Then the press release would read, "Rock Star is proud to announce the opening of our Rock Star Mumbai Studio."
Rockstar plays on the racial and sexual stereotypes of inner city gangland culture.
Not surprisingly, this doesn't always go down well in the inner city itself - and if your development team is an Scotland and doesn't understand what will be considered out of bounds, you just might ignite a fuse that won't be easy to put out.
That is the main problem with closed source software; in the event of a security hole, you as a customer / company are left to the mercy / arrogance of your software vendor to patch the flaw. Until he does, you can do nothing but become increasingly concerned... 0day? Fixed tomorrow!
There are two ways to do it - be lighter than air, or equal your weight with thrust. You can easily make the case that simple physics will allow you to arrive at both solutions.
But you haven't arrived at your destination - you've only made a bare suggestion of two possible ways to get there.
You can't patent the dream of flight.
You can't patent the physical laws that make it possible.
You can patent the practical flying machine - the essential components that take flight out of the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
Remember Bob Young's famous quote that his goal for RedHat was not to grow to the size of Microsoft, rather for Microsoft to shrink to the size of RedHat.
Did Young suggest how long it would take for this to happen?
They can smugly tell me "see, software isn't free?" and feel much more comfortable signing cheques for $1500/year. ... sadly, explaining CentOS to them is like telling them that I sourced Oracle from TPB.
You may not always be there.
But the Red Hat support team is a phone call away.
Your boss doesn't like being wholly dependent on his resident geek.
The support contract and the bog standard enterprise distribution are his insurance policy. His recovery plan.
The high speed chase has the potential to get a lot of people killed.
Nothing can protect you from being in the wrong place at the wrong time - and being caught in the path of a high speed chase is about as wrong a place to be as it can get.
Dozier was accused of fleeing Newark police after officers attempted to pull him over. He led them on a pursuit to Elizabeth, where he ran a red light and smashed his Jeep into the unmarked squad car of Officer Christopher Coon. Coon was violently thrown from the vehicle. Police on the scene initially believed he was dead. He spent six weeks in a coma. It took a surgeon five hours to reconstruct his face with 500 stitches. The crash left Coon with brain trauma that impairs his speech, short-term memory and ability to control his right arm and leg.Man who seriously injured Union officer in car chase crash gets 9 years in prison
Red Hat gets the vast majority of its revenues from selling support contracts. In the third quarter of last year, support subscriptions accounted for $164 million of its $194 million in revenue, up 21 percent year-over-year.
What are the numbers for services from Microsoft and Oracle?
I've also worked in one company that used only MS software because they had a huge contract and preferred the one-vendor solution, even when some cases would call for a better solution from another source
It will more likely be the "one-vendor" solution with tons of third party support.
The corporate accounting program that integrates seamlessly with Excel. That sort of thing.
"Better" doesn't always have the same meaning to the office manager or department head that it does to the geek.
The geek doesn't have to recruit and train the clerical worker.
He remains relatively distant from the core issues of productivity in the office environment.
It's fair to say that the emergence of something like Sharepoint can still take him by surprise.
Newsgator has always had deep ties with Microsoft. it began as a news aggregator that embedded into Outlook. In recent years, Newsgator has transformed into a collaboration provide that is clearly focused on integrating with Sharepoint. Tomoye was founded in 2000. Its most significant installation is with the U.S. Army, where it has 150,000 users. Customers include the Federal Reserve Bank, The United States Air Force and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Puffin would have the pilot in a standing position during takeoff and landing.
I'm still not convinced this gives him the visibility and control he needs.
The tail sitters spend most of their time in tethered flight inside a hanger. This ultralight tail sitter looks like it could be batted about by a heavy breeze.
Methinks you protest too much. Even Doyle gave Poe credit for being the "father of the detective story", and Dupin the "first" detective.
Poe is important. But Doyle nailed it.
There is a rural library in an unincorporated hamlet about ten miles east which inherited a delightful collection of Holmesiana. It's something wholly unexpected and exploring it can be very pleasant way to spend a quiet afternoon.
However important Poe's contribution to the genre, Holmes and Watson are iconic.
That someone who downloaded an mp3 with a 99-cent retail value, causing a maximum possible damages of 35 cents
The essence of P2P is file sharing.
Meaning that uploads - unlicensed and unlimited redistribution - is always in the picture. Which is why statutory damages is always in the picture.
The defendant knows, of course, that he was never entitled to free copies of his mp3 downloads - and unless he - and his lawyer - are idiots - the last thing he wants to see entered into evidence is a full accounting of every infringing mp3 he possesses.
The downloader collects files like a cheap woolen suit collects lint.
Willful and reckless disregard of the law makes a very good case for the imposition of punitive or statutory damages.
The geek knows how the game is played.
The trial judge and jury know how the game is played. That is why the outrage when these cases come up on appeal is never quite convincing.
Infocom made a great series of text adventure games, so they logically moved into the database arena, which sank the company.
Infocom came late and grudgingly to even a token acceptance of the notion that PC gaming was moving towards a more theatrical - cinematic - experience.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.
There aren't many technologies that haven't made centralized government easier.
The abacus. The Roman road.
The canal. The steam engine. The railroad. The telegraph.
The examples can be multiplied endlessly.
The geek builds these things. The state funds these things - directly or indirectly.
In the past, through land grants. Mail contracts.
Someone always finds a way to work around the liberal or conservative opposition to tech the government wants to see developed.
While the geek never quite wakes up to the fact that there is going to be another hand at the controls.
I'm sure the 'content providers' will continue to sell content to the BBC, ITV, etc.
The BBC has co-production and distribution agreements with private and public corporate partners all over the world.
The BBC's resources are not unlimited. It has only so much money to buy product, only so much money to produce product.
The BBC brand name is worth only so much. The BBC has to offer its partners protection in the UK market.
Then the press release would read, "Rock Star is proud to announce the opening of our Rock Star Mumbai Studio."
Rockstar plays on the racial and sexual stereotypes of inner city gangland culture.
Not surprisingly, this doesn't always go down well in the inner city itself - and if your development team is an Scotland and doesn't understand what will be considered out of bounds, you just might ignite a fuse that won't be easy to put out.
I DO have a way to answer the power of the boss: I find another job.
I take it your health insurance is portable. Your retirement plan. No problem relocating in this market?
Will a new job be as easy to find five years - ten years - down the road?. None of us remain twenty-something, thirty-something, forever, after all.
That is the main problem with closed source software; in the event of a security hole, you as a customer / company are left to the mercy / arrogance of your software vendor to patch the flaw. Until he does, you can do nothing but become increasingly concerned...
0day? Fixed tomorrow!
You can patch only what you know how to patch.
In 2008 there were between 6 and 10 million lines of code in the Linux kernel alone. Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code
In 2003 OpenOffice.org had 9 million lines of code. Build FAQ for OpenOffice.org
You can only test your patch only on systems you can access.
That your home-brewed solution is seriously flawed may only be discovered by your neighbors.
The next time they load a JPEG from your site.
As soon as a security hole is discovered, virtually anyone can contribute to a timely resolution.
Most likely by staying out of the way.
There is the final problem of how to roll out a patch. The naive end-user who auto-patches was spared Cornflicker.
Secunia integrated with Microsoft WSUS
There are two ways to do it - be lighter than air, or equal your weight with thrust.
You can easily make the case that simple physics will allow you to arrive at both solutions.
But you haven't arrived at your destination - you've only made a bare suggestion of two possible ways to get there.
You can't patent the dream of flight.
You can't patent the physical laws that make it possible.
You can patent the practical flying machine - the essential components that take flight out of the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
When an idea is so critical to something it cannot be worked around, it is far too obvious to be deserving of a patent.
That's nonsense.
If there is no work-around you have pretty much proven that the solution to the problem is not obvious and that the patent is legitimate.
Did Young suggest how long it would take for this to happen?
They can smugly tell me "see, software isn't free?" and feel much more comfortable signing cheques for $1500/year.
... sadly, explaining CentOS to them is like telling them that I sourced Oracle from TPB.
You may not always be there.
But the Red Hat support team is a phone call away.
Your boss doesn't like being wholly dependent on his resident geek.
The support contract and the bog standard enterprise distribution are his insurance policy. His recovery plan.
I wonder if they'll test it on Pacemakers.
The high speed chase has the potential to get a lot of people killed.
Nothing can protect you from being in the wrong place at the wrong time - and being caught in the path of a high speed chase is about as wrong a place to be as it can get.
Dozier was accused of fleeing Newark police after officers attempted to pull him over. He led them on a pursuit to Elizabeth, where he ran a red light and smashed his Jeep into the unmarked squad car of Officer Christopher Coon.
Coon was violently thrown from the vehicle. Police on the scene initially believed he was dead.
He spent six weeks in a coma. It took a surgeon five hours to reconstruct his face with 500 stitches. The crash left Coon with brain trauma that impairs his speech, short-term memory and ability to control his right arm and leg. Man who seriously injured Union officer in car chase crash gets 9 years in prison
Red Hat gets the vast majority of its revenues from selling support contracts. In the third quarter of last year, support subscriptions accounted for $164 million of its $194 million in revenue, up 21 percent year-over-year.
What are the numbers for services from Microsoft and Oracle?
Copyright infringement is not stealing
The geek trots out this argument at every opportunity.
The problem is that copyright infringement was denounced as piracy and theft while the Black Flag still flew over the Carribean.
The geek lost the battle over words 250 years ago.
It would be illegal for most of us to distribute a copy.
It would be perfectly legal if Firefox paid for the license.
Firefox isn't living on Poverty Ridge. It receives massive infusions of cash each year from Google alone.
if web video formats follow the precedents of home video, porn will be the deciding factor
Replace "porn" with "Disney" and you would be much closer to the truth.
The Disney customer doesn't just view or rent - he buys. For his kids and for himself as a collector.
I have converted two of my family-members desktops over to Ubuntu within the last month, not including my own.
It would be fun now and then to hear a Linux conversion story that ended in total disaster.
The geek drop-kicked into Lake Michigan by his Dad.
Written out of Grandma's will.
Rumors of this occuring are not exactly new.
But hard to nail down.
I've also worked in one company that used only MS software because they had a huge contract and preferred the one-vendor solution, even when some cases would call for a better solution from another source
It will more likely be the "one-vendor" solution with tons of third party support.
The corporate accounting program that integrates seamlessly with Excel. That sort of thing.
"Better" doesn't always have the same meaning to the office manager or department head that it does to the geek.
The geek doesn't have to recruit and train the clerical worker.
He remains relatively distant from the core issues of productivity in the office environment.
It's fair to say that the emergence of something like Sharepoint can still take him by surprise.
Newsgator has always had deep ties with Microsoft. it began as a news aggregator that embedded into Outlook. In recent years, Newsgator has transformed into a collaboration provide that is clearly focused on integrating with Sharepoint. Tomoye was founded in 2000. Its most significant installation is with the U.S. Army, where it has 150,000 users. Customers include the Federal Reserve Bank, The United States Air Force and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Newsgator Acquires Tomoye - Deepening Sharepoint Ties [Jan 20]
A dupe from Dick Tracy, that is.
This "wearable computer" crap comes along every 5 years. It's still the epitome of lame, even by slashdot standards.
I think that depends on how you define its purpose:
SMS Your ECG To ER: Portable Heart Monitor Sends Emergency Alerts And ECG As Text Message
It isn't difficult to imagine remote medical monitoring and assitive tech becoming the norm for the patient at risk, the chronically ill and elderly.
There is something to be said for the gadget that doesn't need a pocket or purse, that fades into invisibility.
In response to a similar story, a poster remarked that a wrist watch is one of the few pieces of jewelry a man can wear without embarrassment.
The Puffin would have the pilot in a standing position during takeoff and landing.
I'm still not convinced this gives him the visibility and control he needs.
The tail sitters spend most of their time in tethered flight inside a hanger. This ultralight tail sitter looks like it could be batted about by a heavy breeze.
I'm pretty positive that Steve hates Microsoft, what it stands for, and the way it does its business. Pretty much like many Linux folks do
Apple and Microsoft have had a mutually profitable - symbiotic - relationship for thirty years.
Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle.
Microsoft solid middle class value.
Both have a very clear notion of how to profitably leverage the other's platform. Windows gets iTunes. The Mac gets MS Office.
Hate makes good theater - but rarely good business - and the geek needs to remember when he is watching a show.
Methinks you protest too much. Even Doyle gave Poe credit for being the "father of the detective story", and Dupin the "first" detective.
Poe is important. But Doyle nailed it.
There is a rural library in an unincorporated hamlet about ten miles east which inherited a delightful collection of Holmesiana. It's something wholly unexpected and exploring it can be very pleasant way to spend a quiet afternoon.
However important Poe's contribution to the genre, Holmes and Watson are iconic.
Tail sitters like the Convair Pogo were a beast to land.
The transition from horizontal to vertical flight has always come with substantial penalties - weight, complexity, power, control and cost.
There's some truth still to old adage that what "looks right, flies right." To my eyes this thing looks all wrong.
That someone who downloaded an mp3 with a 99-cent retail value, causing a maximum possible damages of 35 cents
The essence of P2P is file sharing.
Meaning that uploads - unlicensed and unlimited redistribution - is always in the picture. Which is why statutory damages is always in the picture.
The defendant knows, of course, that he was never entitled to free copies of his mp3 downloads - and unless he - and his lawyer - are idiots - the last thing he wants to see entered into evidence is a full accounting of every infringing mp3 he possesses.
The downloader collects files like a cheap woolen suit collects lint.
Willful and reckless disregard of the law makes a very good case for the imposition of punitive or statutory damages.
The geek knows how the game is played.
The trial judge and jury know how the game is played. That is why the outrage when these cases come up on appeal is never quite convincing.
Infocom made a great series of text adventure games, so they logically moved into the database arena, which sank the company.
Infocom came late and grudgingly to even a token acceptance of the notion that PC gaming was moving towards a more theatrical - cinematic - experience.
The difference here is that anybody can audit or fix the Linux code, and many people and organisations have and do.
Which - taken literally - implies that Linux could fragment into a thousand or ten thousand unique "distributions."
Each with their own hodgepodge of patches.