So if the legal fees are "battering the company", one of two things is happening. Either Scotty's father is ripping him off royally (possible, after all, the son's a crook too). Or, Scotty's father is charging tons of legal fees as a way of protecting Scotty's ill-gotten wealth.
The operators do not make any profit on any of them, quite the contrary.
See what you get when you state absolutes...
There's no way there's only $100-$150 margin on units like the Handspring Treo 650 or the Audiovox XV6600, and that's usually the best discount you can get on those.
On the *very high end*, there is plenty of margin left after the discounts. And the very high end is often what businesess are buying, which accounts for a decent percentage of sales.
Not only that, existing customers who are upgrading often cannot get even half the discount that new customers get, especially on high-end units.
So, while a lot of the mobile companies' stock is loss-leader, they're still making some money on the sales of handsets.
I've had greyhounds as pets for a few years now, and have made some observations on their eyesight...
They definitely can see non-moving objects, but they will more easily notice the moving ones. Additionally, objects that move with a "natural" motion, ie erratic, will get their attention far quicker than objects that move smoothly. My greys will rarely so much as glance at a passing car, but an animal, person or trash blowing in the breeze up to a 1/2 mile off will instantly get a "target lock".
I have also noticed that when something that was moving stops, then tend to shift their head back and forth, apparently as a means of maintaining depth perception/isolating it from the background.
So, just because a creature will focus on moving objects over stationary ones, it doesn't mean that if you stop, it will lose sight of you. Once the bunny runs, if it stops before finding a hole, it's dog food.
If you sell customized linux servers, you can just block IE, since every single one of the people you want to do business with has already moved beyond it.
It's pretty obvious to me that you have never worked in a position that made/recommended purchases for a company.
Just because the geek who needs the new linux server is running Firefox, it doesn't mean that the manager/beancounter approving the purchase isn't running IE. In fact, the odds are pretty high they are.
No legitimate business can afford to alienate a potential customer for trivial ideological reasons.
Most people do not need a V8. Indeed, such engines should only be permitted to people that have just cause.
Most people do not need gighertz-class computers, indeed, such computers should only be permitted to people that have just cause.
Most people do not need to criticise the government, indeed, such privilege should only be permitted to people the government decides have just cause.
So, who do you want to make that decision then...?
I didn't put my ass on the line both in a war and on the streets just so some "holier-than-though" person could tell me which freedoms I can and cannot have. Yup, people do a lot of things I don't agree with, but that's a price I will willingly pay so I can do things that *they* don't agree with.
"We" as a society know nothing about this. We only know what a very few psychiatrists tell us. Most of them are keeping their lips tightly shut on this subject, mostly for fear of opening up a massive issue of bad publicity regarding the subject.
In private, most psychiatrists will tell you that those who still believe in ECT are nothing more than barbarians.
I mean, seriously, being involuntarily subjected to ECT for *depression*? Anyone who thinks that strapping someone down against their will and shooting electricity through them will *improve* their morale is more in need of psychiatric help than the patient is.
There was a point in time where ECT in mental institutions was commonplace because it was endorsed by the American Psychology Association.
Still is, both common, and endorsed by the APA.
Today, we know that ECT only helps certain cases of clinical depression, and is used only in extreme cases when no other solution exists.
Define "we".
Truth is, not only is it still common, it can be done to an *involuntarily* committed patient, against their expressed will. There's still enough whack-job psychiatrists out there who think it works (it doesn't), and the rest of 'em all just turn a blind eye to it.
No, because it is well-understood by contractors and insurance companies that unmodified roofs cannot support solar panels without being destroyed.
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but here in the southwest, a large percentage of buildings have roofs made of concrete tiles. These roofs are very heavy, with an added margin of strength to match. I wouldn't worry too much about putting panels on my roof.
Now, getting the Home Owners Association to approve it, that's a whole 'nuther can of worms.
Seriously, large-format inkjet plotters have been around for around ten years. Large-format laser/LED plotters have been around at least that long.
I'm sure someone still makes pen plotters, but I can't remember the last time I saw one being used for anything other than specialty work (cutting decals, etc.)
Yeah, since it is a new service, maybe it just hasn't crawled that many sites yet?
No, the crawler has been working for a year now. And, because it's so unbelievably agressive, a lot of webmasters have blocked it. They were taking a few Gigabytes per month from my servers until I finally blocked them.
I had to block the MSNBot from a couple of my sites. It's not just things like BBS software it goes ape on, it does it to some storefront systems as well.
I had a couple sites on my servers that were seeing over 1GB transfer/month just from MSNBot. And where the second-highest number of hits/month was 3,800, MSNBot racked up 26,000.
Note, this repeated every month for over six months.
There's no excuse for a bot to rack up 50% of the traffic on several busy sites.
Who knows, MSN may have the best search algorithm, but if they don't get some manners, their search results are going to be inferior anyway, because too many sysadmins will just block them.
Postgres is really an Oracle killer at this point, and I know, having used Oracle. There is quite simply no reason to use any other relational database at this point, especially to back a live web site.
Sorry, not yet.
I currently work in an environment using 5-way multi-master replication. Oracle does this, PostgreSQL does not. Granted, it's a feature very few developers need, but it negates your assertion that there is "no reason to use any other relational database at this point".
I'd hardly call Afilias a fly-by-night. They currently manage a number of significant TLDs and CCTLDs.
Besides, the ones listed in the article are just the ones who have publicly announced their bids. They're NOT the only ones who bid.
Oh, and for your homework. Recently, Verisign improved their service, making updates to the root servers every five minutes, instead of twice a day. They didn't do this out of the goodness of their heart or some sense of customer service, they did it because another bidder(s) already had proven infrastructure in place to make those changes in real time. In other words, they did it in order to be competitive for this bid. They're not the leader anymore, they're following.
Tucows is a member of Afilias, so essentially, they already are bidding.
Here's a little tidbit though, Afilias currently manages number of TLDs and CCTLDs. But they're not the ones actually serving the DNS, they contracted it out.
So weird.. WHY does VeriSign want.net - what advantages does this convey on them?
Because it's worth millions of dollars/year?
Current estimate is over 5 million.net domains registered. If I remember right, the registry's cut is $5/year. That's $25 million a year. If you also act as registrar, it's even higher.
Seriously, losing.net would be a huge hit to Verisign's income, simple as that.
Yes, bluetooth was over-hyped to be the one "one true solution" in the begining. But that doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
For short range devices, it's a good technology, wireless input devices, wireless headsets for mobile phones, etc. Heck, if my current cellphone had bluetooth, a bluetooth hands-free mounted in my car would be ideal. My phone could stay on my belt, but would automatically interface with the hands-free just by getting in the car.
So, no it's not dead, it's not even dying, it's just not the uber-meme of the week anymore.
The first SMTP server in the line is the spammer (and postmaster).
Whoops, no, it might not be. More than one spammer app inserts bogus SMTP Received headers into the message before actually sending it. Sometimes, they're darned difficult to tell from valid headers.
The *only* Received header you can trust is the last one, the one *your* server wrote.
No, posting a copyright notice does not make it copyrighted. Anything you create is already your copyright.
Posting a copyright notice is the equivalent of posting a "private poroperty" sign. The property was already private, you're just letting folks know it.
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Um, yeah. .org was transferred years ago. The registry is managed by Afilias, and the DNS is managed by UltraDNS.
because we know if someone else takes over, the internet will go down for at least a week
.org was transferred?
You mean just like it did when
Oh, wait, nevermind....
Um, did you catch the name of that lawyer???
Steven Richter is Scotty Richter's father.
So if the legal fees are "battering the company", one of two things is happening. Either Scotty's father is ripping him off royally (possible, after all, the son's a crook too). Or, Scotty's father is charging tons of legal fees as a way of protecting Scotty's ill-gotten wealth.
The operators do not make any profit on any of them, quite the contrary.
See what you get when you state absolutes...
There's no way there's only $100-$150 margin on units like the Handspring Treo 650 or the Audiovox XV6600, and that's usually the best discount you can get on those.
On the *very high end*, there is plenty of margin left after the discounts. And the very high end is often what businesess are buying, which accounts for a decent percentage of sales.
Not only that, existing customers who are upgrading often cannot get even half the discount that new customers get, especially on high-end units.
So, while a lot of the mobile companies' stock is loss-leader, they're still making some money on the sales of handsets.
I've had greyhounds as pets for a few years now, and have made some observations on their eyesight...
They definitely can see non-moving objects, but they will more easily notice the moving ones. Additionally, objects that move with a "natural" motion, ie erratic, will get their attention far quicker than objects that move smoothly. My greys will rarely so much as glance at a passing car, but an animal, person or trash blowing in the breeze up to a 1/2 mile off will instantly get a "target lock".
I have also noticed that when something that was moving stops, then tend to shift their head back and forth, apparently as a means of maintaining depth perception/isolating it from the background.
So, just because a creature will focus on moving objects over stationary ones, it doesn't mean that if you stop, it will lose sight of you. Once the bunny runs, if it stops before finding a hole, it's dog food.
If you sell customized linux servers, you can just block IE, since every single one of the people you want to do business with has already moved beyond it.
It's pretty obvious to me that you have never worked in a position that made/recommended purchases for a company.
Just because the geek who needs the new linux server is running Firefox, it doesn't mean that the manager/beancounter approving the purchase isn't running IE. In fact, the odds are pretty high they are.
No legitimate business can afford to alienate a potential customer for trivial ideological reasons.
Most people do not need a V8. Indeed, such engines should only be permitted to people that have just cause.
Most people do not need gighertz-class computers, indeed, such computers should only be permitted to people that have just cause.
Most people do not need to criticise the government, indeed, such privilege should only be permitted to people the government decides have just cause.
So, who do you want to make that decision then...?
I didn't put my ass on the line both in a war and on the streets just so some "holier-than-though" person could tell me which freedoms I can and cannot have. Yup, people do a lot of things I don't agree with, but that's a price I will willingly pay so I can do things that *they* don't agree with.
I meant "we" as a society...
"We" as a society know nothing about this. We only know what a very few psychiatrists tell us. Most of them are keeping their lips tightly shut on this subject, mostly for fear of opening up a massive issue of bad publicity regarding the subject.
In private, most psychiatrists will tell you that those who still believe in ECT are nothing more than barbarians.
I mean, seriously, being involuntarily subjected to ECT for *depression*? Anyone who thinks that strapping someone down against their will and shooting electricity through them will *improve* their morale is more in need of psychiatric help than the patient is.
There was a point in time where ECT in mental institutions was commonplace because it was endorsed by the American Psychology Association.
Still is, both common, and endorsed by the APA.
Today, we know that ECT only helps certain cases of clinical depression, and is used only in extreme cases when no other solution exists.
Define "we".
Truth is, not only is it still common, it can be done to an *involuntarily* committed patient, against their expressed will. There's still enough whack-job psychiatrists out there who think it works (it doesn't), and the rest of 'em all just turn a blind eye to it.
Let me get this straight...
You build windows apps, your company builds windows apps. They're not changing what they're building, just the tools they use to build them.
No offense, but that's kind of like a carpenter quitting because the contractor changed from Porter-Cable tools to Dewalt.
No, because it is well-understood by contractors and insurance companies that unmodified roofs cannot support solar panels without being destroyed.
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but here in the southwest, a large percentage of buildings have roofs made of concrete tiles. These roofs are very heavy, with an added margin of strength to match. I wouldn't worry too much about putting panels on my roof.
Now, getting the Home Owners Association to approve it, that's a whole 'nuther can of worms.
How long has it been since you used a plotter?
Seriously, large-format inkjet plotters have been around for around ten years. Large-format laser/LED plotters have been around at least that long.
I'm sure someone still makes pen plotters, but I can't remember the last time I saw one being used for anything other than specialty work (cutting decals, etc.)
Yeah, since it is a new service, maybe it just hasn't crawled that many sites yet?
No, the crawler has been working for a year now. And, because it's so unbelievably agressive, a lot of webmasters have blocked it. They were taking a few Gigabytes per month from my servers until I finally blocked them.
I had to block the MSNBot from a couple of my sites. It's not just things like BBS software it goes ape on, it does it to some storefront systems as well.
I had a couple sites on my servers that were seeing over 1GB transfer/month just from MSNBot. And where the second-highest number of hits/month was 3,800, MSNBot racked up 26,000.
Note, this repeated every month for over six months.
There's no excuse for a bot to rack up 50% of the traffic on several busy sites.
Who knows, MSN may have the best search algorithm, but if they don't get some manners, their search results are going to be inferior anyway, because too many sysadmins will just block them.
Yeah, but at least it's convenient, you can just keep your keys in your hat.
And they will investigate the matter
/dev/null
Unless they're MCI/UUNET or a handful of other major spam-supporters, in which case, it goes straight to
(at the very least you get an auto-reply,
Maybe, there's more than a few that don't even bother with that. Even so, they don't call 'em "ignore-bots" without reason.
Postgres is really an Oracle killer at this point, and I know, having used Oracle. There is quite simply no reason to use any other relational database at this point, especially to back a live web site.
Sorry, not yet.
I currently work in an environment using 5-way multi-master replication. Oracle does this, PostgreSQL does not. Granted, it's a feature very few developers need, but it negates your assertion that there is "no reason to use any other relational database at this point".
Absolutely. Any job that you don't understand must be meaningless.
Hire me! [picknit.com]
I'd wish you luck, but somehow I think it would be wasted.
A lot of posts on this story. A lot of them are actually written by intelligent people. To whom I address this question: Why do you care?
hmm? oh, you were talking to me?
That one's easy. My job is directly affected by all of this. I work for a company that has a lot to gain/lose depending on who gets this contract.
Dunno about the everyone else though.
I'd hardly call Afilias a fly-by-night. They currently manage a number of significant TLDs and CCTLDs.
Besides, the ones listed in the article are just the ones who have publicly announced their bids. They're NOT the only ones who bid.
Oh, and for your homework. Recently, Verisign improved their service, making updates to the root servers every five minutes, instead of twice a day. They didn't do this out of the goodness of their heart or some sense of customer service, they did it because another bidder(s) already had proven infrastructure in place to make those changes in real time. In other words, they did it in order to be competitive for this bid. They're not the leader anymore, they're following.
Tucows is a member of Afilias, so essentially, they already are bidding.
:)
Here's a little tidbit though, Afilias currently manages number of TLDs and CCTLDs. But they're not the ones actually serving the DNS, they contracted it out.
Go ahead, do a root server lookup.
So weird.. WHY does VeriSign want .net - what advantages does this convey on them?
.net domains registered. If I remember right, the registry's cut is $5/year. That's $25 million a year. If you also act as registrar, it's even higher.
.net would be a huge hit to Verisign's income, simple as that.
Because it's worth millions of dollars/year?
Current estimate is over 5 million
Seriously, losing
Where have you been hiding?
Yes, bluetooth was over-hyped to be the one "one true solution" in the begining. But that doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
For short range devices, it's a good technology, wireless input devices, wireless headsets for mobile phones, etc. Heck, if my current cellphone had bluetooth, a bluetooth hands-free mounted in my car would be ideal. My phone could stay on my belt, but would automatically interface with the hands-free just by getting in the car.
So, no it's not dead, it's not even dying, it's just not the uber-meme of the week anymore.
The first SMTP server in the line is the spammer (and postmaster).
Whoops, no, it might not be. More than one spammer app inserts bogus SMTP Received headers into the message before actually sending it. Sometimes, they're darned difficult to tell from valid headers.
The *only* Received header you can trust is the last one, the one *your* server wrote.
No, posting a copyright notice does not make it copyrighted. Anything you create is already your copyright.
Posting a copyright notice is the equivalent of posting a "private poroperty" sign. The property was already private, you're just letting folks know it.