If the techies weren't gambling it's probably because they were in the convention, in the parties, or most likely hanging around in...
Or that none of them were there on their own nickel, and most companies frown on expensing your gambling loses. The techies I met at Comdex were basically all cheap, and weren't there to spend their own money. And far too many of them made a point of letting the locals know that they were cheap!
Canon has a kit called "DVK-E1" that goes along with their EOS 1Ds camera, that they say is 'Available to verify that EOS 1Ds image files are absolutely unaltered". They have done this specifically for use in law enforcement. The details are buried in a Flash presentation. You can follow this link to find the details.
So technology has answered, its back in the hands of law enforcement to present their case properly.
if Copyright dies, the open source movement dies. Invest and Profit do not solely relate to finances. I Invest my time into an open source project, with the knowledge that I will Profit from the results (profit in terms of greater functionality, etc), and I profit from the recognition that my contributions get for me.
Without copyright, I lose access to the source code. If I cant force it to stay open, I won't open it in the first place. If no one opens it, there is no open source. Movement == dead.
Well, that would be the case if the telemarketers business was selling product. But I suspect its not.
Their business is actually making phone calls. And I bet they get payed by the number of calls placed, not on the success of those calls. And if you just hang up on a telemarketer, you are helping them make more money
So, the DNC list will be better for the businesses that hire telemarketers, and perhaps they will be very painful for the telemarketers themselves.
OK, replying to my own post, but what the heck. And you are right, Osbourne was not a startup that failed, but a successful running company.
You will probably never find a startup that failed because someone stole their ideas before they took them to market. Why? because they failed before they brought a product to market.
Where you do hear about them is the lawsuit against the now successful company about stolen IP, and the general reaction is "here is some kook trying to ride on the good work of Successful Company, Inc."
How about a successful business that failed because the CEO missed the concept of an NDA (that being NON-DISCLOSURE), told the world about the next product, and killed sales of the current product to the point of killing the company.
IBM makes a very large amount of money from the zSeries line(AKA Mainframes) and from zOS licensing. They sell close to $4 billion per year in mainframe hardware, and $2.369 Billion from operating systems (zOS, OS400, AIX. Sorry, I couldnt find a breakdown for each). For comparison, in the early 90's, they were selling close to $11 billion per year in mainframe hardware.
I believe that IBM desperately needed another OS to run on mainframe hardware, in order to rejuvenate the product line, and justify the continued research. If the revenue fall off had continued, it might really mean the death of the mainframe.
Now that you can run Linux on the mainframe, it is the most scaleable linux platform you can get. They are going to vigorously defend that revenue stream.
The real problem is that a company doing statistical surveys tries to claim that a week containing a big national holiday on a friday is statistically equivalent to the previous week.
We all know that the RIAA is working very hard to spin statistics that support their point. The fact that file swapping only decreased by 15% during the July 4 weekend just proves that people are not married to their computers, that they know how to shut them off and enjoy a long weekend.
The tag line says it all......
"There are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" - Mark Twain
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They haven't actually lost that in cash, but they certainly have lost it in value. The attitude that "its just a write-down, its no big deal" is just wrong.
imagine you own a $1m house, and you borrow $750K against it. Now you do a write-down, and the house is now worth $100K. What will your creditors reaction be to "Its a writedown, I haven't lost that much cash".
They must have decided that the way to impress the markets was the number of new accounts they have, and not so much on how the subscriber base has grown.
Do you part to help Netflix today. Sign up for a new account, rent for a month, then cancel the account. Repeat. Watch Netflix valuation go through the roof as the number of new subscribers rockets.
the clean needle folk are not the same folk that are waging the war on drugs, and putting drug users/dealers in jail.
Hackers are not dying of really horrid diseases and passing these diseases onto non-hackers, are they? Maybe we should give clean needles to the hackers, and then let the war-on-drugs folks deal with them.
Yeah, its CYA time, but by document, I mean that you need to keep a notebook, and write down what the issue was, and what you recommended and why.
As a consultant, you are not part of the company, and you can in fact get sued for your efforts. Many places I have been at specifically brought in consultants for iffy projects, simply to be able to blame them when it goes wrong...
At least with some handwritten notes, you have a better claim that you remember exactly what happened than the guy that doesn't
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Or that none of them were there on their own nickel, and most companies frown on expensing your gambling loses. The techies I met at Comdex were basically all cheap, and weren't there to spend their own money. And far too many of them made a point of letting the locals know that they were cheap!
So technology has answered, its back in the hands of law enforcement to present their case properly.
if Copyright dies, the open source movement dies. Invest and Profit do not solely relate to finances. I Invest my time into an open source project, with the knowledge that I will Profit from the results (profit in terms of greater functionality, etc), and I profit from the recognition that my contributions get for me.
Without copyright, I lose access to the source code. If I cant force it to stay open, I won't open it in the first place. If no one opens it, there is no open source. Movement == dead.
Their business is actually making phone calls. And I bet they get payed by the number of calls placed, not on the success of those calls. And if you just hang up on a telemarketer, you are helping them make more money
So, the DNC list will be better for the businesses that hire telemarketers, and perhaps they will be very painful for the telemarketers themselves.
You will probably never find a startup that failed because someone stole their ideas before they took them to market. Why? because they failed before they brought a product to market.
Where you do hear about them is the lawsuit against the now successful company about stolen IP, and the general reaction is "here is some kook trying to ride on the good work of Successful Company, Inc."
Can you say Osbourne Computers?
IBM makes a very large amount of money from the zSeries line(AKA Mainframes) and from zOS licensing. They sell close to $4 billion per year in mainframe hardware, and $2.369 Billion from operating systems (zOS, OS400, AIX. Sorry, I couldnt find a breakdown for each). For comparison, in the early 90's, they were selling close to $11 billion per year in mainframe hardware.
I believe that IBM desperately needed another OS to run on mainframe hardware, in order to rejuvenate the product line, and justify the continued research. If the revenue fall off had continued, it might really mean the death of the mainframe.
Now that you can run Linux on the mainframe, it is the most scaleable linux platform you can get. They are going to vigorously defend that revenue stream.
We all know that the RIAA is working very hard to spin statistics that support their point. The fact that file swapping only decreased by 15% during the July 4 weekend just proves that people are not married to their computers, that they know how to shut them off and enjoy a long weekend.
The tag line says it all......
"There are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" - Mark Twain
imagine you own a $1m house, and you borrow $750K against it. Now you do a write-down, and the house is now worth $100K. What will your creditors reaction be to "Its a writedown, I haven't lost that much cash".
Do you part to help Netflix today. Sign up for a new account, rent for a month, then cancel the account. Repeat. Watch Netflix valuation go through the roof as the number of new subscribers rockets.
Hackers are not dying of really horrid diseases and passing these diseases onto non-hackers, are they? Maybe we should give clean needles to the hackers, and then let the war-on-drugs folks deal with them.
As a consultant, you are not part of the company, and you can in fact get sued for your efforts. Many places I have been at specifically brought in consultants for iffy projects, simply to be able to blame them when it goes wrong...
At least with some handwritten notes, you have a better claim that you remember exactly what happened than the guy that doesn't