In the CIS countries, it works like the US, you are much more likely to get a bad Jefferson than a Franklin. Generally the Franklins are well looked after so it easier to see if they are dubious and every scrutinises them closely. OTOH, Jacksons tend not to be in such good condition and are not so well checked so it easier to pass off a fake. However, in Russia itself, the dollar isn't so much used as a second currency except for major private transactions, i.e., a car. Dollars are used more for holding value (although at one stage the Rouble was doing better than the dollar).
Interesting.I had thought that when I bought an Open Lic for say, Win 2K, Advanced Server, I got the right to use Advanced Server regardless of what was already on the machine.
However does the other point about the licence being "time limited" apply? I went to a presentation by MS about two years ago but the recurring cost for our projects was too high so I disregarded it. The people I was helping were receiving a one-of IBRD loan to get started and had no way to finance ongoing s/w costs so quickly (1 XP Pro license = a year's salary). They had some good s/w people so I just told them to go open source.
I seem to remember reading that Fluorine-Diborane was about the best, but the impulse thing only works if the combustion chamber contains the reaction and shoots out the combustion product through the expansion nozzle.
The OpenLicnece system was one of the first that went over to the subscription model. You buy your license and then you buy again after two years, Ok, this means that software stops being an asset of the company and then becomes expenditure instead.
After 2 years, you cease to have a right to use the software.
Next joke is that with your OpenLicence, you then try and buy some bare metal PCs (well, you don't need another copy of XP). This isn't easy unless you are buying big. Microsoft doesn't like hardware suppliers to sell bare metal machines.
Wrong, one who had been a volunteer helping in Kabul (a teacher) did a bunk to Pakistan before the war started. The person was picked up by the Pakistan Intelligence Service and passed to the Americans.
Whether or not the person is completely innocent or not, we shall only find out later.
As for the Saudis, yes they like their torture and public executions too, but unlike the Iraqis, they are considered friendly (how many Iraqis were amongst the Sept 11th hijackers).
K is sort of excluded as it is closed at the moment, as is VB. The interesting thing about the script languages in this article is that they are all open, with free implementations available.
Personally, I'm sick of idiots that like to produce RGB color cartridges and if one runs out, you can throw the rest away. With older HP printers, there is quite a lively market in 3p cartridges, both refillable and disposable/recyclable. The 3P vendor never had a problem to split that colour cartidge into 3 resevoirs.
HP doesn't like these vendors, but as they build crappy printers these days, by the time the cartridges come out, the printer is not only obselete, but has quietly self destructed. Lexmarks were better and they lasted a little longer, perhaps that is why they are worried.
You don't want me putting 3P ink through your printer, sorry you sold it to me. You have no control what ink I put through it. If you dress the thing up as a disguised rental, then sorry, I have no piece of paper obliging me to use your expensive parts.
You make an excellent point. The BBC had ocassional gems and DW was one of them. It was always on a low budget but many of the actors were so good that you could forget the cardboard scenery flapping around.
I would add that a long term series such as Dr Who is special but some very good shows cames out of British commercial terrestrial television, particularly Channel 4. One point is that the British show commercial televison interrupted by adverts rather than the other way round. The ads pay the bills but there seems to be less pressure to artificially rig plots to prevent channel hopping during the ads. This seems to result in a better show, whatever it it is.
As for your last point about '500 channels of mainstream crap' - I wholeheatedly agree. The shole poiunt of cable is that it was suposed to allow niche channels. Even Sci-Fi seems to be trying to move away from science fiction or even fantasy to concentrate on stuff like "Crossing Over".
Farscape owes a lot of what it is from Dr Who and Blakes 7. It is not a rip off,
I disagree, it was freaky, but how else can you represent Harvey and his influence on Chrichton. However it was definitely good, and I guess the actors were having a lot of fun with the material as well.
I wouldn't cancel Enterprise yet. It isn't so bad (better than a lot of Voyager, for example). But I wouldn't want to see it go past three series, I agree with you that Trek needs a long rest with maybe an occasional movie, but that is all.
Regrettably, Trek has become very much a formulaic "Milch Kuh" (Milk-cow) for the producers and it is clearly running dry. The producers have a way of doing things that permeates through down to the writers and the actors. Both may change, but unless the producers change, the show stays very much the same. B5 and Farscape have been more interesting for the viewers, and both were made on a very much smaller budget.
In Germany, we have some of the best vehicle accident related trauma care in the world. We even have mobile theatres. It is normal for an MD to be in attendance at a major accident. MDs here are generally badly paid unless they are in senior positions or are self-employed so it is possible to start treatment at the accident site.
What would be useful is to know whether it is worth sending in the 'A' team for a major accident or the 'B' team for a minor one. The ambulance should arrive asap and it is not a good idea to wait for the police to arrive at the site to classify the accident. In general after a major accident it is the care you receive in the first half hour that contributes the most towards survivability.
My very first job as a student was working on the use of computers in civil engineering. One of the applications was to model traffic behaviour at junctions that were accident blackspots and to visualise what each driver saw arriving at that blackspot.
The traffic junctions were equipped with data recorders connected to sensors placed under the ground. The data was latere used for reconstruction using computer models. All this about twenty plus years ago. The problem was that it cost a fortune to implement the logging and then processing the data afterwards. Getting the logging data out of a vehicle should be a lot cheaper (making holes in the road is expensive, and only that spot would be instrumented).
OTOH, accidents cost a lot of money. The direct costs attributable to a major accident can exceed half a million dollars, probably a lot more in the US because of higher health costs.
The style of some of the back-story in LOTR, and certainly the Silmarillion always seemed more appropriate for reading out aloud, much like the sagas and Beowulf, which inspired Tolkein.
One interesting aspect of Beowulf is the inpenetrable nature of the text for the casual reader, which suddenly becomes clearer when read aloud. After all, the language is related to modern English.
Actually, that would be very useful. Solaris/CDE is seen on a lot of high-profiles desktops where training is very expensive (think traders at a bank). It would be kind of nice to be able to switch desktops on the users without them noticing.
All companies in Germany over a certain size have a 'worker's council' if the workers so want. In almost all cases they do. The worker's council has representatives who sit on the supervisory board of the company and are party to strategic decion making.
Deals tend to be negotiated collectively across an industry as only one union represents that industry. For example, it doesn't matter whether you are a cashier, a cleaner or a programmer, if you work at a banking institution, you may only join the banking worker's union.
Employment law provides a lot of protection to the workers. After a six-month probationaty period, it is very difficult to get fired.
The downside is that companies do not want to take risks. A compromise is needed and many people would prefer it if there was less protection and more flexibility in the system as it would allow a company to take more risk. On the other hand, we wouldn't want it going to the US model.
The direct customer of the bridge construction company is your local highway's dept. They are the ones who pay the bills.
Of course they may do it with your money, but you are only indirectly involved. Your real relevance is as the user of the bridge. That I'm making a difference is intentional and it applies in many other areas too.
There are many such cases where limited disclosure is made in the public interest but detail disclosure isn't.
The customer, i.e. the state or county authority comissioning the work would have full details on the construction of the bridge. As a matter of safety, the supervising construction engineer must have the static design (the force model) approved by the responsible authority.
If as a member of the public, you tried to get details of the bridge's construction then you may get a few goons interested. If you had a good reason, i.e. you were a qualified engineer concerned about load-bearing, then it would be quite hard for the authorities to stop you.
If I don't care about performance, I can download the latest binary package for Linux. It is fast and easy to deploy. If I do care, then I can grab a source package and rebuild for my system. As I don't own an Intel 386 anymore, it is fairly ceratin that the new binary will perform better.
Think the airplane business. When you buy a 757, you don't get the blueprints for the wing. That's a trade secret.
You are misinformed and very wrong. When a company buys any major piece of technical equipment, being an airplane or a chemical plant they get very extensive technical documentation.
Airbus and Boing ight not ship the detailed calculations that produced the wing, but they certainly tell you exactly what types of material are used and where, how to replace parts and so on. Neither of those companies hold the customer hostage. If they want to do it themselves, they can.
Interestingly enough, when a design is revealed, engineers take more pride in their work. It doesn't matter whether you pop the hood on your automobile or open up some piece of professional equipment, you see that someone tried to design it properly.
I'm not accusing you of holding your customer's hostage with poorly designed code, but it is quite possible that someone else is trying to do this.
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In the CIS countries, it works like the US, you are much more likely to get a bad Jefferson than a Franklin. Generally the Franklins are well looked after so it easier to see if they are dubious and every scrutinises them closely. OTOH, Jacksons tend not to be in such good condition and are not so well checked so it easier to pass off a fake. However, in Russia itself, the dollar isn't so much used as a second currency except for major private transactions, i.e., a car. Dollars are used more for holding value (although at one stage the Rouble was doing better than the dollar).
However does the other point about the licence being "time limited" apply? I went to a presentation by MS about two years ago but the recurring cost for our projects was too high so I disregarded it. The people I was helping were receiving a one-of IBRD loan to get started and had no way to finance ongoing s/w costs so quickly (1 XP Pro license = a year's salary). They had some good s/w people so I just told them to go open source.
I seem to remember reading that Fluorine-Diborane was about the best, but the impulse thing only works if the combustion chamber contains the reaction and shoots out the combustion product through the expansion nozzle.
After 2 years, you cease to have a right to use the software.
Next joke is that with your OpenLicence, you then try and buy some bare metal PCs (well, you don't need another copy of XP). This isn't easy unless you are buying big. Microsoft doesn't like hardware suppliers to sell bare metal machines.
Anything like this for Euro-MPs? They have a larger constituency and are therefore even more remote.
Whether or not the person is completely innocent or not, we shall only find out later.
As for the Saudis, yes they like their torture and public executions too, but unlike the Iraqis, they are considered friendly (how many Iraqis were amongst the Sept 11th hijackers).
This person has posted an interesting response (even if I don't agree). As an AC, it will probably end up being ignored!!!!
Wasn't Gimpel's tool put out in good old fashioned shrouded C? If so, it would probably work, however, it isn't cheap.
K is sort of excluded as it is closed at the moment, as is VB. The interesting thing about the script languages in this article is that they are all open, with free implementations available.
HP doesn't like these vendors, but as they build crappy printers these days, by the time the cartridges come out, the printer is not only obselete, but has quietly self destructed. Lexmarks were better and they lasted a little longer, perhaps that is why they are worried.
You don't want me putting 3P ink through your printer, sorry you sold it to me. You have no control what ink I put through it. If you dress the thing up as a disguised rental, then sorry, I have no piece of paper obliging me to use your expensive parts.
I would add that a long term series such as Dr Who is special but some very good shows cames out of British commercial terrestrial television, particularly Channel 4. One point is that the British show commercial televison interrupted by adverts rather than the other way round. The ads pay the bills but there seems to be less pressure to artificially rig plots to prevent channel hopping during the ads. This seems to result in a better show, whatever it it is.
As for your last point about '500 channels of mainstream crap' - I wholeheatedly agree. The shole poiunt of cable is that it was suposed to allow niche channels. Even Sci-Fi seems to be trying to move away from science fiction or even fantasy to concentrate on stuff like "Crossing Over".
Farscape owes a lot of what it is from Dr Who and Blakes 7. It is not a rip off,
I disagree, it was freaky, but how else can you represent Harvey and his influence on Chrichton. However it was definitely good, and I guess the actors were having a lot of fun with the material as well.
From time to time, I thought that the writers had!
Regrettably, Trek has become very much a formulaic "Milch Kuh" (Milk-cow) for the producers and it is clearly running dry. The producers have a way of doing things that permeates through down to the writers and the actors. Both may change, but unless the producers change, the show stays very much the same. B5 and Farscape have been more interesting for the viewers, and both were made on a very much smaller budget.
In Germany, we have some of the best vehicle accident related trauma care in the world. We even have mobile theatres. It is normal for an MD to be in attendance at a major accident. MDs here are generally badly paid unless they are in senior positions or are self-employed so it is possible to start treatment at the accident site.
What would be useful is to know whether it is worth sending in the 'A' team for a major accident or the 'B' team for a minor one. The ambulance should arrive asap and it is not a good idea to wait for the police to arrive at the site to classify the accident. In general after a major accident it is the care you receive in the first half hour that contributes the most towards survivability.
The traffic junctions were equipped with data recorders connected to sensors placed under the ground. The data was latere used for reconstruction using computer models. All this about twenty plus years ago. The problem was that it cost a fortune to implement the logging and then processing the data afterwards. Getting the logging data out of a vehicle should be a lot cheaper (making holes in the road is expensive, and only that spot would be instrumented).
OTOH, accidents cost a lot of money. The direct costs attributable to a major accident can exceed half a million dollars, probably a lot more in the US because of higher health costs.
One interesting aspect of Beowulf is the inpenetrable nature of the text for the casual reader, which suddenly becomes clearer when read aloud. After all, the language is related to modern English.
IIRC, the bombs were 'shipped' in part assembled form. There is no way they could be detonated early until they were on the delivery plane.
Actually, that would be very useful. Solaris/CDE is seen on a lot of high-profiles desktops where training is very expensive (think traders at a bank). It would be kind of nice to be able to switch desktops on the users without them noticing.
Deals tend to be negotiated collectively across an industry as only one union represents that industry. For example, it doesn't matter whether you are a cashier, a cleaner or a programmer, if you work at a banking institution, you may only join the banking worker's union.
Employment law provides a lot of protection to the workers. After a six-month probationaty period, it is very difficult to get fired.
The downside is that companies do not want to take risks. A compromise is needed and many people would prefer it if there was less protection and more flexibility in the system as it would allow a company to take more risk. On the other hand, we wouldn't want it going to the US model.
Of course they may do it with your money, but you are only indirectly involved. Your real relevance is as the user of the bridge. That I'm making a difference is intentional and it applies in many other areas too.
There are many such cases where limited disclosure is made in the public interest but detail disclosure isn't.
Was it really the entire code? I have seen the text of one of the licenses that stated that the source would be incomplete.
If as a member of the public, you tried to get details of the bridge's construction then you may get a few goons interested. If you had a good reason, i.e. you were a qualified engineer concerned about load-bearing, then it would be quite hard for the authorities to stop you.
If I don't care about performance, I can download the latest binary package for Linux. It is fast and easy to deploy. If I do care, then I can grab a source package and rebuild for my system. As I don't own an Intel 386 anymore, it is fairly ceratin that the new binary will perform better.
Interestingly enough, when a design is revealed, engineers take more pride in their work. It doesn't matter whether you pop the hood on your automobile or open up some piece of professional equipment, you see that someone tried to design it properly.
I'm not accusing you of holding your customer's hostage with poorly designed code, but it is quite possible that someone else is trying to do this.