$4 million for a long paid off installation is still a decent maintenance and automated operations budget for the most meritorious existing operations. Open source the data and do minor repairs until worn out. I vote for the new experiments. Let's see which lasts longer, Bill (Gordon) or Aricebo. Still a nice movie prop, maybe new movies will add a paint job or two in the future.
Graduate at or near top of high school. Go to a higher ranked university, take more hours, get ca ~0.5 GPA point less. Get treated like dirt by some politicos that had difficulty with trig in hs or were the bottom fish in a lower tier engineering school but managed to always get kicked upstairs instead of fired. Watch the admins take credit for that which they violently opposed, but you cleaned up after the major damage, thereby saving the company, again. Great career magnet, only for those who are hopelessly addicted to the thrill of the unknown and progress, or really are planning to get the MBA, too. Japanese kids are becoming more cognizant, as US and European kids did, are of the current engineering reward structure. Face it, marketing and PR are currently far better investments, with more and better slack time in college.
"We find what we find..." suggests that many schools do a better job of protecting their students from predators like RIAA, either by IT means, enforcement or policies. Perhaps we should be posting such valuable insights about IT safety at places like CollegeConfidential. e.g. "College X had 14 students mugged by the RIAA last year." Also it would be interesting to find out if any of the suicides or beserkers had RIAA extortion letters.
Although some kids may need to reign in their activities, the RIAA methods' technological and litigation basis are unsound and dangerous. RIAA and their overlords need to be made recipocally accountable with the colleges taking more responsibility too.
Just another unconstitutional NY state grab for out-of-state businesses' $ to get more coke and "entertainment" money. Apparently prices are going up there, too. If NY "wins" anything, it will be interesting to see if AMZN shows them the doghouse.
Uh, no thanks. We work too hard to avoid defective products, extortion, and sources of malware for anymore chances. Please extend, embrace and extinguish yourselves.
Don't do it. It spreads the "arbitrarily changing format blackhole disease."
I've been happy with OpenOffice for several years while MS Office has produced interesting, and embarrassing, format failures between editions. One example, on a Vista laptop, tried with both Office 2003 and 2007, failed to accurately render many company Powerpoint slides that had worked with Powerpoint 2003 on XP, for important meetings. As much as one would like to dismiss MS Office users as drinking Purple Kool-Aid, a self curing problem, recognizing them as plague spreaders would be closer to the mark.
Keeping the databases separate will be like keeping promiscuous teenage kids apart after a night booze and drugs. A disaster waiting to happen. People who think not must not have been alive back during the Bush administration.
So when the bright teenager down the street helps the nice old folks install their computer and wireless network, after s/he decides to "safely" view older 15-17 year olds of the (opposite?) sex, the old folks should not be surprised about that knock, or kick, on the door in the night? A "few" convictions here and there, guess that solves the Medicare and Social Security crisis...
Time, in net, has usually been an apologist for big government. As for this administration, Constitutional has either meant an evening stroll, or a brand of toilet paper.
The Pioneer 10 and 11 speed-position anomalies, unaccounted drift, were noticed by the late 70's. NASA and the peole involved just didn't discuss it with the public until much later, after many potential sources of error and theoretical possiblities had been analyzed. That is when I first heard it mentioned, in Houston, ca 1977-78.
"Software companies has enjoyed unprecedented loose consumer protections...protection is really the laws about advertising" Perhaps you haven't seen Windows ME or Vista in action, the advertising laws' effects were close to *meaningless*. Basically the "artistic warranty" with a liberal use of lawyers allowed MS "engineering" to set the example of unresponsible behavior and defective software for the software industry, shipping alpha software despite deleting highly hyped features. Maybe that was Bill's 800V showing as an "alpha male".
Given the latests news about SCO, Gates' connection and the $100m plan, as well as previous involvement of the Vole, anything less than crystal clear and open sourced, is another trap with MS.
If one takes the "dirty, deep pockets connnection - cost minimization exit strategy" hypothesis seriously, this deal makes a lot of sense - starting with a "separate (extricate) the point man from his crimes" strategy". That way, being "safely away" from the scene of final SCO act or implosion, this may enable some diffusion of hard earned hostility to SCO, muddle and bury evidence, and the (ex)CEO is much less likely to have to rat out the significant others, especially if everything "settles" for a few cents on the dollar and fades away with the normal "defend" clauses to previous bad management. Of course society has been the big economic loser all along here, and the moral justice is a farce on the way to a 3rd world, corporate run tyranny.
Given the funky West virginia law, I would keep my server and business centers out of WV and ignore everything else. As for the quality of the WV tax assessor's argument, it reminds me of this little incorporated town that consisted of 4 miles of empty interstate only, a speed trap, and a post office box in another town... don't bother to pay, the state ignores them, too.
I do enjoy reading various Wikipedia articles for background. However, I notice that the health and medical articles seem to be heavily biased and dominated by 1950s AMA type doctors, oncologists and pharmaceutical interests - some outright shills, employees, even their lawyers. Similarly other science areas sometimes seem dominated by current-popular-fad academics with severe conflicts of interest to their grant process, where their research methodology actually has more valid scientific criticism than validation.
How not to sell overpriced whitebox hardware. WD's home NAS hardware line might have fallout on their internal drive sales if they are not careful. Somebody probably needs a new job after Xmas when the angry users show up.
Let's take a previous poster's upper damage limit of $10 billion per year nationally. The Pew organization (http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/113/press_release.asp) says 51% of online (81%) teenagers (12-17 yo) download music vs 18% for adults. Let's expand that to 12-21 yo: 51%*81%10*3.5E6 = 14.46 million younger downloaders, and for adults (21-40 yo) downloaders, lets say it's 18%*81%*20*3.2E6 = 9.33 million full adults, 23.8 million downloaders. So the upper limit average is maybe $420 per downloader per year. Also given that many internet accounts have upload/download bandwidth limits of 1 GB - 5 GB, at $0.70 Apple wholesale per 3MB file, that is a severe cap on any outrageous legal claim, $233/mo to $1165/mo as dedicated (no surfing, no downloading). Frankly I think any legal claim for more than the nominal $420/yr average should at least be required to show the ISP's upload consumption records for *any* additional damages to establish even *some* evidence of actual damages. Beyond that I would morally consider the accosting organizations as any violence threatening extortion agents.
Read this ripoff. Lots of "profit" opportunities for companies that dump regulated pricing, say 10,000%, on top of the extra cell phone pricing power and dumping a potential subsidy.
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$4 million for a long paid off installation is still a decent maintenance and automated operations budget for the most meritorious existing operations. Open source the data and do minor repairs until worn out. I vote for the new experiments. Let's see which lasts longer, Bill (Gordon) or Aricebo. Still a nice movie prop, maybe new movies will add a paint job or two in the future.
Graduate at or near top of high school. Go to a higher ranked university, take more hours, get ca ~0.5 GPA point less. Get treated like dirt by some politicos that had difficulty with trig in hs or were the bottom fish in a lower tier engineering school but managed to always get kicked upstairs instead of fired. Watch the admins take credit for that which they violently opposed, but you cleaned up after the major damage, thereby saving the company, again. Great career magnet, only for those who are hopelessly addicted to the thrill of the unknown and progress, or really are planning to get the MBA, too. Japanese kids are becoming more cognizant, as US and European kids did, are of the current engineering reward structure. Face it, marketing and PR are currently far better investments, with more and better slack time in college.
Although some kids may need to reign in their activities, the RIAA methods' technological and litigation basis are unsound and dangerous. RIAA and their overlords need to be made recipocally accountable with the colleges taking more responsibility too.
No wonder Ballmer hates Google. Stanford 2, Harvard 0. Wonder how far the chair flew this time. Maybe Ballmer should talk to the X Prize peole.
Overseas on any trips and be sure you've got your papers in order, and any discussion ready for US Customs.
Let it rip. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cc-top-universities/
Just another unconstitutional NY state grab for out-of-state businesses' $ to get more coke and "entertainment" money. Apparently prices are going up there, too. If NY "wins" anything, it will be interesting to see if AMZN shows them the doghouse.
Uh, no thanks. We work too hard to avoid defective products, extortion, and sources of malware for anymore chances. Please extend, embrace and extinguish yourselves.
Sheer genius, a major blow to RIAA tyranny. The judge ruled that an actual infringement needed to take place...
Don't do it. It spreads the "arbitrarily changing format blackhole disease."
I've been happy with OpenOffice for several years while MS Office has produced interesting, and embarrassing, format failures between editions. One example, on a Vista laptop, tried with both Office 2003 and 2007, failed to accurately render many company Powerpoint slides that had worked with Powerpoint 2003 on XP, for important meetings. As much as one would like to dismiss MS Office users as drinking Purple Kool-Aid, a self curing problem, recognizing them as plague spreaders would be closer to the mark.
Keeping the databases separate will be like keeping promiscuous teenage kids apart after a night booze and drugs. A disaster waiting to happen. People who think not must not have been alive back during the Bush administration.
So when the bright teenager down the street helps the nice old folks install their computer and wireless network, after s/he decides to "safely" view older 15-17 year olds of the (opposite?) sex, the old folks should not be surprised about that knock, or kick, on the door in the night? A "few" convictions here and there, guess that solves the Medicare and Social Security crisis...
Time, in net, has usually been an apologist for big government. As for this administration, Constitutional has either meant an evening stroll, or a brand of toilet paper.
The Pioneer 10 and 11 speed-position anomalies, unaccounted drift, were noticed by the late 70's. NASA and the peole involved just didn't discuss it with the public until much later, after many potential sources of error and theoretical possiblities had been analyzed. That is when I first heard it mentioned, in Houston, ca 1977-78.
of course, the quick fix will be SP1a temporary.
"Software companies has enjoyed unprecedented loose consumer protections...protection is really the laws about advertising" Perhaps you haven't seen Windows ME or Vista in action, the advertising laws' effects were close to *meaningless*. Basically the "artistic warranty" with a liberal use of lawyers allowed MS "engineering" to set the example of unresponsible behavior and defective software for the software industry, shipping alpha software despite deleting highly hyped features. Maybe that was Bill's 800V showing as an "alpha male".
Given the latests news about SCO, Gates' connection and the $100m plan, as well as previous involvement of the Vole, anything less than crystal clear and open sourced, is another trap with MS.
If one takes the "dirty, deep pockets connnection - cost minimization exit strategy" hypothesis seriously, this deal makes a lot of sense - starting with a "separate (extricate) the point man from his crimes" strategy". That way, being "safely away" from the scene of final SCO act or implosion, this may enable some diffusion of hard earned hostility to SCO, muddle and bury evidence, and the (ex)CEO is much less likely to have to rat out the significant others, especially if everything "settles" for a few cents on the dollar and fades away with the normal "defend" clauses to previous bad management. Of course society has been the big economic loser all along here, and the moral justice is a farce on the way to a 3rd world, corporate run tyranny.
More bricks to anonymity? http://www.it.okstate.edu/students/restech/ or plugin several open wireless connections per building?
Given the funky West virginia law, I would keep my server and business centers out of WV and ignore everything else. As for the quality of the WV tax assessor's argument, it reminds me of this little incorporated town that consisted of 4 miles of empty interstate only, a speed trap, and a post office box in another town... don't bother to pay, the state ignores them, too.
"RIAA = RICO?" is the question that we really need answered.
I do enjoy reading various Wikipedia articles for background. However, I notice that the health and medical articles seem to be heavily biased and dominated by 1950s AMA type doctors, oncologists and pharmaceutical interests - some outright shills, employees, even their lawyers. Similarly other science areas sometimes seem dominated by current-popular-fad academics with severe conflicts of interest to their grant process, where their research methodology actually has more valid scientific criticism than validation.
How not to sell overpriced whitebox hardware. WD's home NAS hardware line might have fallout on their internal drive sales if they are not careful. Somebody probably needs a new job after Xmas when the angry users show up.
Let's take a previous poster's upper damage limit of $10 billion per year nationally. The Pew organization (http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/113/press_release.asp) says 51% of online (81%) teenagers (12-17 yo) download music vs 18% for adults. Let's expand that to 12-21 yo: 51%*81%10*3.5E6 = 14.46 million younger downloaders, and for adults (21-40 yo) downloaders, lets say it's 18%*81%*20*3.2E6 = 9.33 million full adults, 23.8 million downloaders. So the upper limit average is maybe $420 per downloader per year. Also given that many internet accounts have upload/download bandwidth limits of 1 GB - 5 GB, at $0.70 Apple wholesale per 3MB file, that is a severe cap on any outrageous legal claim, $233/mo to $1165/mo as dedicated (no surfing, no downloading). Frankly I think any legal claim for more than the nominal $420/yr average should at least be required to show the ISP's upload consumption records for *any* additional damages to establish even *some* evidence of actual damages. Beyond that I would morally consider the accosting organizations as any violence threatening extortion agents.
Read this ripoff. Lots of "profit" opportunities for companies that dump regulated pricing, say 10,000%, on top of the extra cell phone pricing power and dumping a potential subsidy.