Finished reading "Hit Refresh" by Satya Nadella. On the one hand, learnt that Hololens had difficulty getting funding for some time, with the dev team renaming it as "Project Baraboo" as a piece of gallows humour. It's a town in Wisconsin, home to a Clown and Circus Museum.
OTOH, lack of lifetime learning opportunities, the pervasiveness of zero hours contracts, trade deals up in air and rent seeking serves only to undermine our future as a nation (i'm in the UK FWIW). Politicians of all stripes should read the last two chapters; probably the best articulation of building for the future since Eric Schmidts interview with the Queen of Jordan.
Good read.
This happened to the old age father of a friend, who gave them a continuous authority on a debit card for "support". Downloaded and came in using TeamViewer, and messed with his PC. Traced the domain name back (set as a private individual, anonymised); got the registrar to de-anonymise their whois record due to being a commercial company. Traced the resulting contact details back to UK Companies House, where the guy was an Indian national who was one of two directors of 12 companies set up in a small business centre in Coventry, UK. Local Bank account received the funds.
End result was that local trading standards got their bank account closed. Directors are on LinkedIn, and claim to have 600 telesales operatives in Kolkata, India.
The core problem is taxing on the fiction that are profits.
The unsavory bit is Apple maintaining at least one corporate entity that has no country of domicile, and passing cost allocations around between operating subsidiaries to take their effective tax rate to punitive rates in countries where their revenue comes from. There are similar fictional cost allocations in car manufacturing and in FMCG markets (eg: Nestle borrowing money from another subsidiary at well above banking industry interest rates, or coffee outlets paying external entities for brand licensing). There's also strange patterns on how some online vendors allocate R&D costs almost in sync with their gross profits.
The overall effective tax income from multinational companies has trended down relentlessly for 40 years in the West. The first core issue is how aggressively companies use fictional instruments and stooge third-rate economies to distort the tax paid away from the economies that provide their revenue.
The solution is to impose tax rates based on local revenue, not fictional profits.
If they do pay tax equitably, then the second core issue is how they repatriate income to the parent company's home geography. That's something for the US Govt alone.
When I joined DEC as a trainee programmer in 1976, MUMPS-11 was one of the OS choices on the PDP-11. One of the guys still Product Managing high end systems at HP UK was a MUMPs support guy in Software Services at the time. Last saw it in the flesh as VAX DSM (Digital Standard MUMPS) back in the late 1980's.
A lot of the revolutionary stuff like NoSQL and JSON type databases are just reincarnated from DEC way back when.
I used to have tons of respect for Nokia. Then one of their employees got VLC knocked off the Apple App Store for incredibly selfish reasons (certainly didn't help VLCs market share). Now becoming a patent bully in the footsteps of their OS provider. Not pretty.
The ORG have suggested an amendment to the bills words to explicitly exclude any "small business" from this law, which was really intended to be targeted at mass market newspaper owners only - ie: those with the financial resources to behave above the law against victims who couldn't afford to bite back. Link is http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/leveson. If folks sign, it sends an email to three key MPs which gives a specific sentence to add as an amendment to the bill as it goes through Parliament. Very nicely done.
It is of course perfectly coincidental that the lawyer firm involved is the same one who previously acted for Microsoft in a case against unlicensed X-Box accessories.
In my experience, the only people who complain to the EU are competitors trying to fiddle with Googles business model. I think people who sponsor that sort of activity should attract fines of their own.
Prior art city: hitting an alarm clock. If Americans are so intelligent, why have such an outrageously dumb patent system? It's meandering stories for profit rather than any reward for innovation these days...
Fwiw, I wouldn't characterize this as a 'Serious' issue. I found it apparent only with heavy network loads and retries tended to do their job on the later Linux kernels. Things improve by leaps and bounds as they do with open source software in general.
There is electrical interference between the board and the USB interface that results in the Ethernet connection dropping packets. The solution is to cut the +5V (red) wire or insulate the matching pin on a device connecting via USB to the board. In all other ways, things are fine if you're powering 5V at 850mA to 1A. So, just a small bug to fix on the next iteration of the board design.
Patent systems were originally put in place to stop inventors hoarding ideas that would help society at large. Open source is the ultimate share - there is inherently no hoarding taking place. So, if you manage to release something under a recognised open source license, should the work be immune from patent claims anyway?
Sometimes wonder what the world would be like if patent systems were all killed off completely anyway, but that's a longer story.
There are various flavours of Debian and Fedora that have Python and Scratch already there to use. Not forgetting XBMC and OpenELEC provided as a free standing, auto updated Debian distribution. This little beasty can drive full 1080p video already:-)
I recall Microsofts International VP, Scott Oki, tapping away on his Model 100 when he visited us at DEC in 1983. I had the privilege of taking Paul Maritz, now of VMware, into seeing my CEO in 2011, and while waiting for my CEO, got chatting about iPads. I mentioned Scott Oki, and he said he remembered Scott going everywhere with that Tandy TRS 80 Model 100.
Wasn't it actually made by Kyocera?
Given the price of ARM based boards (and some MIPS based ones) are below $25, run Linux really well and have 100+ factories churning them out in at least one area of China, I think Intel have over cooked their target price.
Clearly, the display will be a big cost, and integrating it as one system will add more cost, but it feels like Intel will be considerably more expensive at their published price points. I'll guess at 50% higher.
I seem to recall an Apple Store employee managing to connect using BacktoMac to her stolen Mac and remotely taking a picture. Only gotcha was the count down to the pic being taken appearing on the screen in front of the thief. She did recognise the guy as someone who came with friends to a party at her house, and duly got her machine back.
At the time, needed MobileMe to work...
My wife is a Lush customer, ordered online in the time period described and did have 2 £15 charges (total just north of $40) for prepay mobile phone credit debited from her account. She spotted that virtually immediately; however, her bank just wanted to snail mail post a claim form to her to get her money back, and O2 (the mobile phone company providing the goods from the fraudulent two transactions) said it was an industry agreed procedure to wait until the bank got in touch with them before they'd do anything. So, bottom line, the thieves have 5 days to use the credit they stole, when O2 could have invalided the transaction immediately and/or aimed some trace to the person using that mobile handset. About as much use as a cow on stilts.
We need a Bill Bratton methinks. Follow the money, get to the source.
I was at Cloudforce 2010 London when Marc Benioff said this. You can hear the comment yourself - videos of the presentations are on YouTube. It was a comment that he could see some of the interactions solving customer problems, and he could see some patterns at who were consistently the people who sorted customer problems out well and often. No sophisticated analytics. No big brother. Just a CEO who gained the ability to know what is really happening in his company and who's doing good work.
Kudos to him. He and his company seem to be doing a spectularly good job, and Chatter (a sorta Facebook UI for business use) will keep it ahead.
Ian W.
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Finished reading "Hit Refresh" by Satya Nadella. On the one hand, learnt that Hololens had difficulty getting funding for some time, with the dev team renaming it as "Project Baraboo" as a piece of gallows humour. It's a town in Wisconsin, home to a Clown and Circus Museum. OTOH, lack of lifetime learning opportunities, the pervasiveness of zero hours contracts, trade deals up in air and rent seeking serves only to undermine our future as a nation (i'm in the UK FWIW). Politicians of all stripes should read the last two chapters; probably the best articulation of building for the future since Eric Schmidts interview with the Queen of Jordan. Good read.
See: http://www.migrationobservator...
This happened to the old age father of a friend, who gave them a continuous authority on a debit card for "support". Downloaded and came in using TeamViewer, and messed with his PC. Traced the domain name back (set as a private individual, anonymised); got the registrar to de-anonymise their whois record due to being a commercial company. Traced the resulting contact details back to UK Companies House, where the guy was an Indian national who was one of two directors of 12 companies set up in a small business centre in Coventry, UK. Local Bank account received the funds. End result was that local trading standards got their bank account closed. Directors are on LinkedIn, and claim to have 600 telesales operatives in Kolkata, India.
The core problem is taxing on the fiction that are profits. The unsavory bit is Apple maintaining at least one corporate entity that has no country of domicile, and passing cost allocations around between operating subsidiaries to take their effective tax rate to punitive rates in countries where their revenue comes from. There are similar fictional cost allocations in car manufacturing and in FMCG markets (eg: Nestle borrowing money from another subsidiary at well above banking industry interest rates, or coffee outlets paying external entities for brand licensing). There's also strange patterns on how some online vendors allocate R&D costs almost in sync with their gross profits. The overall effective tax income from multinational companies has trended down relentlessly for 40 years in the West. The first core issue is how aggressively companies use fictional instruments and stooge third-rate economies to distort the tax paid away from the economies that provide their revenue. The solution is to impose tax rates based on local revenue, not fictional profits. If they do pay tax equitably, then the second core issue is how they repatriate income to the parent company's home geography. That's something for the US Govt alone.
When I joined DEC as a trainee programmer in 1976, MUMPS-11 was one of the OS choices on the PDP-11. One of the guys still Product Managing high end systems at HP UK was a MUMPs support guy in Software Services at the time. Last saw it in the flesh as VAX DSM (Digital Standard MUMPS) back in the late 1980's. A lot of the revolutionary stuff like NoSQL and JSON type databases are just reincarnated from DEC way back when.
Ironic that about the only place left to buy a Confederate Flag is the Black Market
Friday 16th August on the ZTE store on eBay (USA and UK).
Who had the "Live Free or Die - UNIX" license plate at Spit Brook first; you or Armando Stettner? And do you still have it??
I used to have tons of respect for Nokia. Then one of their employees got VLC knocked off the Apple App Store for incredibly selfish reasons (certainly didn't help VLCs market share). Now becoming a patent bully in the footsteps of their OS provider. Not pretty.
The ORG have suggested an amendment to the bills words to explicitly exclude any "small business" from this law, which was really intended to be targeted at mass market newspaper owners only - ie: those with the financial resources to behave above the law against victims who couldn't afford to bite back. Link is http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/leveson. If folks sign, it sends an email to three key MPs which gives a specific sentence to add as an amendment to the bill as it goes through Parliament. Very nicely done.
It is of course perfectly coincidental that the lawyer firm involved is the same one who previously acted for Microsoft in a case against unlicensed X-Box accessories.
Recommend Podio from Citrix....
In my experience, the only people who complain to the EU are competitors trying to fiddle with Googles business model. I think people who sponsor that sort of activity should attract fines of their own.
Prior art city: hitting an alarm clock. If Americans are so intelligent, why have such an outrageously dumb patent system? It's meandering stories for profit rather than any reward for innovation these days...
Fwiw, I wouldn't characterize this as a 'Serious' issue. I found it apparent only with heavy network loads and retries tended to do their job on the later Linux kernels. Things improve by leaps and bounds as they do with open source software in general.
There is electrical interference between the board and the USB interface that results in the Ethernet connection dropping packets. The solution is to cut the +5V (red) wire or insulate the matching pin on a device connecting via USB to the board. In all other ways, things are fine if you're powering 5V at 850mA to 1A. So, just a small bug to fix on the next iteration of the board design.
The lowest cost PBX ... http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/
Patent systems were originally put in place to stop inventors hoarding ideas that would help society at large. Open source is the ultimate share - there is inherently no hoarding taking place. So, if you manage to release something under a recognised open source license, should the work be immune from patent claims anyway? Sometimes wonder what the world would be like if patent systems were all killed off completely anyway, but that's a longer story.
There are various flavours of Debian and Fedora that have Python and Scratch already there to use. Not forgetting XBMC and OpenELEC provided as a free standing, auto updated Debian distribution. This little beasty can drive full 1080p video already :-)
I recall Microsofts International VP, Scott Oki, tapping away on his Model 100 when he visited us at DEC in 1983. I had the privilege of taking Paul Maritz, now of VMware, into seeing my CEO in 2011, and while waiting for my CEO, got chatting about iPads. I mentioned Scott Oki, and he said he remembered Scott going everywhere with that Tandy TRS 80 Model 100. Wasn't it actually made by Kyocera?
See: http://opensource.com/life/12/1/linux-hardware-race-tiniest-and-cheapest-15-cheap
Clearly, the display will be a big cost, and integrating it as one system will add more cost, but it feels like Intel will be considerably more expensive at their published price points. I'll guess at 50% higher.
Any ideas if all the work at Sugar Labs will work on this remix within the current memory size constraints of a Raspberry Pi?
I seem to recall an Apple Store employee managing to connect using BacktoMac to her stolen Mac and remotely taking a picture. Only gotcha was the count down to the pic being taken appearing on the screen in front of the thief. She did recognise the guy as someone who came with friends to a party at her house, and duly got her machine back. At the time, needed MobileMe to work...
My wife is a Lush customer, ordered online in the time period described and did have 2 £15 charges (total just north of $40) for prepay mobile phone credit debited from her account. She spotted that virtually immediately; however, her bank just wanted to snail mail post a claim form to her to get her money back, and O2 (the mobile phone company providing the goods from the fraudulent two transactions) said it was an industry agreed procedure to wait until the bank got in touch with them before they'd do anything. So, bottom line, the thieves have 5 days to use the credit they stole, when O2 could have invalided the transaction immediately and/or aimed some trace to the person using that mobile handset. About as much use as a cow on stilts. We need a Bill Bratton methinks. Follow the money, get to the source.
I was at Cloudforce 2010 London when Marc Benioff said this. You can hear the comment yourself - videos of the presentations are on YouTube. It was a comment that he could see some of the interactions solving customer problems, and he could see some patterns at who were consistently the people who sorted customer problems out well and often. No sophisticated analytics. No big brother. Just a CEO who gained the ability to know what is really happening in his company and who's doing good work. Kudos to him. He and his company seem to be doing a spectularly good job, and Chatter (a sorta Facebook UI for business use) will keep it ahead. Ian W.