Not that I'm anti-Apple or anything; I love my iPod, but it looks like what goes around comes around and maybe Apple is getting a little of their ownmedicine?
The regional bells will not go quietly into that good night.
Of course they won't go quietly, but the competition will benefit the consumer with lower prices and more features. There was something to be said for the stability of old Ma Bell, but I think most people would agree they like having the choices and competition that have come with deregulation.
This is just the next step and let's hope it just keeps getting better!
...and the way it has always been. Groups with a sufficiently strong interest in the subject speak up loud enough to be heard. The average person isn't usually affected enough to make a fuss. This same thing happened in the writing of the 1976 reform of the copyright act. From a paper by Harvard Law Professor William W. Fisher III, "...the negotiations privileged groups with interests sufficiently strong and concentrated to have formal representatives. Very rarely was the public -- the consumers of intellectual products -- represented in any way. And Congress itself -- whose job, one might think, is precisely to protect the public's interest -- failed to do so."
I'm friends with a history major that graduated from the university I'm attending. She once told me that her ideal job (one that employs a few lucky history buffs) would be to work for a travel mag/cable network flying all over the world to exotic locations to research the interesting local history in order to encourage people to travel there.
Sounds like a tough job to get, but it's a job for a history major.
I should also mention that all of this is done by our TWO network admins. If they can do this for a school our size with only two people, nearly any school should be able to do this without resorting to school-required spyware.
I am a student employee in the IT dept. of a state university with a student population of about 10,000. Our network admins have the network set up to require windows PCs to have the patches against blaster, etc. before the students can register their connection (done over the network, required before it'll let them use network resources). They have automated processes that scan the network for infected or vulnerable computers and disable the port of any such PCs. They have done very well the last few years keeping things working smoothly. My only gripe was that they disabled the ability to use port 80 to serve (because of code-red); I now live off campus and have DSL so I don't have to worry about that any longer.
The school I attend, University of Minnesota Duluth uses Mozilla and Netscape 7 as the exclusive web browsers on our nearly 300 SunRay thin-clients. Some patches applied to the servers earlier this year caused IE to stop working and M$ will not (of course!) give us any support for IE on unix. We use a product called Mulberry (imap client) for our email.
CableModemSniper is correct. Mandrake has a network install floppy image for 8.2 (and previous releases), located on your favorite mandrake mirror at/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrake/VER#/i586/images/netwo rk.img (where VER# is the version number, ie. 8.2). I'm pretty sure it only takes one floppy to get the install going, but maybe it takes two. However, they have yet to release anything for 9.0 but the ISOs on their main download page.
Perhaps the 9.0b1 net install image is accessible somewhere and not made widely known because they want beta testers to test the cdrom install program, which is one of the features that leads people to choose Mandrake over other distros.
It seems like most of the suggestions of possible business models given by the author boil down to paying attention to the cutomers and treating them like they matter. I agree with this approach. I (and surely others) would be most willing to pay for products and services that are designed to fit my specific wants/needs.
So, with all that fancy imagery of encoding data down to the atomic structure of a doll, are we going to see Barbie download a "story" where she goes on eating binges, causing the doll (remember, control to the atomic level) to suddenly become obese? I can see it now...
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Not that I'm anti-Apple or anything; I love my iPod, but it looks like what goes around comes around and maybe Apple is getting a little of their own medicine?
Pain? I think you mean hope...
Of course they won't go quietly, but the competition will benefit the consumer with lower prices and more features. There was something to be said for the stability of old Ma Bell, but I think most people would agree they like having the choices and competition that have come with deregulation.
This is just the next step and let's hope it just keeps getting better!
...and the way it has always been. Groups with a sufficiently strong interest in the subject speak up loud enough to be heard. The average person isn't usually affected enough to make a fuss. This same thing happened in the writing of the 1976 reform of the copyright act. From a paper by Harvard Law Professor William W. Fisher III, "...the negotiations privileged groups with interests sufficiently strong and concentrated to have formal representatives. Very rarely was the public -- the consumers of intellectual products -- represented in any way. And Congress itself -- whose job, one might think, is precisely to protect the public's interest -- failed to do so."
I'm friends with a history major that graduated from the university I'm attending. She once told me that her ideal job (one that employs a few lucky history buffs) would be to work for a travel mag/cable network flying all over the world to exotic locations to research the interesting local history in order to encourage people to travel there.
Sounds like a tough job to get, but it's a job for a history major.
Doing a Google search bring up an interesting first search result. I'm sure glad a search for my name doesn't turn up similar results!
I should also mention that all of this is done by our TWO network admins. If they can do this for a school our size with only two people, nearly any school should be able to do this without resorting to school-required spyware.
I am a student employee in the IT dept. of a state university with a student population of about 10,000. Our network admins have the network set up to require windows PCs to have the patches against blaster, etc. before the students can register their connection (done over the network, required before it'll let them use network resources). They have automated processes that scan the network for infected or vulnerable computers and disable the port of any such PCs. They have done very well the last few years keeping things working smoothly. My only gripe was that they disabled the ability to use port 80 to serve (because of code-red); I now live off campus and have DSL so I don't have to worry about that any longer.
xfree86-4 also works. This is truly interesting.
Linux is dead -- long live the Mac!
Wait a second! Jesus (being God) is omniscient; He doesn't need to RTFA.
The school I attend, University of Minnesota Duluth uses Mozilla and Netscape 7 as the exclusive web browsers on our nearly 300 SunRay thin-clients. Some patches applied to the servers earlier this year caused IE to stop working and M$ will not (of course!) give us any support for IE on unix. We use a product called Mulberry (imap client) for our email.
Perhaps the 9.0b1 net install image is accessible somewhere and not made widely known because they want beta testers to test the cdrom install program, which is one of the features that leads people to choose Mandrake over other distros.
It seems like most of the suggestions of possible business models given by the author boil down to paying attention to the cutomers and treating them like they matter. I agree with this approach. I (and surely others) would be most willing to pay for products and services that are designed to fit my specific wants/needs.
So, with all that fancy imagery of encoding data down to the atomic structure of a doll, are we going to see Barbie download a "story" where she goes on eating binges, causing the doll (remember, control to the atomic level) to suddenly become obese? I can see it now...