Yes, but depending on a single supplier is a very short term position... Just look at the problems caused by short term strategies in the financial markets!
So, you want to take advantage of cheap chinese labour, but don't want to pay the "hidden costs" of using chinese labour? If you don't like it, manufacture your goods somewhere else.
If you try and change the way the chinese do things, then the costs will be dragged up too and chinese manufacturing will end up costing the same as any other country. Leave china to those who are willing to play by it's rules and accept the costs.
You have to decide wether the cost of corruption and copying of designs etc is outweighed by the lower manufacturing costs or not.
The Chinese government is well within it's rights to make decisions regarding what goes on within it's borders. Infact, the whole purpose of a government is to put the interest of it's own country first above the interest of any foreign power.
In this case, seeing the source code of electronic devices being sold in China is very much in their interest, why should the chinese government trust foreign corporations to supply black box equipment when they have no idea how it works? There are many people who boycott products, at least in certain areas, where they don't have source code... I wouldn't run an internet facing server on anything for which i didn't have the source for many reasons.
If you don't like it, noone is forcing you to sell or manufacture your products in china. If you don't like their rules, go somewhere else... If you want to take advantage of the large customer base in china, as well as the cheap labour costs then you have to play by chinese rules.
Ofcourse, this policy is also beneficial for those companies who already release their source code, since they're already compliant.
Well, some of the stargates were in the storyline as having been moved for various reasons, most of the ones which were in roughly the same climate would have been where the ancients originally put them.
I can't see how anyone would rely on the dominance of microsoft except microsoft themselves... Surely having a single incumbent supplier is a negative for everyone else.
Being involved with a format is one thing, microsoft are already members of OASIS, and have been invited to join the ODF committee many times over the past few years and always refused, tho they may have joined it more recently... Trying to take control of it is quite another matter, as the format should remain neutral and not be controlled by a single for-profit corporation.
You can reduce the memory footprint of firefox by turning off some of the caching... Firefox will also dynamically adjust the amount of caching depending on the available ram i believe...
But WTF are you doing to use up 8gb of ram and 4gb of swap? I have tons running, and i'm nowhere close to that level of usage...
I do the same, but i just have to back up/home and/usr/local first... The issue with separate partitions is you can't always anticipate your space requirements up front.. But the logical hierarchy unix uses to store it's files makes a lot of sense, and makes it easy to move from one machine or distro to another.
Those "1.44MB" disks actually had a 2MB capacity, and the actual usable capacity depended on how they were formatted... Some places sold them as 2MB disks, some didn't...
Enough ram for file caching = enough ram for all your apps plus a complete copy of all attached storage... I had a sun e45k with 14gb ram and a single 9gb drive attached, it was able to cache everything from the drive and still run all it's apps adequately.
I always thought it was the overhead of having to make filesystem calls rather than physical placement on the drive that made swap files slower... Creating a single swapfile at install time will still result in a large unfragmented block, same as when using a partition.
Sure they do, or they know someone who does, it's just that those thieves never get caught... It's only the extremely incompetent ones, as described in this story who get caught... It sounds like he was just an opportunist who found an easy target.
Any slightly more competent thief will research the crime he intends to commit, like a car thief will look into how to gain access to the types of car he wants to target, how to disable any alarm or immobiliser, how to bypass the radio code etc.
Chances are this guy was just a casual thief who got lucky seeing an unattended laptop... Either that, or he bought the laptop from the real thief.
There are people who regularly steal laptops, and most of them either sell the machine on immediately without using it, or they wipe the machine first and then sell it on with a clean install. Anyone so incompetent as to steal the machine, and then go on to actually use it online without erasing any of the data won't have a very long career of stealing laptops.
The default security questions are ridiculous anyway....
"What is your mother's maiden name?" - publicly available information, just look at what someone's grandparents are called "What school did you go to?" - also public, friendsreunited will help you there
I had a friend who was constantly getting her email hacked by her brother, simply because he knew the answers to all the security questions.
So long as these online apps sit alongside and interoperate with the alternatives it's fine, but that really depends who runs them... If the online apps become sufficiently widely used, interest in alternatives will dry up and development will slow, and depending on who runs the dominant online apps they may start using data formats which are proprietary and don't work with any of the alternatives.
And then there's people who value their privacy, and simply don't want their data stored on someone else's system.
Don't get me wrong, i like web based tools, but i want to be able to put them on a server which is under my control, and i'm sure a lot of businesses feel the same way.
Yes, indeed I have, and some services just don't like running on different ports...
HTTPS is the worst offender, you need one listening port per site because of how SSL works, and if you run it on any port other than 443 most people who are stuck behind proxies will no longer be able to access it.
SMB filesharing services don't seem capable of running on any port other than their default.
SMTP can't really run on any port other than 25 if you want to receive incoming mail from the outside.
And some services just don't like proxies, or no proxies exist etc...
Well, I am a westerner, and have lived in an islamic country for 16 years, so that's clearly not universally true. I can eat bacon and drink beer any time I want. I don't demand the right to do these things (well, I might for the beer) but they are freely given in Indonesia.
Well that's fine, if the Indonesian people want to allow people to eat bacon and drink beer so be it... The rules existed before you went there, and you didn't try to demand they change them.
It's not about how tolerant a country is, if a country chooses to be tolerant of it's own accord that's one thing... But noone should have the right to go to a country and change the way they already do things.
I never liked OS/2, it may have been better than windows/dos (which wasnt exactly difficult) but it was also a lot heavier, and hardware was more expensive. A multitasking OS with a graphical shell that required 8MB to run? Amiga users used to make jokes about how bloated an OS would have to get before it would need 8MB...
Yeah, paypal's system sounds all nice if you never have to make use of any of their "protection" programs...
If you know how to play the system you can get away with fraud quite easily with paypal's backing... For instance:
Paypal will not refund people who bought a service as opposed to a physical item, even if that service was never provided and you never had any intention of providing it.
A friend of mine rented a colocated server one friday a few weeks ago, from a business seemingly US based that promised to have your server up and running within 24 hours and claimed to offer 24/7 support. He heard nothing from them until monday when he got an email from someone in the UK saying they don't work weekends, but that he would get straight on it as a priority... On the wednesday he contacted again, and they told him it was in progress... On the following friday they said the server would be ready "very soon"... On the second following tuesday he discovered that he had already been entered into the billing cycle starting from the date he paid, and that he was effectively paying for the previous week and a half when he had no service. On the second following friday he tried to call them, they hung up on him and refused to answer subsequent calls. He emailed asking for a refund and was told they "don't issue refunds" So he filed a paypal dispute, the seller immediately escalated this to a full claim with the comment "transaction was for a monthly server rental, not a physical good" so they clearly know how to game the system... Luckily my friend paid with a credit card, so he was able to dispute the charge on his card and get his money back.
Yes, some people fall for the fake check scams... But those people could fall for any kind of stupid scam. Most people will only ship the item when the check has cleared, and if the check is for the wrong amount they will know its a scam and destroy it or hand it to the cops.
Some people don't have and can't get credit cards or bank accounts, but anyone can get a money order, and for some people that's the only way to buy anything without having to use cash.
Most of those strategies described in the article directly hurt the customers... And when the customers realise this they are likely to abandon your products and never return. It's also very much a short term strategy, because keeping the market closed and proprietary will only work for a time before other catch up, similarly adding features only works until you reach a certain point where users already have all the features they want and more is just considered bloat. Similarly, by continuing these consumer-hostile tactics you build up bad feeling meaning customers are far more likely to jump ship as soon as they perceive a suitable alternative is available. Such tactics also only work if you have a stranglehold of your market, if you`re a niche player then you can't afford to lose interoperability.
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Yes, but depending on a single supplier is a very short term position...
Just look at the problems caused by short term strategies in the financial markets!
So, you want to take advantage of cheap chinese labour, but don't want to pay the "hidden costs" of using chinese labour?
If you don't like it, manufacture your goods somewhere else.
If you try and change the way the chinese do things, then the costs will be dragged up too and chinese manufacturing will end up costing the same as any other country. Leave china to those who are willing to play by it's rules and accept the costs.
You have to decide wether the cost of corruption and copying of designs etc is outweighed by the lower manufacturing costs or not.
The Chinese government is well within it's rights to make decisions regarding what goes on within it's borders. Infact, the whole purpose of a government is to put the interest of it's own country first above the interest of any foreign power.
In this case, seeing the source code of electronic devices being sold in China is very much in their interest, why should the chinese government trust foreign corporations to supply black box equipment when they have no idea how it works? There are many people who boycott products, at least in certain areas, where they don't have source code... I wouldn't run an internet facing server on anything for which i didn't have the source for many reasons.
If you don't like it, noone is forcing you to sell or manufacture your products in china. If you don't like their rules, go somewhere else... If you want to take advantage of the large customer base in china, as well as the cheap labour costs then you have to play by chinese rules.
Ofcourse, this policy is also beneficial for those companies who already release their source code, since they're already compliant.
Well, some of the stargates were in the storyline as having been moved for various reasons, most of the ones which were in roughly the same climate would have been where the ancients originally put them.
I can't see how anyone would rely on the dominance of microsoft except microsoft themselves... Surely having a single incumbent supplier is a negative for everyone else.
Being involved with a format is one thing, microsoft are already members of OASIS, and have been invited to join the ODF committee many times over the past few years and always refused, tho they may have joined it more recently...
Trying to take control of it is quite another matter, as the format should remain neutral and not be controlled by a single for-profit corporation.
Would need to be a pretty big battery to power all the ram, they were all 128mb strips and lots of them.
Which you're just as likely to forget as your original password, thus rendering the concept of a security question worthless...
You can reduce the memory footprint of firefox by turning off some of the caching...
Firefox will also dynamically adjust the amount of caching depending on the available ram i believe...
But WTF are you doing to use up 8gb of ram and 4gb of swap? I have tons running, and i'm nowhere close to that level of usage...
I do the same, but i just have to back up /home and /usr/local first... The issue with separate partitions is you can't always anticipate your space requirements up front..
But the logical hierarchy unix uses to store it's files makes a lot of sense, and makes it easy to move from one machine or distro to another.
Those "1.44MB" disks actually had a 2MB capacity, and the actual usable capacity depended on how they were formatted... Some places sold them as 2MB disks, some didn't...
Enough ram for file caching = enough ram for all your apps plus a complete copy of all attached storage...
I had a sun e45k with 14gb ram and a single 9gb drive attached, it was able to cache everything from the drive and still run all it's apps adequately.
I always thought it was the overhead of having to make filesystem calls rather than physical placement on the drive that made swap files slower...
Creating a single swapfile at install time will still result in a large unfragmented block, same as when using a partition.
Sure they do, or they know someone who does, it's just that those thieves never get caught... It's only the extremely incompetent ones, as described in this story who get caught... It sounds like he was just an opportunist who found an easy target.
Any slightly more competent thief will research the crime he intends to commit, like a car thief will look into how to gain access to the types of car he wants to target, how to disable any alarm or immobiliser, how to bypass the radio code etc.
Chances are this guy was just a casual thief who got lucky seeing an unattended laptop...
Either that, or he bought the laptop from the real thief.
There are people who regularly steal laptops, and most of them either sell the machine on immediately without using it, or they wipe the machine first and then sell it on with a clean install. Anyone so incompetent as to steal the machine, and then go on to actually use it online without erasing any of the data won't have a very long career of stealing laptops.
The default security questions are ridiculous anyway....
"What is your mother's maiden name?" - publicly available information, just look at what someone's grandparents are called
"What school did you go to?" - also public, friendsreunited will help you there
I had a friend who was constantly getting her email hacked by her brother, simply because he knew the answers to all the security questions.
So long as these online apps sit alongside and interoperate with the alternatives it's fine, but that really depends who runs them...
If the online apps become sufficiently widely used, interest in alternatives will dry up and development will slow, and depending on who runs the dominant online apps they may start using data formats which are proprietary and don't work with any of the alternatives.
And then there's people who value their privacy, and simply don't want their data stored on someone else's system.
Don't get me wrong, i like web based tools, but i want to be able to put them on a server which is under my control, and i'm sure a lot of businesses feel the same way.
Great, add additional power consuming devices to the mix, when people are trying to reduce their power consumption.
Yes, indeed I have, and some services just don't like running on different ports...
HTTPS is the worst offender, you need one listening port per site because of how SSL works, and if you run it on any port other than 443 most people who are stuck behind proxies will no longer be able to access it.
SMB filesharing services don't seem capable of running on any port other than their default.
SMTP can't really run on any port other than 25 if you want to receive incoming mail from the outside.
And some services just don't like proxies, or no proxies exist etc...
Well, I am a westerner, and have lived in an islamic country for 16 years, so that's clearly not universally true. I can eat bacon and drink beer any time I want. I don't demand the right to do these things (well, I might for the beer) but they are freely given in Indonesia.
Well that's fine, if the Indonesian people want to allow people to eat bacon and drink beer so be it... The rules existed before you went there, and you didn't try to demand they change them.
It's not about how tolerant a country is, if a country chooses to be tolerant of it's own accord that's one thing... But noone should have the right to go to a country and change the way they already do things.
I never liked OS/2, it may have been better than windows/dos (which wasnt exactly difficult) but it was also a lot heavier, and hardware was more expensive.
A multitasking OS with a graphical shell that required 8MB to run? Amiga users used to make jokes about how bloated an OS would have to get before it would need 8MB...
Yeah, paypal's system sounds all nice if you never have to make use of any of their "protection" programs...
If you know how to play the system you can get away with fraud quite easily with paypal's backing... For instance:
Paypal will not refund people who bought a service as opposed to a physical item, even if that service was never provided and you never had any intention of providing it.
A friend of mine rented a colocated server one friday a few weeks ago, from a business seemingly US based that promised to have your server up and running within 24 hours and claimed to offer 24/7 support.
He heard nothing from them until monday when he got an email from someone in the UK saying they don't work weekends, but that he would get straight on it as a priority...
On the wednesday he contacted again, and they told him it was in progress...
On the following friday they said the server would be ready "very soon"...
On the second following tuesday he discovered that he had already been entered into the billing cycle starting from the date he paid, and that he was effectively paying for the previous week and a half when he had no service.
On the second following friday he tried to call them, they hung up on him and refused to answer subsequent calls. He emailed asking for a refund and was told they "don't issue refunds"
So he filed a paypal dispute, the seller immediately escalated this to a full claim with the comment "transaction was for a monthly server rental, not a physical good" so they clearly know how to game the system...
Luckily my friend paid with a credit card, so he was able to dispute the charge on his card and get his money back.
Yes, some people fall for the fake check scams... But those people could fall for any kind of stupid scam.
Most people will only ship the item when the check has cleared, and if the check is for the wrong amount they will know its a scam and destroy it or hand it to the cops.
Some people don't have and can't get credit cards or bank accounts, but anyone can get a money order, and for some people that's the only way to buy anything without having to use cash.
Most of those strategies described in the article directly hurt the customers... And when the customers realise this they are likely to abandon your products and never return.
It's also very much a short term strategy, because keeping the market closed and proprietary will only work for a time before other catch up, similarly adding features only works until you reach a certain point where users already have all the features they want and more is just considered bloat. Similarly, by continuing these consumer-hostile tactics you build up bad feeling meaning customers are far more likely to jump ship as soon as they perceive a suitable alternative is available.
Such tactics also only work if you have a stranglehold of your market, if you`re a niche player then you can't afford to lose interoperability.
If it's 4 digits long it couldnt possibly be confused with an ipv4 address, and ipv6 addresses are seperated with : rather than .