Okay, I posted this in the other story about this, but here it goes again....
OFFICE 2003 DOES NOT BLOCK ACCESS FROM OPENOFFICE UNLESS THE USER TELLS IT TO!!!!
FFS, RTFA next time, people! Not only does the user have to tell Office2k3 to implement DRM and jumble the format, but there has to be a Win2k3 server on the network running the DRM manager application.
In order to use IRM (Information Rights Management), according to the article, the customer has to spend boatloads of money.
This feature is not about closing off office applications. It's about protecting IP and controlling access. M$ isn't selling O2K3 on the basis of "Hey, it's not compatible with other applications and that's why you should buy it!" They're selling it on "Hey, you can control who gets to read, print, and modify your documents, and that's why you should buy it!"
It has nothing to do with OSS, FOSS, Slashdot, or anything else. It's just a feature they want to sell to the intellectually paranoid at an extremely high price.
For the second time, there is nothing to see here, MOVE ALONG...
According to the article, it is not the default behavior for O2K3 to use Information Rights Management. In fact, in order for Office to lock a document, there has to be a Win2K3 Server running the rights manager suite somewhere on the LAN...
went like this (and no, this is 99% accurate, and not a joke):
"Thank you for calling Dell customer support center, my name is Billy, how may I help you?" (In an obviously Indian voice... Billy.... right.....)
"Hi, uh, 'Bobby' is it?" : "Yes, Bobby, how may I help you?" : "Yeah, is your name really Billy?" : "No sir, my name is Bobby?" : "But you said it was Billy?" : "Yes sir, my name is Billy, how may I help you?" : "Where are you located, Bobby?" : "I can't tell you that, sir" : "You're in Bangalore, aren't you" : "uhh, no, I'm in Ohio" : "Where in Ohio, are you in the Chicago call center?" : "yes sir, that's right, I'm in Chicago" : "Chicago is in Illinois, not Ohio. Let's try this again, you're in Bangalore, aren't you?" : "uhhh, yes, sir. What can I do for you today?" : "I want to talk to someone in the U.S." : "I'm sorry sir, I can't do that" : "I'm waiting...." : (silence) : me: "Hello?" : "Yes, sir, this is Bobby, how may I help you?" : (frustrated) "Look, Billy, Bobby, or whatever the hell your name is, I refuse to support global outsourcing. Either you tell me how to get to someone in the U.S., or hang up the phone" : "I'm sorry, sir, I can't do that" : "What, get me to a U.S. Citizen or hang up the phone?" : "I can't do either of those" : (silence) : "Well, that's fine, I have all night" : "Please sir, can you tell me how I can help you?" : "I've already told you how I expect you to help me" : "Please hold" : (silence - about 5 minutes worth) : "Hi, sir, this is Billy again, I have my supervisor on the line" : "Is your supervisor in the United States?" : "uhh, no" : "Wait a moment please, sir, he's telling me something" : "What is he telling you?" : "If you want to reach someone in the U.S., you have to change the first two digits of your case number to five-zero when you punch it in"
(click)
Slashdot is a royal pain in the ass... you guys have this message filter thing pretty fucked up. I don't need some lame-ass perl script kiddie telling me how many characters I have to have on a line... it's pretty fucking insulting... cut it out
"If so, it could turn into a slippery moral slope for the press"
Since when do the press have morals? They'll back up SCO on Monday and then deride them and back up IBM on Tuesday.... All depends on the ratings du jour.
We'd all be throwing our money away if we did this. Remember, SCOX has no real value behind it. There are no assets to justify the market cap.
SCO does not own any relevant intellectual property, and their hard assets are probably all quickly-depreciating computer equipment. People who are buying their stock now are completely ignorant of the fact that there's nothing tangible holding that price up. It's all wild speculation about whether they'll either win a judgement against or be bought out by IBM.
At this point, it would be cool to know if IBM people were buying SCO stock. That would probably be illegal insider trading, though, so chances are it isn't happening.
Buying SCOX for any reason is a bad idea. We'd spend all of our money, raising the price of the stock dramatically, and all end up holding a worthless company with mountains of debt and no tangible assets. Sure, the SCO/Linux war would be over, but the only winners would be whoever owns SCO stock now, and those people are the people we want to punish.
Well, then the thing to do would be to make the dongle verification software part of the operating system... In fact, a great idea would be to have a management system incorporated into the O/S that would take care of anti-piracy.
It could be called Digital Rights Management, or something like that...
The only anti-piracy technology that really works is that which uses hardware.
It's difficult if not impossible to duplicate a hardware lock (parallel port dongle), and it costs money to do.
It would cost Symantec about $5 in mass production to include a dongle with their anti-virus software. It would cost the average person $25 to make that same lock, and would be difficult if not impossible to duplicate the firmware...
Software methods for anti-piracy were killed by copyiipc back in the 80's....
I'm a PHB and I can tell you from experience that not all of us PHB's don't want to hear 'no'. I make it quite clear to everyone who works for me that they should communicate to me when things start to get out of hand with respect to workloads. Employees get far less productive when faced with a seemingly impossible mountain of things to do - because it gets discouraging.
The thing to do is have a frank conversation with your PHB and explain the facts surrounding the status of your department. Do not approach the problem in terms of how it affects you, per se, but rather about how it affects the company. It is perfectly okay to tell your PHB that you need help - even if only temporary - to get caught up.
I've often times hired a temp or a contractor for a few weeks to get things under control.
On the other side of the coin, I really hate it when employees bite off more than they can chew. Your PHB will not be impressed by you taking on a load of work that he KNOWS you cannot complete on your own. This is a common flaw in "new" employees - they desire to impress so much that they often times fall flat on their faces.
Most PHB's, myself included, are impressed by employees who know the limits of what they're capable of doing and know when to ask for help. It's better for the company and better for the employees.
The most important thing is to simply be honest. Don't try to snow anybody and you'll be just fine.
"Maybe today's Brits need to do the same thing, only in reverse -- put their lawmakers on a boat and give 'em the old heave-ho."
No, please don't do that. Then they'll come over here and fuck the place up even more than it already is! The last thing America needs is more politicians, especially Orwellian ones. We have plenty of those already.
"and I have come to the conclusion that the "equivalent incansent bulb ratings" on the packaging are pretty wrong"
The spiral ones, right? These DO probably have the claimed light output, but not all of that light emanates outward from the "bulb." The light coming out of the back of a spiral goes up and hits the back of another spiral and doesn't leave the fixture. So, there is less perceived light even though the thing is as luminescent as they claim...
I don't know about you, but I find fluorescent lighting to be incredibly harsh and unpleasant, and I'd probably find LED lighting to be equally bad for the same reasons I described in another post.
That's why every room on the top floor of my house has huge skylites, and every room on the other floors has big bay windows. Natural lighting is best.
Of course, now that I found out my job is moving to India next March, I can hope to keep my bay windows heh...
"today's environmental policy outlook is not so stunning in the predominant political arenas."
You're not kidding... As long as there is political money to be made off of the special interests, there will be no sound environmental policy. Power first, re-election second, benefits for donors third, voters last.
I've gone on in great detail about Taxylvanias taxation of everything that moves, breathes, blinks, clicks, pops, shimmies, shakes, and bounces.
Hey, politicians, the cluephone is ringing, it's THE ECONOMY calling, it says you're taxing it to death and wants you to stop!
Who the fuck to they think they are? As people trying to make a living, we're getting hit from 10 different sides by various levels of government invading our private lives 'for our own good.'
I pay way over half my income in various taxes.. it's disgusting...
Read my post next time. Nothing I said was incorrect. Of course your bill isn't in kilo-amp hours. It's in kilowatt-hours, which is the product of Power and Time - or energy.
If you look at the computation for what I said, which is that, and I quote, "Power in this case is the time-averaged dissipation of energy in the LED.", the time average dissipation is 1/T times the integral over some time interval a t b of the instantaneous energy being dissipated. 1/T has the units of 1/s and the integral component has the unit of Joule. Joules divided by seconds equals watts, which is the unit of power.
Resistance is a property. In a non-linear device, the "resistance" is not a static constant and therefore you cannot simply say an LED has a resistance of N ohms. Semiconductors, including diodes, are specified by an I-V curve, which is a graph of current versus applied forward voltage. Nowhere does "resistance" come into the definition of a diode.
If you want to pick nits, light bulbs don't have a constant resistance either. Their resistance depends to a significant degree on the temperature of the filament, so you have to take that into consideration as well.
All you've proven with your rant is that you know ohms law. Nothing you said is even really relevent to my post or its topic.
Power in this case is the time-averaged dissipation of energy in the LED. Since it's a non-linear semiconductor device, there is no valid property called "resistance." The "resistance" depends upon the forward voltage applied. The only way to validly measure the power dissipated in a non-linear device is to measure the forward voltage drop for a given current and use the product of the two values. "Resistance" is only an implicit value based on these two.
You can't measure the "resistance" of a diode - any DMM will have a diode measuring tool that will give you the forward voltage drop of the diode (the point at which it conducts significantly - in simple terms). Now you have what you need to calculate the power.
If you want to take a mechanical engineering point of view, you could use the temperature rise for a given current along with the thermal resistance of the packaging, but I don't think that's quite so accurate...
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Ahh, good point, but you ahve to admit that it DOES HELP to move the combustion phase farther up the chain - because a power company can use oil or coal much more efficiently than your car can. A gas-fired power plant that produces hydrogen will probably be 5 or so times more efficient than your car is at extracting energy from fuel.
"It'll be interesting to see whether Color Kinetics can exact a licensing fee from anyone who blends colored LEDs. Says Simms: "We haven't invested the fortune that we have in intellectual property without planning to defend it."
No, they can't. The big outdoor big-screen TV's at the race track in Saratoga NY use this. One Red, one Green, and one Blue LED for each pixel. Been done, prior art, now go crawl back into the hole from which you came, you dirty low-life patent weasel:)
if the manufacturing costs could come down. We waste TONS of energy on those little heaters we call light bulbs. Most of the energy that an incandescent bulb dissipates is done so in the form of heat. LEDs are indeed incredibly efficient in comparison, last longer, and the whole bit. The only problem is cost.
I think something to think about, however, is the effects of monotonic spectral emissions on aesthetics. Lightbulbs more or less follow Wien's Law which states that an object of a certain temperature emits energy along a continuous spectrum, with the peak at 0.0029/T(kelvin) nanometers. LEDs are monochrome or polychrome (in the case of white LEDs) so you get one or a few colors, but not a continuous spectrum. I wonder what effect this might have on people's comfort in their surroundings, psychology, or whatnot...
Once the cost comes down, we might get to study these results... Of course, with all the jobs and factories going to India, that might not be a problem after too much longer...
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Okay, I posted this in the other story about this, but here it goes again....
OFFICE 2003 DOES NOT BLOCK ACCESS FROM OPENOFFICE UNLESS THE USER TELLS IT TO!!!!
FFS, RTFA next time, people! Not only does the user have to tell Office2k3 to implement DRM and jumble the format, but there has to be a Win2k3 server on the network running the DRM manager application.
In order to use IRM (Information Rights Management), according to the article, the customer has to spend boatloads of money.
This feature is not about closing off office applications. It's about protecting IP and controlling access. M$ isn't selling O2K3 on the basis of "Hey, it's not compatible with other applications and that's why you should buy it!" They're selling it on "Hey, you can control who gets to read, print, and modify your documents, and that's why you should buy it!"
It has nothing to do with OSS, FOSS, Slashdot, or anything else. It's just a feature they want to sell to the intellectually paranoid at an extremely high price.
For the second time, there is nothing to see here, MOVE ALONG...
Probably redundant... but here goes...
According to the article, it is not the default behavior for O2K3 to use Information Rights Management. In fact, in order for Office to lock a document, there has to be a Win2K3 Server running the rights manager suite somewhere on the LAN...
Nothing to see here... move along...
It's Burst.com vs. Microsoft, not Microsoft vs. Burst.com...
The plaintiff goes first, and the defendant goes second.
went like this (and no, this is 99% accurate, and not a joke):
"Thank you for calling Dell customer support center, my name is Billy, how may I help you?" (In an obviously Indian voice... Billy.... right.....)
"Hi, uh, 'Bobby' is it?" : "Yes, Bobby, how may I help you?" : "Yeah, is your name really Billy?" : "No sir, my name is Bobby?" : "But you said it was Billy?" : "Yes sir, my name is Billy, how may I help you?" : "Where are you located, Bobby?" : "I can't tell you that, sir" : "You're in Bangalore, aren't you" : "uhh, no, I'm in Ohio" : "Where in Ohio, are you in the Chicago call center?" : "yes sir, that's right, I'm in Chicago" : "Chicago is in Illinois, not Ohio. Let's try this again, you're in Bangalore, aren't you?" : "uhhh, yes, sir. What can I do for you today?" : "I want to talk to someone in the U.S." : "I'm sorry sir, I can't do that" : "I'm waiting...." : (silence) : me: "Hello?" : "Yes, sir, this is Bobby, how may I help you?" : (frustrated) "Look, Billy, Bobby, or whatever the hell your name is, I refuse to support global outsourcing. Either you tell me how to get to someone in the U.S., or hang up the phone" : "I'm sorry, sir, I can't do that" : "What, get me to a U.S. Citizen or hang up the phone?" : "I can't do either of those" : (silence) : "Well, that's fine, I have all night" : "Please sir, can you tell me how I can help you?" : "I've already told you how I expect you to help me" : "Please hold" : (silence - about 5 minutes worth) : "Hi, sir, this is Billy again, I have my supervisor on the line" : "Is your supervisor in the United States?" : "uhh, no" : "Wait a moment please, sir, he's telling me something" : "What is he telling you?" : "If you want to reach someone in the U.S., you have to change the first two digits of your case number to five-zero when you punch it in"
(click)
Slashdot is a royal pain in the ass... you guys have this message filter thing pretty fucked up. I don't need some lame-ass perl script kiddie telling me how many characters I have to have on a line... it's pretty fucking insulting... cut it out
"If so, it could turn into a slippery moral slope for the press"
Since when do the press have morals? They'll back up SCO on Monday and then deride them and back up IBM on Tuesday.... All depends on the ratings du jour.
We'd all be throwing our money away if we did this. Remember, SCOX has no real value behind it. There are no assets to justify the market cap.
SCO does not own any relevant intellectual property, and their hard assets are probably all quickly-depreciating computer equipment. People who are buying their stock now are completely ignorant of the fact that there's nothing tangible holding that price up. It's all wild speculation about whether they'll either win a judgement against or be bought out by IBM.
At this point, it would be cool to know if IBM people were buying SCO stock. That would probably be illegal insider trading, though, so chances are it isn't happening.
Buying SCOX for any reason is a bad idea. We'd spend all of our money, raising the price of the stock dramatically, and all end up holding a worthless company with mountains of debt and no tangible assets. Sure, the SCO/Linux war would be over, but the only winners would be whoever owns SCO stock now, and those people are the people we want to punish.
This is true - you have a point.
Well, then the thing to do would be to make the dongle verification software part of the operating system... In fact, a great idea would be to have a management system incorporated into the O/S that would take care of anti-piracy.
It could be called Digital Rights Management, or something like that...
oh wait...
crap!
The only anti-piracy technology that really works is that which uses hardware.
It's difficult if not impossible to duplicate a hardware lock (parallel port dongle), and it costs money to do.
It would cost Symantec about $5 in mass production to include a dongle with their anti-virus software. It would cost the average person $25 to make that same lock, and would be difficult if not impossible to duplicate the firmware...
Software methods for anti-piracy were killed by copyiipc back in the 80's....
I'm a PHB and I can tell you from experience that not all of us PHB's don't want to hear 'no'. I make it quite clear to everyone who works for me that they should communicate to me when things start to get out of hand with respect to workloads. Employees get far less productive when faced with a seemingly impossible mountain of things to do - because it gets discouraging.
The thing to do is have a frank conversation with your PHB and explain the facts surrounding the status of your department. Do not approach the problem in terms of how it affects you, per se, but rather about how it affects the company. It is perfectly okay to tell your PHB that you need help - even if only temporary - to get caught up.
I've often times hired a temp or a contractor for a few weeks to get things under control.
On the other side of the coin, I really hate it when employees bite off more than they can chew. Your PHB will not be impressed by you taking on a load of work that he KNOWS you cannot complete on your own. This is a common flaw in "new" employees - they desire to impress so much that they often times fall flat on their faces.
Most PHB's, myself included, are impressed by employees who know the limits of what they're capable of doing and know when to ask for help. It's better for the company and better for the employees.
The most important thing is to simply be honest. Don't try to snow anybody and you'll be just fine.
Holy Slashdot, Batman! There's smoke coming out of our webserver!
Slashdot's advertisers would be very pissed if Slashdot shut down for a day. Therefore, slashdot will not shut down today.
Simple logic...
Much easier to go after Amazon when you have set precedent in 50 other lawsuits against small companies that couldn't afford to defend themselves...
"Maybe today's Brits need to do the same thing, only in reverse -- put their lawmakers on a boat and give 'em the old heave-ho."
No, please don't do that. Then they'll come over here and fuck the place up even more than it already is! The last thing America needs is more politicians, especially Orwellian ones. We have plenty of those already.
Vote "None of the above" in 2004
"How do they know exactly WHO was driving at the time of the incident? (and how could they prove it?)"
I'm sure they don't care.
"How would it know the bounds of a bus lane (expensive infrastructure change to put any technology in the bus lanes)?"
I'm sure they don't care.
"If they're worried about speeding, why not regulate the vehicle to the posted speed limit?"
They're not worried about speeding. They're worried about their budgets.
"Wouldn't that be discriminatory? Because people bringing their vehicles from abroad wouldn't have those sensors?"
I'm sure they don't care.
"and I have come to the conclusion that the "equivalent incansent bulb ratings" on the packaging are pretty wrong"
The spiral ones, right? These DO probably have the claimed light output, but not all of that light emanates outward from the "bulb." The light coming out of the back of a spiral goes up and hits the back of another spiral and doesn't leave the fixture. So, there is less perceived light even though the thing is as luminescent as they claim...
I don't know about you, but I find fluorescent lighting to be incredibly harsh and unpleasant, and I'd probably find LED lighting to be equally bad for the same reasons I described in another post.
That's why every room on the top floor of my house has huge skylites, and every room on the other floors has big bay windows. Natural lighting is best.
Of course, now that I found out my job is moving to India next March, I can hope to keep my bay windows heh...
"today's environmental policy outlook is not so stunning in the predominant political arenas."
You're not kidding... As long as there is political money to be made off of the special interests, there will be no sound environmental policy. Power first, re-election second, benefits for donors third, voters last.
I've gone on in great detail about Taxylvanias taxation of everything that moves, breathes, blinks, clicks, pops, shimmies, shakes, and bounces.
Hey, politicians, the cluephone is ringing, it's THE ECONOMY calling, it says you're taxing it to death and wants you to stop!
Who the fuck to they think they are? As people trying to make a living, we're getting hit from 10 different sides by various levels of government invading our private lives 'for our own good.'
I pay way over half my income in various taxes.. it's disgusting...
FL is still better than PA...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76014&threshol d=1&commentsort=1&tid=134&mode=thread&pid=6786561# 6786661
This post was meant for you but somehow got applied to a different post.
Read my post next time. Nothing I said was incorrect. Of course your bill isn't in kilo-amp hours. It's in kilowatt-hours, which is the product of Power and Time - or energy.
If you look at the computation for what I said, which is that, and I quote, "Power in this case is the time-averaged dissipation of energy in the LED.", the time average dissipation is 1/T times the integral over some time interval a t b of the instantaneous energy being dissipated. 1/T has the units of 1/s and the integral component has the unit of Joule. Joules divided by seconds equals watts, which is the unit of power.
Resistance is a property. In a non-linear device, the "resistance" is not a static constant and therefore you cannot simply say an LED has a resistance of N ohms. Semiconductors, including diodes, are specified by an I-V curve, which is a graph of current versus applied forward voltage. Nowhere does "resistance" come into the definition of a diode.
If you want to pick nits, light bulbs don't have a constant resistance either. Their resistance depends to a significant degree on the temperature of the filament, so you have to take that into consideration as well.
All you've proven with your rant is that you know ohms law. Nothing you said is even really relevent to my post or its topic.
Power in this case is the time-averaged dissipation of energy in the LED. Since it's a non-linear semiconductor device, there is no valid property called "resistance." The "resistance" depends upon the forward voltage applied. The only way to validly measure the power dissipated in a non-linear device is to measure the forward voltage drop for a given current and use the product of the two values. "Resistance" is only an implicit value based on these two.
You can't measure the "resistance" of a diode - any DMM will have a diode measuring tool that will give you the forward voltage drop of the diode (the point at which it conducts significantly - in simple terms). Now you have what you need to calculate the power.
If you want to take a mechanical engineering point of view, you could use the temperature rise for a given current along with the thermal resistance of the packaging, but I don't think that's quite so accurate...
Ahh, good point, but you ahve to admit that it DOES HELP to move the combustion phase farther up the chain - because a power company can use oil or coal much more efficiently than your car can. A gas-fired power plant that produces hydrogen will probably be 5 or so times more efficient than your car is at extracting energy from fuel.
"It'll be interesting to see whether Color Kinetics can exact a licensing fee from anyone who blends colored LEDs. Says Simms: "We haven't invested the fortune that we have in intellectual property without planning to defend it."
:)
No, they can't. The big outdoor big-screen TV's at the race track in Saratoga NY use this. One Red, one Green, and one Blue LED for each pixel. Been done, prior art, now go crawl back into the hole from which you came, you dirty low-life patent weasel
if the manufacturing costs could come down. We waste TONS of energy on those little heaters we call light bulbs. Most of the energy that an incandescent bulb dissipates is done so in the form of heat. LEDs are indeed incredibly efficient in comparison, last longer, and the whole bit. The only problem is cost.
I think something to think about, however, is the effects of monotonic spectral emissions on aesthetics. Lightbulbs more or less follow Wien's Law which states that an object of a certain temperature emits energy along a continuous spectrum, with the peak at 0.0029/T(kelvin) nanometers. LEDs are monochrome or polychrome (in the case of white LEDs) so you get one or a few colors, but not a continuous spectrum. I wonder what effect this might have on people's comfort in their surroundings, psychology, or whatnot...
Once the cost comes down, we might get to study these results... Of course, with all the jobs and factories going to India, that might not be a problem after too much longer...
From the article:
"and they require much less electricity -- up to 80 percent less"
"You could replace a 100-watt light bulb with a 60-watt LED, and get the same brightness,"
"You'd save 40 percent on power"
So it is 80 percent or 40 percent?
=)