I live in Tokyo (after living in the US) and I'll tell you, it's a bitch to try to return/exchange anything. Most places flatly turn you down.
Warranties are similar to the US on paper but they're stricter about not fixing something that could be blamed on the slightest possibility of wear and tear. But if it is actually a manufacturers defect, generally the warranty service is better than in the US.
Espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee. Even though it's brewed under pressure the beans used (arabica) have less caffeine than the cheaper robusta beans used for most cups of coffee.
The correct comparison would be between Red Bull and taking a caffeine only supplement like NoDoz.
Mod parent troll. You attack Microsoft/government claiming that they treat the symptom without naming what the real cause is.
The cause of a virus is a virus writer. MS is treating it by putting a bounty on their heads. The cause of a virus writer is spam/promoting porn sites/having too much time on your hands/wanting to do something malicious or rebellious without having the balls to leave your house.
The root cause of spam/porn site promotion is the desire for money. The desire for money is caused by the desire for food/shelter/luxuries, the desire for that is the nature of any animal to try to survive. So you're telling me you'd rather have MS trying to eliminate those human desires? Hmmm...I guess it's time for the Monestary of Microsoft 1.0.
And the root cause of having too much time on your hands/wanting to do something malicious or rebellious is probably hormonal for teenagers and related to depression and/or a lack of a sense of morality for everyone else which may be caused by a breakdown of the traditional family. Hmmm, another argument for Microsoft to get into the religion business.
I was shocked to see that their lowest end search server is limited to a maximum of 20 GB. And it sounds like their highest end server maxes out at 200 GB. Either they haven't updated their web pages in ages or they only serve companies with tiny intranets or small libraries of content. Imagine if one GMail server could only handle 20 users (I know, nobody's to use all 1 gig)...that'd be enough servers to cause another california blackout.
It was called MindDrive from a company called Other 90% Technologies. It was released about 10 years ago but apparently you can still buy it from the company in Italy for about $300.
Lets see you dislike it because it's not free, not cheap and the "license enforcement is more effective than anything Microsoft Word has."
Hmmm...in other words, you're pissed you can't pirate it. If security is the higher priority, it seems like they're doing a decent job stopping you. And if you regularly pirate software to use on government contracts, I'm happy they're locking you out.
The lawsuit as a technology hasn't been defeated yet. I'm sure that all of the people sued aren't sharing anymore and it's cetainly working in the sense that fewer people are on the old networks. It's probably not exactly the most cost effective but if you think about all of the free PR that the RIAA gets from filing the suits it's probably not a bad economic proposition.
Actually stopping sharing is not that hard. All you need is a technology that pushes the cost of file sharing/swapping above the market price of about $1/song (assuming ITunes, walmart, etc.). The technology could be the trojan MP3s that reformat your hard drive, turns your machine into a server for child porn, uses your processor to violate the DMCA by using it to crack passwords, etc. Imagine if MP3s or DivX files started something like the Blaster worm. If the RIAA is willing to sue 12 year olds, they're probably willing to hire some firm in Eastern Europe to do some dirty work.
And yet we (in Japan) still get spam that we have to pay for on our cell phones multiple times a day.
I think the statement is 'Japan's no slacker when it comes to keeping the nation's monopolies in power.' They'll bust little guys all the time, but only to protect the dinosaurs.
A big thank you to everyone who replied. The information here's been truly helpful.
To clarify a few points, here's a little more background. First, I'm definately planning on hanging on to the project management/specs and not farming that out. I'm looking to outsource the coding because 1) I suck at it and 2) it's not what gets me excited. At my old day jobs, I worked side by side with great coders and while I know I probably couldn't afford any of them on a full time basis, I'd be doing a huge disservice to string together crud that I wrote. For me the thrill is putting a useful product in people's hands, growing a business, creating a great place to work and finding ways to do it on a shoestring.
Second, as my handle indicates, I'm physically located in Tokyo. As a person of mediocre Japanese skills and western upbringing, finding local help at a rate that I can afford is tough. Working with someone remotely is possibly easier than working with someone locally. I'm expecting to relocate somewhere else in the world as this project grows but to get started initially I just wanted something that could be use to gauge (business) customer interest. At this point, showing off my Flash demos draws a lot of friendly "well that looks great, come back when you have something real" remarks. I'm looking to have something that people could quickly try it out on their systems for a few days and either call me a complete moron or tell me they might be able to work with me, partner up, etc. In other words, I'm looking for the proverbial proof of concept.
Third, I'm curious about people who have suggested giving up equity in an early stage like this. I've always heard that one of the biggest mistakes of small businesses is giving up equity too early and too generously. While I realize I have little else (cash) to give, I figure it's not something to be casually thrown about, especially if someone that I ultimately have trouble working with ends up with a significant equity stake and demands to have his share bought out.
Fourth, as far as an open source business model goes, I'd like to go that route in finding lots of grassroots help but I worry that would eliminate any advantage I had in building a business. For example, let's say I put the idea out in the public domain and managed to get 15 people interested in working (part time of course) on a GPLed version of it. If/when the project became usable by customers, there's nothing to prevent a better funded firm (like IBM) from bundling it into part of their solution offering and becoming the de facto commerical support vendor for the product.
Finally, for those of you who wish me failure and call me gutless for not writing it myself, I have no doubt that this is no sure thing. It's exactly the reason I'm looking for contractors or oursourcing firms. It'd be downright irresponsible for me to start interviewing full time employees, hire a handful of them but know that I'd only be able to pay them for a few months before running out of cash if there were significant delays, negative customer response, etc.
Thanks for the responses everyone. The reason I'm looking for a firm rather than building it myself is that 1) I find the business challenges of marketing, management, financing and creating a long lasting enterprise much more exciting than the coding 2) I want as many people as possible to (hopefully) benefit from the product while still being able to make a fair living, and I know that there are much more productive coders than myself 3) As a person who tends to either get really engrossed in something or really detached my fear is that I'd get completely into adding just one more feature and into the routine of coding it that I'd lose track of the business requirements and go broke and hungry:)
And as far as hiring in Pittsburgh, sounds great but I'm not local...
Find a neoprene sleeve and cut it to put on top of your mouse like a glove. It'll insultate the noise and give you better texture to hold the mouse with.
Or you can please your GF by sticking a cute stuffed animal on it.
Jews in the holocaust. Ethnic cleansing in eastern europe. Genocide in somalia and other african warzones. Chinese college students murdered in plain public view. North Koreans who aren't in the miliary starving, working in camps.
If you're one of these suffering people, it's your sovereign government that's probably going to kill you. If you plainly respect the soverign government, the people die. I'd rather take down a man made notion of government than let masses of innocent people die.
Do you know you this for sure because you're an al quaeda executive?
Mideast 'intelligence' is 90% political. The GOP think that everything's connected while Howard Dean's supporters think that nothing's connected. It's incredibly hard to disprove any connection. Heck, with Stanley Millgram's six degrees of separation theory and the recent evidence it's probably easy to establish connections between former Iraqi government officials and the taliban. To make these kinds of conclusions based on 3rd hand media reports is difficult.
The bottom line is that someone who killed 300,000 people who disagreed with him politically amidst other horrible acts has been arrested.
Since you're bridging the same network adapter or sitting behind the same router (physical or virtual), they've still got your IP Address and MAC address.
No 911, No Faxing, questionable availability.
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First, realize that there's usually no usable 911 service. They often try to route 911 to the local phone number for the police but the police won't get your address or treat the call as an emergency.
Second, Depending on the codec that the provider's using, it might not allow faxing. Vonage I believe allows it up to 9600 bps but most of the others do not. Similarly, voice quality will vary.
Finally, reliability is definately an issue. I wouldn't cancel your normal line. I use packet8 which is very cheap but I'd say it's dead for outgoing or incoming calls for about 5 hours every week. There are times when your calls will drop midconversation as well. My ISP is usually rock solid but there are enough points of failure (ISP, VOIP gateway, local phone number provider) that it's not great for reliability.
easy...People of different countries have different needs of money for survival, local laws, technology savvy/effectiveness of law enforcement, influence of underworld (mafia, yakuza, etc.), etc.
Ethics are an interesting thing to bring into this. I'd argue it's more rational (ethical?) for someone who's family is starving/living under life threatening conditions to do a hack job than it is for someone living in a developed country who's doing it for a little more cash.
While this attempt was thwarted, it makes you wonder though if someone could do an Ebay style 'attack.'
In other words: 1) Work on the code for a long time, developing good features and build up virtual reputation points so that people trust you. 2) One day decide to insert your backdoor amidst some big checkin. 3) Disappear.
It doesn't seem hard for someone to pay some random third world programmer to do this so. For example, if Red Hat had a guy in russia doing this they could, after the latest kernel was widely distributed, use it to attack Novell/SUSE.
Actually, nothing gets deleted automatically. With every protected document it, your PC needs to go get a key from a rights management server (hosted by your company or microsoft) in order to decrypt it.
After the specified expiration date, when your PC tries to get the key, the server says "sorry, too late." Nothing gets deleted from your PC. You still have the file, but just no key to unlock it.
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I live in Tokyo (after living in the US) and I'll tell you, it's a bitch to try to return/exchange anything. Most places flatly turn you down. Warranties are similar to the US on paper but they're stricter about not fixing something that could be blamed on the slightest possibility of wear and tear. But if it is actually a manufacturers defect, generally the warranty service is better than in the US.
The correct comparison would be between Red Bull and taking a caffeine only supplement like NoDoz.
Son, I think it was a virus that took your name out of the will.
The cause of a virus is a virus writer. MS is treating it by putting a bounty on their heads. The cause of a virus writer is spam/promoting porn sites/having too much time on your hands/wanting to do something malicious or rebellious without having the balls to leave your house.
The root cause of spam/porn site promotion is the desire for money. The desire for money is caused by the desire for food/shelter/luxuries, the desire for that is the nature of any animal to try to survive. So you're telling me you'd rather have MS trying to eliminate those human desires? Hmmm...I guess it's time for the Monestary of Microsoft 1.0.
And the root cause of having too much time on your hands/wanting to do something malicious or rebellious is probably hormonal for teenagers and related to depression and/or a lack of a sense of morality for everyone else which may be caused by a breakdown of the traditional family. Hmmm, another argument for Microsoft to get into the religion business.
If it has no virus scanner, how do you know that it's never been infected?
He's real. Just google for him. Here's an old biography at a non-microsoft site.
I was shocked to see that their lowest end search server is limited to a maximum of 20 GB. And it sounds like their highest end server maxes out at 200 GB. Either they haven't updated their web pages in ages or they only serve companies with tiny intranets or small libraries of content. Imagine if one GMail server could only handle 20 users (I know, nobody's to use all 1 gig)...that'd be enough servers to cause another california blackout.
It was called MindDrive from a company called Other 90% Technologies. It was released about 10 years ago but apparently you can still buy it from the company in Italy for about $300.
Hmmm...in other words, you're pissed you can't pirate it. If security is the higher priority, it seems like they're doing a decent job stopping you. And if you regularly pirate software to use on government contracts, I'm happy they're locking you out.
Actually stopping sharing is not that hard. All you need is a technology that pushes the cost of file sharing/swapping above the market price of about $1/song (assuming ITunes, walmart, etc.). The technology could be the trojan MP3s that reformat your hard drive, turns your machine into a server for child porn, uses your processor to violate the DMCA by using it to crack passwords, etc. Imagine if MP3s or DivX files started something like the Blaster worm. If the RIAA is willing to sue 12 year olds, they're probably willing to hire some firm in Eastern Europe to do some dirty work.
I think the statement is 'Japan's no slacker when it comes to keeping the nation's monopolies in power.' They'll bust little guys all the time, but only to protect the dinosaurs.
To clarify a few points, here's a little more background. First, I'm definately planning on hanging on to the project management/specs and not farming that out. I'm looking to outsource the coding because 1) I suck at it and 2) it's not what gets me excited. At my old day jobs, I worked side by side with great coders and while I know I probably couldn't afford any of them on a full time basis, I'd be doing a huge disservice to string together crud that I wrote. For me the thrill is putting a useful product in people's hands, growing a business, creating a great place to work and finding ways to do it on a shoestring.
Second, as my handle indicates, I'm physically located in Tokyo. As a person of mediocre Japanese skills and western upbringing, finding local help at a rate that I can afford is tough. Working with someone remotely is possibly easier than working with someone locally. I'm expecting to relocate somewhere else in the world as this project grows but to get started initially I just wanted something that could be use to gauge (business) customer interest. At this point, showing off my Flash demos draws a lot of friendly "well that looks great, come back when you have something real" remarks. I'm looking to have something that people could quickly try it out on their systems for a few days and either call me a complete moron or tell me they might be able to work with me, partner up, etc. In other words, I'm looking for the proverbial proof of concept.
Third, I'm curious about people who have suggested giving up equity in an early stage like this. I've always heard that one of the biggest mistakes of small businesses is giving up equity too early and too generously. While I realize I have little else (cash) to give, I figure it's not something to be casually thrown about, especially if someone that I ultimately have trouble working with ends up with a significant equity stake and demands to have his share bought out.
Fourth, as far as an open source business model goes, I'd like to go that route in finding lots of grassroots help but I worry that would eliminate any advantage I had in building a business. For example, let's say I put the idea out in the public domain and managed to get 15 people interested in working (part time of course) on a GPLed version of it. If/when the project became usable by customers, there's nothing to prevent a better funded firm (like IBM) from bundling it into part of their solution offering and becoming the de facto commerical support vendor for the product.
Finally, for those of you who wish me failure and call me gutless for not writing it myself, I have no doubt that this is no sure thing. It's exactly the reason I'm looking for contractors or oursourcing firms. It'd be downright irresponsible for me to start interviewing full time employees, hire a handful of them but know that I'd only be able to pay them for a few months before running out of cash if there were significant delays, negative customer response, etc.
And as far as hiring in Pittsburgh, sounds great but I'm not local...
except for that shattering part.
But then MS can point to the Register article and 400 slashdot posts of people who says that mikerowesoft does phonetically sound like Microsoft.
mom:wow, you really don't eat much for lunch. I'll get it ready
(translation: kid is doing weed with his friends and getting the munchies)
mom: are you ready for dinner?
dad (autoreply): don't bother me for 30 minutes in the bedroom, I've got a videoconference
(reality dad's screwing the babysitter)
Once mom gets her own bot figured out this family will really be f'd up
Find a neoprene sleeve and cut it to put on top of your mouse like a glove. It'll insultate the noise and give you better texture to hold the mouse with. Or you can please your GF by sticking a cute stuffed animal on it.
If you're one of these suffering people, it's your sovereign government that's probably going to kill you. If you plainly respect the soverign government, the people die. I'd rather take down a man made notion of government than let masses of innocent people die.
Mideast 'intelligence' is 90% political. The GOP think that everything's connected while Howard Dean's supporters think that nothing's connected. It's incredibly hard to disprove any connection. Heck, with Stanley Millgram's six degrees of separation theory and the recent evidence it's probably easy to establish connections between former Iraqi government officials and the taliban. To make these kinds of conclusions based on 3rd hand media reports is difficult.
The bottom line is that someone who killed 300,000 people who disagreed with him politically amidst other horrible acts has been arrested.
All of humanity should be celebrating that.
Since you're bridging the same network adapter or sitting behind the same router (physical or virtual), they've still got your IP Address and MAC address.
Second, Depending on the codec that the provider's using, it might not allow faxing. Vonage I believe allows it up to 9600 bps but most of the others do not. Similarly, voice quality will vary.
Finally, reliability is definately an issue. I wouldn't cancel your normal line. I use packet8 which is very cheap but I'd say it's dead for outgoing or incoming calls for about 5 hours every week. There are times when your calls will drop midconversation as well. My ISP is usually rock solid but there are enough points of failure (ISP, VOIP gateway, local phone number provider) that it's not great for reliability.
Ethics are an interesting thing to bring into this. I'd argue it's more rational (ethical?) for someone who's family is starving/living under life threatening conditions to do a hack job than it is for someone living in a developed country who's doing it for a little more cash.
In other words: 1) Work on the code for a long time, developing good features and build up virtual reputation points so that people trust you. 2) One day decide to insert your backdoor amidst some big checkin. 3) Disappear.
It doesn't seem hard for someone to pay some random third world programmer to do this so. For example, if Red Hat had a guy in russia doing this they could, after the latest kernel was widely distributed, use it to attack Novell/SUSE.
Hmmm..but would they have even found the security hole if it hadn't been open sourced?
After the specified expiration date, when your PC tries to get the key, the server says "sorry, too late." Nothing gets deleted from your PC. You still have the file, but just no key to unlock it.