Local Distributors have the final say. The local software box movers / local arms of the game publishers have higher overheads, sure but not that much that affects digital distribution.
Classic example is CoD:MW2 is $89.99AUD or $19.99USD in their respective zones. SteamPrices for CoDMW2
There's also no chance of settings up an office in another state to get around taxes, like some other country we all know;)
And while there are $/GB charges, as an example Steam has at least 5 CDNs in Australia with four of them on Non-Telstra peering exchanges. Not to mention the Akamai CDNs in every state, CacheFly, LLNW, and EdgeCast. Although according to this (WhingeWhirlpool - July, 2010), maybe the disties aren't the only ones rorting the system:- "With Akamai via vps.net its now 15c/GB, for Australian customers its 20c/GB (in USD). Signup with Akamai Australia direct and its around $1.80/GB."
Just take a look at their patents - very few of them are for hardware. Also consider the move to the v15 IOS Universal images.
Cisco have known for a long time that hardware suffer from Moore's Law (loses it's margin quickly) and is easily replicated via ODMs. Lifted software features are a lot easier to litigate against.
We only perform a "time machine/re-image or reinstall/restore user" when a user gets a hardware or software upgrade. Java is left to the user to request, Casper self-service, or install themselves (all owners are local admins of their own machines).
It's a little harsh, but that's the result of managing Macbooks for 1800 staff and students.
BTW, I get the distinct impression that Java is the next "blight" to purge now that Apple has made a concerted effort to make sure Flash isn't as prolific on the Mac OS X platform.
So Proview lawyers are bad for lying about ownership, but Apple lawyers are OK for lying about the non-compete. Regardless of either parties' merits, lying lawyers are making it possible for more lawyers to make even more money. Sounds like a good ruse to me!
Maybe the original lawyers used a shell company...
Properly configured Cisco 2700-series wireless location appliance, 6500-series wireless lan controller, and certain Cisco AP's together can locate RFID tags, and track them using a wireless control server.
That came out in 2006 I think...
Came close to recommending it as an absentee system for private schools, but we couldn't overcome the practicalities of students swapping shoes, ties, bags, students cards, etc. All a student needs to do is hand their tagged item of clothing or equipment to someone else to drag to school, and the absenteeism would slip the school by and subject the administration to duty of care questions.
"we sort of gave Iraq back to the Iraqis" "we gave Kuwait back too" "we gave Panama back as well"
The US gave them back their countries, once they had been introduced to US-style democracy idealism and US-run companies capitalism. The result of those conflicts is US businesses got first dibbs on a lot of infrastructure and utility projects - thus guaranteeing business and political back-door power. Kind of how the US people have a democracy, but it's run by capitalists.
"last we checked in on S. East Asia, the countries there appear to want to be snuggle bunnies with the U.S" Being strong-armed by Free-Trade Agreements & foreign policies, IP threats, the influx of US-based multinationals, and China being more overtly imperialistic are the more likely reasons.
FFS, you can buy Lion from Apple Licensing. Contact the local Apple support number and say "I want 150 copies of Lion. What's the number for licensing?" and see how fast someone drops their company kool-aid cup and complementary skivvy to get the deal.
Registry files are much more documented than plist files and much easier to handle.
You can use vbs, bat (both reg add/del or regedit/s), or hand-made ADM/ADMXstraight group-policies, and then there's the ability to make changes and compare changes before and after. Group Policy can then be applied, and then reapplied if using loopback processing. Oh and group policy management console is free.
The beginning of my Mac support was installing a bunch of software and creating a library of.plist files for each modification. (~ 2G or plist files now, covering almost any app you could ask for). Not all.plist files can be scripted by sed or fed through plutil before scripting. Once the plist files are imported into Workgroup Manager, they end up as a combined.com.author.app entry. You can't easily name the policies it creates because you can't properly name and nest policies. Lastly, the Workgroup -> Computer Group -> Computer -> User policy precedence does not fit with shared computers. I've learnt to deal with management issues by demanding Caspar and ARD be installed onsite - which is not cheap in the short term but well worth it in the long term.
This will affect those stupid enough to use their ISP's email address, and call on their normal landline or contract phone.
Others will use IRC channels, (occasionally) instant messaging, cycle through disposable or free web-mail accounts, use pre-paid no-contract mobiles using forged details, or just keep bribing those handling the data - just as they've done before.
In fact this really is just theatre with a few headlining arrests to come... (which will be arranged through the previous wiretaps, investigation, and existing lawful methods)
My taskbar runs down the left side of the screen, and I ran Tree Style Tabs down the left hand side as well. Sure I have oodles of screen already at dual 1920x1200, but it's useful given the amount of websites that *still* format for ~1024px wide I blame the netbook / tablet format ^_^
All I've read so far suggests the extensions can only work within the established rules, which preclude working outside the drawing area and the top toolbar.
Microsoft has revolutionised computing in general bringing standard UIs to an industry with so many disparate hardware and software vendors, APIs, and technologies. You may dislike the interface, but it is a common standard through sheer numbers. Apple does it with a handful of hand-picked "partners"
Microsoft has revolutionised collaboration internally with things such as OLE, DDE and Office, and externally with Exchange & Sharepoint.
Both companies have bought, lied, sued, or outright lifted others ideas to get ahead, and I despise what both have become, so I'd disagree with called ignorant.
(BTW I have admin certs with Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, and Cisco - nevertheless I'll put the boot into any of those companies should they require it.)
Not all those that read/. live in their mum's basement.
My wife doesn't read/., but she's an S2 owner and routinely evangelises her Samsung compared to her 3GS. When it came time to upgrade, she didn't want to go for a 4 (4S wasn't out) and even before asking me about it (didn't want to risk a nerd rant - gee thanks!) she had spoken to quite a lot of people and played with their phones - and made her decision before talking to a slashdotter.
The ActiveSync clients occasionally ramp up zombie connections or uncleanly close connections after their timeout. Apple have a couple of KBs (KB3398 comes to mind) on the very subject.
An example is one of our Hosted Exchange clients. iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.3.3 currently holds 125 connections to w3wp.exe (web service) our average is 2, or next highest is 6. That's not a bad email system, it's poorly written client code - to which Exchange CAS roles do an OK job for when there's only a couple of miscreants.
All have the same issue regarding their communications trail.
Anyone with an account with these people (and have done domain transfers) should check their comms history in their control panel during that time... especially the sent items and the clickable link contained within.
I've sent plenty of emails to these people, but I've given up. They don't listen.
Bought a 55" LCD (heh, it's an upgrade from a 40" CRT) DTS and DD via HDMI from multiple sources into the TV, TV TOSLink to decent (pre-HDMI) 7.1 surround sound = ?
Stereo.
HDMI passthrough audio without HDCP drops to 2.0 because it can't be "trusted". I eventually bought another device to drop HDMI-ARC down to Optical SP/DIF... and yet another freaken remote. It's all digital... but somewhere, some lawyer had to mess with the tech specs to avert some evil copying threat... even though you can just rip the blu-ray these days.
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Local Distributors have the final say.
The local software box movers / local arms of the game publishers have higher overheads, sure but not that much that affects digital distribution.
Classic example is CoD:MW2 is $89.99AUD or $19.99USD in their respective zones.
SteamPrices for CoDMW2
There's also no chance of settings up an office in another state to get around taxes, like some other country we all know ;)
And while there are $/GB charges, as an example Steam has at least 5 CDNs in Australia with four of them on Non-Telstra peering exchanges.
Not to mention the Akamai CDNs in every state, CacheFly, LLNW, and EdgeCast.
Although according to this (WhingeWhirlpool - July, 2010), maybe the disties aren't the only ones rorting the system:-
"With Akamai via vps.net its now 15c/GB, for Australian customers its 20c/GB (in USD). Signup with Akamai Australia direct and its around $1.80/GB."
Just rename the UK English...
It's not like the US doesn't know Engli...
Nevermind....
Just take a look at their patents - very few of them are for hardware. Also consider the move to the v15 IOS Universal images.
Cisco have known for a long time that hardware suffer from Moore's Law (loses it's margin quickly) and is easily replicated via ODMs. Lifted software features are a lot easier to litigate against.
Honestly, I wouldn't know... :)
We only perform a "time machine/re-image or reinstall/restore user" when a user gets a hardware or software upgrade. Java is left to the user to request, Casper self-service, or install themselves (all owners are local admins of their own machines).
It's a little harsh, but that's the result of managing Macbooks for 1800 staff and students.
BTW, I get the distinct impression that Java is the next "blight" to purge now that Apple has made a concerted effort to make sure Flash isn't as prolific on the Mac OS X platform.
Java was an optional extra on 10.6 and is a separate download on 10.7.
So Proview lawyers are bad for lying about ownership, but Apple lawyers are OK for lying about the non-compete.
Regardless of either parties' merits, lying lawyers are making it possible for more lawyers to make even more money. Sounds like a good ruse to me!
Maybe the original lawyers used a shell company...
If you've been introduced to slivovitz, surely you've also been shown the first part of breakfast - turkish coffee...
"Breakfast of Champions!"
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6386/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Properly configured Cisco 2700-series wireless location appliance, 6500-series wireless lan controller, and certain Cisco AP's together can locate RFID tags, and track them using a wireless control server.
That came out in 2006 I think...
Came close to recommending it as an absentee system for private schools, but we couldn't overcome the practicalities of students swapping shoes, ties, bags, students cards, etc. All a student needs to do is hand their tagged item of clothing or equipment to someone else to drag to school, and the absenteeism would slip the school by and subject the administration to duty of care questions.
"we sort of gave Iraq back to the Iraqis"
"we gave Kuwait back too"
"we gave Panama back as well"
The US gave them back their countries, once they had been introduced to US-style democracy idealism and US-run companies capitalism.
The result of those conflicts is US businesses got first dibbs on a lot of infrastructure and utility projects - thus guaranteeing business and political back-door power.
Kind of how the US people have a democracy, but it's run by capitalists.
"last we checked in on S. East Asia, the countries there appear to want to be snuggle bunnies with the U.S"
Being strong-armed by Free-Trade Agreements & foreign policies, IP threats, the influx of US-based multinationals, and China being more overtly imperialistic are the more likely reasons.
My BB 9860 has no physical keyboard...
Only reason I like it over the Apple is the phone sound, signal quality, and better defined handset policies.
(ActiveSync support is a little pot-luck - http://www.sysadminlab.net/activesync/iphone-os-4-and-exchange-activesync-policies-what-really-works)
+1 Oh, for some mod points...
It's been bugging me since posting... I forgot to add using defaults or Automator (compiled or otherwise) as CLI system management tools.
They didn't roll server into Lion. They took a couple of features and pushed everything else server-related into iCloud or other online services.
Compare the services list from Server Manager 10.6 and Server Manager 10.7 - it's about half as long and all the juicy bits are missing :(
FFS, you can buy Lion from Apple Licensing. Contact the local Apple support number and say "I want 150 copies of Lion. What's the number for licensing?" and see how fast someone drops their company kool-aid cup and complementary skivvy to get the deal.
We buy it for schools all the damn time.
Registry files are much more documented than plist files and much easier to handle.
You can use vbs, bat (both reg add/del or regedit /s), or hand-made ADM/ADMXstraight group-policies, and then there's the ability to make changes and compare changes before and after. Group Policy can then be applied, and then reapplied if using loopback processing. Oh and group policy management console is free.
The beginning of my Mac support was installing a bunch of software and creating a library of .plist files for each modification. (~ 2G or plist files now, covering almost any app you could ask for). Not all .plist files can be scripted by sed or fed through plutil before scripting. Once the plist files are imported into Workgroup Manager, they end up as a combined .com.author.app entry. You can't easily name the policies it creates because you can't properly name and nest policies. Lastly, the Workgroup -> Computer Group -> Computer -> User policy precedence does not fit with shared computers. I've learnt to deal with management issues by demanding Caspar and ARD be installed onsite - which is not cheap in the short term but well worth it in the long term.
Don't worry - all your data will be safe in the cloud anyway!
This will affect those stupid enough to use their ISP's email address, and call on their normal landline or contract phone.
Others will use IRC channels, (occasionally) instant messaging, cycle through disposable or free web-mail accounts, use pre-paid no-contract mobiles using forged details, or just keep bribing those handling the data - just as they've done before.
In fact this really is just theatre with a few headlining arrests to come... (which will be arranged through the previous wiretaps, investigation, and existing lawful methods)
I appreciate the screen real-estate as well.
My taskbar runs down the left side of the screen, and I ran Tree Style Tabs down the left hand side as well.
Sure I have oodles of screen already at dual 1920x1200, but it's useful given the amount of websites that *still* format for ~1024px wide
I blame the netbook / tablet format ^_^
All I've read so far suggests the extensions can only work within the established rules, which preclude working outside the drawing area and the top toolbar.
Microsoft has revolutionised computing in general bringing standard UIs to an industry with so many disparate hardware and software vendors, APIs, and technologies. You may dislike the interface, but it is a common standard through sheer numbers.
Apple does it with a handful of hand-picked "partners"
Microsoft has revolutionised collaboration internally with things such as OLE, DDE and Office, and externally with Exchange & Sharepoint.
Both companies have bought, lied, sued, or outright lifted others ideas to get ahead, and I despise what both have become, so I'd disagree with called ignorant.
(BTW I have admin certs with Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, and Cisco - nevertheless I'll put the boot into any of those companies should they require it.)
Not all those that read /. live in their mum's basement.
My wife doesn't read /., but she's an S2 owner and routinely evangelises her Samsung compared to her 3GS. When it came time to upgrade, she didn't want to go for a 4 (4S wasn't out) and even before asking me about it (didn't want to risk a nerd rant - gee thanks!) she had spoken to quite a lot of people and played with their phones - and made her decision before talking to a slashdotter.
The worst part of these preliminary injunctions is they kill the biggest sales time - pre-Christmas.
While there may be merit on both sides, aborting the product in it's first large sales growth period is a sure-fire way of killing off a competitor.
What Apple has done, is polarise a significant portion of people against them. It's almost as if they modelled themselves on Microsoft...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3398 says maybe!
Not exactly correct...
Exchange (esp 2010) can be configured fine.
The ActiveSync clients occasionally ramp up zombie connections or uncleanly close connections after their timeout. Apple have a couple of KBs (KB3398 comes to mind) on the very subject.
An example is one of our Hosted Exchange clients. iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.3.3 currently holds 125 connections to w3wp.exe (web service) our average is 2, or next highest is 6. That's not a bad email system, it's poorly written client code - to which Exchange CAS roles do an OK job for when there's only a couple of miscreants.
All have the same issue regarding their communications trail.
Anyone with an account with these people (and have done domain transfers) should check their comms history in their control panel during that time... especially the sent items and the clickable link contained within.
I've sent plenty of emails to these people, but I've given up. They don't listen.
Ditto.
Bought a 55" LCD (heh, it's an upgrade from a 40" CRT)
DTS and DD via HDMI from multiple sources into the TV, TV TOSLink to decent (pre-HDMI) 7.1 surround sound = ?
Stereo.
HDMI passthrough audio without HDCP drops to 2.0 because it can't be "trusted". I eventually bought another device to drop HDMI-ARC down to Optical SP/DIF... and yet another freaken remote.
It's all digital... but somewhere, some lawyer had to mess with the tech specs to avert some evil copying threat... even though you can just rip the blu-ray these days.