Same thought. 120 million - that is what? WIth luck it is ONE access point (low cost, definitely not cisco) for every not too small village. WIthout internet, without installation. I am all in favour of not dishing out money like that, but let's get real - for a village it is likely cheaper to buy it WITHOUT grant, because of the time it takes to papare the paperwork.
Whoever decided on that amount was joking.
SERIOUSLY? Amazing. Your low standards, that is.
Have a look at Mikrotik - not for someone not knowing what they do, but THEY do updates for TONS of years, are cheap and provide serious enterprise grade features. From a super cheap 40 USD router to a 36 core backbone router.
Seriously. A small form factor real computer. Put in 2 graphics cards that can run 5 monitors each. Done.
You will have to look a little, but for our... let's just say I bought a lot of 7570 I think (a year and a half in the past) That had 5 mini displayport outputs each. Work like a charm and run up to 5 monitors.
What exactly was the problem?
::Were I work we have a "no print" policy and just archive everything on a file server
How you manage that? Seriously.While I could possibl avoid MOST things, there are those psky things people are still requires to sign by law, or that you have to sign and turn them over. Things like - payment slips;)
Or the incoming invoices which go to the accountant for archival.
Or the occasional outgoing letter;)
WHich the dump user will gladly use to install the package giving him access to the latest porn or some bettre video codec or some new chat emoticons.
Under windows, most malware is installed by software USER WILLINGLY INSTALL. That wont change under Linux a bit - dump users will leanr to install software. Not for their new word processor, no - because they absolutly NEED that new emoticons in their favourite chat software.
Works like a charm... and is available earlier...
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First, it is August 6th/7th for some of us. Only people without MSDN etc. wait till October;)
Second, "it just works". Pretty well acutally;) I like it a lot more than Vista. Using RC1 right now in the important systems already;)
You should read up on the difference between dual CORE and dual PROCESSOR.
In fact, both current Opterons as well as current Phenoms are quad core systems. The Phenoms single processor (1x4 cores), the Opterons dual to quad processor (2x4 cores to 4x4 cores).
Hardly any end user system (i.e. non-server) today uses more than one processor. Dual core to quad core is normal now. But always on one processor.
The difference in sockets actually is for that - the AM2(+) socket lackss the HT bus for inter-processor communication, while the Socket F has separate lanes for the processors to talk to each other.
The main problem with Intel right now is that intel has no really nice solution at all in the multi processor side - they simply (again) do not scale from the memory side, thanks to a lack of a NUMA architecture (that they change now and coming).
Not sure you would call it expensive, but the OPTERON chips per definition are only server chips. The Opteron 23xx series (45nm shanghai) is dual processor, while the 83xx series is quad processor.
The end user equivalent is the PHENOM series.
Note that this is a technical difference, not marketing talk. The Opterons use Socket F, while the Phenoms (single processor only) use the AM2+ socket. Different pin count, different number of interconnect ports (for connecting to other processory).
45nm Phenoms are IIRC supposed to appear soonish;) Opterons start being available now - I pick up a new server on friday.
* Do you have an NDA or non-compete clause? In that case - follow it. * In general, unless the softawre implements patents, you are free to copy it. * Especially if you can proove that the stuff you DO copy is publicly available. This can include features, UI workflows, even architecture. Proove is easy: demoes, public documentation etc. all proof that you did not use "hidden knowledge". Even thigns that you can deduct (not reverse engineer) from an available demo helps here.
That said, the devil IS in the details, so you should get a lawyer. Some things may be protected and you do not want to get into problems there. But in general, earlier work does not stop you from doing the same later yourself.
And most of the time it seriously is not worth it.
If I fly intra-european it is normally a 2-3 hour flight MAXIMUM - 4 hours brings me from ermany tothe canary islands, and these are on the side of africa;)
The price for business class is really high. Thanks. What do I get? Some minor priviledges and a loungs. WHOOOW.
Larger seats? NO. not within europe. Better food? Thanks - not really, and I rather work on the plane. Not a lot of food on a 1.5 hour flight. What is left? Business class lounge and free drinks.
Yeah.
Let me spend 30 on drinks and I am done anyway. Or.. I book economy and use the same business class lounge thanks to the Priority Pass included in my credit card. Bingo.
Three words: not worth it.
The biggest joke I had with an intra-german flight recently. Priviledge of business class? Free change of plane. Ticket price: 89. Business class: 350. Right - so, I am cheper to just makea new reservation and let the old one expire.
Now, go international and the issue changes. 8 hours on the plane to the US - suddenly the better food, larger seats actually mean SOMETHING.
SOmeone hoas to pay for all the installation work - as a contractor the OP should not be so ignorant.
You put tons of infrastructure in that you then rip out again. Yes, the price is high. But then - seriously - there is a lot of work in tehere, that just is not needed at all anymore once the games are over.
So, people using things during one month of the games have to pay all the costs......that peopele with a leased line at hime depreciate over months.
And yes, the equipment can partially be reused. Partially - and the work is lost.
That makes a lot of sense - because that is exactly what happens. Tons of bots around trying to get into "known and patched for years" exploits. They jsut scan IP Address ranges for computer to come online.
So, really - no browsing required. No user action required. They happily come to you.
This is why a simple firewall like the one you have now on Windows (allow only outgoing connections by default) or simple NAT ALREADY raises quite a bar in security - there ARE, HAVE BEEN and WILL BE exploits that do not require any user interaction.
Then, seriously, fuel is still to cheap for you guys. Which, incidentally it is - I regularly refue in germany, which runs to around USD 2.4 per LITER now. That is - well - around USD 9 per gallon;)
If you do commute regularly and can afford that you end up fast on a level where the monthly pay for a new car may be cheaper than the fuel you waste.
I sometimes spend around USD 1200 PER WEEK On Fuel (name that running around 2000km a week on communtes). At that rate (plus costs for car repairs - I mean, you just need more when you make 6000 miles a MONTH), Flying and rent a car starts looking good. Or - getting a car using less, though I sort of still miss some decent sports cars (though some are ocming, even with hybrids - and no, the Tesla is not an option, doing 600 MILES in one run just does not work at the moment with it).
The Fisker Karma or the Imperia GT may be such cars;) Once they hit the market (hopefully soon). If I save 3 liters per 100k that runs down to USD 115 per week - around USD 600 per month. Which THEN I can easily put into a new car;)
I personally see it as vastly different. Because it affects the cunwary consumer.
See, if I ask you to copy me software, and you do, we do something illegal, and we can discuss the moral. But we both KNOW it. It is a fact, I dont pay, we know what we get into.
In this fact, there is the additional dimension that not only is software illegally copied, but it is done so to swindle an unsuspecting third party for money. It means that while the copy person knows it is fake, the person paying does not know so, and in fact THINKS he purchases it legally. Besides the obvious moral issue it opens that third party to legal claims, because he is comitting a crime by using this illegal copy, albeit not knowing it.
One case where "I did not know" is a very sad defense.
And this "betraying another unsuspecting party" does add tremendously. If I steal software, this is between me and the company putting it on the market, and the person allowing me to copy. If I make counterfeit software, I involve a third party that does not want to be in this game.
::It does surprise me that there is significant demand for "real looking" software,
There is no demand.
See, it goes like that: * Counterfeiter fakes software. * Counterfeiter and in between person pose as distributor, selling the windows copies with a SMALL discount. * Computer shops, always looking for a small gain (as margins are super slim) take that. Mind you, way talk about omaybe 5% less price, but if your margin is only 5% on the product, that doubles your margin.
The shop may not know the software is fake (it was a little chaper, but it could just have been a sale), and the end user definitly does not DEMAND fake software. The whole reason it is so high quality is that the purchase chain (shop, end user) do NOT REALIZE it is fake.
Criminal like hell. Nothing compared to copy some software where both parties know it.
::It's likely these copies are sold very cheaply to people who can't afford to buy from a real vendor
No, they were not. We talk of high quality - the vendor bought from a distributor, who got it somewhere cheaper than from MS.
SOMEONE up the chain made a hugh profit.
This is the whole crux here - we dont talk about software someone who wants a pirated copy buys. We talk of softwarte that I could buy and sell a customer. Either cheaper (a LITTLE), or for the full price, and not me nor the customer would have to realize it is fake.
Until Genuine Advantage blows one day in a check.
This is criminal as it gets. Counterfeiting goods, including documentation, certificates and all that.
This is not the "ok, i bought a pirated copy" stuff.
I rather like it.
The MS system pulls always exactly the correct file version for th DLL in question - after a patch, files are re-downloaded.
And it doesn ot go into MS classes for single stepping without being explicitly told. In 90% of the cases that is what developers want. When I single step through a front end, I sont want to automatically go through all the stupid source of the components in question. If I debug a component, though, this may be handy.
Actually no, I just wonder.
See, this particular customers shop targets the end user, and I would say that from the medical products offered there it is pretty much "joe use average". It is so joe average that the percentile of Linux or Mac users is terribly low, and the revenue from these systems is approaching zero.
Taking 90.000 online sites may have a high percentile of very computer savy people, or another thing. Never trust a statisti that you ahve not faked yourself.
I am sure I can find 90.000 sites that are mostly surfed by people using Linux as desktop, but it will not be representative. So, without a list of sites or hot the sites were selected - I just question how relevant the statistic is in general.
From the largest site i have access to - a medical online shop, in fact:
last 30 days:
IE: 78,26% of visitors
Firefos: 16,33% of visitors
Gets funnier if you look at the revenue:
IE: 85,9% of revenue
Firefox: 9,46% of revenue.
I can not really see "great advances". Firefox is a respectable and solid nr 2, but that basically is it.
::Theres a hundred ways an account can get an email::(spam or not) without it being mined specifically::by the future defendant.
How?
I put up a new email account. Noone ever uses it. It is only shown on a website for ONE page (i.e. next visitor gets another account).
Nopw, I grant that someoone may mistype an address. But then - this will not result in a lot of emails coming.
q.e.d.
No attitude. Data. I ran an ISP some years ago and our statistics indicated that 90% of the calls included wrong information given by the user.
That partially was comical ("hey, i tuned the modem - by solderingg a new chip in - and now your dial in system is down") and sometimes idiotic ("i know how that softwar eworks - i wrote it").
Here is the deal: get a support contract with your suppliers that bypasses their CSR. It is going to cost you a lot of money, but that is waht you get for bypassing the idiot filter.
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Same thought. 120 million - that is what? WIth luck it is ONE access point (low cost, definitely not cisco) for every not too small village. WIthout internet, without installation. I am all in favour of not dishing out money like that, but let's get real - for a village it is likely cheaper to buy it WITHOUT grant, because of the time it takes to papare the paperwork. Whoever decided on that amount was joking.
SERIOUSLY? Amazing. Your low standards, that is. Have a look at Mikrotik - not for someone not knowing what they do, but THEY do updates for TONS of years, are cheap and provide serious enterprise grade features. From a super cheap 40 USD router to a 36 core backbone router.
Seriously. A small form factor real computer. Put in 2 graphics cards that can run 5 monitors each. Done. You will have to look a little, but for our... let's just say I bought a lot of 7570 I think (a year and a half in the past) That had 5 mini displayport outputs each. Work like a charm and run up to 5 monitors. What exactly was the problem?
::Were I work we have a "no print" policy and just archive everything on a file server How you manage that? Seriously.While I could possibl avoid MOST things, there are those psky things people are still requires to sign by law, or that you have to sign and turn them over. Things like - payment slips ;)
Or the incoming invoices which go to the accountant for archival.
Or the occasional outgoing letter ;)
They SIGN them. DIgital signature, using a certificate. Check your reader, this is part of the PDF specifications.
WHich the dump user will gladly use to install the package giving him access to the latest porn or some bettre video codec or some new chat emoticons. Under windows, most malware is installed by software USER WILLINGLY INSTALL. That wont change under Linux a bit - dump users will leanr to install software. Not for their new word processor, no - because they absolutly NEED that new emoticons in their favourite chat software.
First, it is August 6th/7th for some of us. Only people without MSDN etc. wait till October ;)
Second, "it just works". Pretty well acutally ;) I like it a lot more than Vista. Using RC1 right now in the important systems already ;)
You should read up on the difference between dual CORE and dual PROCESSOR.
In fact, both current Opterons as well as current Phenoms are quad core systems. The Phenoms single processor (1x4 cores), the Opterons dual to quad processor (2x4 cores to 4x4 cores).
Hardly any end user system (i.e. non-server) today uses more than one processor. Dual core to quad core is normal now. But always on one processor.
The difference in sockets actually is for that - the AM2(+) socket lackss the HT bus for inter-processor communication, while the Socket F has separate lanes for the processors to talk to each other.
The main problem with Intel right now is that intel has no really nice solution at all in the multi processor side - they simply (again) do not scale from the memory side, thanks to a lack of a NUMA architecture (that they change now and coming).
No marketing talk in those names.
Not sure you would call it expensive, but the OPTERON chips per definition are only server chips. The Opteron 23xx series (45nm shanghai) is dual processor, while the 83xx series is quad processor.
The end user equivalent is the PHENOM series.
Note that this is a technical difference, not marketing talk. The Opterons use Socket F, while the Phenoms (single processor only) use the AM2+ socket. Different pin count, different number of interconnect ports (for connecting to other processory).
45nm Phenoms are IIRC supposed to appear soonish ;) Opterons start being available now - I pick up a new server on friday.
* Do you have an NDA or non-compete clause? In that case - follow it.
* In general, unless the softawre implements patents, you are free to copy it.
* Especially if you can proove that the stuff you DO copy is publicly available. This can include features, UI workflows, even architecture. Proove is easy: demoes, public documentation etc. all proof that you did not use "hidden knowledge". Even thigns that you can deduct (not reverse engineer) from an available demo helps here.
That said, the devil IS in the details, so you should get a lawyer. Some things may be protected and you do not want to get into problems there. But in general, earlier work does not stop you from doing the same later yourself.
And most of the time it seriously is not worth it. If I fly intra-european it is normally a 2-3 hour flight MAXIMUM - 4 hours brings me from ermany tothe canary islands, and these are on the side of africa ;)
The price for business class is really high. Thanks. What do I get? Some minor priviledges and a loungs. WHOOOW.
Larger seats? NO. not within europe. Better food? Thanks - not really, and I rather work on the plane. Not a lot of food on a 1.5 hour flight. What is left? Business class lounge and free drinks.
Yeah.
Let me spend 30 on drinks and I am done anyway. Or.. I book economy and use the same business class lounge thanks to the Priority Pass included in my credit card. Bingo.
Three words: not worth it.
The biggest joke I had with an intra-german flight recently. Priviledge of business class? Free change of plane. Ticket price: 89. Business class: 350. Right - so, I am cheper to just makea new reservation and let the old one expire.
Now, go international and the issue changes. 8 hours on the plane to the US - suddenly the better food, larger seats actually mean SOMETHING.
SOmeone hoas to pay for all the installation work - as a contractor the OP should not be so ignorant. You put tons of infrastructure in that you then rip out again. Yes, the price is high. But then - seriously - there is a lot of work in tehere, that just is not needed at all anymore once the games are over. So, people using things during one month of the games have to pay all the costs... ...that peopele with a leased line at hime depreciate over months.
And yes, the equipment can partially be reused. Partially - and the work is lost.
That makes a lot of sense - because that is exactly what happens. Tons of bots around trying to get into "known and patched for years" exploits. They jsut scan IP Address ranges for computer to come online. So, really - no browsing required. No user action required. They happily come to you. This is why a simple firewall like the one you have now on Windows (allow only outgoing connections by default) or simple NAT ALREADY raises quite a bar in security - there ARE, HAVE BEEN and WILL BE exploits that do not require any user interaction.
Then, seriously, fuel is still to cheap for you guys. Which, incidentally it is - I regularly refue in germany, which runs to around USD 2.4 per LITER now. That is - well - around USD 9 per gallon ;)
If you do commute regularly and can afford that you end up fast on a level where the monthly pay for a new car may be cheaper than the fuel you waste.
I sometimes spend around USD 1200 PER WEEK On Fuel (name that running around 2000km a week on communtes). At that rate (plus costs for car repairs - I mean, you just need more when you make 6000 miles a MONTH), Flying and rent a car starts looking good. Or - getting a car using less, though I sort of still miss some decent sports cars (though some are ocming, even with hybrids - and no, the Tesla is not an option, doing 600 MILES in one run just does not work at the moment with it).
The Fisker Karma or the Imperia GT may be such cars ;) Once they hit the market (hopefully soon). If I save 3 liters per 100k that runs down to USD 115 per week - around USD 600 per month. Which THEN I can easily put into a new car ;)
I personally see it as vastly different. Because it affects the cunwary consumer.
See, if I ask you to copy me software, and you do, we do something illegal, and we can discuss the moral. But we both KNOW it. It is a fact, I dont pay, we know what we get into.
In this fact, there is the additional dimension that not only is software illegally copied, but it is done so to swindle an unsuspecting third party for money. It means that while the copy person knows it is fake, the person paying does not know so, and in fact THINKS he purchases it legally. Besides the obvious moral issue it opens that third party to legal claims, because he is comitting a crime by using this illegal copy, albeit not knowing it.
One case where "I did not know" is a very sad defense.
And this "betraying another unsuspecting party" does add tremendously. If I steal software, this is between me and the company putting it on the market, and the person allowing me to copy. If I make counterfeit software, I involve a third party that does not want to be in this game.
::It does surprise me that there is significant demand for "real looking" software,
There is no demand.
See, it goes like that:
* Counterfeiter fakes software.
* Counterfeiter and in between person pose as distributor, selling the windows copies with a SMALL discount.
* Computer shops, always looking for a small gain (as margins are super slim) take that. Mind you, way talk about omaybe 5% less price, but if your margin is only 5% on the product, that doubles your margin.
The shop may not know the software is fake (it was a little chaper, but it could just have been a sale), and the end user definitly does not DEMAND fake software. The whole reason it is so high quality is that the purchase chain (shop, end user) do NOT REALIZE it is fake.
Criminal like hell. Nothing compared to copy some software where both parties know it.
::It's likely these copies are sold very cheaply to people who can't afford to buy from a real vendor
No, they were not. We talk of high quality - the vendor bought from a distributor, who got it somewhere cheaper than from MS.
SOMEONE up the chain made a hugh profit.
This is the whole crux here - we dont talk about software someone who wants a pirated copy buys. We talk of softwarte that I could buy and sell a customer. Either cheaper (a LITTLE), or for the full price, and not me nor the customer would have to realize it is fake.
Until Genuine Advantage blows one day in a check.
This is criminal as it gets. Counterfeiting goods, including documentation, certificates and all that.
This is not the "ok, i bought a pirated copy" stuff.
I rather like it. The MS system pulls always exactly the correct file version for th DLL in question - after a patch, files are re-downloaded. And it doesn ot go into MS classes for single stepping without being explicitly told. In 90% of the cases that is what developers want. When I single step through a front end, I sont want to automatically go through all the stupid source of the components in question. If I debug a component, though, this may be handy.
Actually he is not. He is fully in his rights to sell it, but he is not in the rights to take the authors name out and sell it as his own work.
Actually no, I just wonder. See, this particular customers shop targets the end user, and I would say that from the medical products offered there it is pretty much "joe use average". It is so joe average that the percentile of Linux or Mac users is terribly low, and the revenue from these systems is approaching zero. Taking 90.000 online sites may have a high percentile of very computer savy people, or another thing. Never trust a statisti that you ahve not faked yourself. I am sure I can find 90.000 sites that are mostly surfed by people using Linux as desktop, but it will not be representative. So, without a list of sites or hot the sites were selected - I just question how relevant the statistic is in general.
From the largest site i have access to - a medical online shop, in fact: last 30 days: IE: 78,26% of visitors Firefos: 16,33% of visitors Gets funnier if you look at the revenue: IE: 85,9% of revenue Firefox: 9,46% of revenue. I can not really see "great advances". Firefox is a respectable and solid nr 2, but that basically is it.
::Theres a hundred ways an account can get an email ::(spam or not) without it being mined specifically ::by the future defendant.
How?
I put up a new email account. Noone ever uses it. It is only shown on a website for ONE page (i.e. next visitor gets another account).
Nopw, I grant that someoone may mistype an address. But then - this will not result in a lot of emails coming.
q.e.d.
No attitude. Data. I ran an ISP some years ago and our statistics indicated that 90% of the calls included wrong information given by the user.
That partially was comical ("hey, i tuned the modem - by solderingg a new chip in - and now your dial in system is down") and sometimes idiotic ("i know how that softwar eworks - i wrote it").
Here is the deal: get a support contract with your suppliers that bypasses their CSR. It is going to cost you a lot of money, but that is waht you get for bypassing the idiot filter.
Seconded.
90% of the people are lying. Period. From trying to lay blame to a supplier to seriously being tooo stupid to realize that they did broke something.