So we have telecoms like Cisco and Nortel selling far too much equipment like routers and switches a few years ago to hundreds of companies that didn't survive the dot bomb. Now they can't move new equipment out into the market because the equipment has been sold off to clearing houses at ridiculously small fractions of their purchase price, then being sold again by these clearing houses to companies still standing for a considerable profit (but still far less expensive than new from Cisco or Nortel).
I'm sure the telcos would just LOVE to include a "cannot resell" clause to equipment purchases, but they can't (can you just imagine some of the other clauses they'd eventually have to put in, "this router cannot be used in the illegal transfer of data, as defined by the DCMA"). Why should MS (or any other software company for that matter) be able to restrict the sale and transfer of licenses, so long as the original owners have no copies remaining? They're no more deserving of assured profit via new product purchases than the telcos are.
No, because in addition to shortening the amount of type needed, "electronic mail" to "email" is a shortening from 5 syllables to 2, making it easier to say. "weblog" to wlog increases the number of syllables from 2 to 4.
(No, I don't "blog" nor do I understand what the big deal with them is.)
Perhaps this hacked FW spec is the reason their specs said that SB1394 was only 10x faster than USB. Normal theoretical performance would have Firewire over 30x faster than USB 1 (400 Mbps vs 12), never mind actual performance.
Definitely something I'd like to see on OSX, even though it doesn't affect me directly (I'm the only user on my box).
I wonder if part of the problem is related to the fact that apps are handled differently between Windows and Macs. Under Windows, if you want another instance of a program you just double-click the exe or select it again from the Start menu.
On the Mac, you have to duplicate the entire program file to launch a separate instance of the application. This isn't really a problem OSX since the program's specified memory doesn't have to be all allocated at launch, but it does raise the question of how multiple "higher level" Mac programs (as opposed to "lower level" unix programs like pine, bash, etc) would be handled under simultaneous GUI login sessions.
Personally, I think the US failed to adapt to its new role as sole remaining superpower. As such, we need to be, and be seen to be, as even-handed with the rest of the world as possible.
Is it any wonder that Microsoft's monopoly power hasn't been reined in yet?;-)
I used to work there, and there's a fairly good reason international prices are much higher.
Entrust is a company headquartered in the US but with the bulk of the workforce in the US. When applying for an SSL certificate, there's a very stringent set of rules set out by both US and Canadian governments that they have to follow in order to verify that the person requesting the certificate in fact represents the organization he/she claims to, and that the request for a certificate was authorized.
Verification requires three independent contacts within the requesting organization. These can be managers, sysadmins, billing, etc. All three need to be contacted.
Calling these contacts up can get expensive when you handle a lot of international orders. International information like addresses can also be difficult to verify halfway around the world, too, adding more costs. This is partly why Canadian prices scale up with the US exchange rate, but international ones are so much higher.
The OTHER reason it's a bit higher is that Entrust doesn't WANT to have to handle international verifications, preferring to pass that on to their affiliates located around the world. This way, customers place the order through the affiliated site (at a price that's supposed to be a fair bit lower than the international pricing Entrust itself offers), the affiliate handles the verification themselves. Since affiliates are located in the same geographic area as their customers, they're better qualified to judge whether the info is correct or not. Once the affiliate has verified the information Entrust issues the certificate.
So if you're not based in the US or Canada, check the list of affiliates to see if there's an affiliate in your country that offers lower "international" pricing. Don't mean to sound like a sales agent, but that's why affiliates are there.
Shortly after the massacres in the square (say half a year tops), western businesses were busy again drumming up business in China. They didn't give a damn what had happened, they saw a potential market of tens, if not hundreds, of millions. The governments under which these companies operated didn't care either, aside from issuing blank "we detest what the PRC has done!" statements, and didn't stop the companies from doing business with China (like, say, the US prevents companies from working with Cuba--a blatant double standard). China was admitted into the WTO last year.
So, it's not like I'm supportive of Chinese government policy (because I don't) or even this chip, but the western business/political world doesn't care about the socio-political problems in China, they only care about making money from it.
In fact, the Chinese have been so stagnant that they are still using ideograms as a system of writing.
I don't dispute the fact Chinese is hard to master--my own understanding of it is rather pathetic. It's not very adaptable to new terminology like in English--usually new terms are based on character combinations that describe it (i.e. computer = "electric brain") or combination of words that sound like a it (city names). This can require a lot of writing just to describe a single item.
But let's see YOU introduce a a system to replace one that's so hugely complex and used by over 1.3 billion people of the world who are more tradition-bound than most western cultures. You thought switching a company from Microsoft to Linux was hard?
Cuba nuking Canada!? Talk about bad examples... Canada's been a fairly consistent ally of Cuba against anti-Cuba American policies. They get a lot of tourism money from Canadians, too.
Indeed. Non-sticky "western" rice is pretty gross--I have to soak it in sauce just to make it palatable (and it's got a semi-hard feel to each of them, too).
However, I think sticky rice in this context means high moisture content in stored rice ("mai" in Cantonese), i.e. before it's cooked (after it's cooked it becomes "fahn"). Moist, unboiled rice could lead to rotting or other infestation.
Direct 3D is a "standard" only for Windows. Given a choice between a closed standard that works only on one OS versus a closed standard that works on several platforms, I'll take the latter.
The Federation doesn't run on Microsoft systems. Microsoft couldn't find a place in a society that stopped being money-driven in favour of devoting themselves to bettering humanity and the rest of the galaxy.
Microsoft attempted to get legislation introduced and mounted several legal challenges to prevent this, of course, but following the post-atomic horror in the mid-21st century, when the Shakesperian cry of "kill all the lawyers" was taken to heart, they couldn't do a whole lot to prevent it. They were last seen on a ship and headed towards the Delta Quadrant.
This reminds me of a recent Stargate SG-1 episode. The lead Jaffa proclaims to the captured team, "No matter what you have endured, you have never experienced the likes of what Anubis is capable of."
To which Colonel O'Neill, down on the ground and after being repeatedly hit with a pain stick, grunts out "You ended that sentence with a preposition! Bastard!"
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You know, I'm getting sick of reading these types of posts. Seems like every other article in the last week has had someone griping "THIS is material worthy of Slashdot?"
If you're not interested, then move along--these aren't the stories you're looking for.
I was in Leeds rez last year, and network speed was spectacular compared to the other residences. I once got a sustained speed of 1 MB/s (yes, megaBYTE/sec) while downloading off two FTP servers during a weeknight--got a 600+ MB file in less than 10 minutes. Rumour was that for whatever reason, CCS didn't or couldn't put a cap on the pipes coming from Leeds. Oddly enough, no one in Leeds complained.
Wondering... I remember seeing footage of Apollo rocket stage separations. Like rocketcam, these shots were aft-facing. Why didn't they think to install a camera that could record the launch itself?
New Macs still come with OS9 pre-installed, as long as Classic is still supported. If you have to wipe the drive, you'd use the Restore CD to put the original system back on. Once that's done, you can clean install OSX if you want.
So unless you delete your OS9 system folder from OSX and then decide you want it again, you won't have a problem.
Actually, you could probably just back up your old System Folder and manually copy it back to where it was before deleting it. Always loved how installing OS9 and below on a new drive simply meant dragging any old System Folder onto it.
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So we have telecoms like Cisco and Nortel selling far too much equipment like routers and switches a few years ago to hundreds of companies that didn't survive the dot bomb. Now they can't move new equipment out into the market because the equipment has been sold off to clearing houses at ridiculously small fractions of their purchase price, then being sold again by these clearing houses to companies still standing for a considerable profit (but still far less expensive than new from Cisco or Nortel).
I'm sure the telcos would just LOVE to include a "cannot resell" clause to equipment purchases, but they can't (can you just imagine some of the other clauses they'd eventually have to put in, "this router cannot be used in the illegal transfer of data, as defined by the DCMA"). Why should MS (or any other software company for that matter) be able to restrict the sale and transfer of licenses, so long as the original owners have no copies remaining? They're no more deserving of assured profit via new product purchases than the telcos are.
(No, I don't "blog" nor do I understand what the big deal with them is.)
A post about a redundant slashdot article being moderated as redundant... ah, the irony!
Beep beep beep beep!
Perhaps this hacked FW spec is the reason their specs said that SB1394 was only 10x faster than USB. Normal theoretical performance would have Firewire over 30x faster than USB 1 (400 Mbps vs 12), never mind actual performance.
Definitely something I'd like to see on OSX, even though it doesn't affect me directly (I'm the only user on my box).
I wonder if part of the problem is related to the fact that apps are handled differently between Windows and Macs. Under Windows, if you want another instance of a program you just double-click the exe or select it again from the Start menu.
On the Mac, you have to duplicate the entire program file to launch a separate instance of the application. This isn't really a problem OSX since the program's specified memory doesn't have to be all allocated at launch, but it does raise the question of how multiple "higher level" Mac programs (as opposed to "lower level" unix programs like pine, bash, etc) would be handled under simultaneous GUI login sessions.
Damn straight!
Get the machine to do the coding.
Personally, I think the US failed to adapt to its new role as sole remaining superpower. As such, we need to be, and be seen to be, as even-handed with the rest of the world as possible.
Is it any wonder that Microsoft's monopoly power hasn't been reined in yet? ;-)
That should actually read "bulk of the workforce in Canada", sorry 'bout that.
I used to work there, and there's a fairly good reason international prices are much higher.
Entrust is a company headquartered in the US but with the bulk of the workforce in the US. When applying for an SSL certificate, there's a very stringent set of rules set out by both US and Canadian governments that they have to follow in order to verify that the person requesting the certificate in fact represents the organization he/she claims to, and that the request for a certificate was authorized.
Verification requires three independent contacts within the requesting organization. These can be managers, sysadmins, billing, etc. All three need to be contacted.
Calling these contacts up can get expensive when you handle a lot of international orders. International information like addresses can also be difficult to verify halfway around the world, too, adding more costs. This is partly why Canadian prices scale up with the US exchange rate, but international ones are so much higher.
The OTHER reason it's a bit higher is that Entrust doesn't WANT to have to handle international verifications, preferring to pass that on to their affiliates located around the world. This way, customers place the order through the affiliated site (at a price that's supposed to be a fair bit lower than the international pricing Entrust itself offers), the affiliate handles the verification themselves. Since affiliates are located in the same geographic area as their customers, they're better qualified to judge whether the info is correct or not. Once the affiliate has verified the information Entrust issues the certificate.
So if you're not based in the US or Canada, check the list of affiliates to see if there's an affiliate in your country that offers lower "international" pricing. Don't mean to sound like a sales agent, but that's why affiliates are there.
You can buy mine on ebay. Some assembly required, no insurance provided against water damage to shipping boxes.
Shortly after the massacres in the square (say half a year tops), western businesses were busy again drumming up business in China. They didn't give a damn what had happened, they saw a potential market of tens, if not hundreds, of millions. The governments under which these companies operated didn't care either, aside from issuing blank "we detest what the PRC has done!" statements, and didn't stop the companies from doing business with China (like, say, the US prevents companies from working with Cuba--a blatant double standard). China was admitted into the WTO last year.
So, it's not like I'm supportive of Chinese government policy (because I don't) or even this chip, but the western business/political world doesn't care about the socio-political problems in China, they only care about making money from it.
I don't dispute the fact Chinese is hard to master--my own understanding of it is rather pathetic. It's not very adaptable to new terminology like in English--usually new terms are based on character combinations that describe it (i.e. computer = "electric brain") or combination of words that sound like a it (city names). This can require a lot of writing just to describe a single item.
But let's see YOU introduce a a system to replace one that's so hugely complex and used by over 1.3 billion people of the world who are more tradition-bound than most western cultures. You thought switching a company from Microsoft to Linux was hard?
Cuba nuking Canada!? Talk about bad examples... Canada's been a fairly consistent ally of Cuba against anti-Cuba American policies. They get a lot of tourism money from Canadians, too.
Indeed. Non-sticky "western" rice is pretty gross--I have to soak it in sauce just to make it palatable (and it's got a semi-hard feel to each of them, too).
However, I think sticky rice in this context means high moisture content in stored rice ("mai" in Cantonese), i.e. before it's cooked (after it's cooked it becomes "fahn"). Moist, unboiled rice could lead to rotting or other infestation.
Direct 3D is a "standard" only for Windows. Given a choice between a closed standard that works only on one OS versus a closed standard that works on several platforms, I'll take the latter.
Don't you guys know your galactic history?
The Federation doesn't run on Microsoft systems. Microsoft couldn't find a place in a society that stopped being money-driven in favour of devoting themselves to bettering humanity and the rest of the galaxy.
Microsoft attempted to get legislation introduced and mounted several legal challenges to prevent this, of course, but following the post-atomic horror in the mid-21st century, when the Shakesperian cry of "kill all the lawyers" was taken to heart, they couldn't do a whole lot to prevent it. They were last seen on a ship and headed towards the Delta Quadrant.
It's on Fridays in Canada wherever there's a Global Television channel, 8 pm.
This reminds me of a recent Stargate SG-1 episode. The lead Jaffa proclaims to the captured team, "No matter what you have endured, you have never experienced the likes of what Anubis is capable of."
To which Colonel O'Neill, down on the ground and after being repeatedly hit with a pain stick, grunts out "You ended that sentence with a preposition! Bastard!"
You know, I'm getting sick of reading these types of posts. Seems like every other article in the last week has had someone griping "THIS is material worthy of Slashdot?"
If you're not interested, then move along--these aren't the stories you're looking for.
Just make sure to make discrete but liberal use of the duct tape roll used to tape the hood shut.
For even better effect, remove duct tape from the hood altogether!
I was in Leeds rez last year, and network speed was spectacular compared to the other residences. I once got a sustained speed of 1 MB/s (yes, megaBYTE/sec) while downloading off two FTP servers during a weeknight--got a 600+ MB file in less than 10 minutes. Rumour was that for whatever reason, CCS didn't or couldn't put a cap on the pipes coming from Leeds. Oddly enough, no one in Leeds complained.
Wondering... I remember seeing footage of Apollo rocket stage separations. Like rocketcam, these shots were aft-facing. Why didn't they think to install a camera that could record the launch itself?
So unless you delete your OS9 system folder from OSX and then decide you want it again, you won't have a problem.
Actually, you could probably just back up your old System Folder and manually copy it back to where it was before deleting it. Always loved how installing OS9 and below on a new drive simply meant dragging any old System Folder onto it.