Remember that in order to do anything about crime you have to be able to prosecute the criminal successfully in court. Many laws are created not to make potential criminals directly think of their activities as illegal, but to make it easier to convict the potential criminal of a crime, if they decide to engage in the illegal activity. Yes its illegal to steal a phone, and to market a stolen phone, however it might be very difficult to prove that suspect A stole the phone, and engaged in the sale of stolen property. However it could be very simple to prove that Suspect A owned equipment thats only use was changing the number of a given phone, which is used to facilitate the sale of stolen property.
Its pretty expensive for just a cable, I'd guess that there is software that goes along with the device that really makes it useful. That's likely to be what becomes illegal. If you go to your favorite cable supply company, they will likely continue to carry serial cables and adapters to all manner of connections, but not the whole package, including point and click software. Seems to me this bill is intended to make it easier to catch those who steal phones or at least make it difficult for them to remarket them. As such it seems like an enforcment issue. Sort of like getting Al Capone with tax fraud, if you can bust someone who everyone knows is doing something illegal for another smaller crime, you still took him off the street.
There was one scandal two summers ago with Emulux, involving a fake press release, put out by a grad student who couldn't cover his shorts. It was formatted like an official press release and sent to InternetWire I believe, anyway it kept getting picked up by more reputable sources, Bloomberg got it pretty quickly from one of their partner feeds, and the stock price fell in half within the hour. It was halted after the NASDAQ realized they hadn't been informed that news was forthcoming, so they could halt it for disemination. When it re opened it climbed back up to nearly the level it started at before the false announcment. What I find funny is that the grad student only covered his short sales which saved him well below $100,000. The SEC & CBOT thought that the creator was behind several option trades that would have earnedalmost $600,000 for who ever put in that lucky trade. He got arrested, and I think I later heard of a trial, but I have no idea what happened to him.
Its actually more like 45% of about 85 billion in revenue. I think you got a quarterly number. IBM missed out pretty badly on the PC revolution, they were stuck with lots of very nice but much more expensive mainframes and large servers. At the time Sun was beginning to eat their lunch with cheaper servers, so IBM decided that they needed to expand their consulting & services. It has woerked very well for them. Enough that HP wanted very badly to be the little IBM, they tried to purchase PWC consulting last year or the year before. But they had to settle for Compaq and hope they could cut costs to compete with Dell. About Monday, PWC was in the process of selling the consulting division to the public through an IPO, and the accountants wanted the name for themselves, so the consulting division came up with Monday. Since IBM is likely to just call it a small part of IBM Global Services, the name it currently has is pretty irrelevant.
IBM has been one of the largest IT consulting companies for well near a decade. It freaked people out pretty good when they started doning this, in the early 1990s.
Accounting was one of the first places to really start using "big iron" in business. Computers are really good at bookkeepping. Becuase the auditors were very familiar with the mainframes and minicomuters as everyone else started realizing that they might be useful for other projects, the auditors became computer consultants as well as auditors. This worked quite well for the auditors, who owned the accounting firms. However the computer consultants, who broght in most of the money during the 1990s wanted their cut. Becuase of this there was quite a bit of internal pressure to split the divisions, from the consulting side of the business, but the auditors wanted to protect their arrangment. Anderson/Accenture was one of the first to split off. The name change resulted from arbitration following the nasty split up of the two companies. The other 4 accounting firms also have consulting divisions, that are in various stages of separation from the parent auditing company. Ernst & Young is still together, PWC is obviously spliting now, KPMG apears to still be part of the audit firm, and Delotte & Touche is also still together, I believe. E&Y is the least likely to split up, becuase most of their services are of the tax and financial type. However, they are all more likely to split now that sentiment is pretty strong against auditors providing consulting services.
They picked it up really cheap, so its probably a good thing in the long run. The stock will be down, at least tomorrow morning, because the earnings per share will go down in the short run. Gerstner did a pretty good job changing IBM from an old mainframe company in a PC world to a profitable service company. He, like almost all good CEOs, used aggressive accounting. In IBM's case it was the assumptions on their pension, and some income from what is known in street parlance as one time items (sales of assets or businesses, and some of their licensing agreements with up front payments). It happened that an enterprising reporter from the NYT scooped the street on figuring out how much of their earnings in 2001 were a result of this shortly after Enron filed for bankruptcy. When the story broke IBM's credibility dropped rapidly, and their lower earnings this year didn't improve the new guy's reputation much either. They aren't broken and will continue to be a very dominant force in technology, but that doesn't mean that has little to do with the current stock price movements. From my quite limited experience with consultants I would guess that your quote refers to the employees of consulting firms, the firms themselves mint money. Thats what created one of the biggest problems with accountants.
Fly wheels can store more energy newer ones come much closer to hydrocarbons as far as energy stored to volume than batteries. The low energy to volume ratio is the main problem impeding electric cars.
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I think markets like handhelds are likely to have better adoption of Linux, than desktops. Handhelds and appliances generally have a custom built user interface that is designed for the product's funcitions. Linux or BSD provides a modular underlying base level that a custom UI can sit atop. You don't usually have to do as much work to customize a free OS as writing one from scratch, and its less expensive than a proprietary OS that would still be likely to require customization. Zarius sounds like it needs a little work before the average customer would choose it, but things like Tivo or some of the BSD based firewall appliances are probably the future of Linux & free Unix in the home.
You don't need a link, that's what the home key is for!
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I have grown to like the X style activation especially at larger resolutions, its alot like RPN takes a while to get used to but ultamatly something I don't plan on switching from. However, I can do that in Windows, with the addition of the much reccomended power toys. And I just cant see the value of multiple desktops, It doesnt seem more useful than a single desktop. I love multiple monitors, but I like being able to see everything on my desktop at once. I believe that both Radeon's HydraVision and Nview support multiple virtual desktops in Windows as well, but haven't ever activated the feature.
1. What the hell is lindows? Lindows is the MP3.com guy's way of striking out at windows. Its intended to be a $99 retail linux distro with proprietary improvments to Wine that allow compatability with most MS Windows products, especially office. 2. What the hell is Lycoris[?] Lycoris is a linux distro designed to replicate the look and feel of the MS Windows UI with GPL mods to KDE and other applications. As mentioned above it offers less choice and hopefully intimidation ot the beggining user. 3. Why does Lycoris's icons look like windows icons[?] Because 95% of computer users already know and use the Windows icons. And that is who they want to sell Lycoris to. 4. What advantage do they provide over my current setup of Gnome2 and Redhat 7.1? Chicks dig it man! Actually none that I know of, its more focused on new users as opposed to power users. 5. and why are these two going to same the linux desktop? I don't know about save the Linux desktop, they are both geared towards adding new users, especially former Windows users by lowering the switching costs. They are the two distros that seem most focused on desktops rather than servers or more general systems, which is why they usually get mentioned in stories about Linux desktops.
I pre-ordered it, it was the first distro I've ever purchased. Well, actually the second, but I only bought RH 5.3 for the fine manual that came with it, from a clearance table, they had very good descriptions of all the packages that came with it at the time. I would guess that if it survives it will be because small OEMs or screwdriver shops buy it in bulk at a lower rate for cheap computers. It has to be more than just someone making less than 20 a year without support or ISOs are probably a better choice. An el cheapo duron system with Lycoris and Star Office 6, after a bulk discount could probably be sold for about $300 or so, without a monitor.
I am positive that almost every local pastor/priest/rabbi/iman/others would be happy to entertain any and all questions and critisicms you had about the prior week's sermon. Especially if you brought them up in a learning rather than combatitive manner. But the point of the sunday service is to listen, there are other opportunities for more back and forth communication. I'm sure no professor would let you continually ask questions and demand that they stop teaching to answer all of them.
Snap names publishes monthly lists of all the registrars for most of the major TLDs monthly. Its pretty interesting, goDaddy must be doing something right because they have been beating Verisign and registrar.com for quite a while
Non profits can be monopolies as well. They tend to use up their would be profits with higher salaries for managment and more waste than a competitive enterprise would have. Cost is not fixed, and their are many ways to artificially increase cost. Power is generally sold at a fixed markup to cost, and think of all the jokes about power/telephone employees being less than productive. Or look at UnitedWay they have some market power, as one of the few charitable organizations that is allowed by some employeers as a charitable payroll deduction. Don't tell me that they are even close to the most efficient charity.
I haven't read or heard of this book before; I just liked the idea. Odd that I picked something someone else already used, now I'll have to give him credit.
Lay them off it isn't 1999 anymore there are plenty of people who will take the job. Offtopic: Where does your sig come from? It seems like something I've heard before, but cant recall where.
And he would say thtat this is a good thing, because the monopolist provided a good at a lower cost than the prior providors, because of scale, ie the price of monopoly MS Windows on open hardware with an open distribution chain, is less than the price of monopoly hardware, software, and licensed distribution of the Unix world. (Kudos to the invisible hand again). Becuase of this most economists would agree that for at least the short run, the monopolist who lowered the total cost, should enjoy monopoly gains as a return for their ingenuity. Its things like the Crown's sale of monopoly rights to raise capital that economists get excited about, most of them were and still are pretty against the current anti-trust laws, because they don't work very well.
Think of your contributions as your cost to use the whole of other's contributions. Compensation does not have to be monitary only. I wouldn't worry about socialism, since the article mentions Coase, one of the more libertarian "economists" out there, its not too socialistic. His best known work looks at why everyone doesn't negotiate with all potential sources of externalities rather than have the government do it with laws. Oddly enough, while I fall close to the libertarian philosiphy myself, it makes so much sense especially after 4 years of econ, I didn't like Rand as much as I though I would, mostly because it seems like the focus is on simply money, not efficiency. This article was pretty good, it simply looks at why OSS has taken off, and why their hasn't been a large failure of the commons, it looks like the author believes that end users are better suited to apply work to the projects that need it, than corporations are, and I haven't gotten to the failure of the commons yet, but I'm guessing that the "commons" are large enough, that my use of them imposes a very low cost on other users. Which is what all the people who have talked about the low reproduction costs of software have said from the beginning.
Collectivism is a better word for the successful communism projects, since communism usually implies a beleif system, while collectivist groups can share almost any belief system. You don't have to be altruistic, the key to a successful collectivist group is that there is some cost to your actions. When was the last time you were concerned about your family/roommates/guests ripping off your stuff? Because they all realize that stealing from one member will carry a cost, that is greater than the value of the item they might consider stealing (time, food, valuables, etc) they generally don't do it. The most successful communes I know of are families, followed by Kibbutz, both of these are usually marked by very hegemoneous belief structures, and a strong sense of beleonging to the group. When this form of shared ownership is applied to a whole country it is impossible given the diversity of views to have everyone feel they belong enough that leaving would impose a cost greater than the value of their reduced contributions, or increased taking of resources. Because geeks' culture is fairly similar, and most of us feel like we belong to a larger unit, we can see better the results of our actions that might hurt the group. Because of this and the rapid chastising of those who try to leetch off of an OS project, the OSS collective group has held up fairly well. Also remember that in the case of GNU, while the end user product is free. Their is a cost to use it, that you have to contribute your changes to everyone else.
Why does everyone go directly to the city, and do not pass go. My rent is $350/mo. Yeah its in Montana, but I have a 10 minute drive to work, and I'm about a 5 minute walk to the woods. Its not the biggest place in town, but it meets my single needs just fine. I have a cool job, and enjoy life here quite a bit.
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Remember that in order to do anything about crime you have to be able to prosecute the criminal successfully in court. Many laws are created not to make potential criminals directly think of their activities as illegal, but to make it easier to convict the potential criminal of a crime, if they decide to engage in the illegal activity. Yes its illegal to steal a phone, and to market a stolen phone, however it might be very difficult to prove that suspect A stole the phone, and engaged in the sale of stolen property. However it could be very simple to prove that Suspect A owned equipment thats only use was changing the number of a given phone, which is used to facilitate the sale of stolen property.
Its pretty expensive for just a cable, I'd guess that there is software that goes along with the device that really makes it useful. That's likely to be what becomes illegal. If you go to your favorite cable supply company, they will likely continue to carry serial cables and adapters to all manner of connections, but not the whole package, including point and click software.
Seems to me this bill is intended to make it easier to catch those who steal phones or at least make it difficult for them to remarket them. As such it seems like an enforcment issue. Sort of like getting Al Capone with tax fraud, if you can bust someone who everyone knows is doing something illegal for another smaller crime, you still took him off the street.
There was one scandal two summers ago with Emulux, involving a fake press release, put out by a grad student who couldn't cover his shorts. It was formatted like an official press release and sent to InternetWire I believe, anyway it kept getting picked up by more reputable sources, Bloomberg got it pretty quickly from one of their partner feeds, and the stock price fell in half within the hour. It was halted after the NASDAQ realized they hadn't been informed that news was forthcoming, so they could halt it for disemination. When it re opened it climbed back up to nearly the level it started at before the false announcment. What I find funny is that the grad student only covered his short sales which saved him well below $100,000. The SEC & CBOT thought that the creator was behind several option trades that would have earnedalmost $600,000 for who ever put in that lucky trade. He got arrested, and I think I later heard of a trial, but I have no idea what happened to him.
You're about the first person here who gets that. I'm plesantly surprised, you wouldn't happen to have a finance or econ background would you?
Its actually more like 45% of about 85 billion in revenue. I think you got a quarterly number. IBM missed out pretty badly on the PC revolution, they were stuck with lots of very nice but much more expensive mainframes and large servers. At the time Sun was beginning to eat their lunch with cheaper servers, so IBM decided that they needed to expand their consulting & services. It has woerked very well for them. Enough that HP wanted very badly to be the little IBM, they tried to purchase PWC consulting last year or the year before. But they had to settle for Compaq and hope they could cut costs to compete with Dell.
About Monday, PWC was in the process of selling the consulting division to the public through an IPO, and the accountants wanted the name for themselves, so the consulting division came up with Monday. Since IBM is likely to just call it a small part of IBM Global Services, the name it currently has is pretty irrelevant.
IBM has been one of the largest IT consulting companies for well near a decade. It freaked people out pretty good when they started doning this, in the early 1990s.
Accounting was one of the first places to really start using "big iron" in business. Computers are really good at bookkeepping. Becuase the auditors were very familiar with the mainframes and minicomuters as everyone else started realizing that they might be useful for other projects, the auditors became computer consultants as well as auditors. This worked quite well for the auditors, who owned the accounting firms. However the computer consultants, who broght in most of the money during the 1990s wanted their cut. Becuase of this there was quite a bit of internal pressure to split the divisions, from the consulting side of the business, but the auditors wanted to protect their arrangment. Anderson/Accenture was one of the first to split off. The name change resulted from arbitration following the nasty split up of the two companies.
The other 4 accounting firms also have consulting divisions, that are in various stages of separation from the parent auditing company. Ernst & Young is still together, PWC is obviously spliting now, KPMG apears to still be part of the audit firm, and Delotte & Touche is also still together, I believe. E&Y is the least likely to split up, becuase most of their services are of the tax and financial type. However, they are all more likely to split now that sentiment is pretty strong against auditors providing consulting services.
They picked it up really cheap, so its probably a good thing in the long run. The stock will be down, at least tomorrow morning, because the earnings per share will go down in the short run.
Gerstner did a pretty good job changing IBM from an old mainframe company in a PC world to a profitable service company. He, like almost all good CEOs, used aggressive accounting. In IBM's case it was the assumptions on their pension, and some income from what is known in street parlance as one time items (sales of assets or businesses, and some of their licensing agreements with up front payments). It happened that an enterprising reporter from the NYT scooped the street on figuring out how much of their earnings in 2001 were a result of this shortly after Enron filed for bankruptcy. When the story broke IBM's credibility dropped rapidly, and their lower earnings this year didn't improve the new guy's reputation much either. They aren't broken and will continue to be a very dominant force in technology, but that doesn't mean that has little to do with the current stock price movements.
From my quite limited experience with consultants I would guess that your quote refers to the employees of consulting firms, the firms themselves mint money. Thats what created one of the biggest problems with accountants.
Fly wheels can store more energy newer ones come much closer to hydrocarbons as far as energy stored to volume than batteries. The low energy to volume ratio is the main problem impeding electric cars.
I think markets like handhelds are likely to have better adoption of Linux, than desktops. Handhelds and appliances generally have a custom built user interface that is designed for the product's funcitions. Linux or BSD provides a modular underlying base level that a custom UI can sit atop. You don't usually have to do as much work to customize a free OS as writing one from scratch, and its less expensive than a proprietary OS that would still be likely to require customization. Zarius sounds like it needs a little work before the average customer would choose it, but things like Tivo or some of the BSD based firewall appliances are probably the future of Linux & free Unix in the home.
You don't need a link, that's what the home key is for!
I have grown to like the X style activation especially at larger resolutions, its alot like RPN takes a while to get used to but ultamatly something I don't plan on switching from. However, I can do that in Windows, with the addition of the much reccomended power toys. And I just cant see the value of multiple desktops, It doesnt seem more useful than a single desktop. I love multiple monitors, but I like being able to see everything on my desktop at once. I believe that both Radeon's HydraVision and Nview support multiple virtual desktops in Windows as well, but haven't ever activated the feature.
1. What the hell is lindows?
Lindows is the MP3.com guy's way of striking out at windows. Its intended to be a $99 retail linux distro with proprietary improvments to Wine that allow compatability with most MS Windows products, especially office.
2. What the hell is Lycoris[?]
Lycoris is a linux distro designed to replicate the look and feel of the MS Windows UI with GPL mods to KDE and other applications. As mentioned above it offers less choice and hopefully intimidation ot the beggining user.
3. Why does Lycoris's icons look like windows icons[?]
Because 95% of computer users already know and use the Windows icons. And that is who they want to sell Lycoris to.
4. What advantage do they provide over my current setup of Gnome2 and Redhat 7.1?
Chicks dig it man! Actually none that I know of, its more focused on new users as opposed to power users.
5. and why are these two going to same the linux desktop?
I don't know about save the Linux desktop, they are both geared towards adding new users, especially former Windows users by lowering the switching costs. They are the two distros that seem most focused on desktops rather than servers or more general systems, which is why they usually get mentioned in stories about Linux desktops.
I pre-ordered it, it was the first distro I've ever purchased. Well, actually the second, but I only bought RH 5.3 for the fine manual that came with it, from a clearance table, they had very good descriptions of all the packages that came with it at the time. I would guess that if it survives it will be because small OEMs or screwdriver shops buy it in bulk at a lower rate for cheap computers. It has to be more than just someone making less than 20 a year without support or ISOs are probably a better choice. An el cheapo duron system with Lycoris and Star Office 6, after a bulk discount could probably be sold for about $300 or so, without a monitor.
I am positive that almost every local pastor/priest/rabbi/iman/others would be happy to entertain any and all questions and critisicms you had about the prior week's sermon. Especially if you brought them up in a learning rather than combatitive manner. But the point of the sunday service is to listen, there are other opportunities for more back and forth communication. I'm sure no professor would let you continually ask questions and demand that they stop teaching to answer all of them.
Snap names publishes monthly lists of all the registrars for most of the major TLDs monthly. Its pretty interesting, goDaddy must be doing something right because they have been beating Verisign and registrar.com for quite a while
Non profits can be monopolies as well. They tend to use up their would be profits with higher salaries for managment and more waste than a competitive enterprise would have. Cost is not fixed, and their are many ways to artificially increase cost. Power is generally sold at a fixed markup to cost, and think of all the jokes about power/telephone employees being less than productive. Or look at UnitedWay they have some market power, as one of the few charitable organizations that is allowed by some employeers as a charitable payroll deduction. Don't tell me that they are even close to the most efficient charity.
I haven't read or heard of this book before; I just liked the idea. Odd that I picked something someone else already used, now I'll have to give him credit.
I organized donations for a dinner at one of our Sys Admin's favorite resurants. I was plesantly surprised by the turnout.
Lay them off it isn't 1999 anymore there are plenty of people who will take the job.
Offtopic: Where does your sig come from? It seems like something I've heard before, but cant recall where.
And he would say thtat this is a good thing, because the monopolist provided a good at a lower cost than the prior providors, because of scale, ie the price of monopoly MS Windows on open hardware with an open distribution chain, is less than the price of monopoly hardware, software, and licensed distribution of the Unix world. (Kudos to the invisible hand again). Becuase of this most economists would agree that for at least the short run, the monopolist who lowered the total cost, should enjoy monopoly gains as a return for their ingenuity. Its things like the Crown's sale of monopoly rights to raise capital that economists get excited about, most of them were and still are pretty against the current anti-trust laws, because they don't work very well.
I'm in helena, and don't think there was anyone here. We should all meet and grab a beer or something. Im about 90 miles from Missoula.
Think of your contributions as your cost to use the whole of other's contributions. Compensation does not have to be monitary only. I wouldn't worry about socialism, since the article mentions Coase, one of the more libertarian "economists" out there, its not too socialistic. His best known work looks at why everyone doesn't negotiate with all potential sources of externalities rather than have the government do it with laws. Oddly enough, while I fall close to the libertarian philosiphy myself, it makes so much sense especially after 4 years of econ, I didn't like Rand as much as I though I would, mostly because it seems like the focus is on simply money, not efficiency.
This article was pretty good, it simply looks at why OSS has taken off, and why their hasn't been a large failure of the commons, it looks like the author believes that end users are better suited to apply work to the projects that need it, than corporations are, and I haven't gotten to the failure of the commons yet, but I'm guessing that the "commons" are large enough, that my use of them imposes a very low cost on other users. Which is what all the people who have talked about the low reproduction costs of software have said from the beginning.
Collectivism is a better word for the successful communism projects, since communism usually implies a beleif system, while collectivist groups can share almost any belief system. You don't have to be altruistic, the key to a successful collectivist group is that there is some cost to your actions. When was the last time you were concerned about your family/roommates/guests ripping off your stuff? Because they all realize that stealing from one member will carry a cost, that is greater than the value of the item they might consider stealing (time, food, valuables, etc) they generally don't do it. The most successful communes I know of are families, followed by Kibbutz, both of these are usually marked by very hegemoneous belief structures, and a strong sense of beleonging to the group. When this form of shared ownership is applied to a whole country it is impossible given the diversity of views to have everyone feel they belong enough that leaving would impose a cost greater than the value of their reduced contributions, or increased taking of resources.
Because geeks' culture is fairly similar, and most of us feel like we belong to a larger unit, we can see better the results of our actions that might hurt the group. Because of this and the rapid chastising of those who try to leetch off of an OS project, the OSS collective group has held up fairly well.
Also remember that in the case of GNU, while the end user product is free. Their is a cost to use it, that you have to contribute your changes to everyone else.
Why does everyone go directly to the city, and do not pass go. My rent is $350/mo. Yeah its in Montana, but I have a 10 minute drive to work, and I'm about a 5 minute walk to the woods. Its not the biggest place in town, but it meets my single needs just fine. I have a cool job, and enjoy life here quite a bit.