I also been completely, totally happy with GoDaddy - great service, easy to use and effective online tools, and you can actually get through to the customer service folks in a reasonable amount of time if needed.
The title of the article seems to imply that Verisign was only keeping the.com registry. From what I gathered in the article, Verisign's entire registry business (.com and.net) is unaffected. Maybe the new registrar owners will institute reasonable fees - I fail to see why anyone would register through Verisign when you have places like GoDaddy that will give you a domain for less than $20 for two years.:-)
This was rejected as a submission, but I thought y'all might find it interesting anyway - SCO looks like they're out to piss *everyone* off, including their distributors, according to this article. Gotta love 'em.
I suspect that the reason that Damage is refusing to hire ex-SCO employees is to prevent any possible legal action on SCO's part - I would not put it past SCO to sue a new employer for misappropriation of trade secrets or any number of other things, given their track record. I really don't think it's a political statement at all.
Anyway, the bunny suits aren't for protecting the worker, but opposite - for protecting the cleanroom FROM the worker. In a clean room you've got to cut the particle count down dramatically, which comes from clothing, shoes, etc. In a decent cleanroom things like regular paper aren't allowed, for instance (there is special cleanroom notebook paper).
Ah, the blue paper.:-) I've spent more time than I care to in IBM's mask shop at the Vermont facility, and it totally amazed me that they have a restroom right there adjacent to the mask shop itself - you go out the doors, and right into the men's room. No extra filtration, nothing. You change your gloves 'fore coming back in, and of course the mask shop has positive pressure, but no other safeguards against particulates between the toilets and the work area. Compare that to the mask shop at Infineon in Munich, where going to the bathroom was a 15-minute operation just to get to the restrooms themselves, and then you had to get a completely different bunny suit to go back in. Intel and Conexant were similar.
Wow, already starting with the ad-hom attacks. Obviously you missed what I was saying, which was that the tough part in securing the financing is convincing your benefactor that it's profitable - what you think about it doesn't mean jack, it's what HE thinks that counts.
Okay, go to your average VC or a bank and let us know just how easy it was to get a $100K unsecured loan just because you think you have a cool idea, 'k? And I'm not a kid, thanks.
So all that is needed to fix the system is for any patent applicant to pay at least 100000 deposit when applying (I think that it should be more). If the application succeds he gets back 80% filled up further by government small business innovation grants (they are around 0.5-1M$ in the US for example). If the app fails he gets shit.
You've just put all the small inventors out of the picture and restricted patents to those that already have a fair bit of disposable money to toss around. $100K for a patent application fee? Most legitimate small-time inventors have a hard enough time scraping together the $5-10K needed for a proper prior art search and other legalities. Good luck going to a bank and saying, "I need a loan for $100K, of which you'll get back $80K and maybe more if I can get a grant, and if the PTO finds prior art that we missed or otherwise turns us down you'll lose it all". Not gonna happen, and whoever modded this as 'insightful' needs a quick reality check.
Okay, as I understand it, the RIAA is making the argument that each listener on a given webcast is copying a song to do so, and the broadcaster is thus liable for that. Bear with me and let's assume for the sake of argument that this is valid reasoning.
Now, where does that leave satellite radio and the digital cable providers like Time Warner who have dedicated music channels in their offerings? By the same line of reasoning, are not both of these distribution methods liable for the same goofy "one listener, one copy" line of reasoning the RIAA has managed to foist onto webcasters? If not, why? The digital reciever in your dashboard or the cable box has to copy the content just like your computer does when listening to a webcast. What about DTV stations that run concerts? If being a digital broadcast is what has the RIAA's panties in a wad re: webcasters, it seems horribly unfair to level ridiculous fees on them, but not the other digital broadcasters.
I normally run at 1600x1200 too, but until you've really *used* virtual desktops, I don't think you can appreciate how useful they are - *far* more convenient than just minimizing/moving apps around, plus it's always nice to be able to get to a command prompt (virtual terminal) with a single keystroke if the windowing system starts to get flaky and needs to be restarted without rebooting the machine. This very rarely happens to me under Linux, but I deal with it in Windows more often than I'd like.
You bring up a valid point. I'm running SuSE 8.2 at home, and in general was very impressed with the polish on the product out of the box. For sure, it could be better, but it recognized and properly configured all the hardware on my box and provided a useful set of applications right off the bat, and also provided some reasonable documentation.
I don't know that KDE will ever attain the total degree of polish that XP has, simply because Linux/KDE is the result of efforts of hundreds of people working more or less independently, whereas XP is backed by a lot of money and a single-minded corporate direction. On the other hand, if there's something you don't like about KDE, it's fairly easy to change. I expect KDE will continue to get better over time.
It could be simpler if it was supported out of the box, instead of requiring the user to download something from MS, which in turn requires that they know that it's available.:-) KDE doesn't have a 4-desktop limitation, which can be kind of nice sometimes.
But when it comes to the design of the desktop interface and programs, Windows XP still has a strong edge: 83% of the Linux users said they liked the design of the desktop and the programs, compared with 100% of the Windows XP users.
This is an interesting metric. I'm curious to know whether they tried a few different themes and window decorations with Linux/KDE, and in general how they arrived at this number. I will agree that XP seems more polished than KDE in many respects, but my personal experience has been that there are some aspects of KDE that initially take a little getting used to, but become indispensable once you are comfortable with them. Multiple virtual desktops, for instance - I feel so limited under Windows for not having this simple feature.
However, the Microdrive is more appropriate in situations where there will be a lot of writing to the media - I'd much rather have a Microdrive mounted as a swap partition than a CF card on my CerfCube.:-)
For pretty much all other uses, I'd agree that CF is probably the better choice.
Then she needs to see a voice coach and learn to take better care of her voice. There are plenty of other performers in the stage and operatic arenas that sing just as often, if not more, and sing more demanding material, and manage to keep their voices in top form without much difficulty. Don't take this as a slam on Jewel - I've done musical theatre for more than 20 years and I've known plenty of folks that simply run their voices too hard when they don't have to because they simply didn't know better - when you have a delicate coloratura like Jewel's, it requires a little more diligence.
And let's not forget trespassing too - a couple of years ago, they started laying fiber in Carmel, Indiana without talking to the landowners, figuring they could get it into the ground before anyone could say anything. A lady happened to come out and actually see them laying fiber on her land, threatened the work crew with arrest for trespassing if they didn't leave right then and then got an injunction to permanently stop the work. Worldcom then had the gall to whine about losing millions per month because of the delay.
Of course, this isn't just a Worldcom problem - all telecom companies do it, but dammit, we're trying to work up some righteous indignation here!!
The client would only own the code if A.) the original poster worked for them as an employee, or B.) the contract explicitly transfers copyright to the client, assuming a contract situation. Otherwise, the guy writing the code owns the copyright. Most work like this that I've done has ended up with the client receiving a non-transferable license to use whatever it is that I've written. If they want copyright to the source, that's another negotiation.
Devils Tower in Wyoming - It was featured in "Close Encounters" and has that going for it, but it's an amazing mountain in its own right and was the first place designated as a U.S. National Monument, plus the area around there is quite nice, and if you're gonna be heading to Yosemite, it's not that far away.:-)
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucscon, AZ. Tours are available of the huge aircraft boneyard there.
Yeah, it's definitely got that freaky Stepford Wives/Truman Show/Pleasantville feel to it, and I personally wouldn't want to live there owing to the homeowner's agreement from hell you have to sign. On the other hand, they *do* have a Segway dealer on Market Street....
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I also been completely, totally happy with GoDaddy - great service, easy to use and effective online tools, and you can actually get through to the customer service folks in a reasonable amount of time if needed.
The title of the article seems to imply that Verisign was only keeping the .com registry. From what I gathered in the article, Verisign's entire registry business (.com and .net) is unaffected. Maybe the new registrar owners will institute reasonable fees - I fail to see why anyone would register through Verisign when you have places like GoDaddy that will give you a domain for less than $20 for two years. :-)
She also had advanced degrees in mathematics and astrophysics.
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The fact that Trillian actually had a brain was partly responsible for the the "mmmm..."
Who will be cast as Trillian? Mmmm....Trillian....
PIR (Public Interest Registry) operates the .org domain, not Verisign.
This was rejected as a submission, but I thought y'all might find it interesting anyway - SCO looks like they're out to piss *everyone* off, including their distributors, according to this article. Gotta love 'em.
I suspect that the reason that Damage is refusing to hire ex-SCO employees is to prevent any possible legal action on SCO's part - I would not put it past SCO to sue a new employer for misappropriation of trade secrets or any number of other things, given their track record. I really don't think it's a political statement at all.
It's not just sports cars - most cars that I've seen with electric fans will continue to run them for some time after the ignition is turned off.
Anyway, the bunny suits aren't for protecting the worker, but opposite - for protecting the cleanroom FROM the worker. In a clean room you've got to cut the particle count down dramatically, which comes from clothing, shoes, etc. In a decent cleanroom things like regular paper aren't allowed, for instance (there is special cleanroom notebook paper).
:-) I've spent more time than I care to in IBM's mask shop at the Vermont facility, and it totally amazed me that they have a restroom right there adjacent to the mask shop itself - you go out the doors, and right into the men's room. No extra filtration, nothing. You change your gloves 'fore coming back in, and of course the mask shop has positive pressure, but no other safeguards against particulates between the toilets and the work area. Compare that to the mask shop at Infineon in Munich, where going to the bathroom was a 15-minute operation just to get to the restrooms themselves, and then you had to get a completely different bunny suit to go back in. Intel and Conexant were similar.
Ah, the blue paper.
Wow, already starting with the ad-hom attacks. Obviously you missed what I was saying, which was that the tough part in securing the financing is convincing your benefactor that it's profitable - what you think about it doesn't mean jack, it's what HE thinks that counts.
Okay, go to your average VC or a bank and let us know just how easy it was to get a $100K unsecured loan just because you think you have a cool idea, 'k? And I'm not a kid, thanks.
So all that is needed to fix the system is for any patent applicant to pay at least 100000 deposit when applying (I think that it should be more). If the application succeds he gets back 80% filled up further by government small business innovation grants (they are around 0.5-1M$ in the US for example). If the app fails he gets shit.
You've just put all the small inventors out of the picture and restricted patents to those that already have a fair bit of disposable money to toss around. $100K for a patent application fee? Most legitimate small-time inventors have a hard enough time scraping together the $5-10K needed for a proper prior art search and other legalities. Good luck going to a bank and saying, "I need a loan for $100K, of which you'll get back $80K and maybe more if I can get a grant, and if the PTO finds prior art that we missed or otherwise turns us down you'll lose it all". Not gonna happen, and whoever modded this as 'insightful' needs a quick reality check.
Okay, as I understand it, the RIAA is making the argument that each listener on a given webcast is copying a song to do so, and the broadcaster is thus liable for that. Bear with me and let's assume for the sake of argument that this is valid reasoning.
Now, where does that leave satellite radio and the digital cable providers like Time Warner who have dedicated music channels in their offerings? By the same line of reasoning, are not both of these distribution methods liable for the same goofy "one listener, one copy" line of reasoning the RIAA has managed to foist onto webcasters? If not, why? The digital reciever in your dashboard or the cable box has to copy the content just like your computer does when listening to a webcast. What about DTV stations that run concerts? If being a digital broadcast is what has the RIAA's panties in a wad re: webcasters, it seems horribly unfair to level ridiculous fees on them, but not the other digital broadcasters.
I normally run at 1600x1200 too, but until you've really *used* virtual desktops, I don't think you can appreciate how useful they are - *far* more convenient than just minimizing/moving apps around, plus it's always nice to be able to get to a command prompt (virtual terminal) with a single keystroke if the windowing system starts to get flaky and needs to be restarted without rebooting the machine. This very rarely happens to me under Linux, but I deal with it in Windows more often than I'd like.
You bring up a valid point. I'm running SuSE 8.2 at home, and in general was very impressed with the polish on the product out of the box. For sure, it could be better, but it recognized and properly configured all the hardware on my box and provided a useful set of applications right off the bat, and also provided some reasonable documentation.
I don't know that KDE will ever attain the total degree of polish that XP has, simply because Linux/KDE is the result of efforts of hundreds of people working more or less independently, whereas XP is backed by a lot of money and a single-minded corporate direction. On the other hand, if there's something you don't like about KDE, it's fairly easy to change. I expect KDE will continue to get better over time.
KDE could include spikes that stick out of the computer and pierce my skull every five minutes
Hmmm....this could form the basis of a really effective CBT system....hmmmm.....
It could be simpler if it was supported out of the box, instead of requiring the user to download something from MS, which in turn requires that they know that it's available. :-) KDE doesn't have a 4-desktop limitation, which can be kind of nice sometimes.
But when it comes to the design of the desktop interface and programs, Windows XP still has a strong edge: 83% of the Linux users said they liked the design of the desktop and the programs, compared with 100% of the Windows XP users.
This is an interesting metric. I'm curious to know whether they tried a few different themes and window decorations with Linux/KDE, and in general how they arrived at this number. I will agree that XP seems more polished than KDE in many respects, but my personal experience has been that there are some aspects of KDE that initially take a little getting used to, but become indispensable once you are comfortable with them. Multiple virtual desktops, for instance - I feel so limited under Windows for not having this simple feature.
However, the Microdrive is more appropriate in situations where there will be a lot of writing to the media - I'd much rather have a Microdrive mounted as a swap partition than a CF card on my CerfCube. :-)
For pretty much all other uses, I'd agree that CF is probably the better choice.
Then she needs to see a voice coach and learn to take better care of her voice. There are plenty of other performers in the stage and operatic arenas that sing just as often, if not more, and sing more demanding material, and manage to keep their voices in top form without much difficulty. Don't take this as a slam on Jewel - I've done musical theatre for more than 20 years and I've known plenty of folks that simply run their voices too hard when they don't have to because they simply didn't know better - when you have a delicate coloratura like Jewel's, it requires a little more diligence.
And if you don't happen to have a Pal Mickey, the tote boards centrally located at each park will let you know wait times for the attractions. :-)
And let's not forget trespassing too - a couple of years ago, they started laying fiber in Carmel, Indiana without talking to the landowners, figuring they could get it into the ground before anyone could say anything. A lady happened to come out and actually see them laying fiber on her land, threatened the work crew with arrest for trespassing if they didn't leave right then and then got an injunction to permanently stop the work. Worldcom then had the gall to whine about losing millions per month because of the delay.
Of course, this isn't just a Worldcom problem - all telecom companies do it, but dammit, we're trying to work up some righteous indignation here!!
The client would only own the code if A.) the original poster worked for them as an employee, or B.) the contract explicitly transfers copyright to the client, assuming a contract situation. Otherwise, the guy writing the code owns the copyright. Most work like this that I've done has ended up with the client receiving a non-transferable license to use whatever it is that I've written. If they want copyright to the source, that's another negotiation.
A couple of places I would suggest:
:-)
Devils Tower in Wyoming - It was featured in "Close Encounters" and has that going for it, but it's an amazing mountain in its own right and was the first place designated as a U.S. National Monument, plus the area around there is quite nice, and if you're gonna be heading to Yosemite, it's not that far away.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucscon, AZ. Tours are available of the huge aircraft boneyard there.
Yeah, it's definitely got that freaky Stepford Wives/Truman Show/Pleasantville feel to it, and I personally wouldn't want to live there owing to the homeowner's agreement from hell you have to sign. On the other hand, they *do* have a Segway dealer on Market Street....