I'm sitting here with a Nokia 6300 that worked out-of-the box as a mass storage drive with no extra features.. it might have had to get a driver from windows update but that's it. Also syncs with bluetooth... for free. It will even act act as a USB modem but my phone account doesn't have that.. but it's disabled at the phone company, not my hardware! What a concept.
It has music playing but I'm an iPod person so I got the Touch instead. The pictures are pretty good at 2 MP, good enough for viewing on a screen or web site.
iPhone's camera is pathetic for a company that's whole "reason for being" is media creation. And what's with the lack of good video? The new blackberry phones have pretty good 3 MP cameras that are decent for "snap and go", and they take video and have SD card slots. For taking lots of pictures or video you really need removable media. It means you have as much storage as you want to buy, and because SD chips go up to 32GB now, that's a lot of extra space compared to iPhone.
exactly, IT people are unique because we already know most of the story.... which means telling us up front what's really going on is the better proposition. Right now, my company is planning to move the main machine I manage to another new location... trying to be all secret about buying a new building for the bosses like anybody really cares. It's the playing favorites with information for no good reason... and IT typically knows about it before anybody else because we read the emails if only when we fix people's computers.
How much lying for the sake of lying goes on from most company managers is out of control and IT people are actually very normal people reacting normally to an environment of lies. Lies about profit, lies about sales, likes about layoffs... etc.
IT people know a lot of dirty laundry and that typically breeds resentment when WE act respectable rather than respect.
That sounds strangely like Apple's iTunes Store. Apple lets you purchase music and movies and once they are on your hard drive you can copy them to whatever media you wish.. you just have to be authenticated to actually PLAY them. So far Apple FairPlay has not been broken, the only "crack" has been hijacking the download before itunes applies DRM.
That Sony ties all the music and movies to a small PS3 only hard drive and calls it "sales" is childish.
They stipulate you can only use the item as long as you keep it in the environmentally friendly paper bag you left the store with. So when the bag "dies" or is damaged, the product is damaged and you can't use it anymore.
Neilson is claiming copyright on their arrangement of "markets". This is more creative than TV channels in a geographic area, neilson created market numbers and assigned those to groups of stations. This is more than creative enough, and in the original wiki entry, the neilson number and market ranges matched neilson Information directly, the updated versions remove the idea of "markets" and just have geographic area.
the current version has all nielson information removed, anything about market # and market area has been removed, leaving just locations within a mile radius, which is a fact.
"liable for damages" is often worse than criminal charges... the burden of proof is lower and based on how much money the plaintiff can spend to throw lawyers at you.
The whole point of the DMCA takedowns is that YOU have to instigate the court case to put your work back up. At that point you essentially have to ask for "approval" of the DMCA filer to put your work up... depending on what kind of corporate lawyers you're dealing with it could take days or months, because there's no incentive for THEM to look at the facts once the auto-printer sends the notices.
networks are our lifeblood even more important than actual transportation. Drastic events can be mitigated greatly with COMMUNICATION. With careful planning we could keep from having other problems as well. We have communication channels available that didn't exist last time mass outbreaks like the Plague occurred. Keeping places connected to their governments and researchers is direly important, but when society breaks down how do you protect people from digging up your copper? Or protect the repair workers from mobs and disease. Or get repair materials to hostile/toxic territory.
This is where things like Sharepoint come in, so that you can identify projects, and attach important information for retention by project instead of in the email system. Companies have to be vigilant because if some lawyer finds even 1 email outside the time limit then they open the scope of discovery even more, that may mean hauling in individual PCs for "dumps" and get messy fast.
I believe Microsoft had that policy for a long time as well until SOX was put into place. The idea is that if it is your policy to destroy information, you can't be held in contempt when it's gone. Of course in cases like Microsoft who gets sued all the time, it was quite handy as the court cases to sue them might take years, and the contract negotiations that failed are long since wiped out by the time you can legally "reach" the information. But the purge is a "system function" so it's "plausable denyability" that stuff happens automatically unless the proper judge signs the exact, proper paperwork in time. Again, this is why SOX was put into place to allow the SEC to adjust "best practices" more quickly to stop abuse of the system.
but if you get sued, you need to know what you're sending out. It's to prevent "fishing" expeditions as much as anything else, ugly stuff that might not be illegal is fun to be "leaked" to make you look bad. If something is not legally required or needed for business purposes you shouldn't keep it. It's like keeping dirty laundry around... some stuff like customer complaints and employee's "mistakes" you don't want to keep on your system any longer than absolutely necessary.
that's negative pressure and very bad for a data center and controlling dust. What you want is positive pressure from the AC that is heavily filtered from the outside. Then dust in the room is pushed out of equipment and out thru any cracks rather than pulled into the room.
I'm going to defend them on one point that they finally almost get the "play anywhere" idea and are willing to work across companies to achieve what Apple has already done. Apple has proved that people will buy up electronic copies sold "just like a book" and usable on so many devices. The "pairing" of iPods and Apple TVs to "mothership" computers has worked out very well. The only flaw Apple's stuff has is that you can't automatically aggregate stuff (to backup all your media) among machines even under the same account.. that's disabled because they still think we're all pirates. My opinion is that the "missing link" in Apple's cap is that Time Capsule should also act as a storage for all the iTunes you might purchase then treat PCs just like iPods to "check out" songs.
I think that's exactly what Sony and co. want to do. You'd have one "mothership" at home, constantly "phoning home" but everything else would be invisible.. you'd buy on a phone, or email, or PS3 and all the sales would go back to the "mothership" for archiving the keys. Buy however many media devices you want and sync away all day.
This is just like Amazon mp3s, the media companies will create a whole new thing simply to do what they've already obligated Apple NOT to do.
I like his point. Why shpul evolution be taught over creation if the teacher is not prepared to explain the logical flaws...anything less is merely teaching science AS a religion.
the trouble is that there is NOT a tool or system available for reasonable costs. If you want a repair disk quick, you get a Linux disk! Somebody brings you a random hard drive a bootable linux disk like Knoppix is the first tool out of the bag and it's free... equivalent tools would cost thousands of dollars. Linux is what's left to clean up the mess when you deal with dusty, unsupported hardware. Or when the real hardware you are using is broken.
Again,this kind of "open" credit was used back in the days of the "company store". They'd extend credit of some amount x then keep letting the employees go over... until it was stopped. Telcos are one of the few companies allowed to charge unlimited amounts of charges and not do anything. If I have to have a credit check done, I'd expect I'd have some reasonable limit then get cut off. $19,000 is not a reasonable credit limit for a $150 per month phone plan without telling the customer up front and making special arrangements with me.
One of my wife's plans with our local cell phone company had something low like $300 built in. If you went too far over your minutes you got cut off...and it included any bills that came due during the time so it got eaten up fast. That was a good thing when you have lots of roaming or travel because you can't be charged more than you can pay off. That's what should have happened here.
That a company doesn't do this automatically is fraudulent.
but building web pages, rendering the SAME most of the time is more important than passing a silly test. ACID is a neat set of tests, but they don't answer the problems of what features are really usable across a given set of browsers that a web designer can use. When laying out complex javascript or CSS you really need the browsers to follow the spec much more closely, at least the same way and this is where the whole web standards thing falls down. There's not a widely accepted test that shows if REAL things work. Acid has been misrepresented in the press as a compatibility tool when it's just an error checker.
The biggest reasons mormons got singled out is that they believe that polygamy was ok... after all many of those famous people in that Old Testament had multiple wifes.. Abraham, Jacob, David and Solomon who built the temple... but for some reason US culture just couldn't handle the idea. At the time John Smith's claim of getting golden tablets from God that only he could read and describe was as science fiction as giant aliens. It countermanded many things in the Jewish/Catholic/Protestant Bible and couldn't be tolerated.
wrong, they have money for the right kind of lawyers that make the right kind of legal motions that Branch Davidians didn't have.
The whole point of this behavior from CoS is to get to court first and often so they have the judges ear as the "injured" party. That lets them make their arguments of religious persecution first, let's them hide behind freedom of religion to conduct their business and courts tread VERY lightly when freedom of religious practice pops up. At that point alphabet agencies have to tread very lightly because the courts are already thinking that the general public might "harm" CoS. Courts then consider warrants and such much more carefully than they did at Waco or Ruby Ridge.
Money at the highest levels helps too, as the are more of a weird social club of powerful people among the rich and famous, so they can't be "that bad". Rich are used to squashing "little people" all the time so this kind of legal attack is just seen as normal business.
Google is smart enough.. they can surf the web and could ban not just searches about Scientology but anybody connected to Scientology and their businesses, movies, friends, relatives, etc. just make these people "disappear" from the Internet. After all Google is a private company and CoS the company is doing them harm. I think massive abuse of power would be awesome, like in Batman where he used EVERYBODY's cell phone to search the city.
Good thing Google will be building data center ships!!! Then this stuff can be hosted under a shell company Elgoog so they don't have to follow US DMCAs anymore.
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I'm sitting here with a Nokia 6300 that worked out-of-the box as a mass storage drive with no extra features.. it might have had to get a driver from windows update but that's it. Also syncs with bluetooth ... for free. It will even act act as a USB modem but my phone account doesn't have that.. but it's disabled at the phone company, not my hardware! What a concept.
It has music playing but I'm an iPod person so I got the Touch instead. The pictures are pretty good at 2 MP, good enough for viewing on a screen or web site.
iPhone's camera is pathetic for a company that's whole "reason for being" is media creation. And what's with the lack of good video? The new blackberry phones have pretty good 3 MP cameras that are decent for "snap and go", and they take video and have SD card slots. For taking lots of pictures or video you really need removable media. It means you have as much storage as you want to buy, and because SD chips go up to 32GB now, that's a lot of extra space compared to iPhone.
exactly, IT people are unique because we already know most of the story.... which means telling us up front what's really going on is the better proposition. Right now, my company is planning to move the main machine I manage to another new location... trying to be all secret about buying a new building for the bosses like anybody really cares. It's the playing favorites with information for no good reason... and IT typically knows about it before anybody else because we read the emails if only when we fix people's computers.
How much lying for the sake of lying goes on from most company managers is out of control and IT people are actually very normal people reacting normally to an environment of lies. Lies about profit, lies about sales, likes about layoffs... etc.
IT people know a lot of dirty laundry and that typically breeds resentment when WE act respectable rather than respect.
That sounds strangely like Apple's iTunes Store. Apple lets you purchase music and movies and once they are on your hard drive you can copy them to whatever media you wish.. you just have to be authenticated to actually PLAY them. So far Apple FairPlay has not been broken, the only "crack" has been hijacking the download before itunes applies DRM.
That Sony ties all the music and movies to a small PS3 only hard drive and calls it "sales" is childish.
They stipulate you can only use the item as long as you keep it in the environmentally friendly paper bag you left the store with. So when the bag "dies" or is damaged, the product is damaged and you can't use it anymore.
Neilson is claiming copyright on their arrangement of "markets". This is more creative than TV channels in a geographic area, neilson created market numbers and assigned those to groups of stations. This is more than creative enough, and in the original wiki entry, the neilson number and market ranges matched neilson Information directly, the updated versions remove the idea of "markets" and just have geographic area.
the current version has all nielson information removed, anything about market # and market area has been removed, leaving just locations within a mile radius, which is a fact.
"liable for damages" is often worse than criminal charges... the burden of proof is lower and based on how much money the plaintiff can spend to throw lawyers at you.
The whole point of the DMCA takedowns is that YOU have to instigate the court case to put your work back up. At that point you essentially have to ask for "approval" of the DMCA filer to put your work up... depending on what kind of corporate lawyers you're dealing with it could take days or months, because there's no incentive for THEM to look at the facts once the auto-printer sends the notices.
networks are our lifeblood even more important than actual transportation. Drastic events can be mitigated greatly with COMMUNICATION. With careful planning we could keep from having other problems as well. We have communication channels available that didn't exist last time mass outbreaks like the Plague occurred. Keeping places connected to their governments and researchers is direly important, but when society breaks down how do you protect people from digging up your copper? Or protect the repair workers from mobs and disease. Or get repair materials to hostile/toxic territory.
This is where things like Sharepoint come in, so that you can identify projects, and attach important information for retention by project instead of in the email system. Companies have to be vigilant because if some lawyer finds even 1 email outside the time limit then they open the scope of discovery even more, that may mean hauling in individual PCs for "dumps" and get messy fast.
I believe Microsoft had that policy for a long time as well until SOX was put into place. The idea is that if it is your policy to destroy information, you can't be held in contempt when it's gone. Of course in cases like Microsoft who gets sued all the time, it was quite handy as the court cases to sue them might take years, and the contract negotiations that failed are long since wiped out by the time you can legally "reach" the information. But the purge is a "system function" so it's "plausable denyability" that stuff happens automatically unless the proper judge signs the exact, proper paperwork in time. Again, this is why SOX was put into place to allow the SEC to adjust "best practices" more quickly to stop abuse of the system.
but if you get sued, you need to know what you're sending out. It's to prevent "fishing" expeditions as much as anything else, ugly stuff that might not be illegal is fun to be "leaked" to make you look bad. If something is not legally required or needed for business purposes you shouldn't keep it. It's like keeping dirty laundry around... some stuff like customer complaints and employee's "mistakes" you don't want to keep on your system any longer than absolutely necessary.
that's negative pressure and very bad for a data center and controlling dust. What you want is positive pressure from the AC that is heavily filtered from the outside. Then dust in the room is pushed out of equipment and out thru any cracks rather than pulled into the room.
by some strange cosmic coincidence the answer is "42"!
I'm going to defend them on one point that they finally almost get the "play anywhere" idea and are willing to work across companies to achieve what Apple has already done. Apple has proved that people will buy up electronic copies sold "just like a book" and usable on so many devices. The "pairing" of iPods and Apple TVs to "mothership" computers has worked out very well. The only flaw Apple's stuff has is that you can't automatically aggregate stuff (to backup all your media) among machines even under the same account.. that's disabled because they still think we're all pirates. My opinion is that the "missing link" in Apple's cap is that Time Capsule should also act as a storage for all the iTunes you might purchase then treat PCs just like iPods to "check out" songs.
I think that's exactly what Sony and co. want to do. You'd have one "mothership" at home, constantly "phoning home" but everything else would be invisible.. you'd buy on a phone, or email, or PS3 and all the sales would go back to the "mothership" for archiving the keys. Buy however many media devices you want and sync away all day.
This is just like Amazon mp3s, the media companies will create a whole new thing simply to do what they've already obligated Apple NOT to do.
I like his point. Why shpul evolution be taught over creation if the teacher is not prepared to explain the logical flaws...anything less is merely teaching science AS a religion.
He does the work on his own private island! That's sort of like a beach.
the trouble is that there is NOT a tool or system available for reasonable costs. If you want a repair disk quick, you get a Linux disk! Somebody brings you a random hard drive a bootable linux disk like Knoppix is the first tool out of the bag and it's free... equivalent tools would cost thousands of dollars. Linux is what's left to clean up the mess when you deal with dusty, unsupported hardware. Or when the real hardware you are using is broken.
"adjust your shorts" delicious edition
Again,this kind of "open" credit was used back in the days of the "company store". They'd extend credit of some amount x then keep letting the employees go over... until it was stopped. Telcos are one of the few companies allowed to charge unlimited amounts of charges and not do anything. If I have to have a credit check done, I'd expect I'd have some reasonable limit then get cut off. $19,000 is not a reasonable credit limit for a $150 per month phone plan without telling the customer up front and making special arrangements with me.
One of my wife's plans with our local cell phone company had something low like $300 built in. If you went too far over your minutes you got cut off...and it included any bills that came due during the time so it got eaten up fast. That was a good thing when you have lots of roaming or travel because you can't be charged more than you can pay off. That's what should have happened here.
That a company doesn't do this automatically is fraudulent.
but building web pages, rendering the SAME most of the time is more important than passing a silly test. ACID is a neat set of tests, but they don't answer the problems of what features are really usable across a given set of browsers that a web designer can use. When laying out complex javascript or CSS you really need the browsers to follow the spec much more closely, at least the same way and this is where the whole web standards thing falls down. There's not a widely accepted test that shows if REAL things work. Acid has been misrepresented in the press as a compatibility tool when it's just an error checker.
The biggest reasons mormons got singled out is that they believe that polygamy was ok... after all many of those famous people in that Old Testament had multiple wifes.. Abraham, Jacob, David and Solomon who built the temple... but for some reason US culture just couldn't handle the idea. At the time John Smith's claim of getting golden tablets from God that only he could read and describe was as science fiction as giant aliens. It countermanded many things in the Jewish/Catholic/Protestant Bible and couldn't be tolerated.
no, the Jury is in the stands buying beer and hot dogs.... you plead your case to the Lions and Tigers.
wrong, they have money for the right kind of lawyers that make the right kind of legal motions that Branch Davidians didn't have.
The whole point of this behavior from CoS is to get to court first and often so they have the judges ear as the "injured" party. That lets them make their arguments of religious persecution first, let's them hide behind freedom of religion to conduct their business and courts tread VERY lightly when freedom of religious practice pops up. At that point alphabet agencies have to tread very lightly because the courts are already thinking that the general public might "harm" CoS. Courts then consider warrants and such much more carefully than they did at Waco or Ruby Ridge.
Money at the highest levels helps too, as the are more of a weird social club of powerful people among the rich and famous, so they can't be "that bad". Rich are used to squashing "little people" all the time so this kind of legal attack is just seen as normal business.
Google is smart enough.. they can surf the web and could ban not just searches about Scientology but anybody connected to Scientology and their businesses, movies, friends, relatives, etc. just make these people "disappear" from the Internet. After all Google is a private company and CoS the company is doing them harm. I think massive abuse of power would be awesome, like in Batman where he used EVERYBODY's cell phone to search the city.
Good thing Google will be building data center ships!!! Then this stuff can be hosted under a shell company Elgoog so they don't have to follow US DMCAs anymore.