Customer service is also a major problem at IndyBox Systems. My company ordered an $11K server from them in order to see whether they were a good supplier. When we placed the order, they gave us an initial ship date about three weeks hence.
When we were about to hit the end of that three week period, I called to see where we were in process. I was quite dismayed to find out that our box was not yet in manufacturing due to an unspecfied "parts shortage". I called about twice a week for the next two weeks and kept getting the sames excuse.
During this period, I never received a call from IndyBox to explain the situation. I always had to call them. Also, their customer service line seemed to be manned by only one person who wasn't there over half the time; I mostly left voice messages which were never returned. I did ask, a couple of times, to speak to the service manager, but I was told that he was in a different building and that he could not transfer my call
Anyway, about six weeks after we had placed the order, I was informed that our box was finally in production and that we could expect it in another 10 days. That deadline passed, and IndyBox never called to explain. When one of my techs called them, they used the parts shortage excuse once again
Finally, in another week, we found out that our box was ready but that the customer service person was delaying our shipment because my tech had been "rude" to him in our last phone call. I sent some FAX'es and emails about the situation, but never got a response.
The box arrived; it work's OK, even though I'm not greatly impressed by the build quality. The rackmount rails are a joke. And to add insult to injury, IndyBox shorted us on parts which they have yet to fulfil four months later
Suffice to say, I will never consider purchasing from them again
I'm very pleased with this camera having used most of the models out there (and having worked on some of the first digital cameras). It has good optics, great resolution, good features, and a very compact size. Some of the controls are a little difficult to use, and the menus are not the best organized, but if you use it in mostly point and shoot situations, its a very good solution. There's a newer model (C-2500) to which I'm considering trading up.
Try cascading the CS144 KVM switch from Hawking Technology. Buy.com sells them for $104. You'll also need to buy the cable sets for each PC and each cascading switch. Should be less than $600 for 12 machines. Plus, there's a nifty foot switch available for cycling through machines.
I used SkyMap to check the position of Leo tonight, and it shows that that constellation will be below the horizon tonight on the US eastern seaboard. I think our European geek brethren may be able to see it, though?
My understanding is that will next be a verdict followed by the remedy phase.
What are the applicable statutes that apply to Microsoft's behavior? Is it limited to the Sherman Act and the Consent Decree, or is there a boatload of other law that has to be taken into account?
Regarding the remedy phase, I presume that that the DOJ and the state attorneys general will have some recommmendations. Is the judge limited to the scope of these recommendations, or is he free to devise whatever remedy he sees fit? If the judge does have a free hand, what are the limitations to his remedies?
It seems to me that whomsoever grabs LNUX has a better chance of being the public face of Linux on Wall Street. LINX sounds like some cheesy online service circa 1985.
> "The Fable of the Keys" was published in the _Journal of Law and > Economics_ in 1990, years before Microsoft's trouble with the DOJ. > I don't believe that the Independence Institute had anything to do with it.
Yes, yes. I did not even imply such. The "Independent Institute" is a mouthpiece for whatever corporate organ chooses to pay their way. However, you may want to review your history. While the article in question does predate the DOJ investigation, it most certainly does not predate the FTC inquiry into Microsoft's business practices. For example: http://www.lgu.com/an50.htm. Even though the date there is given as 1990, the FTC had been gathering complaints for a couple of years prior to that.
> Regardless, the article's point has not been refuted: The paradigm > example of market-failure due to network effects rests on shoddy evidence.
Happily, that remains just your opinion. It doesn't seem any amount of evidence would convince you otherwise.
Dvorak is a challenger to an entrenched QWERTY standard. Some studies show that the continued dominance of QWERTY may be explained by the effects of path dependence. The Independent Institute tries to refute this with a weak-logic argument.
Netscape and Linux are challengers to an entrenched Microsoft standard. Some studies show that the continued dominance of MSDOS/Windows may be explained by the effects of path dependence. The Independent Institute tries to refute this with a weak-logic argument.
If you follow the link at the top of the reference page, you'll see that these writings come from the Independent Institute, which had run full-page ads in the New York Times in support of Microsoft in its anti-trust trial. It was recently revealed, after explicit denials of such by the Institute's chairman, that the ads had been paid for by Microsoft. Draw your own conclusions.
I just remembered that it was one of Sid and Marty Krofft's characters (Mayor Pufnstuf) which McDonalds copied. These two were also the designers of the "Banana Splits" and "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" and, of course, "H.R. Pufnstuf".
Weren't they the inventors of the "look and feel" lawsuit in the first place?
The inventor of that type of lawsuit was a company that sued McDonalds for its Mayor McCheese character, which was said to have infringed on the look and feel of one of their own characters.
Weren't there changes in copyright law being promulgated by WIPO that would allow such copyrighting of databases? Perhaps that's what NSI is banking on.
From what I remember, it would be possible for an organization like Major League Baseball to copyright its database of ballplayer statistics that was developed at its own expense. While major media could probably afford to develop parallel databases, it would probably be easier to use MLB-branded data. We wouldn't have any such choice of developing a parallel whois database.
IMHO, Dyson and the rest of ICANN screwed up royally by not insisting on a public escrow of this database.
Also, from a technical standpoint, how do they propose to do this? Release a new version of Windows that automatically searches and destroys non-RIAA music files on bootup? FTP clients that refuse to download *.mp3? I think not.
Technically, this could be quite easy to do. Basically, the SDMI software would hook in at the object broker level and would register itself as the handler for MP3 objects. Under Windows the standard object broker is Microsoft's COM, and since the Win 9X version doesn't implement any form of security, it's quite easy for any piece of software to invisibly take over any object type and also for it to check if it's the registered handler for any type. I don't know if there's a formal name for the object broker on Macintosh but applications can register themselves as creators and editors for certain types. Under Linux, the nascent standard is CORBA (used by GNOME; I'm not sure about KDE or Netscape). While it would be easy under Linux to fool the SDMI software, I'm sure the RIAA can live without SDMI support for Linux.
Anyway, the SDMI software would check to make sure it owns the MP3 type whenever it's invoked and would refuse to launch if this condition were not met. It could also possibly arrange for some sort of notification if other software tried to register itself as the handler for MP3. Under Windows, this would be possible by sitting on top of the OLE DLL's, or Microsoft could quietly slipstream such behavior into their object broker.
While one could still have MP3 content on one's system, it would effectively be useless for the average Joe who's used to clicking and pointing at files. It would also render useless MP3 as a streaming format. I'm sure the average Slashdot user will have no problems in circumventing these mechanisms, but that's not whom the RIAA is concerned with.
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If you're like me you shouted "GIF!" when reading this article, so to slake your thirst for supercomputing pr0n:
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http://www.llnl.gov/asci-scrapbook/
njoy.
Customer service is also a major problem at IndyBox Systems. My company ordered an $11K server from them in order to see whether they were a good supplier. When we placed the order, they gave us an initial ship date about three weeks hence.
When we were about to hit the end of that three week period, I called to see where we were in process. I was quite dismayed to find out that our box was not yet in manufacturing due to an unspecfied "parts shortage". I called about twice a week for the next two weeks and kept getting the sames excuse.
During this period, I never received a call from IndyBox to explain the situation. I always had to call them. Also, their customer service line seemed to be manned by only one person who wasn't there over half the time; I mostly left voice messages which were never returned. I did ask, a couple of times, to speak to the service manager, but I was told that he was in a different building and that he could not transfer my call
Anyway, about six weeks after we had placed the order, I was informed that our box was finally in production and that we could expect it in another 10 days. That deadline passed, and IndyBox never called to explain. When one of my techs called them, they used the parts shortage excuse once again
Finally, in another week, we found out that our box was ready but that the customer service person was delaying our shipment because my tech had been "rude" to him in our last phone call. I sent some FAX'es and emails about the situation, but never got a response.
The box arrived; it work's OK, even though I'm not greatly impressed by the build quality. The rackmount rails are a joke. And to add insult to injury, IndyBox shorted us on parts which they have yet to fulfil four months later
Suffice to say, I will never consider purchasing from them again
CNNFN is running poll on the Microsoft breakup proposal. Seems that a few microserfs have been voting.
Double brain seizure.
I highly recommend the microdrive. You can get them at CDW.
Sorry -- had a brain fart.
I'm very pleased with this camera having used most of the models out there (and having worked on some of the first digital cameras). It has good optics, great resolution, good features, and a very compact size. Some of the controls are a little difficult to use, and the menus are not the best organized, but if you use it in mostly point and shoot situations, its a very good solution. There's a newer model (C-2500) to which I'm considering trading up.
check out the brujo from Netdrives.
Try cascading the CS144 KVM switch from Hawking Technology. Buy.com sells them for $104. You'll also need to buy the cable sets for each PC and each cascading switch. Should be less than $600 for 12 machines. Plus, there's a nifty foot switch available for cycling through machines.
I used SkyMap to check the position of Leo tonight, and it shows that that constellation will be below the horizon tonight on the US eastern seaboard. I think our European geek brethren may be able to see it, though?
My understanding is that will next be a verdict followed by the remedy phase.
What are the applicable statutes that apply to Microsoft's behavior? Is it limited to the Sherman Act and the Consent Decree, or is there a boatload of other law that has to be taken into account?
Regarding the remedy phase, I presume that that the DOJ and the state attorneys general will have some recommmendations. Is the judge limited to the scope of these recommendations, or is he free to devise whatever remedy he sees fit? If the judge does have a free hand, what are the limitations to his remedies?
Thanks.
Heh, being of Indian descent, sounds very much like the British.
It seems to me that whomsoever grabs LNUX has a better chance of being the public face of Linux on Wall Street. LINX sounds like some cheesy online service circa 1985.
> "The Fable of the Keys" was published in the _Journal of Law and
> Economics_ in 1990, years before Microsoft's trouble with the DOJ.
> I don't believe that the Independence Institute had anything to do with it.
Yes, yes. I did not even imply such. The "Independent Institute" is a mouthpiece for whatever corporate organ chooses to pay their way. However, you may want to review your history. While the article in question does predate the DOJ investigation, it most certainly does not predate the FTC inquiry into Microsoft's business practices. For example: http://www.lgu.com/an50.htm. Even though the date there is given as 1990, the FTC had been gathering complaints for a couple of years prior to that.
> Regardless, the article's point has not been refuted: The paradigm
> example of market-failure due to network effects rests on shoddy evidence.
Happily, that remains just your opinion. It doesn't seem any amount of evidence would convince you otherwise.
Well then, let me connect the dots for you.
Dvorak is a challenger to an entrenched QWERTY standard. Some studies show that the continued dominance of QWERTY may be explained by the effects of path dependence. The Independent Institute tries to refute this with a weak-logic argument.
Netscape and Linux are challengers to an entrenched Microsoft standard. Some studies show that the continued dominance of MSDOS/Windows may be explained by the effects of path dependence. The Independent Institute tries to refute this with a weak-logic argument.
If you follow the link at the top of the reference page, you'll see that these writings come from the Independent Institute, which had run full-page ads in the New York Times in support of Microsoft in its anti-trust trial. It was recently revealed, after explicit denials of such by the Institute's chairman, that the ads had been paid for by Microsoft. Draw your own conclusions.
Thanks much. You are a gentleman and a scholar and smell good too.
Anyone know the salient differences between these two proposed standards? What's curious is that both have Microsoft participation.
This item was covered as uCSimm news back when it was fresh.
Here's more info on the E2k:
t ml
:P
http://www.el2000.ru/press-releases/25031999-01.h
At least it won't be those AnandTech weenies who overtake us first!
I just remembered that it was one of Sid and Marty Krofft's characters (Mayor Pufnstuf) which McDonalds copied. These two were also the designers of the "Banana Splits" and "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" and, of course, "H.R. Pufnstuf".
Weren't they the inventors of the "look and feel" lawsuit in the first place?
The inventor of that type of lawsuit was a company that sued McDonalds for its Mayor McCheese character, which was said to have infringed on the look and feel of one of their own characters.
Weren't there changes in copyright law being promulgated by WIPO that would allow such copyrighting of databases? Perhaps that's what NSI is banking on.
From what I remember, it would be possible for an organization like Major League Baseball to copyright its database of ballplayer statistics that was developed at its own expense. While major media could probably afford to develop parallel databases, it would probably be easier to use MLB-branded data. We wouldn't have any such choice of developing a parallel whois database.
IMHO, Dyson and the rest of ICANN screwed up royally by not insisting on a public escrow of this database.
Also, from a technical standpoint, how do they propose to do this? Release a new version of Windows that automatically searches and destroys non-RIAA music files on bootup? FTP clients that refuse to download *.mp3? I think not.
Technically, this could be quite easy to do. Basically, the SDMI software would hook in at the object broker level and would register itself as the handler for MP3 objects. Under Windows the standard object broker is Microsoft's COM, and since the Win 9X version doesn't implement any form of security, it's quite easy for any piece of software to invisibly take over any object type and also for it to check if it's the registered handler for any type. I don't know if there's a formal name for the object broker on Macintosh but applications can register themselves as creators and editors for certain types. Under Linux, the nascent standard is CORBA (used by GNOME; I'm not sure about KDE or Netscape). While it would be easy under Linux to fool the SDMI software, I'm sure the RIAA can live without SDMI support for Linux.
Anyway, the SDMI software would check to make sure it owns the MP3 type whenever it's invoked and would refuse to launch if this condition were not met. It could also possibly arrange for some sort of notification if other software tried to register itself as the handler for MP3. Under Windows, this would be possible by sitting on top of the OLE DLL's, or Microsoft could quietly slipstream such behavior into their object broker.
While one could still have MP3 content on one's system, it would effectively be useless for the average Joe who's used to clicking and pointing at files. It would also render useless MP3 as a streaming format. I'm sure the average Slashdot user will have no problems in circumventing these mechanisms, but that's not whom the RIAA is concerned with.