IANAL, but maybe they could launch a class-action suit against the manufacturer?
Manufacturers will naturally put the blame squarely on the person(s) (allegedly) responsible for breaking that particular model. Which is a double-plus for manufacturers: customers that got screwed blame somebody besides the manufacturer, and if anybody gets sued by customers, the (alleged) cracker will see at least some of that action.
Common CPM for TV ads is $10, meaning one cent per viewer. The network gets a penny to show you a 30 second ad. If you watch 5 hours of TV, you will see an hour of those ads, and they get $1.20.
In other words, you get $1.20 worth of programming for watching an hour of advertising. $1.20 per hour is an illegal wage by a long margin in most places these days, and a terrible deal.
By that logic, if networks upped their fee to 25 cents per ad per viewer (which amounts to $30 per hour of ads per viewer), then the deal automatically becomes a great one for viewers?
Bad Marketing? This is good marketing. Why would Microsoft want to give up a full-price sale, to sell the lower-priced version?
Thought the stripped-down version was for people who want to "do the right thing" (pay for software they use), downloaded Windows instead because they couldn't afford it,
but are willing and able to pay for a reduced version. Sounds like a product that was born to fail.
This may seem like a silly question, but won't that only be useful if the laptop is going to have more than 4GB of memory? How often does that happen?
The existing 4GB limit, which a 64-bit chip+OS gets around, is a virtual address space limit. Running a 64-bit OS will let more than 4GB of code/data exist in the address space at the same time.
Existing 32-bit x86 chips can already use PAE extensions to access more than 4GB of DRAM plugged into the motherboard, although only 4GB will be accessable (ie- mapped in the virtual space) at any one time (and there's lots of overhead in changing the 4GB currently mapped).
It bears repeating, in BOLD. Freedom of speech is not a license to do something illegal, unethical, or even for you to say things otherwise inappropriate for a person of your particular position in society.
Well that last part is awfully ripe for abuse. As a citizen of my country, is it inappropriate for me to say that I don't always like my country's social-policy laws, fiscal laws, or the wars that my government keeps getting us into?
I don't care for the idea that the constitution gives me specific rights, but government+business work together (intentionally or not) to make me effectively not be able to exercise those rights.
... but at least with OSS, if there's no documentation, you can at least read the code to see what it does
... In OSS, if there's no documentation, you can read the code.
And if it not OSS, then either you have access to the code (in which case you can read it also), or you don't (in which case maintainability isn't even the issue, because there isn't any).
Whether the source is open or closed has no (direct) bearing on how good the source and documentation are, for those allowed to see the source and documentation.
Somebody's got to copy all those documents. Whether we have them onsite and one of our folks has to do it or we have to pay for outside counsel to do it (We pay attorneys' rates to our counsel, and you will reimburse us for that:), somebody's going to spend a bunch of time at the photocopier in order to fulfil your request.
Yeah. Because when the government asks me for info that I'm legally obliged to give, they reimburse my costs to provide that info.
Of course, I'm still waiting for that $172,000 I billed them for to cover my costs when I was audited...
(offtopic)
Reminds me of a couple months back when Sean Hannity (on FoxNews's "Hannity and Combs") had some economist on the show, who said that really high oil prices were actually good for the US, because it kept inflation in check. And Hannity was lapping it all up (yep, yep, makes sense to me, yep).
(back on topic)
If the falling dollar is good thing, when do you think the bush administration will take credit for it?
You want to provide people a chance at home ownership, get rid of the bullshit local "building codes" that exist for no other reason than to keep contractors and hardware stores in business. There are homes all over Euroupe, Asia, and the Mideast that have stood for hundreds of years and are made of nothing more than mud.
This is a self-selecting sample. You're looking at the best (most durable).1% of the homes that were built way back when.
Cob homes, in some parts of the world, are now becoming "fashionable" again and sought by well-to-do who want something with quality and character - attributes long lost to modern construction.
Do you honestly believe that if building codes were eliminated, more homes would be built with quality and character? I think it's more likely that we'd see more of the 99.9% group that don't last.
> Fahreinheit 911 had a good take on the Patriot act with that Senator going "we don't have enough time
> to read all the bills" etc. I'm sorry but THAT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB. That's why it's called "a reading" > before the law is passed - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO READ IT.
I think this is a bit simplistic. The senate had 735 Bills last year according to that site, with language such as:
"A producer member shall submit to the authority an application for the tax credit authorized by this section on a form provided by the authority. If the producer member meets all criteria prescribed by this section and is approved by the authority, the authority shall issue a tax credit certificate in the appropriate amount."
Imagine trying to understand 735 documents composed of such language, some of which can be many many pages, or make "small" adjustments to current laws. Some bills, I'm sure, are written and titled to purposely obfuscate their true intentions as well.
My guess is that's why senators and house members have staffs: to read the bills and tell them what they mean. There's not time enough in the day to read and understand fully all those bills.
And yet for most of us, ignorance of the law is no excuse...
> Bush on marriage: "Marriage should be a union between a man and a woman."
> Kerry on marriage: "Marriage should be a union between an man and a woman."
Except everyone who actually follows politics knows there is a big difference. Democrats use the courts to pass policies they know they could never be elected by supporting. So while Kerry wouldn't say anything in support, he would happily sit by while activist judges (of the sort he would be appointing) rammed it down our throats
As opposed to ramming it down our throats directly, by pushing for a constitutional amendment.
By the way, we still tax Social Security benefits. Read that again. We TAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. We tax people who get married. We tax people who sell their house. We tax people who make just enough to eat. We tax everything at enormous, ridiculous rates.
And yet they still spend way more than we take in. THAT's the problem that has to be solved, before taxes can be cut/eliminated.
>So now, after months and months of news about this trial, it's all over now ?
Since Dr. Randall Davis is an expert witness for IBM, I am guessing that SCO will say, "ain't so!" and then they will ask for time to refute Randall's findings and perhaps come up with an expert witness of their own that finds thousands of "matches."
Might be a good thing. Then the judge and IBM can ask for this list of "matches".
They aren't specifying the types of security measures that will be used (security through obscurity?) Am I the only one who thinks that this is a very bad idea? Might a DDOS attack on the Fed's computers bring down the entire banking system?" The banks have put some thought into security.
This isn't internet voting, it's about money. For this, security and reliability will be a top priority.
>When you get into an accident, you have to get >rescued/treated and perhaps go to a hospital >and get treated there. Then everyone else gets >to pay.
Everyone else pays? Then why am I shelling out all this money for insurance.
Well, if you haven't been to the hospital lately, then your insurance money is being used to pay for other people's medical bills. If other people's medical bills were smaller, then there's a chance that your premiums would be lower...
Rush hour is also an unacceptable risk. If terrorists attack during this time it could be disasterous. Consequently, as of next month all work times will be randomly generated. You will be informed when you are due to start working 15 minutes before the start of your shift via the newly secured cellular phone network.
But if my work-phone isn't ringing, maybe it's because the cellular network is down! And by design I'll have no way to know the difference! Aack!
Unless the penalty is harsh enough to do real damage to the offender, it will simply be chalked up as a cost of doing business and the purpose of the penalty will effectively be nullified.
The amount of the penalty isn't as important. Unless the chance of actually paying the penalty is high, the penalty will be ignored.
Detroit was faced with the same problem in the 70's. The Japanese were whipping us six ways to Sunday.... Detroit bitched bellered and bawled about it but finally got their act together and started producing a much better product.
The problem we're facing now is different- it's not that tech is producing junk that nobody wants to buy, it's that the US cost of living is so high that employers want/need to to save money by employing workers in other countries.
Same thing is happening to us - we simply have to be able to compete.
How do we compete with the cost-of-living difference?
I guess by outsourcing, which drags our cost/standard of living down.
Intel has changed. Pentium 4 was specifically designed to have high frequency: performance-per-MHz was a secondary requirement. But now, intel is in the early stages of designing their next-generation part, and they have two choices- even-higher frequency, or lower/same frequency but better architectural performance.
I suspect they found out (or are finally starting to admit) that pure frequency doesn't buy as much performance as people thought, so now they have to fight the inertia of their own "GHz is king" mantra.
Please note that Real is not asking MLB to only broadcast in Real, as the article stated, "MLB is free to use Microsoft's Windows Media format if it wants, but under the Feb. 8 agreement, it also must use RealNetworks' RealMedia format to provide live coverage of the entire baseball season, including spring training."
What's the problem? MLB could follow Real's footsteps in guiding the user to the preferred format. To find a web link to a Real stream, you have to click through a procession of fourteen different links, including three white-on-white-text links and one link cleverly covered by a flash animation.
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And bad guys get punished.
Have you seen any schedules? Because I've been waiting quite a while for some bad guys to get theirs...
IANAL, but maybe they could launch a class-action suit against the manufacturer?
Manufacturers will naturally put the blame squarely on the person(s) (allegedly) responsible for breaking that particular model. Which is a double-plus for manufacturers: customers that got screwed blame somebody besides the manufacturer, and if anybody gets sued by customers, the (alleged) cracker will see at least some of that action.
Common CPM for TV ads is $10, meaning one cent per viewer. The network gets a penny to show you a 30 second ad. If you watch 5 hours of TV, you will see an hour of those ads, and they get $1.20.
In other words, you get $1.20 worth of programming for watching an hour of advertising. $1.20 per hour is an illegal wage by a long margin in most places these days, and a terrible deal.
By that logic, if networks upped their fee to 25 cents per ad per viewer (which amounts to $30 per hour of ads per viewer), then the deal automatically becomes a great one for viewers?
Bad Marketing? This is good marketing. Why would Microsoft want to give up a full-price sale, to sell the lower-priced version?
Thought the stripped-down version was for people who want to "do the right thing" (pay for software they use), downloaded Windows instead because they couldn't afford it, but are willing and able to pay for a reduced version. Sounds like a product that was born to fail.
This may seem like a silly question, but won't that only be useful if the laptop is going to have more than 4GB of memory? How often does that happen?
The existing 4GB limit, which a 64-bit chip+OS gets around, is a virtual address space limit. Running a 64-bit OS will let more than 4GB of code/data exist in the address space at the same time.
Existing 32-bit x86 chips can already use PAE extensions to access more than 4GB of DRAM plugged into the motherboard, although only 4GB will be accessable (ie- mapped in the virtual space) at any one time (and there's lots of overhead in changing the 4GB currently mapped).
It bears repeating, in BOLD. Freedom of speech is not a license to do something illegal, unethical, or even for you to say things otherwise inappropriate for a person of your particular position in society.
Well that last part is awfully ripe for abuse. As a citizen of my country, is it inappropriate for me to say that I don't always like my country's social-policy laws, fiscal laws, or the wars that my government keeps getting us into?
I don't care for the idea that the constitution gives me specific rights, but government+business work together (intentionally or not) to make me effectively not be able to exercise those rights.
... but at least with OSS, if there's no documentation, you can at least read the code to see what it does
... In OSS, if there's no documentation, you can read the code.
And if it not OSS, then either you have access to the code (in which case you can read it also), or you don't (in which case maintainability isn't even the issue, because there isn't any).
Whether the source is open or closed has no (direct) bearing on how good the source and documentation are, for those allowed to see the source and documentation.
Somebody's got to copy all those documents. Whether we have them onsite and one of our folks has to do it or we have to pay for outside counsel to do it (We pay attorneys' rates to our counsel, and you will reimburse us for that :), somebody's going to spend a bunch of time at the photocopier in order to fulfil your request.
Yeah. Because when the government asks me for info that I'm legally obliged to give, they reimburse my costs to provide that info.
Of course, I'm still waiting for that $172,000 I billed them for to cover my costs when I was audited...
If the police really don't need a warrant to attach a GPS device, then neither do I?
So I can attach one to, say, police cars, judge's cars, privately-owned politician's cars, etc?
(offtopic)
Reminds me of a couple months back when Sean Hannity (on FoxNews's "Hannity and Combs") had some economist on the show, who said that really high oil prices were actually good for the US, because it kept inflation in check. And Hannity was lapping it all up (yep, yep, makes sense to me, yep).
(back on topic)
If the falling dollar is good thing, when do you think the bush administration will take credit for it?
You want to provide people a chance at home ownership, get rid of the bullshit local "building codes" that exist for no other reason than to keep contractors and hardware stores in business. There are homes all over Euroupe, Asia, and the Mideast that have stood for hundreds of years and are made of nothing more than mud.
.1% of the homes that were built way back when.
This is a self-selecting sample. You're looking at the best (most durable)
Cob homes, in some parts of the world, are now becoming "fashionable" again and sought by well-to-do who want something with quality and character - attributes long lost to modern construction.
Do you honestly believe that if building codes were eliminated, more homes would be built with quality and character? I think it's more likely that we'd see more of the 99.9% group that don't last.
> Fahreinheit 911 had a good take on the Patriot act with that Senator going "we don't have enough time
> to read all the bills" etc. I'm sorry but THAT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB. That's why it's called "a reading"
> before the law is passed - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO READ IT.
I think this is a bit simplistic. The senate had 735 Bills last year according to that site, with language such as:
"A producer member shall submit to the authority an application for the tax credit authorized by this section on a form provided by the authority. If the producer member meets all criteria prescribed by this section and is approved by the authority, the authority shall issue a tax credit certificate in the appropriate amount."
Imagine trying to understand 735 documents composed of such language, some of which can be many many pages, or make "small" adjustments to current laws. Some bills, I'm sure, are written and titled to purposely obfuscate their true intentions as well.
My guess is that's why senators and house members have staffs: to read the bills and tell them what they mean. There's not time enough in the day to read and understand fully all those bills.
And yet for most of us, ignorance of the law is no excuse...
> Bush on marriage: "Marriage should be a union between a man and a woman."
> Kerry on marriage: "Marriage should be a union between an man and a woman."
Except everyone who actually follows politics knows there is a big difference. Democrats use the courts to pass policies they know they could never be elected by supporting. So while Kerry wouldn't say anything in support, he would happily sit by while activist judges (of the sort he would be appointing) rammed it down our throats
As opposed to ramming it down our throats directly, by pushing for a constitutional amendment.
By the way, we still tax Social Security benefits. Read that again. We TAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. We tax people who get married. We tax people who sell their house. We tax people who make just enough to eat. We tax everything at enormous, ridiculous rates.
And yet they still spend way more than we take in. THAT's the problem that has to be solved, before taxes can be cut/eliminated.
>So now, after months and months of news about this trial, it's all over now ?
Since Dr. Randall Davis is an expert witness for IBM, I am guessing that SCO will say, "ain't so!" and then they will ask for time to refute Randall's findings and perhaps come up with an expert witness of their own that finds thousands of "matches."
Might be a good thing. Then the judge and IBM can ask for this list of "matches".
They aren't specifying the types of security measures that will be used (security through obscurity?) Am I the only one who thinks that this is a very bad idea? Might a DDOS attack on the Fed's computers bring down the entire banking system?" The banks have put some thought into security.
This isn't internet voting, it's about money. For this, security and reliability will be a top priority.
>When you get into an accident, you have to get >rescued/treated and perhaps go to a hospital >and get treated there. Then everyone else gets >to pay.
Everyone else pays? Then why am I shelling out all this money for insurance.
Well, if you haven't been to the hospital lately, then your insurance money is being used to pay for other people's medical bills. If other people's medical bills were smaller, then there's a chance that your premiums would be lower...
Rush hour is also an unacceptable risk. If terrorists attack during this time it could be disasterous. Consequently, as of next month all work times will be randomly generated. You will be informed when you are due to start working 15 minutes before the start of your shift via the newly secured cellular phone network.
But if my work-phone isn't ringing, maybe it's because the cellular network is down! And by design I'll have no way to know the difference! Aack!
That "tax credit" you got last year, $400/family? Well that's long gone by now.
Yeah, but the extra gov't debt to cover that $400? That'll be with us forever!
>I've gone through at least 6 InFocus projectors in the last 1.5 years due mainly to bulb failure.
while I have the same bulb from 2 years ago still burning bright. it's your use of your bulb and projector.
first off, buy a UPS for your projector and put it on there...
Buy a UPS? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the replacement bulbs?
The FCC still controls the licenses - and effectively bans the entry of new broadcasters. You can't buy a license for any price
Which is why clearchannel buys the other existing stations. Then they own a bunch of stations, and the FCC "bans the entry" of other new broadcasters.
"but $10000 seems incredibly steep."
Unless the penalty is harsh enough to do real damage to the offender, it will simply be chalked up as a cost of doing business and the purpose of the penalty will effectively be nullified.
The amount of the penalty isn't as important. Unless the chance of actually paying the penalty is high, the penalty will be ignored.
Detroit was faced with the same problem in the 70's. The Japanese were whipping us six ways to Sunday .... Detroit bitched bellered and bawled about it but finally got their act together and started producing a much better product.
The problem we're facing now is different- it's not that tech is producing junk that nobody wants to buy, it's that the US cost of living is so high that employers want/need to to save money by employing workers in other countries.
Same thing is happening to us - we simply have to be able to compete.
How do we compete with the cost-of-living difference?
I guess by outsourcing, which drags our cost/standard of living down.
Something has changed.
Intel has changed. Pentium 4 was specifically designed to have high frequency: performance-per-MHz was a secondary requirement. But now, intel is in the early stages of designing their next-generation part, and they have two choices- even-higher frequency, or lower/same frequency but better architectural performance.
I suspect they found out (or are finally starting to admit) that pure frequency doesn't buy as much performance as people thought, so now they have to fight the inertia of their own "GHz is king" mantra.
Please note that Real is not asking MLB to only broadcast in Real, as the article stated, "MLB is free to use Microsoft's Windows Media format if it wants, but under the Feb. 8 agreement, it also must use RealNetworks' RealMedia format to provide live coverage of the entire baseball season, including spring training."
What's the problem? MLB could follow Real's footsteps in guiding the user to the preferred format. To find a web link to a Real stream, you have to click through a procession of fourteen different links, including three white-on-white-text links and one link cleverly covered by a flash animation.