Yeah anyone who reads fark on a regular basis knows that kids who make home movies often get charged as adults for laws meant to protect the childish innocence. It really is very ironic and very SNAFU.
How old is your CPU? Because most even relatively modern systems can push H.264 and VC1 at 1080i without problems. It only takes about an Athlon 2100+ to do either without dropping frames. If you throw in an Nvidia 8500/8600 it takes even less CPU power.
I'm not sure why this is marked funny, it's technically true. There was ONE remote hole if you have ASP turned on (fairly common) and one with the admin page (stupid to turn on). That's since 2003, I'm sure Apache has had at least that many in the same timeframe (not sure since I don't herd Apache servers). IIS was a joke before Windows 2003/IIS6 but MS really learned their lesson and did it right this time.
Yeah because that armed insurrection in the middle east is going so poorly for the insurgents.... I think you underestimate the absolute control it takes to have the military totally repress an armed resistance.
Hmm, well the DMCA safe harbor provisions are very similar to laws protecting common carrier as is the definition of a service provider similar to the definition of a common carrier:
Question: What defines a service provider under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?
Answer: A service provider is defined as "an entity offering transmission, routing, or providing connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received" or "a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities thereof." [512(k)(1)(A-B)]link
I would say that appear very similar to the definition of a common carrier and that filtering content precludes protection under the statute =)
Uh, this isn't an inhouse system it's a multimillion dollar COTS financial package with minimal customizations. If the vendor had supported IE7 when we started implementation in August 2006 then we would have had support but they didn't and with a project big enough that even in a fast moving environment it takes 5 months to implement there was no way we were switching code midstream. After a 5 month implementation we had a few months of shakeout where we worked out the wrinkles in the system. Then we spent most of 2007 building reporting and other systems around the core financials system (including a paperless accounts payable workflow process). Now we are going through our first year end process. With a system that large and with that many moving parts you don't upgrade on a whim. Like I said in a previous post our most likely time to upgrade code will be when we reach the end of our 3 year hardware lifecycle and we have a chance to run parallel systems. Heck our admin who specializes in this package came from a previous employer that had a HEAVILY customized previous version version of this system that was running on 7 year old base code, they were looking at a 2+ year project to upgrade to the newest version. If you haven't worked with Peoplesoft, SAP, JDE, etc then I guess you just can't understand how large and how absolutely business critical these systems are, you don't change things for the sake of change.
The safe harbor provisions. By selectively filtering content they are no longer a common carrier and are thus part of the content serving chain and are thus liable for "providing" each and every piece of content that successfully flows through their system. It's right there in black and white in a document that they and the content industry wrote, they figured that banning the act would be sufficient so they wrote it to fit their existing business model. Now they think they can make more money by not expanding capacity and therefore want to eliminate one of the more bandwidth intensive uses of their network.
The IT team was just one voice in the selection process, and definitely NOT the loudest one. Basically management decided on the featureset they needed to run the business efficiently and the product selected met the largest number of those items. IT is an enabler here and if we need to support an older browser to meet the businesses needs then so be it. IT standards are only good for business if your business is IT or if you can get an identical produce at no additional cost which also supports standards, since you often can't then it's just another variable in a cost benefit spreadsheet (real or in the heads of the decision makers). You can attempt to educate the decision makers but ultimately it's our job to make it work no matter what so long as its humanly possibly and financially feasible to do so. Oh and it's not like I have some love for IE6, I run mozilla as my normal desktop browser and have since the early Milestone releases. I'm here to enable the business to use technology in the most productive way possible, if that mean implementing a server farm of Citrix servers to run an outdated browser then so be it. There's nothing keeping us from running another desktop platform if we choose, or even upgrading to IE7 on the desktop if we need to. If you think preaching about open standards is more important than enabling your customers to work more efficiently then I think it's not me that should be polishing my resume =)
I don't have a problem with ActiveX, of course I run a properly locked down environment =) No new controls can be installed without going through proper testing and signoff, it's not like I let the users just click and install. I know not every IT organization is so lucky, but after the disaster the previous staff left with frequent virus outbreaks and other general flakiness it wasn't hard to sell the business on a properly run environment.
Yeah, let's decide on our financial system based on which browsers it supports! NOT. There are a hell of a lot of decision points that go into making a purchase on that scale and I can guarantee you that things like the browsers supported are FAR down the list. IT exists to make the business more efficient, if you force a suboptimal tool on your users just because you have a browser fetish you aren't doing your job. If I had a need to support IE7 I could do so, I would just roll out a new batch of Citrix servers and publish an IE7 icon to the users, but as it stands today I support IE6 and it works fine for me and my user community. In two years when we reach the hardware refresh cycle on the financials servers we will probably look at installing patches to make the system code current and we will get IE7 support at that time. We'll be able to do it then because we will run parallel environments and allow the business to do extensive testing. There is no need to go through that large expense just to switch browsers with no corresponding business benefit.
If your corporate IT department didn't know about IE7 they should be sacked. Hell if your bigger than about a hundred users and you have auto-authorize turned on in WSUS they should probably be sacked. I knew about the IE7 GPO setting back when IE7 went into public beta and put the block in place back then, so even if a user happens to have local admin (not many do here) they can't install the update.
Probably because they are in the same boat we are, we implemented a large financial system last year and went to the newest available version and yet it still isn't certified with IE7, between that system and our document management system it will probably be years before we can run IE7. The financial system is going through its first year end right now so we are still tweaking and optimizing it, I can't imagine doing an upgrade just so we can support IE7!
How about being the biggest philanthropist in the history of mankind? He's built one of the largest fortunes in history and is giving essentially ALL of it away, and he's convinced the second richest man to join him. If something truly useful doesn't come out of that foundation then I weep for humanity for then there truly is very little hope for the poor and downtrodden.
So then they grind the low level mob that drops the good item and get OMGWTFBBQ levels of gold and can suddenly afford a suite of all blue/purple items that don't happen to be the "perfect" items for their char. It all balances out in the end =)
Nah, GOOD low level item will always have buyers because people startup new toons all the time. Once you've played through the low levels a couple times you want to get out of them ASAP so you are willing to spend some gold (time) for better low level items to get some time back by not having to play the low levels as long with the new toon.
Simple answer, guild bank. A raiding guild selling off the stuff they don't need could probably reach the limit in relatively short order. In fact I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier.
They are only better if you prefer neatness and flexibility over efficiency. Modular PSU's are always ~10-15% less efficient than the same design in a nonmodular form.
Yeah I get it occasionally on my HP NC6120 if the charger isn't seated just right. It comes through the dock connector on the bottom. I don't think this a new or all that troubling thing, it's not like it's 220 or 480 triphase! =)
Yeah and enough transistors to support decent capacities and decent speed draw absolutely no power...
Samsung's 32GB SSD uses.9W, only about half what an equivalent performance 100GB laptop drive uses.
You just reminded me, I need to RMA that drive with Seagate. Or perhaps I should wait a couple years and abuse the 5 year warranty to get a bigger drive since I already bought a replacement and don't need another 160G drive right now =)
I currently pay $36.72/month for 6Mbps/300Kbps cable (I know the figure because I had it broken out of my bundle so my employer can reimburse me). I have 3 available IP's and no noticeable caps. I also generally get a person in 3 rings when I call support (but that's usually at 2am when they perform maintenance that they didn't announce so it's not that outrageous). The upload sucks so I have to do some shaping on my end to keep the VoIP sounding good, that should get better soon when they bump my tier to 8/1Mbps.
Actually our DS3 from AT&T works exactly as you described, we pay a monthly fee for the line and the first (x)Mbps average usage, there is a separate fee for each Mbps average over with the cost per Mbps going down until you reach the full 45Mbps that the line supports (before which your friendly telco rep should be upselling you to a bigger pipe =) It works great for us as we can support large file transfers during the day and only use the line at night for our global partners and data syncs. We're actually paying LESS for a 45Mbps line then we were for 4 T1's, of course it also works out for the telco because we only need half a dual DS3 card instead of a full T1 card in their router and they have the potential to grow their monthly fee without additional provisioning expense. I have to say I wouldn't mind such a plan at home if the pricing were reasonable and there was some way to setup alerting so you didn't get a nasty surprise one month when your kid finds the newest P2P app.
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Yeah anyone who reads fark on a regular basis knows that kids who make home movies often get charged as adults for laws meant to protect the childish innocence. It really is very ironic and very SNAFU.
How old is your CPU? Because most even relatively modern systems can push H.264 and VC1 at 1080i without problems. It only takes about an Athlon 2100+ to do either without dropping frames. If you throw in an Nvidia 8500/8600 it takes even less CPU power.
I'm not sure why this is marked funny, it's technically true. There was ONE remote hole if you have ASP turned on (fairly common) and one with the admin page (stupid to turn on). That's since 2003, I'm sure Apache has had at least that many in the same timeframe (not sure since I don't herd Apache servers). IIS was a joke before Windows 2003/IIS6 but MS really learned their lesson and did it right this time.
Yeah because that armed insurrection in the middle east is going so poorly for the insurgents.... I think you underestimate the absolute control it takes to have the military totally repress an armed resistance.
Hmm, well the DMCA safe harbor provisions are very similar to laws protecting common carrier as is the definition of a service provider similar to the definition of a common carrier:
Question: What defines a service provider under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?
Answer: A service provider is defined as "an entity offering transmission, routing, or providing connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received" or "a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities thereof." [512(k)(1)(A-B)] link
I would say that appear very similar to the definition of a common carrier and that filtering content precludes protection under the statute =)
Uh, this isn't an inhouse system it's a multimillion dollar COTS financial package with minimal customizations. If the vendor had supported IE7 when we started implementation in August 2006 then we would have had support but they didn't and with a project big enough that even in a fast moving environment it takes 5 months to implement there was no way we were switching code midstream. After a 5 month implementation we had a few months of shakeout where we worked out the wrinkles in the system. Then we spent most of 2007 building reporting and other systems around the core financials system (including a paperless accounts payable workflow process). Now we are going through our first year end process. With a system that large and with that many moving parts you don't upgrade on a whim. Like I said in a previous post our most likely time to upgrade code will be when we reach the end of our 3 year hardware lifecycle and we have a chance to run parallel systems. Heck our admin who specializes in this package came from a previous employer that had a HEAVILY customized previous version version of this system that was running on 7 year old base code, they were looking at a 2+ year project to upgrade to the newest version. If you haven't worked with Peoplesoft, SAP, JDE, etc then I guess you just can't understand how large and how absolutely business critical these systems are, you don't change things for the sake of change.
Hope you never takeup WoW, patches are distributed through bittorrent =) 500MB patches at modem speed would really suck!
The safe harbor provisions. By selectively filtering content they are no longer a common carrier and are thus part of the content serving chain and are thus liable for "providing" each and every piece of content that successfully flows through their system. It's right there in black and white in a document that they and the content industry wrote, they figured that banning the act would be sufficient so they wrote it to fit their existing business model. Now they think they can make more money by not expanding capacity and therefore want to eliminate one of the more bandwidth intensive uses of their network.
The IT team was just one voice in the selection process, and definitely NOT the loudest one. Basically management decided on the featureset they needed to run the business efficiently and the product selected met the largest number of those items. IT is an enabler here and if we need to support an older browser to meet the businesses needs then so be it. IT standards are only good for business if your business is IT or if you can get an identical produce at no additional cost which also supports standards, since you often can't then it's just another variable in a cost benefit spreadsheet (real or in the heads of the decision makers). You can attempt to educate the decision makers but ultimately it's our job to make it work no matter what so long as its humanly possibly and financially feasible to do so. Oh and it's not like I have some love for IE6, I run mozilla as my normal desktop browser and have since the early Milestone releases. I'm here to enable the business to use technology in the most productive way possible, if that mean implementing a server farm of Citrix servers to run an outdated browser then so be it. There's nothing keeping us from running another desktop platform if we choose, or even upgrading to IE7 on the desktop if we need to. If you think preaching about open standards is more important than enabling your customers to work more efficiently then I think it's not me that should be polishing my resume =)
I don't have a problem with ActiveX, of course I run a properly locked down environment =) No new controls can be installed without going through proper testing and signoff, it's not like I let the users just click and install. I know not every IT organization is so lucky, but after the disaster the previous staff left with frequent virus outbreaks and other general flakiness it wasn't hard to sell the business on a properly run environment.
Yeah, let's decide on our financial system based on which browsers it supports! NOT. There are a hell of a lot of decision points that go into making a purchase on that scale and I can guarantee you that things like the browsers supported are FAR down the list. IT exists to make the business more efficient, if you force a suboptimal tool on your users just because you have a browser fetish you aren't doing your job. If I had a need to support IE7 I could do so, I would just roll out a new batch of Citrix servers and publish an IE7 icon to the users, but as it stands today I support IE6 and it works fine for me and my user community. In two years when we reach the hardware refresh cycle on the financials servers we will probably look at installing patches to make the system code current and we will get IE7 support at that time. We'll be able to do it then because we will run parallel environments and allow the business to do extensive testing. There is no need to go through that large expense just to switch browsers with no corresponding business benefit.
If your corporate IT department didn't know about IE7 they should be sacked. Hell if your bigger than about a hundred users and you have auto-authorize turned on in WSUS they should probably be sacked. I knew about the IE7 GPO setting back when IE7 went into public beta and put the block in place back then, so even if a user happens to have local admin (not many do here) they can't install the update.
ActiveX, it's easy to addin third party tools that are difficult or impossible to do any other way.
Probably because they are in the same boat we are, we implemented a large financial system last year and went to the newest available version and yet it still isn't certified with IE7, between that system and our document management system it will probably be years before we can run IE7. The financial system is going through its first year end right now so we are still tweaking and optimizing it, I can't imagine doing an upgrade just so we can support IE7!
How about being the biggest philanthropist in the history of mankind? He's built one of the largest fortunes in history and is giving essentially ALL of it away, and he's convinced the second richest man to join him. If something truly useful doesn't come out of that foundation then I weep for humanity for then there truly is very little hope for the poor and downtrodden.
So then they grind the low level mob that drops the good item and get OMGWTFBBQ levels of gold and can suddenly afford a suite of all blue/purple items that don't happen to be the "perfect" items for their char. It all balances out in the end =)
Nah, GOOD low level item will always have buyers because people startup new toons all the time. Once you've played through the low levels a couple times you want to get out of them ASAP so you are willing to spend some gold (time) for better low level items to get some time back by not having to play the low levels as long with the new toon.
Simple answer, guild bank. A raiding guild selling off the stuff they don't need could probably reach the limit in relatively short order. In fact I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier.
They are only better if you prefer neatness and flexibility over efficiency. Modular PSU's are always ~10-15% less efficient than the same design in a nonmodular form.
Yeah I get it occasionally on my HP NC6120 if the charger isn't seated just right. It comes through the dock connector on the bottom. I don't think this a new or all that troubling thing, it's not like it's 220 or 480 triphase! =)
Yeah and enough transistors to support decent capacities and decent speed draw absolutely no power... Samsung's 32GB SSD uses .9W, only about half what an equivalent performance 100GB laptop drive uses.
You just reminded me, I need to RMA that drive with Seagate. Or perhaps I should wait a couple years and abuse the 5 year warranty to get a bigger drive since I already bought a replacement and don't need another 160G drive right now =)
Because it ensures that the very real possibility of bitrot for the majority of documents written in the last 15 years is now greatly reduced.
I currently pay $36.72/month for 6Mbps/300Kbps cable (I know the figure because I had it broken out of my bundle so my employer can reimburse me). I have 3 available IP's and no noticeable caps. I also generally get a person in 3 rings when I call support (but that's usually at 2am when they perform maintenance that they didn't announce so it's not that outrageous). The upload sucks so I have to do some shaping on my end to keep the VoIP sounding good, that should get better soon when they bump my tier to 8/1Mbps.
Actually our DS3 from AT&T works exactly as you described, we pay a monthly fee for the line and the first (x)Mbps average usage, there is a separate fee for each Mbps average over with the cost per Mbps going down until you reach the full 45Mbps that the line supports (before which your friendly telco rep should be upselling you to a bigger pipe =) It works great for us as we can support large file transfers during the day and only use the line at night for our global partners and data syncs. We're actually paying LESS for a 45Mbps line then we were for 4 T1's, of course it also works out for the telco because we only need half a dual DS3 card instead of a full T1 card in their router and they have the potential to grow their monthly fee without additional provisioning expense. I have to say I wouldn't mind such a plan at home if the pricing were reasonable and there was some way to setup alerting so you didn't get a nasty surprise one month when your kid finds the newest P2P app.