My company is incorporated abroad, our servers are abroad, and I'm not a US citizen. Thus, the only limitation we've had was for someone physically sitting in the US and writing the code, which we avoided by shipping me abroad.
I just returned from a seven weeks stint in Europe as a software engineer. My company sent me there because according to my boss there are limits on software exports from the US - they found it cheaper and more time efficient to do all the affected coding in Europe, and thus avoid these limitations.
Same of your clients may have found that IE7 broke some of their other systems. For example, in the company I work for upgrading to IE7 has messed up MS Access connectivity to our database server. Granted, we could fix it, but at this point going back to IE6 is cheaper and requires much fewer man-hours.
I run Secunia's PSI, and I noticed a few flaws, which pretty much catch anybody. For example, it lists seven instances of Sun Java JRE on my computer, three instances of Adobe Flash and two instances of Adobe Reader. On top of it, it lists several instances of Macromedia Flash as "End of life" software. Obviously, all of those listed have been upgraded to recent versions, but the older versions either weren't properly removed by the upgrade, or Secunia never updated its database on my computer. Be it as it is, if you run a Windows PC and have Flash or Java installed, your computer will fall under the 95% of insecure computers regardless whether you update or not.
The computer speed varied based on what operation has been done. According to the Columbia 650 page, the machine could do addition and subtraction in 0.4 Msec, which translates into 2.5kHz. Division was the slowest operation, at 25 Msec, which is 40Hz.
So, a NJ transplant in ATL? Business or family as a reason for the move?
Business - worked at technology commercialization at GA Tech until I found this neat GPS tracking company I signed up with to develop a CRM system for them. Atlanta is actually the first large city I lived in (in NJ I lived in the north-western corner, far from any metro area), and even though you may consider it "home-towny" I find it way too big and busy; enough so to keep my car doors locked when I drive and have Mace in the glove box. The toll is still at 400, but only at a very short section from Lennox to Perimeter; everything else is free. The road north of Perimeter has been widened to make 400 look even more like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the state legislature has been successful at shooting down all proposals for rail transit south and north of the city, and they still can't agree where to build the second airport as more and more people defect to use Chattanooga and Birmingham airports. All those joys of a rapidly growing metro area...
You indeed made me glad for living in Atlanta. However, as a New Jersey transplant I feel the same way you do about Houston. I do believe, though, that the quality of drivers has declined here somewhat. A few years ago people still remembered to turn on their headlights when driving in heavy rain, and they actually slowed down a little. Not anymore. Using the turn signal to change lanes is even more frustrating than before, as other drivers react to it by trying to block you in.
What makes driving here much more frustrating than anywhere else in the US as far as I can tell is that Georgia is by far the worst marked state in the US. This goes for any kind of signs: from traffic signs to hiking trail blazes. As a result, many people may be good drivers, but with the signage as it is, they are spending too much time and effort at trying to figure out where to go. It's not surprising then that the most accidents or near accidents occur when people cut across several lanes to get out of or onto an exit lane.
I drive on I-75, 85 and 285 to and from work every day, and I got the impression that those lights are used not for controlling how much traffic can hit the interstates, but because Atlanta drivers don't know the concept of zipper traffic. By the way, those lights already work at the Freedom Parkway entry onto I-85S, and they appear being automated.
When I moved to Atlanta in summer of 2004, it was the lack of pay phones in Midtown that finally made me purchase a cell phone. Had there been easily accessible pay phones in the city, I would most likely still rely on them. I wonder whether we'll see a significant increase in cell phone subscription now, or whether there aren't enough crazy luddites like me left anymore.
I admit that the mouse was more form than function. But it didn't really cause harm unlike like Sony's rootkit and isn't the fiasco that is Vista.
Vista and the Sony rootkit can cause onsets of rage or heart attacks in few cases, but that mouse was an ergonomic disaster. Using it for a few hours cramped your fingers so much that many male Apple users ended up lonely at night, without their hand being able to perform its marital duties.
At a time when the prosecution can purchase expert testimony in their favor, it can be quite difficult for the defense to challenge the science behind the evidence.
I'm patiently waiting for the FBI to knock on my door and arrest me for all the ingredients I used (digested) in my attempts to create the perfect stink bomb.
It depends. For the US East Coast, the patches are installed overnight - which would place Europe in the early morning hours and West Coast in the evening, and the machines are rebooted. The vast majority of such computers than hangs on the login screen, so Skype doesn't load. I'd expect the bulk of the oncoming Skype traffic to come at 9AM GMT and then again at 9AM Eastern Time when people logged into their workstations.
The government is running a considerable risk here, as this may drive some sites to adopt an alternative currency. As long as the transaction is not conducted in dollars, the US government has no claim. As such, only the buying-in and cashing-out part, when the virtual currency is being exchanged for dollars, would be taxed. In the real world, the use of alternative currencies is largely limited to a small group of people - perhaps with the exception of Liberty Dollars, which the government is trying to shut down - but deploying an alternative currency on-line may be much easier. I can easily imagine selling stuff on eBay for the Internet dollar and than using the same currency to make a purchase on Amazon, and neither of the parties in the transactions would pay any tax until the money is converted back into US Dollars.
iPhone main page - No activation info, but a very visible link to an "Activation and Sync" video.
Activation and Sync - "This page requires the Quicktime plugin." Back to main page.
Questions and Answers - I guess this is Apple talk for "FAQ". Oh, here's something: Will iPhone work with my PC and Microsoft Windows? Yes. iPhone works with Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), and Windows Vista. See specifications for more details." This does not suggest a requirement.
Specifications - Apple sent me to this page from the previous one, so I checked it out. Ah, here it is: Mac System Requirements and Windows System Requirements. But wait a minute: where does it say that I need one of those to use the iPhone as a standalone device? I may understand it (and up to this point I did) as system setup needed if I wanted to connect the phone to a computer - for example to synchronize my address book or to download my mp3 collection. So back to home page.
News release - Oh, there's another link to "Activation and Sync" on the main page. It points to a news story, which reads, "CUPERTINO, California and ATLANTAJune 26, 2007Apple® and AT&T Inc. today announced that iPhone users will be able to activate their new iPhones using Apples popular iTunes® software". It goes on saying that this is for the user's convenience. Nowhere it says iTunes is required. So back to square one.
Apple support - There it is. Three levels down into the support page I finally found that I'd need iTunes.
I can conclude that those who responded to me that iTunes was required were right. However, the information was hidden so deep in the support portion of the Web site while the marketing site merely suggested that iTunes would make the phone owner's life more easy that I would easily be fooled and purchased an iPhone if I ever wanted it. In addition, considering that there is a direct link from the marketing page to the battery replacement page I would've never expected that a much greater customer support issue was not mentioned.
You are absolutely right that the lawsuit has no basis, and that Apple has informed sufficiently about the batteries. However, I don't think your first argument is valid:
Let's not even consider that these questions have been asked and answered[1] for years with the iPod.
Believe it or not, but there still are a few of us who had no idea that this was the case with the iPod, as we're not interested in the device. In addition, arguing that because one product doesn't have easily replaceable batteries another product wouldn't have them either is not entirely logical.
Personally, I'd be more concerned about the reports I've heard that iTunes is required for activating the cell phone. Apple's Web site doesn't state that iTunes is required (at least I couldn't find the information); it merely suggests to use iTunes for the phone activation. As a Linux user I'd be screwed if iTunes was indeed required, and I wouldn't be told before purchasing the Apple phone.
Please educate me; I'm pretty new to this. I've been using the Democracy Player for a while now, and I'll keep on using it (it prompts me to upgrade, but I ignore that). My main reason for using it is the automatic download of new episodes of German news broadcasts and Democracy Now, which I then can watch at my convenience. Does VLC or BS Player do the same? If so, I'll be happy to try it - they can't be worse than the 350MB of memory that Democracy Player hogs.
Don't worry; they'll be resurrected in Antigua, now that the US has lost in the WTO dispute and Antigua declared it was free to retaliate by ignoring US copyrights.
I don't see any problem with that. My Windows 98 computer runs just fine for my home needs - browsing, e-mail and basic Office applications. Despite the fact that Microsoft wouldn't support it anymore...
Okay, I guess I'm not the best person to reply, as I still have a PDA, cell phone and digital camera as separate devices (I always have all three with me, though). However, the only thing that may resemble a gadget, and which I take with me when I'm on vacation, is a bottle opener.
I didn't say Allofmp3 was legal; in fact, I warned people I recommended the site to that they operated in a gray area. However, they were still willing to pay for songs that had a guaranteed quality, were easy to find and worked on their devices. Now that they can't use Allofmp3 anymore, they prefer to pirate songs - they are more difficult to find, don't have a guaranteed quality, but work on their devices. It appears that the market (at least the portion I'm involved with - eclectic mp3 players and too lazy to burn and re-rip songs) values playable file formats more than the question of legality.
Actually, that's exactly what I was recommending to my friends to whom I previously recommended Allofmp3. I don't have the time and energy to keep troubleshooting their problems with music file formats from various legit stores that don't play on their mp3 players, and Allofmp3 was the only significant source of regular mp3 files that worked; now it's back to music piracy again...
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My company is incorporated abroad, our servers are abroad, and I'm not a US citizen. Thus, the only limitation we've had was for someone physically sitting in the US and writing the code, which we avoided by shipping me abroad.
I just returned from a seven weeks stint in Europe as a software engineer. My company sent me there because according to my boss there are limits on software exports from the US - they found it cheaper and more time efficient to do all the affected coding in Europe, and thus avoid these limitations.
Same of your clients may have found that IE7 broke some of their other systems. For example, in the company I work for upgrading to IE7 has messed up MS Access connectivity to our database server. Granted, we could fix it, but at this point going back to IE6 is cheaper and requires much fewer man-hours.
I run Secunia's PSI, and I noticed a few flaws, which pretty much catch anybody. For example, it lists seven instances of Sun Java JRE on my computer, three instances of Adobe Flash and two instances of Adobe Reader. On top of it, it lists several instances of Macromedia Flash as "End of life" software. Obviously, all of those listed have been upgraded to recent versions, but the older versions either weren't properly removed by the upgrade, or Secunia never updated its database on my computer. Be it as it is, if you run a Windows PC and have Flash or Java installed, your computer will fall under the 95% of insecure computers regardless whether you update or not.
The computer speed varied based on what operation has been done. According to the Columbia 650 page, the machine could do addition and subtraction in 0.4 Msec, which translates into 2.5kHz. Division was the slowest operation, at 25 Msec, which is 40Hz.
Business - worked at technology commercialization at GA Tech until I found this neat GPS tracking company I signed up with to develop a CRM system for them. Atlanta is actually the first large city I lived in (in NJ I lived in the north-western corner, far from any metro area), and even though you may consider it "home-towny" I find it way too big and busy; enough so to keep my car doors locked when I drive and have Mace in the glove box. The toll is still at 400, but only at a very short section from Lennox to Perimeter; everything else is free. The road north of Perimeter has been widened to make 400 look even more like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the state legislature has been successful at shooting down all proposals for rail transit south and north of the city, and they still can't agree where to build the second airport as more and more people defect to use Chattanooga and Birmingham airports. All those joys of a rapidly growing metro area...
What makes driving here much more frustrating than anywhere else in the US as far as I can tell is that Georgia is by far the worst marked state in the US. This goes for any kind of signs: from traffic signs to hiking trail blazes. As a result, many people may be good drivers, but with the signage as it is, they are spending too much time and effort at trying to figure out where to go. It's not surprising then that the most accidents or near accidents occur when people cut across several lanes to get out of or onto an exit lane.
I drive on I-75, 85 and 285 to and from work every day, and I got the impression that those lights are used not for controlling how much traffic can hit the interstates, but because Atlanta drivers don't know the concept of zipper traffic. By the way, those lights already work at the Freedom Parkway entry onto I-85S, and they appear being automated.
When I moved to Atlanta in summer of 2004, it was the lack of pay phones in Midtown that finally made me purchase a cell phone. Had there been easily accessible pay phones in the city, I would most likely still rely on them. I wonder whether we'll see a significant increase in cell phone subscription now, or whether there aren't enough crazy luddites like me left anymore.
Vista and the Sony rootkit can cause onsets of rage or heart attacks in few cases, but that mouse was an ergonomic disaster. Using it for a few hours cramped your fingers so much that many male Apple users ended up lonely at night, without their hand being able to perform its marital duties.
At a time when the prosecution can purchase expert testimony in their favor, it can be quite difficult for the defense to challenge the science behind the evidence.
I'm patiently waiting for the FBI to knock on my door and arrest me for all the ingredients I used (digested) in my attempts to create the perfect stink bomb.
It depends. For the US East Coast, the patches are installed overnight - which would place Europe in the early morning hours and West Coast in the evening, and the machines are rebooted. The vast majority of such computers than hangs on the login screen, so Skype doesn't load. I'd expect the bulk of the oncoming Skype traffic to come at 9AM GMT and then again at 9AM Eastern Time when people logged into their workstations.
If they eliminated the outliers, such as West Virginia, the average human diversity would go back to what it was in 300AD.
The government is running a considerable risk here, as this may drive some sites to adopt an alternative currency. As long as the transaction is not conducted in dollars, the US government has no claim. As such, only the buying-in and cashing-out part, when the virtual currency is being exchanged for dollars, would be taxed. In the real world, the use of alternative currencies is largely limited to a small group of people - perhaps with the exception of Liberty Dollars, which the government is trying to shut down - but deploying an alternative currency on-line may be much easier. I can easily imagine selling stuff on eBay for the Internet dollar and than using the same currency to make a purchase on Amazon, and neither of the parties in the transactions would pay any tax until the money is converted back into US Dollars.
- iPhone main page - No activation info, but a very visible link to an "Activation and Sync" video.
- Activation and Sync - "This page requires the Quicktime plugin." Back to main page.
- Questions and Answers - I guess this is Apple talk for "FAQ". Oh, here's something: Will iPhone work with my PC and Microsoft Windows? Yes. iPhone works with Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), and Windows Vista. See specifications for more details." This does not suggest a requirement.
- Specifications - Apple sent me to this page from the previous one, so I checked it out. Ah, here it is: Mac System Requirements and Windows System Requirements. But wait a minute: where does it say that I need one of those to use the iPhone as a standalone device? I may understand it (and up to this point I did) as system setup needed if I wanted to connect the phone to a computer - for example to synchronize my address book or to download my mp3 collection. So back to home page.
- News release - Oh, there's another link to "Activation and Sync" on the main page. It points to a news story, which reads, "CUPERTINO, California and ATLANTAJune 26, 2007Apple® and AT&T Inc. today announced that iPhone users will be able to activate their new iPhones using Apples popular iTunes® software". It goes on saying that this is for the user's convenience. Nowhere it says iTunes is required. So back to square one.
- Apple support - There it is. Three levels down into the support page I finally found that I'd need iTunes.
I can conclude that those who responded to me that iTunes was required were right. However, the information was hidden so deep in the support portion of the Web site while the marketing site merely suggested that iTunes would make the phone owner's life more easy that I would easily be fooled and purchased an iPhone if I ever wanted it. In addition, considering that there is a direct link from the marketing page to the battery replacement page I would've never expected that a much greater customer support issue was not mentioned.Let's not even consider that these questions have been asked and answered[1] for years with the iPod.
Believe it or not, but there still are a few of us who had no idea that this was the case with the iPod, as we're not interested in the device. In addition, arguing that because one product doesn't have easily replaceable batteries another product wouldn't have them either is not entirely logical.
Personally, I'd be more concerned about the reports I've heard that iTunes is required for activating the cell phone. Apple's Web site doesn't state that iTunes is required (at least I couldn't find the information); it merely suggests to use iTunes for the phone activation. As a Linux user I'd be screwed if iTunes was indeed required, and I wouldn't be told before purchasing the Apple phone.
Please educate me; I'm pretty new to this. I've been using the Democracy Player for a while now, and I'll keep on using it (it prompts me to upgrade, but I ignore that). My main reason for using it is the automatic download of new episodes of German news broadcasts and Democracy Now, which I then can watch at my convenience. Does VLC or BS Player do the same? If so, I'll be happy to try it - they can't be worse than the 350MB of memory that Democracy Player hogs.
Don't worry; they'll be resurrected in Antigua, now that the US has lost in the WTO dispute and Antigua declared it was free to retaliate by ignoring US copyrights.
I don't see any problem with that. My Windows 98 computer runs just fine for my home needs - browsing, e-mail and basic Office applications. Despite the fact that Microsoft wouldn't support it anymore...
Okay, I guess I'm not the best person to reply, as I still have a PDA, cell phone and digital camera as separate devices (I always have all three with me, though). However, the only thing that may resemble a gadget, and which I take with me when I'm on vacation, is a bottle opener.
I didn't say Allofmp3 was legal; in fact, I warned people I recommended the site to that they operated in a gray area. However, they were still willing to pay for songs that had a guaranteed quality, were easy to find and worked on their devices. Now that they can't use Allofmp3 anymore, they prefer to pirate songs - they are more difficult to find, don't have a guaranteed quality, but work on their devices. It appears that the market (at least the portion I'm involved with - eclectic mp3 players and too lazy to burn and re-rip songs) values playable file formats more than the question of legality.
Actually, that's exactly what I was recommending to my friends to whom I previously recommended Allofmp3. I don't have the time and energy to keep troubleshooting their problems with music file formats from various legit stores that don't play on their mp3 players, and Allofmp3 was the only significant source of regular mp3 files that worked; now it's back to music piracy again...