My favorite quote:
"...in critical areas like engineering, manageability, compatibility and security". In every Total Cost of Ownership study funded my M$, they forget to build into the cost of recovery from hackers/virus/trojan destroying your Windows box. I'm speaking from personal experience, of course. I'm not sure they really get it!
BTW, PCM Wav files compress very well in Zip format -- which is lossless. Of course, it is an extra step, but can be used for archiving old master WAV files. I usually batch several together and archive them on a DVD.
As for pictures in JPEG. I use JPEG for most picture taking on my digital camera. If I really know I can get a good shot, I'll switch to RAW or TIFF -- just hate waiting the extra 40 seconds to record the image. If I plan to "work" with a JPEG image, I'll convert it to a lossless format then back to a JPEG. Minimizes the generational effects of working in JPEG. I have to work with the limitations of my camera. If my camera gave me the ability to save images in PNG I would take it, as long as it doesn't forever to save an image. Compact Flash is cheap these days. I can always buy more CF cards. For that matter, so are EIDE drives and DVD burners.
I agree. I'm doing relatively well in the Atlanta metro. My house is only 130K (3 bed, 2 bath, appx 1500 sqft) -- mortgage is only $930 -- which includes escrowed junk like PMI and Haz Ins). Now if I lived in the SF/Bay area -- my house would be about 4x that much and I couldn't afford the mortgage and of course appartments are insane out there. My salary would have to be adjusted accordingly to make it work.
Of course, the most important thing to consider is regardless of what your salary is, always live within your means and immediately begin building your "rainy days" funds. You'll need about 6 months expenses in your savings account -- you never know how long your job will last and how long it might take you to find another one.
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Easy, Just write a quick app to monitor the emials. You could even write some logic to "randomly" send your obligated message back to Virtual MDA. Sounds like a shell script to me.:-) The rest of the time, just pipe to/dev/null.
Ok, I can dig it if someone wants to give me free software but require I allow them to install adware, spyware, trojan horses, or all my credit card numbers, etc. If I agree to these terms, then I'm stupid and deserve whatever bad things (tm) happen to me as a result. As long as it is SPELLED OUT in the EULA.
HOWEVER, I've bought software only to get ticked off because it wants to installed crap like Gator or worse on my system. Many times, this isn't part of a EULA (if there is even one). That's one way to get me ticked off. I PAID for the software to NOT be bugged! In particular, this was selfware that looked cool (puzzles and card games) and that I picked up at Target. I'm sticking with "download before you buy" stuff.
Great, another something mankind can't leave well enough alone. We haven't learned that in the last 1000 years, I won't count on it in the next. Knowing our poor judgement and arrogance, we'll destroy the entire planent trying it out.
Start catching these folks and hand them over to the ISPs they waste their bandwidth or end users that get scammed. Creating The Running Man for spammers. If you can get out alive, you can go free -- but the folks you spammed have chainsaws and whips. Of course, the major TV networks will jump on this. Forget Survior. Have a nice day.
Gosh, Network Solutions has always been overpriced! Even with their best deal of $9.99 per year -- folks like NameSecure will register your name for 10 years for the same rate. Even better, if you have a reseller plan with someone -- even $6.49 per year. Personally, if I get a price break and don't plan to move around to much, I'll do a 5 or 10 year. But I do like the flexibility of changind registars.
Of course, I think this is aimed at larger companies that don't care all that much about price. Less hassle the better -- but for the average joe -- I don't recommend it.
I have a current reseller plan that lets me register names for $6.99 per year -- one year at a time. I really don't have an incentive to register for longer -- other than less hassle.
I think it's a great match since any software from both companies attempt to take over your system. I'm tired of deleting the Try AOL Risk Free shortcuts -- if they join forces -- I'm screwed!
Broadband is just a way to connect. Sure, it allows spammers to deliver more message from their home. It also allows those darn popups to appear quicker or those banner ads to download faster, etc. It's just a tool. It's how it is used that is good or bad.
Guns can't shoot themselves -- they require people to pull the trigger. Broadband itself isn't bad, it's the spammers --regardless if they use dialup, T1, T3, or better.
Spammers have done a great job of making my email almost useless. Most spam solutions still allow too many false positives or negatives to be worth the money.
Adversiting on the web is going to do the same thing -- give it a few more years and the web will be just one big collection of advertising. There are many sites that started out with a wealth of knowledge and modest Ads they have turned into commercial land with little, if any, real content. In my opinion, About.com is a good example. In a few years, the vast major of the web will be this way.
What can you say. So much head knowledge, so little common sense. Apparently, some colleges don't require even basic Chemistry for Law School. I think this scares the hell out of me. Great experiement on how to fool paralegals.
I see so many posts here and wonder how many American have been outside the USA. I used to have a sheltered view until I went to the Philippines a couple times last year.
Not not sure what the long term effects are, but I know that America and the work force must open up to the prospects of overseas work. Personally, I know that the companies are outsourcing for the monetary reasons -- which I don't like -- but we can't avoid it either.
What I envision in 30 years is more people outside the US will be making better paying wages -- the land-rush to find ultra-cheap wages will end because there won't be anyone willing to work for next-to-nothing. Think about it, how many jobs are getting moved to Mexico these days? Mexico is losing jobs to India and China. It's only a matter of time before the Chinese labor force demands a higher wage.
As far as Americans, we should stop spending 110% of our income. 7-year car loans and 40 year home mortgages are the American way of life these days. C'mon! Doesn't anyone see where this is going?
These folks truly suck. If they count all the/* and */ lines as their own, then I might have some SCO code running on my box. So while they are sue happy, bring it on! Sue every single person that has downloaded Linux! Put your money where your mouth is! DDOS the court system!
but of course they won't do that. I don't have any assets (not compared to large companies). Big deal, sue me for $5 Billing and you might get all of $5 from me. Change my system over to BSD until they start suing them too. That should buy us 10 years or so to develop a completely new *nix replacement.
Try getting cross country with big deseal trucks hauling who knows what. The gas and lodging alone could be over $1000.
BTW, It is illegal to carry more than $10,000 in to airports without written permission from the government. I guess that rule applies to other places of public transport and other check stations. I think there is even a law against just driving that much money across state lines.
I know everyone is going to just assume there is something just terribly wrong with someone like that, but many folks just do it without thinking. For example, why won't you just take enough cash to spend two weeks vacationing in another country? Other countries much prefer large American bills -- you often get a better exchange rate (speaking from experience).
Besides, the FBI profiling needs to be updated. Carrying $10K today vs $10K 30 years ago are VERY different.
Technically, the kernel part of the distribution must be left free or RedHat is in violation of the GPL which Linux is governed by. That's why all RedHat is selling is support and the fact they have tested the distribution with their own employees.
I'm using Fedora right now. I was using RH8 and RH7.3 with the $60/year RHN option. I never called RedHat for support and I've been running this stuff for years. I mean, really, how much tech support was a dedicated firewall or dedicated DNS server need?
Mr Taylor forgot some important things about Linux in general -- IT IS NOT ABOUT PRICE! Really, when your server gets hacked or destroyed by a virus does price matter then?
I love my Apache logs, they have lots of IIS script-kiddie hack lines!
Total Cost of Ownership should include recovery from disasters. At least with Linux, everything is a file -- I can gzip/tarball everything if I want. In Windows, crap is all over the place in that darn registry or ADS.
Well, I would agree that doing drugs was an extremely poor decision. Not surprised it eventually claimed his life -- since many drugs ultimately do this.
As far the legal issues, Phil had to settle out of court so we won't ever really know that the courts would have ruled in the end. It could have been a landmark case -- like so many software-patent related cases. Unfortunately, a lot of time in the American justice system, it isn't if you are right or wrong -- it's how well funded your lawyers are. I do tend to question the judicial system for that reason. For example: if you were a minority accused of a crime about 50 years ago in just about any State in the Southeastern USA (or most states in the US) -- I doubt you got a fair trial. Even if you were at fault, I doubt you got a fair sentence. Software patents/copywrites are also very subjective and easily swayed by money. I can name several such cases currently going on -- especially with the DMCA in force.
I'm sure if you went back in history, you would be appauled what was considered the "right" decision of the courts in many cases. Since Phil never really had much ability to defend himself, there's not much we can do but speculate either way.
It seems like it's courtroom victors that end up (re)writing the history books.
I personally won't go around saying that Phil deserved to die -- regardless of his actions with SEA. Even if he was fully at fault (which I don't believe was the case). After all, he is the creator of the most popular compression format in use (ZIP). So what if he was legally forced to make a format different and completely incompatible with ARC? Zip is so much better, and available for free.
I'm not sure Phil copied the code becaue his stuff *actually worked*. Actually what happened, is SEA took (by legal force) Phil's code and evetually released it as their own. You can find a lot of good, valid, non-conspiracy-theory-like, information on the web to backup this point. One or two websites that contradict the masses of other websites don't add up to much in my book. Just because it is on the web doesn't mean it is right. I can find websites claiming that Hilter or Stalin were the good guys -- don't mean it was so.
I'm sure this issue isn't as black and white as we make it sound. I'm sure that Phil did *something* wrong -- I just don't believe the BS hype that SEA said about Phil. Of course, this is one thing I like about the Internet (and BBSes of early days), you can tell your side of the story.
Up yours!
SEA sued the hell out of PK because he made a superiour ARC program that actually worked. The folks at SEA didn't like that because they were losing customers. Not much competitions when you compare pricey crap to cheap stuff that works. Of course, PK had to settle b/c he was a small fry at that time and didn't have any money for legal fees. He was banned from making software that was compatible with ARC. SEA also won the source code that PK had developed -- gosh I wonder why?
So, after a little bit, PK came out with the now famous PKZIP. He released it. Since he was banned from writting ARC compatible software, someone else wrote a nice utility to convert ARC to ZIP. For some reason, almost overnight, entire BBSes (pre-Internet days) were converted to ZIP.
Nowadays, SEA and ARC are only footnotes in the annuals of computing history. Long forgotten and relatively unknown by today's Internet generation.
The story almost feels like our SCO vs Linux issue of today. Historical Deja Vu.
C'mon! They just swept the issue under the rug. The bought out a poor kid -- probably scared to death over the thought of being sued by the Almighty Bill. But the real issue still has not been resolved! Did he really do anything bad or is just M$ trying to take over the world again?
How is this no different than Lindows? Very similiar names, and they probably chose the name because of the closeness to a popular product of M$. Sure, you can argue that point, but can M$ patent/copywrite words that sound similar to their name or products?
Darn. I was hoping the kid would counter sue. Although, I can't blame him. I would probably sell out too -- but since I already have an XBox -- I would hold out for the $1M instead.
TOS includes cost of losing company secrets and customer's credit card info to hackers. And what about stupid banks that actually put Windows XP on ATMs and then get trashed by viruses. Yeah, that's a great ROI. By now, folks should realize that a move away from Windows is not about saving a few dollars.
I think Microsoft saying that Windows Admins are usually underpaid by 25% to 28%.
I don't trust anything Microsoft writes. I certainly don't want them writing BIOS level stuff before their buggy OS gets loaded.
However, I'm wondering if this is how they will integrate digital rights management that the MPAA and RIAA want soo badly forced on to consumers computers? This could be it. Everyone's computer must authenticate with the Master Server in Redmond.:-)
Beyond that, this just means we'll blue screen faster or on detection of a non-MS operating system.
Personally I find fault with the logic of it's old therefore it's broken.
Don't worry. The initial "early adopter" pricing will be so expensive that no one will buy it. Only in the last few months have DVD burners come down to 2-year ago prices of CDRW drives. That should give about a 5 to 7 year lead on consumer-level pricing of the new format DVD drives. Also, media costs are now just under $/GB of CDR. I suspect the same will be true of the media for several years until a "critical mass" takes place. I still think you have a good 10 years before switching to the "new" format(s) and by then there will be an even new technology on the horizon. Even so, DVD are considered to be the fastest widely adopted "new" technology (fastest to reach the critical mass industry covets). I'm not sure folks are going to be just as excited to move to another format. Since the new DVD format is aimed at the "HD" consumer market -- it could take 20 years and government mandate to take hold (sorta like another technology I know of). I suspect the computer industry to adopt it sooner than that.
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My favorite quote: "...in critical areas like engineering, manageability, compatibility and security". In every Total Cost of Ownership study funded my M$, they forget to build into the cost of recovery from hackers/virus/trojan destroying your Windows box. I'm speaking from personal experience, of course. I'm not sure they really get it!
BTW, PCM Wav files compress very well in Zip format -- which is lossless. Of course, it is an extra step, but can be used for archiving old master WAV files. I usually batch several together and archive them on a DVD. As for pictures in JPEG. I use JPEG for most picture taking on my digital camera. If I really know I can get a good shot, I'll switch to RAW or TIFF -- just hate waiting the extra 40 seconds to record the image. If I plan to "work" with a JPEG image, I'll convert it to a lossless format then back to a JPEG. Minimizes the generational effects of working in JPEG. I have to work with the limitations of my camera. If my camera gave me the ability to save images in PNG I would take it, as long as it doesn't forever to save an image. Compact Flash is cheap these days. I can always buy more CF cards. For that matter, so are EIDE drives and DVD burners.
Of course, the most important thing to consider is regardless of what your salary is, always live within your means and immediately begin building your "rainy days" funds. You'll need about 6 months expenses in your savings account -- you never know how long your job will last and how long it might take you to find another one.
Easy, Just write a quick app to monitor the emials. You could even write some logic to "randomly" send your obligated message back to Virtual MDA. Sounds like a shell script to me. :-) The rest of the time, just pipe to /dev/null.
HOWEVER, I've bought software only to get ticked off because it wants to installed crap like Gator or worse on my system. Many times, this isn't part of a EULA (if there is even one). That's one way to get me ticked off. I PAID for the software to NOT be bugged! In particular, this was selfware that looked cool (puzzles and card games) and that I picked up at Target. I'm sticking with "download before you buy" stuff.
Great, another something mankind can't leave well enough alone. We haven't learned that in the last 1000 years, I won't count on it in the next. Knowing our poor judgement and arrogance, we'll destroy the entire planent trying it out.
Already suggested -- it's called .xxx -- but it might not make it. I gets suggested few years.
Start catching these folks and hand them over to the ISPs they waste their bandwidth or end users that get scammed. Creating The Running Man for spammers. If you can get out alive, you can go free -- but the folks you spammed have chainsaws and whips. Of course, the major TV networks will jump on this. Forget Survior. Have a nice day.
Of course, I think this is aimed at larger companies that don't care all that much about price. Less hassle the better -- but for the average joe -- I don't recommend it.
I have a current reseller plan that lets me register names for $6.99 per year -- one year at a time. I really don't have an incentive to register for longer -- other than less hassle.
I think it's a great match since any software from both companies attempt to take over your system. I'm tired of deleting the Try AOL Risk Free shortcuts -- if they join forces -- I'm screwed!
(disclaimer for the humor impared: This was a joke). Suggested mod: +1.9999999443523564 (oops, I still run a Pentium).
Guns can't shoot themselves -- they require people to pull the trigger. Broadband itself isn't bad, it's the spammers --regardless if they use dialup, T1, T3, or better.
Spammers have done a great job of making my email almost useless. Most spam solutions still allow too many false positives or negatives to be worth the money.
Adversiting on the web is going to do the same thing -- give it a few more years and the web will be just one big collection of advertising. There are many sites that started out with a wealth of knowledge and modest Ads they have turned into commercial land with little, if any, real content. In my opinion, About.com is a good example. In a few years, the vast major of the web will be this way.
What can you say. So much head knowledge, so little common sense. Apparently, some colleges don't require even basic Chemistry for Law School. I think this scares the hell out of me. Great experiement on how to fool paralegals.
Not not sure what the long term effects are, but I know that America and the work force must open up to the prospects of overseas work. Personally, I know that the companies are outsourcing for the monetary reasons -- which I don't like -- but we can't avoid it either.
What I envision in 30 years is more people outside the US will be making better paying wages -- the land-rush to find ultra-cheap wages will end because there won't be anyone willing to work for next-to-nothing. Think about it, how many jobs are getting moved to Mexico these days? Mexico is losing jobs to India and China. It's only a matter of time before the Chinese labor force demands a higher wage.
As far as Americans, we should stop spending 110% of our income. 7-year car loans and 40 year home mortgages are the American way of life these days. C'mon! Doesn't anyone see where this is going?
but of course they won't do that. I don't have any assets (not compared to large companies). Big deal, sue me for $5 Billing and you might get all of $5 from me. Change my system over to BSD until they start suing them too. That should buy us 10 years or so to develop a completely new *nix replacement.
Try getting cross country with big deseal trucks hauling who knows what. The gas and lodging alone could be over $1000. BTW, It is illegal to carry more than $10,000 in to airports without written permission from the government. I guess that rule applies to other places of public transport and other check stations. I think there is even a law against just driving that much money across state lines. I know everyone is going to just assume there is something just terribly wrong with someone like that, but many folks just do it without thinking. For example, why won't you just take enough cash to spend two weeks vacationing in another country? Other countries much prefer large American bills -- you often get a better exchange rate (speaking from experience). Besides, the FBI profiling needs to be updated. Carrying $10K today vs $10K 30 years ago are VERY different.
Mr Taylor forgot some important things about Linux in general -- IT IS NOT ABOUT PRICE! Really, when your server gets hacked or destroyed by a virus does price matter then?
I love my Apache logs, they have lots of IIS script-kiddie hack lines!
Total Cost of Ownership should include recovery from disasters. At least with Linux, everything is a file -- I can gzip/tarball everything if I want. In Windows, crap is all over the place in that darn registry or ADS.
Sometimes, simplicity and security are priceless.
As far the legal issues, Phil had to settle out of court so we won't ever really know that the courts would have ruled in the end. It could have been a landmark case -- like so many software-patent related cases. Unfortunately, a lot of time in the American justice system, it isn't if you are right or wrong -- it's how well funded your lawyers are. I do tend to question the judicial system for that reason. For example: if you were a minority accused of a crime about 50 years ago in just about any State in the Southeastern USA (or most states in the US) -- I doubt you got a fair trial. Even if you were at fault, I doubt you got a fair sentence. Software patents/copywrites are also very subjective and easily swayed by money. I can name several such cases currently going on -- especially with the DMCA in force.
I'm sure if you went back in history, you would be appauled what was considered the "right" decision of the courts in many cases. Since Phil never really had much ability to defend himself, there's not much we can do but speculate either way.
It seems like it's courtroom victors that end up (re)writing the history books.
I personally won't go around saying that Phil deserved to die -- regardless of his actions with SEA. Even if he was fully at fault (which I don't believe was the case). After all, he is the creator of the most popular compression format in use (ZIP). So what if he was legally forced to make a format different and completely incompatible with ARC? Zip is so much better, and available for free. I'm not sure Phil copied the code becaue his stuff *actually worked*. Actually what happened, is SEA took (by legal force) Phil's code and evetually released it as their own. You can find a lot of good, valid, non-conspiracy-theory-like, information on the web to backup this point. One or two websites that contradict the masses of other websites don't add up to much in my book. Just because it is on the web doesn't mean it is right. I can find websites claiming that Hilter or Stalin were the good guys -- don't mean it was so. I'm sure this issue isn't as black and white as we make it sound. I'm sure that Phil did *something* wrong -- I just don't believe the BS hype that SEA said about Phil. Of course, this is one thing I like about the Internet (and BBSes of early days), you can tell your side of the story.
Up yours! SEA sued the hell out of PK because he made a superiour ARC program that actually worked. The folks at SEA didn't like that because they were losing customers. Not much competitions when you compare pricey crap to cheap stuff that works. Of course, PK had to settle b/c he was a small fry at that time and didn't have any money for legal fees. He was banned from making software that was compatible with ARC. SEA also won the source code that PK had developed -- gosh I wonder why? So, after a little bit, PK came out with the now famous PKZIP. He released it. Since he was banned from writting ARC compatible software, someone else wrote a nice utility to convert ARC to ZIP. For some reason, almost overnight, entire BBSes (pre-Internet days) were converted to ZIP. Nowadays, SEA and ARC are only footnotes in the annuals of computing history. Long forgotten and relatively unknown by today's Internet generation. The story almost feels like our SCO vs Linux issue of today. Historical Deja Vu.
How is this no different than Lindows? Very similiar names, and they probably chose the name because of the closeness to a popular product of M$. Sure, you can argue that point, but can M$ patent/copywrite words that sound similar to their name or products?
Darn. I was hoping the kid would counter sue. Although, I can't blame him. I would probably sell out too -- but since I already have an XBox -- I would hold out for the $1M instead.
I think Microsoft saying that Windows Admins are usually underpaid by 25% to 28%.
So, I'll just relax with a nice game of GTA.... :-)
However, I'm wondering if this is how they will integrate digital rights management that the MPAA and RIAA want soo badly forced on to consumers computers? This could be it. Everyone's computer must authenticate with the Master Server in Redmond. :-)
Beyond that, this just means we'll blue screen faster or on detection of a non-MS operating system.
Personally I find fault with the logic of it's old therefore it's broken.
Don't worry. The initial "early adopter" pricing will be so expensive that no one will buy it. Only in the last few months have DVD burners come down to 2-year ago prices of CDRW drives. That should give about a 5 to 7 year lead on consumer-level pricing of the new format DVD drives. Also, media costs are now just under $/GB of CDR. I suspect the same will be true of the media for several years until a "critical mass" takes place. I still think you have a good 10 years before switching to the "new" format(s) and by then there will be an even new technology on the horizon. Even so, DVD are considered to be the fastest widely adopted "new" technology (fastest to reach the critical mass industry covets). I'm not sure folks are going to be just as excited to move to another format. Since the new DVD format is aimed at the "HD" consumer market -- it could take 20 years and government mandate to take hold (sorta like another technology I know of). I suspect the computer industry to adopt it sooner than that.