Listen, I'm no fan of the RIAA or the trends in intellectual property law madness, but the people who own the rights to copyrighted material have a right to be compensated for the use of that material.
Fine. How about we get rid of the of the webcasting surcharge and just pay the regular royalties that both radio and webcasting already pay? The whole point of the webcasting royaltis is to make it so expensive to do that it's prohibitive for anyone that isn't already an established broadcaster. This has nothing to do with business models - this is about preserving the status quo.
maybe it is time to create a new breed of firwalls that will help prevent this from happening.
They already exist. They're called stateful firewalls, and they inspect the communication actively. These firewalls vary from simple (block unauthorized sites) to complex (disable popups in javascript on the response). All that is needed is refinement of the existing code. What may happen is a restriction on whatever tricks MS may pull to automatically update your system.
Actually I think you misunderstood me. A company can't even request to look at foriegn options if there are any qualified individuals applying for the job before the time limit expires.
Too bad that it isn't enforced, and if it isn't enforced, it doesn't exist.
You have a 7kg bar of gold (assumed rectangular). Your employee gets paid 1kg of gold a day for seven days (because apparently Microsoft people don't get the weekend off). What is the minimal number of cuts to make such that you can pay him 1kg every day?
Zero. The pay period isn't specified, and weekly or biweekly intervals are normal. Besides, do you want to hire someone that earns 7kg/week, yet is living hand to mouth?
Being asked to solve a tricky technical question? Well, it's a legit, real problem. It's a fair way to gauge your problem solving ability (did you stumble across the same things they did? Good. Did you suggest something new? Great.). I wouldn't worry about their "stealing" your answer. If the problem really is hard, it's unlikely in the ten or twenty minute interview question that you'll find a superior answer to them.
Well, I have heard of a number of times where companies go on an interview, get the tough problem and solve it, only to find out later that all they really wanted was the answer to the problem.
It has nothing to do with drivers. Drivers live in an island called the operating system, and if those two islands are not connected, a driver on one machine will have no clue what a driver on the other is doing - they will both think they are accessing two completely different disks.
A filesystem has already been written that is able to cope with multiple writers - it's called GFS and it's intended for a SAN, with multiple machines accessing multiple disks. This situation, however, is considerably simpler - since only one machine can write (this one requires no changes), all the other one needs is some way to determine when something should be flushed from its cache.
Back on topic, when running a jet airplane that requires computers to keep it in the air you need 5 (or 6) nines of uptime. Anything else should be unacceptable.
And the article under discussion is talking about datacenters running websites. When being down is defined as being unreachable by a significat portion of the internet, you are dependent on several external entities and 5 nines is a pipe dream.
If you abstain from sex, you will not get any sexually transmitted disease.
The point is that most people who try abstinence fail to abstain.
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You mentioned the use of "proper protection." Name one thing besides abstinence that protects you 100% against both STDs and unwanted pregnancy?
Condoms work better than abstinence. Reason being, most teens don't have the practice in self denial to make abstinence work, so they screw anyway. The only thing that prevents pregnancy 100% is death. Period.
I wonder if that's part and parcel of proprietary software, or if it's a side effect of the legal team arguing that Windows is "integrated" and IE can't be unbundled.
I would argue that it's for ease of testing - you build a development CD and a release CD. If the release Cd passes, you can them release that very Cd to manufacturing.
Well, as i recall, the box was an Dell 8-way Xeon p3, and it built everything, including both versions of several system Dlls (basically, anything with a TChar export, since that changed from char* to short* on win9x to winnt)
The point is that when my boss says "pack your stuff, you're off to Japan for a week, and you leave in 3 days", I need to either keep a large amount of cash in my bank account so I can afford to stay in an expensive Tokyo hotel for 6 nights and pay for all my meals and other travel expenses, or I'd better have a credit card.
I'm sorry - what I meant was what's the point of them giving you a company card if it's not usable for company travel expenses? As far as spending a week in Tokyo, are you hiring? ; )
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Listen, I'm no fan of the RIAA or the trends in intellectual property law madness, but the people who own the rights to copyrighted material have a right to be compensated for the use of that material.
Fine. How about we get rid of the of the webcasting surcharge and just pay the regular royalties that both radio and webcasting already pay? The whole point of the webcasting royaltis is to make it so expensive to do that it's prohibitive for anyone that isn't already an established broadcaster. This has nothing to do with business models - this is about preserving the status quo.
Look at it this way:
It's only a matter of time.
Or else invoke the proposed stupid new law that would let a copyright owner hack or DoS your net until you let them in.
At which point, my ISP sues MS into the ground and notifies the FBI. That law isn't a law yet, so you can't invoke it.
maybe it is time to create a new breed of firwalls that will help prevent this from happening.
They already exist. They're called stateful firewalls, and they inspect the communication actively. These firewalls vary from simple (block unauthorized sites) to complex (disable popups in javascript on the response). All that is needed is refinement of the existing code. What may happen is a restriction on whatever tricks MS may pull to automatically update your system.
George Bush would probably get on TV and claim that profits from the sale of generic PC clones were being used to fund Al-Qaeda
Yeah, Osama could really use that $2.50/box
Actually I think you misunderstood me. A company can't even request to look at foriegn options if there are any qualified individuals applying for the job before the time limit expires.
Too bad that it isn't enforced, and if it isn't enforced, it doesn't exist.
You have a 7kg bar of gold (assumed rectangular). Your employee gets paid 1kg of gold a day for seven days (because apparently Microsoft people don't get the weekend off). What is the minimal number of cuts to make such that you can pay him 1kg every day?
Zero. The pay period isn't specified, and weekly or biweekly intervals are normal. Besides, do you want to hire someone that earns 7kg/week, yet is living hand to mouth?
Being asked to solve a tricky technical question? Well, it's a legit, real problem. It's a fair way to gauge your problem solving ability (did you stumble across the same things they did? Good. Did you suggest something new? Great.). I wouldn't worry about their "stealing" your answer. If the problem really is hard, it's unlikely in the ten or twenty minute interview question that you'll find a superior answer to them.
Well, I have heard of a number of times where companies go on an interview, get the tough problem and solve it, only to find out later that all they really wanted was the answer to the problem.
It has nothing to do with drivers. Drivers live in an island called the operating system, and if those two islands are not connected, a driver on one machine will have no clue what a driver on the other is doing - they will both think they are accessing two completely different disks.
A filesystem has already been written that is able to cope with multiple writers - it's called GFS and it's intended for a SAN, with multiple machines accessing multiple disks. This situation, however, is considerably simpler - since only one machine can write (this one requires no changes), all the other one needs is some way to determine when something should be flushed from its cache.
Back on topic, when running a jet airplane that requires computers to keep it in the air you need 5 (or 6) nines of uptime. Anything else should be unacceptable.
And the article under discussion is talking about datacenters running websites. When being down is defined as being unreachable by a significat portion of the internet, you are dependent on several external entities and 5 nines is a pipe dream.
Start tweaking or upgrading, it becomes more unstable by the click.
Pray tell, what sort of tweaks were you making?
Yeah, ok. If that's the case, it was done with Clinton's LIFE SIZE JOHN HANCOCK written all over it. The President gets to veto, you know.
The way heard it, clinton did veto the bill, but Gingrich managed to get the 2/3rds to override it.
How long before the corporations start forcing people out of their houses without compensation to build on their land? Enough is enough.
You're about a century too late - the railroads did just that in the last half of the 19th century.
Don't have to - just go to Times Square and look at the videotron.
Today I sat through 13 *previews* and 8 ads in the movie theatre.
Do what I do: show up late. Miss the ads and some previews.
Bring out the COMFY AERON!
Convince a VP that your linux box will help things along by being more cost-effective, faster, or whatever and have him grant you an exception.
couldn't some rooftop solar powered hydrogen distiller take care of that?
Currently, solar panels produce less energy over their lifetime than it takes to produce them. You'd be better off running from house current.
a teardrop design (with a flat bottom) is the most common design for producing lift.
No, the most common lifting body is the wing. Teardrops just minimize drag.
If you abstain from sex, you will not get any sexually transmitted disease.
The point is that most people who try abstinence fail to abstain.
You mentioned the use of "proper protection." Name one thing besides abstinence that protects you 100% against both STDs and unwanted pregnancy?
Condoms work better than abstinence. Reason being, most teens don't have the practice in self denial to make abstinence work, so they screw anyway. The only thing that prevents pregnancy 100% is death. Period.
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I wonder if that's part and parcel of proprietary software, or if it's a side effect of the legal team arguing that Windows is "integrated" and IE can't be unbundled.
I would argue that it's for ease of testing - you build a development CD and a release CD. If the release Cd passes, you can them release that very Cd to manufacturing.
Well, as i recall, the box was an Dell 8-way Xeon p3, and it built everything, including both versions of several system Dlls (basically, anything with a TChar export, since that changed from char* to short* on win9x to winnt)
The point is that when my boss says "pack your stuff, you're off to Japan for a week, and you leave in 3 days", I need to either keep a large amount of cash in my bank account so I can afford to stay in an expensive Tokyo hotel for 6 nights and pay for all my meals and other travel expenses, or I'd better have a credit card.
I'm sorry - what I meant was what's the point of them giving you a company card if it's not usable for company travel expenses? As far as spending a week in Tokyo, are you hiring? ; )