Re:As opposed to over consumption?
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SARS Contained
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How about some mandatory DRM, coupled with some copyright lawsuits, a helping of monopolistic practices, served with a side of consolidating media conglomerates?:)
Take a lesson from the Germans in WW2 -- don't fight a 2 front war, especially if they're both bigger than you! Lindows as a company is using its size and maneouverability to dodge any direct confrontations with established market players...Dell, Microsoft, SCO. Lindows is relying upon flying below the radar of Microsoft long enough to solidify themselves as a company, create a stable product, and build a customer base. Microsoft knows of them, but hasn't brought down the full weight of their arsenal upon them yet.
In SCO's case, market forces will take care of them...IBM and the open source community have a new target of opportunity. Lindows has their own fish to fry, and limited resources with which to wage their war. Who knows, if SCO is beaten back far enough legally, maybe Lindows can sue to get their money back after the fact...
I'm sorry, I'm Canadian, i don't quite understand American financial mechanisms and organisations...but i find it hard to believe that a "Terrorist Organisation bent on ruling the world" would be managing employment insurance!
Futuremark: "NVidia is cheating! Not as much as ATI, but they're cheating!"
Nvidia: Knock knock
Futuremark: "Who's there?"
Nvidia: "Goons...hired goons."
Futuremark: "Oh...haha...um...Nvidia is actually in the business of application optimisation! Our mistake. Won't happen again."
Seriously folks, this is Nvidia using big bad lawyers to scare Futuremark into capitulating. They might have held their ground, until ATI was proven to be doing the same thing, albeit to a much lesser degree.
Unfortunately, the only person who loses in this scenario is the consumer.
this is killing Linux, OSD in general
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Today's SCO News
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CIO of my corporation today sent out a corporate memo to all IT departments. Basically it demands that any departmental pilot projects involving open-source materials be placed on hold given the 'ongoing legal concerns about the licensing of open source materials'. This SCO debacle, whether orchestrated by Microsoft or not, is killing any goodwill regarding open source products. I can't even get people to agree to deploy Apache to replace our aging iPlanet webserver deployments... "Who owns Apache? Who provides support? How quickly can the vendor manage patches/updates if we have a critical production problem???". Never mind that SunONE support is pathetic, and iPlanet is a dying product line...at least management knows who Sun is.
Roll back the game 24 hours, harden the servers, and prepare a creative press release -- problem solved.
"High level characters summoned the Cthulu mythos through misintrepreting portions of the Necronomicon. Accordingly, some of the space/time contiunuum in the game world was temporarily disrupted."
"If you see a glowing green orb, please be aware that this is the Locknar and should not be approached. Unpredictable results may occur."
"Unfortunately, in Shadowbane a character named "Sauron" acquired a randomly generated treasure named "The One Ring". We are investigating the probability factor of the random treasure generator and will patch this in release 1.01."
"Our improbability drive is malfunctioning. Please stand by."
Honestly, I'd be more willing to buy this game if I realised they had a sense of humour.
There's been lots of attempts. The most promising I've seen was a company called Mondex. Unfortunately, the pilot in Canada failed miserably, mainly since people had a hard time differentiating the concept of electronic money vs electronic credit cards.
Here's some of the things we use our dynamic front end for:
- session management for logon to our transaction based web services, and for tracking of user experience and browsing patterns
- dynamic display of content based on business rules (e.g. if you claim you're a student, or you're a pre-exsiting customer and we KNOW you're a student, we're not going to pre-qualify you for a platinum visa)
- re-use of content for other channels of publication, like e-mail and wireless
- repurpose of content for display under different branding
My experience so far has been that our clients want these functions, but are unwilling to commit the time or money (or more importantly, discipline!) required to delivery these effectively.
HTML might be the best solution if the organisation is unwilling to think things through, but i'm afraid that we'll scrap a multi-million dollar system to have the buisness return and complain that their options are limited with HTML a year after they've forced a strategy change.
My fear is that they're going with an HTML framework to reduce costs and to give themselves greater flexibility for design (e.g. business types understand rotating logos and flash screens) but will limit their added value down the road. At the end of the day, people bank online to make transactions, and to support content in that context in a stable effective way, HTML publishing by desktop jockeys is a 1997 solution.
I am currently the operations manager for an enterprise content management system for a large financial institution. My IT department is currently participating in an assessment, initiated by our business partners, of throwing out our version controlled dynamic webservices portal IN FAVOUR OF HTML. This boggles my mind, and seems completely idiotic, but they're in charge of the $, and they insist that they're not getting 'value' for their content presentation. The problem, as i see it, is that HTML creation is a relatively simple skillset which is easy to predict and easy for the business to understand...you want x # of pages, that takes y amount of time. Arguments like "what about version control?", expotential increase of manual maintenance effort over time, etc are hard to quantify, and my concerns are rejected as "just theory" or "technology trying to make themselves sound important, its not that complicated."
Granted, this situation is partly the result of internal politics at my corporation, but i think that if the ground work for ROI was done more thoroughly up front during the delivery of this CMS this would not be much of an issue. I for one will buy this book if only to get some insight into industry standard ways of how to caluclate ROI for things like content reuse, publication between channels of delivery, content maintenance costs, etc.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to manage this situation, or how you've dealt with similar concerns, i'd be open to your thoughts.
Sun is a hardware company; as much as they like to trumpet their 'value add' components and services, their bread winning business is SPARC. Java, a great language, generates little revenue and is a tool that drives need to purchase their hardware. Remember iPlanet? Approaching 0 on the latest web surveys as Apache dominates that space.
IBM and HP are making smart moves adopting Linux business models. As Linux matures and benefits from a gazillion different implementations, AIX and HPUX will begin to look less and less desirable.
Getting back to Sun, Solaris is not a revenue piece for them either. There was alot of complaining in the Slashdot crowd and Sun's commitment to Solaris on Intel has waned, but really, would you like to be running Solaris instead of Linux or Debian? Thought not...
This film is amazing. Film noir meets Western meets Allegorical Search for Meaning of Life (not the Monty Python film, i have to remember this is slashdot!!!).
Robert Mitchum, John Hurt, Gabrielle Byrne, Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, and Iggy Pop. And...Iggy Pop is well cast. That alone is worth seeing!
Also, if you're not a Neil Young fan before this movie, you will be afterwards.
Our intranet platform is run on WinNT / 2000 servers...ugh. Our internet platform is Solaris thaank god. But i digress...
The only way we maintain uptime of 99.96 for our global intranet is through clustering. That way when IIS locks up, or there's a memory leak, or we have to apply the 27th emergency path of the year requiring a reboot, we can phase it in/out of the pool gradually. Most people think clusters are to improve performance...bah, its all about the CTRL-ALT-DEL.
No no no no. The core of LotR was conceived, and mostly written, before 1938.
Any attempts to interpret LotR as a WWI / WWII allegorical tale should be firmly rejected, based on specific comments by Tolkien himself, and rules of linear space-time.:)
As for longing of an anglo-saxon past, why is that automatically considered snobby romantic elitism? He's not the first, nor the last, author to use light vs dark imagery to contrast good vs evil. Post-modern deconstruction of literary history is a legimitate exercise, but not when done with complete disdain for its subject matter.
I'd have to agree with the commentary on the rejection of the japanese self in alot of anime. If you look at the big-budget space operas, alot of them have to deal with thematic apocalypse/destruction, a social afterthought of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Yamamoto, Macross, Akira...big things go boom!
Also, consider this -- there are alot of old school Hollywood directors who feel that b&w is an integral element of being able to carry a fantastic story -- something about colour becoming a distraction. Very few directors use colour as a dramtic/thematic device successfully (exmaple: Antonioni; Kubrick). The colour element brings you too close to reality to believe in the farce such as "Some Like it Hot" (2 cross dressing guys escaping the mob), and Citizen Kane would not look as good if shot in colour. In this way, abstracting a fanastic theme from reality by presenting it in an anime style allows you to appreciate the story much more effectively... I would be postively scared of watching Ranma 1/2 in live action...ewwwww....
brak.slashdot.org is apparently generated via a pack of "Flying Albino Monkeys", whereas the existing server is created via a "Team of Elite Squirrels". Anyone got some performance metrics of Monkeys vs Squirrels, and more importantly, can Monkeys be overclocked?
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How about some mandatory DRM, coupled with some copyright lawsuits, a helping of monopolistic practices, served with a side of consolidating media conglomerates? :)
Damn, Microsoft has hit their "version 3" of pocket devices...this is going to be a sure thing.
1) Windows CE
2) Windows Pocket PC
3) Windows Pcoket PC 2003
Damn you Microsoft! Damn you to hell!!!!!!
That might be a viable option is the patent is going into the public domain, but I thought SCO claimed ownership of the .GIF patent...
Take a lesson from the Germans in WW2 -- don't fight a 2 front war, especially if they're both bigger than you! Lindows as a company is using its size and maneouverability to dodge any direct confrontations with established market players...Dell, Microsoft, SCO. Lindows is relying upon flying below the radar of Microsoft long enough to solidify themselves as a company, create a stable product, and build a customer base. Microsoft knows of them, but hasn't brought down the full weight of their arsenal upon them yet.
In SCO's case, market forces will take care of them...IBM and the open source community have a new target of opportunity. Lindows has their own fish to fry, and limited resources with which to wage their war. Who knows, if SCO is beaten back far enough legally, maybe Lindows can sue to get their money back after the fact...
The problem with "Real Life" is that the penalty phase for a high frag count is enormous -- in some states the penalty is permanent account deletion!
I'm sorry, I'm Canadian, i don't quite understand American financial mechanisms and organisations...but i find it hard to believe that a "Terrorist Organisation bent on ruling the world" would be managing employment insurance!
what, no e-mail address?
oh yeah, right...technology is evil.
Futuremark: "NVidia is cheating! Not as much as ATI, but they're cheating!"
Nvidia: Knock knock
Futuremark: "Who's there?"
Nvidia: "Goons...hired goons."
Futuremark: "Oh...haha...um...Nvidia is actually in the business of application optimisation! Our mistake. Won't happen again."
Seriously folks, this is Nvidia using big bad lawyers to scare Futuremark into capitulating. They might have held their ground, until ATI was proven to be doing the same thing, albeit to a much lesser degree.
Unfortunately, the only person who loses in this scenario is the consumer.
CIO of my corporation today sent out a corporate memo to all IT departments. Basically it demands that any departmental pilot projects involving open-source materials be placed on hold given the 'ongoing legal concerns about the licensing of open source materials'. This SCO debacle, whether orchestrated by Microsoft or not, is killing any goodwill regarding open source products. I can't even get people to agree to deploy Apache to replace our aging iPlanet webserver deployments... "Who owns Apache? Who provides support? How quickly can the vendor manage patches/updates if we have a critical production problem???". Never mind that SunONE support is pathetic, and iPlanet is a dying product line...at least management knows who Sun is.
Roll back the game 24 hours, harden the servers, and prepare a creative press release -- problem solved.
"High level characters summoned the Cthulu mythos through misintrepreting portions of the Necronomicon. Accordingly, some of the space/time contiunuum in the game world was temporarily disrupted."
"If you see a glowing green orb, please be aware that this is the Locknar and should not be approached. Unpredictable results may occur."
"Unfortunately, in Shadowbane a character named "Sauron" acquired a randomly generated treasure named "The One Ring". We are investigating the probability factor of the random treasure generator and will patch this in release 1.01."
"Our improbability drive is malfunctioning. Please stand by."
Honestly, I'd be more willing to buy this game if I realised they had a sense of humour.
There's been lots of attempts. The most promising I've seen was a company called Mondex. Unfortunately, the pilot in Canada failed miserably, mainly since people had a hard time differentiating the concept of electronic money vs electronic credit cards.
http://www.mondex.com/
Here's some of the things we use our dynamic front end for:
- session management for logon to our transaction based web services, and for tracking of user experience and browsing patterns
- dynamic display of content based on business rules (e.g. if you claim you're a student, or you're a pre-exsiting customer and we KNOW you're a student, we're not going to pre-qualify you for a platinum visa)
- re-use of content for other channels of publication, like e-mail and wireless
- repurpose of content for display under different branding
My experience so far has been that our clients want these functions, but are unwilling to commit the time or money (or more importantly, discipline!) required to delivery these effectively.
HTML might be the best solution if the organisation is unwilling to think things through, but i'm afraid that we'll scrap a multi-million dollar system to have the buisness return and complain that their options are limited with HTML a year after they've forced a strategy change.
My fear is that they're going with an HTML framework to reduce costs and to give themselves greater flexibility for design (e.g. business types understand rotating logos and flash screens) but will limit their added value down the road. At the end of the day, people bank online to make transactions, and to support content in that context in a stable effective way, HTML publishing by desktop jockeys is a 1997 solution.
I am currently the operations manager for an enterprise content management system for a large financial institution. My IT department is currently participating in an assessment, initiated by our business partners, of throwing out our version controlled dynamic webservices portal IN FAVOUR OF HTML. This boggles my mind, and seems completely idiotic, but they're in charge of the $, and they insist that they're not getting 'value' for their content presentation. The problem, as i see it, is that HTML creation is a relatively simple skillset which is easy to predict and easy for the business to understand...you want x # of pages, that takes y amount of time. Arguments like "what about version control?", expotential increase of manual maintenance effort over time, etc are hard to quantify, and my concerns are rejected as "just theory" or "technology trying to make themselves sound important, its not that complicated."
Granted, this situation is partly the result of internal politics at my corporation, but i think that if the ground work for ROI was done more thoroughly up front during the delivery of this CMS this would not be much of an issue. I for one will buy this book if only to get some insight into industry standard ways of how to caluclate ROI for things like content reuse, publication between channels of delivery, content maintenance costs, etc.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to manage this situation, or how you've dealt with similar concerns, i'd be open to your thoughts.
Sun is a hardware company; as much as they like to trumpet their 'value add' components and services, their bread winning business is SPARC. Java, a great language, generates little revenue and is a tool that drives need to purchase their hardware. Remember iPlanet? Approaching 0 on the latest web surveys as Apache dominates that space.
IBM and HP are making smart moves adopting Linux business models. As Linux matures and benefits from a gazillion different implementations, AIX and HPUX will begin to look less and less desirable.
Getting back to Sun, Solaris is not a revenue piece for them either. There was alot of complaining in the Slashdot crowd and Sun's commitment to Solaris on Intel has waned, but really, would you like to be running Solaris instead of Linux or Debian? Thought not...
...install a version 1.0 of a product release. Wait for the patches, or you might corrupt your Nirvana installs...
Someone please mod parent up.
This film is amazing. Film noir meets Western meets Allegorical Search for Meaning of Life (not the Monty Python film, i have to remember this is slashdot!!!).
Robert Mitchum, John Hurt, Gabrielle Byrne, Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, and Iggy Pop. And...Iggy Pop is well cast. That alone is worth seeing!
Also, if you're not a Neil Young fan before this movie, you will be afterwards.
Our intranet platform is run on WinNT / 2000 servers...ugh. Our internet platform is Solaris thaank god. But i digress... The only way we maintain uptime of 99.96 for our global intranet is through clustering. That way when IIS locks up, or there's a memory leak, or we have to apply the 27th emergency path of the year requiring a reboot, we can phase it in/out of the pool gradually. Most people think clusters are to improve performance...bah, its all about the CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Shhh!!!! Don't make Microsoft's job any easier...we want them to discover the nifty new features for themselves BEFORE they steal them!
No no no no. The core of LotR was conceived, and mostly written, before 1938. Any attempts to interpret LotR as a WWI / WWII allegorical tale should be firmly rejected, based on specific comments by Tolkien himself, and rules of linear space-time. :)
As for longing of an anglo-saxon past, why is that automatically considered snobby romantic elitism? He's not the first, nor the last, author to use light vs dark imagery to contrast good vs evil. Post-modern deconstruction of literary history is a legimitate exercise, but not when done with complete disdain for its subject matter.
I killed Mad Max in Fallout(tm)!!!! His dog isn't that loyal to my surprise...
What? Then the websites could not 'anonymously' track the habits of Korean gay pregnant men!
I'd have to agree with the commentary on the rejection of the japanese self in alot of anime. If you look at the big-budget space operas, alot of them have to deal with thematic apocalypse/destruction, a social afterthought of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Yamamoto, Macross, Akira...big things go boom!
Also, consider this -- there are alot of old school Hollywood directors who feel that b&w is an integral element of being able to carry a fantastic story -- something about colour becoming a distraction. Very few directors use colour as a dramtic/thematic device successfully (exmaple: Antonioni; Kubrick). The colour element brings you too close to reality to believe in the farce such as "Some Like it Hot" (2 cross dressing guys escaping the mob), and Citizen Kane would not look as good if shot in colour. In this way, abstracting a fanastic theme from reality by presenting it in an anime style allows you to appreciate the story much more effectively... I would be postively scared of watching Ranma 1/2 in live action...ewwwww....
Blue was rejected due to users making a possible inference to a BSOD.
That's okay -- i'm of Norman decent and I consider Cambridge and Oxford to be 'one of ours' as well.
brak.slashdot.org is apparently generated via a pack of "Flying Albino Monkeys", whereas the existing server is created via a "Team of Elite Squirrels". Anyone got some performance metrics of Monkeys vs Squirrels, and more importantly, can Monkeys be overclocked?