (probably cheap) batteries with better quality jell cells. They might last you a few years.
It's not criminal if it's legal... It is only likely to be illegal for the likes of Microsoft, who already has a monopoly control of much of the market.
I think that I mentioned UPS, but 75% of people are unlikely to even think about putting their phone on a UPS.. half of them probably don't even know what a UPS is.
We're talking about Microsoft here. That goes without saying.
There are areas where there's a huge volume of commerce and communication. The first that I heard about this proposed change was this week, and it looks like that may be the same for most Canadian legislators.
Time snafus can cause all sorts of problems, ranging from business meetings, manufacturing deliveries to ferry and aircraft schedules.
By the time Canadian parliaments and legislatures get on the ball and decide whether or not to follow suit, it will probably be September/Octopber. Parliament is either now on summer vacation or about to go. There's really no tie to sneak in this legislation before fall.
That could leave some people with about a month to reprogram their systems, switch schedules etc. etc.
The last thing you would want would be to have your insulin dispenser double-dose you because the clock changed at the wrong time (this is going to be more of a problem with Windows based software than Unix based).
It'll be interesting to se if Microsoft comes out with a zoneinfo patch for the millions of people still running '95, 98, NT and 2000.
It looks like what they're doing is making it easier for people to respond to spam sites --- I.e. Each person can grab any spam, and put it thru a program which spits out an website. I can then go that website, and fill out the information they're asking for (more or less).
One Spam, One response. perfectly legal.
If I'm accurately reading what this software does, however, I would dissent (bigtime) on one point: do not make a counter offer. The point of this communication is: do not contact me anymore. Making a counter-offer constitutes a business transaction, and legally opens you up to more spam. As far as I'm concerned, that would be a bad thing(tm).
If, on the other hand, that's not what they're doing, perhaps someone should write a thunderbird/mozilla plugin to do that.
If, on the other hand, each of the recipients of that spam had, say a random 1% chance of responding with garbage, the spammers would have to sift thru thousands of garbage replies to get to one good response.
Also: I've noticed a couple of spammers using the 'verify this image' trick to keep out automated spam-bombing responses like in the article. (Distributed) human intervention is still the best response.
If everybody in the spam-hater just responded to one spam a day, they'd be drowning in complaints.
oops.
Someone patent that quick. I don't have the money to do so!
Eer, no. 99.9% would be 0.365 days per year or about 8.76 hours. 99%downtime would be 3.65 days per year.
On the other hand, I'm guessing that the way that they got 99.9% uptime was by having a monitoring system with an automated reboot everytime the system was non-responsive.
Most Linux boxes only go down when you have to upgrade the kernel -- and even then it's only as long as the reboot cycle.
Look at it this way: Out of 500 'emergency' calls, 26 would fail... If you presume that only 10% are potentially fatal, that's one or two dead bodies. VOIP is fine for cheap long distance, but when it comes to HA, I'm keeping my land line. It's the same reason that I will always have a 'dumb' phone on my phone line. Every once in a while I spend long enough on the phone that I wear out both my primary and backup battery.
Wireless is nice, but sometimes it's more important to just be able to keep talking. Similarly: Unless you attach your base-station to a UPS, it's hard to call when the power is out (although I've only had 2 outages in the last 5 years, and one of those was about 90 seconds).
Just before the last launch attempt an interviewee on the CBC pointed out that the probability of any given launch actually occurring on any given launch day is somewhere under 50%. Nothing wrong with that. It's an incredibly complex machine. The redundancy is because you can't stop halfway thru the flight and say "oops. Can we start over again?" or call the AMA, so you don't want any of the thousands of redundant pieces non-functioning before you even start.
I originally expected that Buffy was likely to be just schlock... A TV version of a really good bubble-gum movie. When I finally got around to watching it (because a friend had asked my roommate to tape all the episodes (then being brooadcast daily on the Space channel), I fell in love with it. It really is brilliant, and goes far beyond the delicious throw-away lines (which are worth it in their own right).
Hey! I was 6, OK?