who's ever heard of a professional photographer printing a digital image in large format?
An increasing number of portrait studios (ie the kind who do photos of families for the wall) are using MF cameras with digital backs, and outputting 11x14 or larger prints.
Digital format also allows quick and easy proofing for client choice of image - the pics get thrown onto a PowerPoint slideshow.
The Thus rebranding was in some ways rather good (ie it's a real word, rather than something made up and wanky like Avaya or Accenture, and it's short and difficult to spell).
Of course, their full name is 'letitbethus', which loses both of those qualities, and in either case, their name is only pronounceable in English and Greek, thereby limiting its usefulness in attacking European markets.
I'm not sure that's comparing apples with apples, except where
Few others have electricity
Electricity is paid for by the maximum throughput (ie peak current), rather than by the power transferred (ie total KWh).
While some ISPs do charge by total data transfer (and hosting providers certainly do), most do not.
Another allegory would be a restaurant who gets upset when their all you can eat customers share their meals with another 5 people. Not only are they losing revenue, but their chef can't keep up...
Now the CRM suite is no match for Siebel, as it's targeted at SMEs, but the CMS is in the tier just below Vignette and Documentum, and has inflicted major price movements in the CMS market.
transport policy has to act within physical restraints. No policy which increases the vehicle traffic through the City will work as the street plan cannot cope. The public transport system is old, hasn't had the investment it needs and also in places hits its physical limit.
Oh, I think you're right. But I don't think increasing the capacity is the only answer (particularly as that takes time). What the congestion charging scheme will do is cut demand which will buy some more time to the physical capacity limit, time which ideally should allow more capacity to be built.
But that capacity increase won't involve grand road-schemes which alleviate the fact that much of central London is small, twisty streets. The only time that that's worked for central London is where either the Thames has been contained (ie the Embankment etc) or minor rivers built over (eg Farringdon Road which is built over the Fleet River valley (as are the tube lines which run down from Kings Cross such as the Hammersmith & City)) in other words where you don't have the same property rights to negotiate.
btw, I'm writing this from home where I'm working via broadband/VPN.
I really, really hope that this is Python2.1, otherwise my Zope install will be broken. And as that's what I run my personal site from, I won't be pleased.
There was an attempt in the late 1660s to re-roganise following the Great Fire, but people started rebuilding before the planners got their act together.
More accurately, property owners said I don't care if my house got burned down, this is still my land. If you think that you can drive a nice wide avenue through it, you can piss right off.
London is a city which resists centralised grand plans in city layout. It organises from the bottom up, and always has done.
But that's hard-coding. Soft-coding like transport policy, that's different.
Clearly whoever wrote that hasn't read one or either of those books.
ISTR PTerry saying that Mort had been optioned, and certainly Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters have already been turned into (reasonably good) animated films.
Look, you need to realise that different price points have little to do with "What's most expensive to provide" (beyond obviously covering costs).
It's much more to do with "how much do customers want it enough to pay for it." The stuff which makes broadband useful is obviously more desirable to technically competent customers such as ourselves than a 'faster version of dialup'.
So if I'm the owner of a cable company, I apply simple supply & demand and say "You want the good stuff? Sure you can have it, for a price"
Now I think there's a tier between the bog standard consumer and the business customer who has a net financial gain from their connection - call it the 'clueful consumer' offering. If I were running a cable company, I'd be offering it at a price a bit above the standard consumer offering, which would allow:
Servers not open to the public (ie all services have to be p/w protected and the URLs not generally advertised)
Faster speed (I'm thinking 1024kps download)
Mostly static IP - no SLA on it, but the DHCP hands out long leases (a month+)
By some odd coincidence, that's what my cable provider is offering. Although only the extra bandwidth is part of the premium service rn - I get everything else. The AUP explicitly allows me to run servers:
Telewest blueyonder hi-speed internet opens up new possibilities of use with its features such as 'always on', and while subscribers are able to benefit from these features, Telewest must also ensure that the Service is not abused to the disadvantage of the Service and subscriber group.
You must not use, nor allow anyone else to use the Services to provide Internet Protocol services to the Internet populace as a whole, including other blueyonder customers. Internet Protocol services includes, but is not limited to, HTTP, games, telnet and FTP services.
However, you may provide Internet Protocol services from your computer for personal use. An example would be the running of an authenticated FTP service to enable you to access files on your home computer remotely. The following conditions apply:-
Any Internet Protocol services you use require authentication eg. You are not allowed to provide anonymous FTP servers; and
You are not allowed more than ten concurrent connections to the Internet Protocol services you use.
I highly doubt you're in a position to buy one of the commercial packages, since all of them cost an absolute fortune (Documentum, Interwoven, Vignette to name a few)
You're right, those 3 do cost a lot. Each of them will cost maybe US$300k in licenses for a first time customer, plus 50-350 man-days development time for a complex system.
But it's worth noting that since Microsoft came into the market, enterprise CMS prices have been sharply dropping. Those vendors used to charge $500k+ for a first time customer...
If you want to go below the Vignette/Documentum/Interwoven troika, take a look at:
divine (used to be OpenMarket) - costs about $200k licenses plus about 500 mandays implementation for a complex system
Stellent - costs about $200k licenses plus about 500 mandays implementation for a complex system
Microsoft CMS (bought from NCompass and made to work with MS stuff only) - costs about the same as divine for licenses, including all the other MS kit you need to buy to get it to do anything useful, but is about 600 man days of development. You will need an all-Microsoft environment to get the best out of it.
Documentum is the leading vendor of these, but it has many competitors.
Not sure about it being the leading vendor - for a document-centric, hard-core integrated with paper system, perhaps it can be. It's certainly there in the top right of the Gartner magic quadrant. But for a web-based system which isn't too worried about paper, it's not the first thing I'd choose, even if I were going for a tier-1 solution.
If you had a $1m turnover business whose target market were all heavy online users, wouldn't you be keen to make sure your site stayed up, even if it meant paying for it?. I think so.
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Waving hands to create music? Sounds a bit theraminish to me.
And it's all because libraries let people share books at will, depriving book pub...er authors of their just rewards!
I can't speak for other countries, but in the UK, libraries pay publishers a royalty for having their books in the library's collection. It's a similar deal if you want to play music in public (say in your bar, or your shopping centre) - you pay the PRS an annual license fee.
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An increasing number of portrait studios (ie the kind who do photos of families for the wall) are using MF cameras with digital backs, and outputting 11x14 or larger prints.
Digital format also allows quick and easy proofing for client choice of image - the pics get thrown onto a PowerPoint slideshow.
No! It was Zaphod who had the glasses (and Arthur's too much of a wimp to take them off him)
The Thus rebranding was in some ways rather good (ie it's a real word, rather than something made up and wanky like Avaya or Accenture, and it's short and difficult to spell).
Of course, their full name is 'letitbethus', which loses both of those qualities, and in either case, their name is only pronounceable in English and Greek, thereby limiting its usefulness in attacking European markets.
$3.5billion...
I'm not sure that's comparing apples with apples, except where
While some ISPs do charge by total data transfer (and hosting providers certainly do), most do not.
Another allegory would be a restaurant who gets upset when their all you can eat customers share their meals with another 5 people. Not only are they losing revenue, but their chef can't keep up...
You obviously didn't notice that Microsoft now sells a CRM suite and a reasonably well thought of Content Management System.
Now the CRM suite is no match for Siebel, as it's targeted at SMEs, but the CMS is in the tier just below Vignette and Documentum, and has inflicted major price movements in the CMS market.
Oh, btw, spot on with the rest of your comment.
Um no. The pressure came from the SEC over independence issues, starting some 3 years ago.
Of course, in the last 6 months, it's only got stronger, and now there's significant client pressure as well.
I seem to remember that it was the principal development language for Interwoven TeamSite... which is many things, but not a quick one-off script.
Average 1st time install price for Interwoven customers? About US$250,000 for licenses. Development time and hardware are on top.
Well of course, 42 is the Answer.
The question, alas, is more complex. And will need Slartibardfast's fjord designing skills. Or Arthur's brain.
Oh, I think you're right. But I don't think increasing the capacity is the only answer (particularly as that takes time). What the congestion charging scheme will do is cut demand which will buy some more time to the physical capacity limit, time which ideally should allow more capacity to be built.
But that capacity increase won't involve grand road-schemes which alleviate the fact that much of central London is small, twisty streets. The only time that that's worked for central London is where either the Thames has been contained (ie the Embankment etc) or minor rivers built over (eg Farringdon Road which is built over the Fleet River valley (as are the tube lines which run down from Kings Cross such as the Hammersmith & City)) in other words where you don't have the same property rights to negotiate.
btw, I'm writing this from home where I'm working via broadband/VPN.
I really, really hope that this is Python2.1, otherwise my Zope install will be broken. And as that's what I run my personal site from, I won't be pleased.
More accurately, property owners said I don't care if my house got burned down, this is still my land. If you think that you can drive a nice wide avenue through it, you can piss right off.
London is a city which resists centralised grand plans in city layout. It organises from the bottom up, and always has done.
But that's hard-coding. Soft-coding like transport policy, that's different.
Clearly whoever wrote that hasn't read one or either of those books.
ISTR PTerry saying that Mort had been optioned, and certainly Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters have already been turned into (reasonably good) animated films.
or indeed perhaps here, which will show that Gilliam screenwriting and directing Good Omens is old news indeed.
Perhaps you meant here, or perhaps here.
You didn't see Schindler's List, then?
Hm. Not on cnn.com, nor on news.bbc.co.uk, abcnews.com or foxnews.com, including streams (live IIRC) for cnn, abc and bbc.
Hoax, I think. Mod me down for being offtopic - happy to lose karma for exposing it.
Look, you need to realise that different price points have little to do with "What's most expensive to provide" (beyond obviously covering costs).
It's much more to do with "how much do customers want it enough to pay for it." The stuff which makes broadband useful is obviously more desirable to technically competent customers such as ourselves than a 'faster version of dialup'.
So if I'm the owner of a cable company, I apply simple supply & demand and say "You want the good stuff? Sure you can have it, for a price"
Now I think there's a tier between the bog standard consumer and the business customer who has a net financial gain from their connection - call it the 'clueful consumer' offering. If I were running a cable company, I'd be offering it at a price a bit above the standard consumer offering, which would allow:
By some odd coincidence, that's what my cable provider is offering. Although only the extra bandwidth is part of the premium service rn - I get everything else. The AUP explicitly allows me to run servers:
Which is nice
We can cope with a couple of days of /. traffic if it helps us find a long-term host.
Thanks for your kind words about the archive, we'd hate to lose it.
You're right, those 3 do cost a lot. Each of them will cost maybe US$300k in licenses for a first time customer, plus 50-350 man-days development time for a complex system.
But it's worth noting that since Microsoft came into the market, enterprise CMS prices have been sharply dropping. Those vendors used to charge $500k+ for a first time customer...
If you want to go below the Vignette/Documentum/Interwoven troika, take a look at:
Not sure about it being the leading vendor - for a document-centric, hard-core integrated with paper system, perhaps it can be. It's certainly there in the top right of the Gartner magic quadrant. But for a web-based system which isn't too worried about paper, it's not the first thing I'd choose, even if I were going for a tier-1 solution.
If you had a $1m turnover business whose target market were all heavy online users, wouldn't you be keen to make sure your site stayed up, even if it meant paying for it?. I think so.
Waving hands to create music? Sounds a bit theraminish to me.
Sorry, but unless your co-choristers all live nearby, the time lags make this impractical.
I can't speak for other countries, but in the UK, libraries pay publishers a royalty for having their books in the library's collection. It's a similar deal if you want to play music in public (say in your bar, or your shopping centre) - you pay the PRS an annual license fee.