I believe stepping forward and making a rare political statement against the Obama plan.
"Obama's proposal stunned U.S. space heroes Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan -- the first and last men to walk on the moon -- who, along with Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, made a rare public statement denouncing the plan as a "devastating" scheme that "destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature."
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Murdoch does have a couple of unique products like the Wall Street Journal. If you look at comparable sites like The Economist or FT, you'll notice that they too charge. Sure, The Economist gives a 14 day pass and the FT allow you to read 10 articles per 30 days for free, but if you want to access their content beyond that, it costs $$$ just like it the Wall Street Journal. This is a market that doesn't expect free information and the competition isn't nor has ever been trying to give away their information for free.
And I'll tell you why: unlike most of this crap from the AP newswire, the stories you find in those publication are ones you usually won't find anywhere else. They provide good information, and good information in the world of business is worth $$$. I can't think of another publication that does a better job of giving a decent overview of what is going on in the world than The Economist. You routinely find stories about what is happening in parts of Asia and Africa that you won't find from other sources, especially MSM in the US.
So when his properties like the WSJ wants to charge, they are actually keeping up with the Joneses as neither the Economist nor the FT give full access for free and never have.
No, it is more likely digital download either through NetFlix, iTMS, On Demand, and cheaper rental services like Red Box. Sometimes I like renting the DVD's to listen to the commentary. But anymore, there are 2 redbox sites within 2 miles of my house. The only movie rental shop is block buster and it's about 5 miles away. So long as what I want is a new release, Red Box is easier. But now with HD cable and on demand, I can order almost any movie I want for about the same price as the video store without the hassle of returning anything. You don't get the commentary tracks and you only get 24 hours to watch the movie, but honestly, most films I'd watch one and then maybe listen to the commentary on my computer while doing something else.
I remember reading at one time that the number of pirated copies vs. legit sold copies was as high as 3 to 1 based on the people trying to connect and play the game online. The end result: none of the other halo titles were released on Mac and one of the reasons cited was because the original was so heavily pirated. Now there may have been other reasons why it was never ported, but that was the cited reason.
We own a farm that is a 4 hour drive from a major city. At the farm house, they didn't get phone service until the early 1950's and they had a party line until 1990. Electricity came in the 40's, but water is provide by a well and sanitation by a septic tank. Gas has been and is still provided by a propane tank and is filled by trunk once a year (we don't spend much time there after my grand mother died, but still keep the place up as a place to go when we want to get away from the city for a few days or need to do farm business).
Telecom services eventually do make it out to the rural areas, but it takes time. And by time I'm talking years and sometimes decades. Even cell reception with Verizon can be spotty in places because there is something like 0.4 people per square mile. Rural in Japan is not the same thing as Rural in Kansas or Nebraska or Montana.
We use SuSE studio to build distros that work with particular hardware with our software and dependency's already installed, configured, and ready to go for our client. Usually these are configured as LiveDVD's so the end user can load from the DVD rom, test make sure everything works before double clicking the the "Install now" icon and install on their machines.
Want to know the really interested part: we've yet to sell a single Linux install distro. Not one. We've given a few out for demos. But all our clients want to run the software on Windows. (Software is Java with PostgreSQL as the database. Runs pretty much anywhere those two apps will).
Second, I see six very big companies who suddenly have a reason to work together. The $600M NTP got from RIM is a penitence compared to what these people can afford on legal.
We'll be working on a build of our opensource POS designed for hospitality starting in October and ready for release early next year. We've gone through the PA-DSS audit process and frankly, with todays payment systems, if your POS system is storing any card holder data, you're doing it wrong. We off load that data to the CC processor and only store either a transaction ID that can referenced later or a token of that card, not the card data itself.
but nothing beats my 10xROT13 cipher! It's encrypted 10 times!. 10 times I tell ya! Try and beat that Citizen Protector....or whatever the NSA is calling it these days...
Apple became the white knights of Opensource by adopting a BSD-based userland (It wasn't Linux but it gave the Linux fans the ability to say "See, Apple is doing it we can too"). Then Apple embraced and extended CUPS. But it's been how many years and they've not extinguished it. CUPS is used by every Linux distro I've tried and Apple has done nothing to stop them. Same with all their other technologies, they embraced the open standards and contributed a lot to different projects, but still held parts to be propitary. They were "open" but not "open enough" for some people. But largely the early appeal of OSX was to the geek crowd. Every LAMP developer I knew at the time left Linux for OSX as their desktop (usually laptop) of choice. I was one of them after spending 2 years trying to get printers and my sound card to work with Linux I got tired and just wanted something that worked. So I bought an iBook and never looked back.
Then things changed when Apple forked KHTML. For some reason, that was seen as suspicious by the/. crowd. I'm not sure why. Eventually Apple created Webkit and offered it back to the community with the KHTML folks eventually adopting it (iirc). But that's when the negativity began and then continued with the iPods.
But then, there was iTunes and the iTMS. Apple was against DRM, but added just enough DRM to get labels to sign up. And the DRM they added never once got in my way. If I wanted to burn to CD to listen in my car, I could. I could copy to a number of computers and iPods and listen to what I had purchased and the biggest factor was I could buy the couple tracks I wanted from a CD and not the entire album for $.99. It didn't mesh with some peoples idea of "freedom", but to the masses it became having cake and eating it too. Apple was the first company that was able to put it all together in a package the average person could use.
And because Apple was for the masses now and no longer aimed for the "geeks", the/. crowd began hating Apple as Apple found more and more success with more people. It was OSX that was becoming the *iux of the masses, not Linux. This continued with the iPhone. Although at first it was more of a shrug, then came the iPhone 2 with the App Store and it was full on rabid hatred. Mainly I think because, again, Apple developed a product that went over extremely well for the masses, but ignored what the "geeks" might want.
And so the Geeks went to Google. What was not to love about google, lots of geeks, lots of geeky tools made by geeks for geeks. And so, Google is now the company that replaced Apple about 2007 as the great "white knight". It will last another 3 - 5 years, and then Google will become the new "Evil company that must die" replaced by someone else. Who knows, maybe by that time the new white knight will be Microsoft. Stranger things have happened.
I remember the days of playing Xwing Vs. Tie Fighter on 56k and it worked pretty darn well over 56k. However, as broadband started to take off, it actually made performance worse for some reason. Granted that was back circa 2000.
So, if I have a website where people can register, but I am a US company with all my servers in the US and no operations outside the US, just because someone from Germany navigates to my site and registers, my site is now subject to German laws?
By that logic, I'm sure there are people registered from China here at Slashdot. Does that mean that Slashdot has to obey Chinese laws on censorship?
You'd be right up until the MySQL vs MSSQL. Really, they are in different categories. I know oracle is going to try and position MySQL against MSSQL, but there is a real market there of users that need more than what MySQL can provide in an enterprise class database and spending big money on DB2 or Oracle. MSSQL supports that market extremely well. And if your to the point of needed to spend money on the product, the cost of MySQL isn't any cheaper than MSSQL.
The Problem Microsoft has is getting its foot in the door. PostgreSQL or MySQL are free to get started with. Not only that, but they are free to scale out to a point. Which is important starting out. One of the reasons we support Java is because it's everywhere on all platforms we wanted to target and the IDE's are free. Couple that with BSD and PostgreSQL and we've had a solution that so far has been able to scale out to meet our needs. Honestly, in the original technology plan, we were going to be looking at DB2. But with the Warm standby features that will meet our HA needs coming in PostgreSQL 9, it may be several more years before we're looking at sinking a bunch of money into a DB/400 like system.
It's apple. You never buy the first generation of new or redesigned products. I like the new Mac Mini's. But I'll wait for the next update to replace mine. Same with the iPhone 4. My contract is up in December. I'll wait until then to update because they'll have these issues resolved.
Funny, our customers say the same thing! When they call for technical support they get someone speaking english with a horrible midwestern american accent!
(We have more clients in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada then we do in the States currently. So even though they are dialing a local in country number, it's being VOIPed to our office in St. Louis, Missouri!)
Um, you can run an SSH client just fine. There are several in the app store. I have a free one that does the job just fine. And I have used it to remote in and fix servers before. While I say it is not ideal because of the form factor, it is indeed better than nothing. What you can't do is run an SSH server on your phone without jailbreaking. Which, personally, my reaction is "why do you need to SSH into your phone?" Really.
The OSS zealots like to rant and rail against DRM. Consumers don't care so long as it is unobtrusive and doesn't get in their way. That's why iTunes worked initially. I could listen on up to 5 computer/devices and even burn to CD to listen in my car at the time. I, and most people, understand the controllers desire to protect their content, but we ask it not be done in a draconian way. Same with Steam, DRM is acceptable so long as it stays out of our way. As soon as it becomes like what UBI has done requiring the always on connection, no thank you.
With that being said, gaming for me has been dead for a while. Last games I bought for PC were in 2005 and console around 2007 (PS2). Mostly because no body makes the games I want to play any more. I loved the old red storm Rainbow 6 and the first Ghost Recon games. Last game I bought was Falcon 4: Allied Force. No one has made a decent realistic modern combat flight sim since. And the $60 price point for games with the latest console....I much rather go to a ball game for $60.
This is why you only use pre-paid gift cards that you can buy anywhere. Usually once a month I'll get a $15 or $25 refill while at the checkout line at walmart or the grocery store and fill up my iTunes account.
My best friend in college came from a family of bankers. They own 2 banks. The bigger of the two is still family run, but he owns more of the smaller bank, which is more of a rural community bank. Well apparently, both banks were called by the local fed branch and told to take Tarp money. The bigger bank did. The smaller bank said, "No thank you, we didn't make bad loans." Well the smaller bank has been dragged through the mud with 5 separate investigations in the last 18 months by the government. They'll hold local press conferences saying, "This bank is under investigation for violation of the Equal housing laws, or this or that". Each time, the investigations have come up empty or they've been cleared of wrong doing. But is there any press conferences about that from the feds? Nope. They didn't do anything wrong other than refuse to take the government's money and ran their bank wisely.
Apparently, if you didn't need Tarp money, the government look at your bank as though you MUST have been doing something "wrong".
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BES is the reason I hear most enterprising loving their blackberries because they can push out apps do remote wipes, etc..
I believe stepping forward and making a rare political statement against the Obama plan.
"Obama's proposal stunned U.S. space heroes Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan -- the first and last men to walk on the moon -- who, along with Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, made a rare public statement denouncing the plan as a "devastating" scheme that "destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature."
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/NASA_s-new-mission_-Building-ties-to-Muslim-world-97817909.html#ixzz0tVAIqgwT"
Murdoch does have a couple of unique products like the Wall Street Journal. If you look at comparable sites like The Economist or FT, you'll notice that they too charge. Sure, The Economist gives a 14 day pass and the FT allow you to read 10 articles per 30 days for free, but if you want to access their content beyond that, it costs $$$ just like it the Wall Street Journal. This is a market that doesn't expect free information and the competition isn't nor has ever been trying to give away their information for free.
And I'll tell you why: unlike most of this crap from the AP newswire, the stories you find in those publication are ones you usually won't find anywhere else. They provide good information, and good information in the world of business is worth $$$. I can't think of another publication that does a better job of giving a decent overview of what is going on in the world than The Economist. You routinely find stories about what is happening in parts of Asia and Africa that you won't find from other sources, especially MSM in the US.
So when his properties like the WSJ wants to charge, they are actually keeping up with the Joneses as neither the Economist nor the FT give full access for free and never have.
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=9021
No, it is more likely digital download either through NetFlix, iTMS, On Demand, and cheaper rental services like Red Box. Sometimes I like renting the DVD's to listen to the commentary. But anymore, there are 2 redbox sites within 2 miles of my house. The only movie rental shop is block buster and it's about 5 miles away. So long as what I want is a new release, Red Box is easier. But now with HD cable and on demand, I can order almost any movie I want for about the same price as the video store without the hassle of returning anything. You don't get the commentary tracks and you only get 24 hours to watch the movie, but honestly, most films I'd watch one and then maybe listen to the commentary on my computer while doing something else.
I remember reading at one time that the number of pirated copies vs. legit sold copies was as high as 3 to 1 based on the people trying to connect and play the game online. The end result: none of the other halo titles were released on Mac and one of the reasons cited was because the original was so heavily pirated. Now there may have been other reasons why it was never ported, but that was the cited reason.
We own a farm that is a 4 hour drive from a major city. At the farm house, they didn't get phone service until the early 1950's and they had a party line until 1990. Electricity came in the 40's, but water is provide by a well and sanitation by a septic tank. Gas has been and is still provided by a propane tank and is filled by trunk once a year (we don't spend much time there after my grand mother died, but still keep the place up as a place to go when we want to get away from the city for a few days or need to do farm business).
Telecom services eventually do make it out to the rural areas, but it takes time. And by time I'm talking years and sometimes decades. Even cell reception with Verizon can be spotty in places because there is something like 0.4 people per square mile. Rural in Japan is not the same thing as Rural in Kansas or Nebraska or Montana.
We use SuSE studio to build distros that work with particular hardware with our software and dependency's already installed, configured, and ready to go for our client. Usually these are configured as LiveDVD's so the end user can load from the DVD rom, test make sure everything works before double clicking the the "Install now" icon and install on their machines.
Want to know the really interested part: we've yet to sell a single Linux install distro. Not one. We've given a few out for demos. But all our clients want to run the software on Windows. (Software is Java with PostgreSQL as the database. Runs pretty much anywhere those two apps will).
First, it seems they forgot to sue Nokia.
Second, I see six very big companies who suddenly have a reason to work together. The $600M NTP got from RIM is a penitence compared to what these people can afford on legal.
Soylent House! It's made of people!
Except in this case, they did it wrong. They've already gone after Sun/Oracle and Sun not only fought back, but won round 1.
We'll be working on a build of our opensource POS designed for hospitality starting in October and ready for release early next year. We've gone through the PA-DSS audit process and frankly, with todays payment systems, if your POS system is storing any card holder data, you're doing it wrong. We off load that data to the CC processor and only store either a transaction ID that can referenced later or a token of that card, not the card data itself.
but nothing beats my 10xROT13 cipher! It's encrypted 10 times!. 10 times I tell ya! Try and beat that Citizen Protector....or whatever the NSA is calling it these days...
Apple became the white knights of Opensource by adopting a BSD-based userland (It wasn't Linux but it gave the Linux fans the ability to say "See, Apple is doing it we can too"). Then Apple embraced and extended CUPS. But it's been how many years and they've not extinguished it. CUPS is used by every Linux distro I've tried and Apple has done nothing to stop them. Same with all their other technologies, they embraced the open standards and contributed a lot to different projects, but still held parts to be propitary. They were "open" but not "open enough" for some people. But largely the early appeal of OSX was to the geek crowd. Every LAMP developer I knew at the time left Linux for OSX as their desktop (usually laptop) of choice. I was one of them after spending 2 years trying to get printers and my sound card to work with Linux I got tired and just wanted something that worked. So I bought an iBook and never looked back.
Then things changed when Apple forked KHTML. For some reason, that was seen as suspicious by the /. crowd. I'm not sure why. Eventually Apple created Webkit and offered it back to the community with the KHTML folks eventually adopting it (iirc). But that's when the negativity began and then continued with the iPods.
But then, there was iTunes and the iTMS. Apple was against DRM, but added just enough DRM to get labels to sign up. And the DRM they added never once got in my way. If I wanted to burn to CD to listen in my car, I could. I could copy to a number of computers and iPods and listen to what I had purchased and the biggest factor was I could buy the couple tracks I wanted from a CD and not the entire album for $.99. It didn't mesh with some peoples idea of "freedom", but to the masses it became having cake and eating it too. Apple was the first company that was able to put it all together in a package the average person could use.
And because Apple was for the masses now and no longer aimed for the "geeks", the /. crowd began hating Apple as Apple found more and more success with more people. It was OSX that was becoming the *iux of the masses, not Linux. This continued with the iPhone. Although at first it was more of a shrug, then came the iPhone 2 with the App Store and it was full on rabid hatred. Mainly I think because, again, Apple developed a product that went over extremely well for the masses, but ignored what the "geeks" might want.
And so the Geeks went to Google. What was not to love about google, lots of geeks, lots of geeky tools made by geeks for geeks. And so, Google is now the company that replaced Apple about 2007 as the great "white knight". It will last another 3 - 5 years, and then Google will become the new "Evil company that must die" replaced by someone else. Who knows, maybe by that time the new white knight will be Microsoft. Stranger things have happened.
I remember the days of playing Xwing Vs. Tie Fighter on 56k and it worked pretty darn well over 56k. However, as broadband started to take off, it actually made performance worse for some reason. Granted that was back circa 2000.
So, if I have a website where people can register, but I am a US company with all my servers in the US and no operations outside the US, just because someone from Germany navigates to my site and registers, my site is now subject to German laws?
By that logic, I'm sure there are people registered from China here at Slashdot. Does that mean that Slashdot has to obey Chinese laws on censorship?
I mean isn't that basically what he's describing here?
Blimps are cheaper to operate then helicopters or fixed wing airplanes. At least manned ones. Not sure if they are cheaper than drones.
You'd be right up until the MySQL vs MSSQL. Really, they are in different categories. I know oracle is going to try and position MySQL against MSSQL, but there is a real market there of users that need more than what MySQL can provide in an enterprise class database and spending big money on DB2 or Oracle. MSSQL supports that market extremely well. And if your to the point of needed to spend money on the product, the cost of MySQL isn't any cheaper than MSSQL.
The Problem Microsoft has is getting its foot in the door. PostgreSQL or MySQL are free to get started with. Not only that, but they are free to scale out to a point. Which is important starting out. One of the reasons we support Java is because it's everywhere on all platforms we wanted to target and the IDE's are free. Couple that with BSD and PostgreSQL and we've had a solution that so far has been able to scale out to meet our needs. Honestly, in the original technology plan, we were going to be looking at DB2. But with the Warm standby features that will meet our HA needs coming in PostgreSQL 9, it may be several more years before we're looking at sinking a bunch of money into a DB/400 like system.
It's apple. You never buy the first generation of new or redesigned products. I like the new Mac Mini's. But I'll wait for the next update to replace mine. Same with the iPhone 4. My contract is up in December. I'll wait until then to update because they'll have these issues resolved.
Funny, our customers say the same thing! When they call for technical support they get someone speaking english with a horrible midwestern american accent!
(We have more clients in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada then we do in the States currently. So even though they are dialing a local in country number, it's being VOIPed to our office in St. Louis, Missouri!)
Um, you can run an SSH client just fine. There are several in the app store. I have a free one that does the job just fine. And I have used it to remote in and fix servers before. While I say it is not ideal because of the form factor, it is indeed better than nothing. What you can't do is run an SSH server on your phone without jailbreaking. Which, personally, my reaction is "why do you need to SSH into your phone?" Really.
The OSS zealots like to rant and rail against DRM. Consumers don't care so long as it is unobtrusive and doesn't get in their way. That's why iTunes worked initially. I could listen on up to 5 computer/devices and even burn to CD to listen in my car at the time. I, and most people, understand the controllers desire to protect their content, but we ask it not be done in a draconian way. Same with Steam, DRM is acceptable so long as it stays out of our way. As soon as it becomes like what UBI has done requiring the always on connection, no thank you.
With that being said, gaming for me has been dead for a while. Last games I bought for PC were in 2005 and console around 2007 (PS2). Mostly because no body makes the games I want to play any more. I loved the old red storm Rainbow 6 and the first Ghost Recon games. Last game I bought was Falcon 4: Allied Force. No one has made a decent realistic modern combat flight sim since. And the $60 price point for games with the latest console....I much rather go to a ball game for $60.
This is why you only use pre-paid gift cards that you can buy anywhere. Usually once a month I'll get a $15 or $25 refill while at the checkout line at walmart or the grocery store and fill up my iTunes account.
My best friend in college came from a family of bankers. They own 2 banks. The bigger of the two is still family run, but he owns more of the smaller bank, which is more of a rural community bank. Well apparently, both banks were called by the local fed branch and told to take Tarp money. The bigger bank did. The smaller bank said, "No thank you, we didn't make bad loans." Well the smaller bank has been dragged through the mud with 5 separate investigations in the last 18 months by the government. They'll hold local press conferences saying, "This bank is under investigation for violation of the Equal housing laws, or this or that". Each time, the investigations have come up empty or they've been cleared of wrong doing. But is there any press conferences about that from the feds? Nope. They didn't do anything wrong other than refuse to take the government's money and ran their bank wisely.
Apparently, if you didn't need Tarp money, the government look at your bank as though you MUST have been doing something "wrong".