Hell YEAH! Soon those pathetic alternatives to our monopolistic cable plants will be bankrupt and we can get back to offerering minimal services for maximal prices.
Slashdot for one will welcome their new cable provider overlords!
The last company I worked at (very briefly) had a clause in the contract that stated everything you developed whether on your own time at home on the weekend or at work was owned by the company.
But I expect that your last company did not pay you to write code for a GPL project such as the Linux Kernel? The issue here is that MS cannot change the terms of a contract unless the other party agrees to it and some form of consideration is paid, such as a contract extention, raise, or bonus. In such a case, they can simply refuse to sign and MS must accept or buy out the contract. If there is no contract and they are "at will" employees, they can still refuse to sign such agreements, forcing MS to fire them (which opens them to lawsuits over wrongful terminations, and CA is likely to have judges that side with Cox and award lost salary.)
Point was, while contracts like yours are common, its likely Red Hat did NOT have them.
They would also be able to use contracts to hold hostage Alan Cox and the majority of the other top kernel contributors.
I seriously doubt that. The contract can't be changed without compensation, and I doubt there is anything in the existing contract preventing Alan and the others from releasing their off-hours work as open source. The only senario I might imagine is walking them into a room filled with MS IP to try to confuse the IP ownership issue in the kernel if they continued, and given their role I expect that unless they had signed agreements post buyout that would be tantamount to releasing their IP to the kernel team.
Now please explain to me why I want my headset to use a WLAN to talk to my phone? Why I want my Keyboard & Mouse to use the WLAN to move a cursor on my screen?
Sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem.
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Also, it's Stilton. Obviously, you're just a wannabe cracker.
The list is mostly generated by folks using their anti-phishing toolbar. Users of this free toolbar get free access to the data. Its only corporate types looking to protect their user base that would pay for the data.
Our Spam filter is known to be horid. I let it mark stuff as Spam by pre-pending SPAM: to the subject, but its up to the user to filter based on it.
I myself rely on CloudMark's SafetyBar, its typically very good, based on a open user reporting protocol. While I'm very careful to only mark real Spam for their system, clearly there are plenty of users marking my RedHat mailing lists as Spam as well. I've become concerned that my marking stuff as NOT SPAM has stopped sending anything back to the server and just having a local effect on me.
1024x1024 plasmas? That is weird, whats the brand?
But getting back to the subject, this article is goofy from the start. It supposes that the "proper" way to down convert the 1080i signal is to first convert it to 1080p, then down convert it; mostly because thats the way the "geniuses" at HQV have done it. But if you think about it, thats a brain dead solution too. Why?
The 1080i signal is 2 540 line scenes, shot 1/60th of a second apart, with half the picture data. If anything on the screen is moving, it will be in a different place 1/60th of a second later. if you mash those two scenes together into a 1080 line image, those items in motion will blur without some complex 3-d (time being the 3rd D) reconstruction. If you instead treat the 1080i signal as a 540p signal, you eliminate the motion blur at the potential cost of some static image sharpness.
In other words, pick your poison. The blog has shown itself to be either an advertising shill or lacking in technical competence since it completely failed to go into the real issues here...
Consider their corporate connection and this makes a lot of sense. Where I work is almost now all Dell. It saves time and money to single source many different items.
Actually, I'd prefer to specialize, buy all my computer equipment from Dell, all my printers are Hp's. Over the past few months, Dell's been leveraging the former relationship to take over the latter. I buy 3 servers, they throw in a printer. I will soon have as many Dell printers as Hp, and the Dell's are often higher tech simply because they are newer (those Hp's are almost 6 years old and just starting to wear out). I'm not really sure how they plan to make money with this strategy, but I'm certain they will claim marketshare, which is clearly their only goal for now.
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we just get a mitigated effort at an apology from those guys.
I'd feel sorrier for you if you had the technical skills to insert line breaks into your story.
Any evidence that what they've really done is found a way to trick the P2P software into reporting whatever hash they want for a given file? The remote client can't really verify the hash until the complete file is downloaded, so you are clearly relying on the comprimised remote computer to computre this. So if they lie about the hash and stream/dev/random onto the network, what is the check?
Jot down a half dozen promising looking titles, go grab said books, skim their indicies or tables of contents. Winnow it down to what looks promising and start reading.
You forget one popular source for arcane facts and stats: PDOMA, or Pulled Directly Out of My A**. The number one source for Dads everywhere, its also the original source in many of those Google pages.
They get better deals from the other gorillas by staying exclusive with them.
One of the big things they get is first cut at the latest technology. The Dell XPS Gen5 has been announced as the first system to use Intels new "Dual Core" chips, which gets them all sorts of Free (as in Beer) advertising. Charging Dell a lower price might get them in trouble, but there are few laws about who you have to give access to early technology mules.
Those are not BSOD's. Those are programs that won't run, roughly equivalent to comparing a stubbed toe to a gaping chest wound. When a BSOD occurs, everything in memory is lost, open files are potentially corrupted, and the machine must be power cycled. Annoying enough when its on your desk, imagine when it happens to a server located 2,000 miles away...
This is always accompanied by a lovely blue screen chock full of almost useless stack dumps, etc; hence, Blue Screen of Death
In other words, you can walk out at the end of your shift and cannot be fired for doing so.
However, most states have an "employment at will" policy, meaning I don't have to have a reason to fire you. So as long as I don't say "I'm firing you because you left when you shift ended" I can just say "You are fired, no reason given" and you have no recourse. Got knows I don't want a law quoting nancy-pants working for me that is going to pointing out my legal responsibilities every time its too busy to give him his 15 minute break exactly on time.
In other words, such laws are rarely much protection, more a guideline to let you know when you job sucks
We actually had both AC units crap out in the same afternoon. Really hot day.:-)
Strangely, our problem was triggered by an especially cold day, the night cold triggered a second mode for the condenser that was meant to prevent "overcooling", instead they shut down entirely. Took a few visits to fix too because when they arrived it was warm enough the mode was enabled, and the system thus worked fine...
That is, until the AC breaks and all of the servers melt into slag.
Thats why we actually have 2 A/C units working in parallel, one goes down the other stays up. Unfortunately I know from experience a failed server room will stabilize around 140F once the A/C goes out, which will cook some equipment. You know there's a problem when the walls to your server room are warm to the touch.
they dont care what the effects of leasing are on the IT department
Hire contractors to do the extra work, they'll be able to put a price tag on it. Hire a Lease Decommission specialist, they can put a pricetag on that. Write a report on what the leasing costs your department in time so they can calculate the costs (they know what an hour of IT staff time costs more than you do most likely).
"Corporate America" cares about maximizing productivity, getting the most out of every resource, and the most universal stick that exists is "dollars".
If you think accounting is "misunderestimating" your costs, talk to them. Just remember, they specialize in this, don't try to tell them they're jobs, or you'll come off like an accountant trying to explain the benefits of using desktops instead of enterprise servers to you.
Ah, I never liked switching vendors so much as when they came with a cute sales staff.
I always wondered if these women knew they were being hired as geek eye candy and just how far they might go to secure a sale. Alas, my sens eof morals keeps getting in the way of finding out...
I'm not sure what leasing you have done, but this is the most rediculous answer I've ever seen.
I lease only new equipment in general, and they are typically covered by the exact same warranties they would be covered under if I had purchased them new, except by leasing them I can usually lease warranties in advance for the full lease term, meaning I don't have to deal with it for three years, and I know the CEO can't decide we can't afford warranty extentions this year.
Also, if you were to lease refurbished equipment, why wouldn't you reformat the system from scratch with the latest software, etc. Heck, why don't you do this with NEW equipment? God only knows how long its been sitting in a box on the shelf?
True, it won't have any fancy warranties, but as downtime is the most expensive part of any IT operation, fancy warranties that companies rarely honor anyway are of little value.
You should be working with reputable vendors, not fly by night whitebox assemblers operating out of Pakistan. All my critical equipment is covered under 4 hour response warranties, and once I've identifie dthe problem I usually have a replacement part on site in 2 hours. The only exception I've had is during a hurricane when the part had to be sent from a remote fulfillment center, then it took 6 hours. Something tells me you're an order the parts and build it yourself guy, useful for making your clients dependant on you I guess, but not much else.
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Clerks - The Animated Series absolutely rocks. Two episodes aired, the remaining 4 that were produced were only seen on DVD
Hell YEAH! Soon those pathetic alternatives to our monopolistic cable plants will be bankrupt and we can get back to offerering minimal services for maximal prices.
Slashdot for one will welcome their new cable provider overlords!
But I expect that your last company did not pay you to write code for a GPL project such as the Linux Kernel? The issue here is that MS cannot change the terms of a contract unless the other party agrees to it and some form of consideration is paid, such as a contract extention, raise, or bonus. In such a case, they can simply refuse to sign and MS must accept or buy out the contract. If there is no contract and they are "at will" employees, they can still refuse to sign such agreements, forcing MS to fire them (which opens them to lawsuits over wrongful terminations, and CA is likely to have judges that side with Cox and award lost salary.)
Point was, while contracts like yours are common, its likely Red Hat did NOT have them.
I seriously doubt that. The contract can't be changed without compensation, and I doubt there is anything in the existing contract preventing Alan and the others from releasing their off-hours work as open source. The only senario I might imagine is walking them into a room filled with MS IP to try to confuse the IP ownership issue in the kernel if they continued, and given their role I expect that unless they had signed agreements post buyout that would be tantamount to releasing their IP to the kernel team.
Sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem.
No ordinary cracker, I'm a Ritz!
The list is mostly generated by folks using their anti-phishing toolbar. Users of this free toolbar get free access to the data. Its only corporate types looking to protect their user base that would pay for the data.
I myself rely on CloudMark's SafetyBar, its typically very good, based on a open user reporting protocol. While I'm very careful to only mark real Spam for their system, clearly there are plenty of users marking my RedHat mailing lists as Spam as well. I've become concerned that my marking stuff as NOT SPAM has stopped sending anything back to the server and just having a local effect on me.
But getting back to the subject, this article is goofy from the start. It supposes that the "proper" way to down convert the 1080i signal is to first convert it to 1080p, then down convert it; mostly because thats the way the "geniuses" at HQV have done it. But if you think about it, thats a brain dead solution too. Why?
The 1080i signal is 2 540 line scenes, shot 1/60th of a second apart, with half the picture data. If anything on the screen is moving, it will be in a different place 1/60th of a second later. if you mash those two scenes together into a 1080 line image, those items in motion will blur without some complex 3-d (time being the 3rd D) reconstruction. If you instead treat the 1080i signal as a 540p signal, you eliminate the motion blur at the potential cost of some static image sharpness.
In other words, pick your poison. The blog has shown itself to be either an advertising shill or lacking in technical competence since it completely failed to go into the real issues here...
Actually, I'd prefer to specialize, buy all my computer equipment from Dell, all my printers are Hp's. Over the past few months, Dell's been leveraging the former relationship to take over the latter. I buy 3 servers, they throw in a printer. I will soon have as many Dell printers as Hp, and the Dell's are often higher tech simply because they are newer (those Hp's are almost 6 years old and just starting to wear out). I'm not really sure how they plan to make money with this strategy, but I'm certain they will claim marketshare, which is clearly their only goal for now.
I'd feel sorrier for you if you had the technical skills to insert line breaks into your story.
My eyes hurt now %)
It only works in Boston. In SF, it just makes a cup of salty tea.
In SF, there is no tea involved
Its a perfectly cromulent word...
Any evidence that what they've really done is found a way to trick the P2P software into reporting whatever hash they want for a given file? The remote client can't really verify the hash until the complete file is downloaded, so you are clearly relying on the comprimised remote computer to computre this. So if they lie about the hash and stream /dev/random onto the network, what is the check?
You forget one popular source for arcane facts and stats: PDOMA, or Pulled Directly Out of My A**. The number one source for Dads everywhere, its also the original source in many of those Google pages.
One of the big things they get is first cut at the latest technology. The Dell XPS Gen5 has been announced as the first system to use Intels new "Dual Core" chips, which gets them all sorts of Free (as in Beer) advertising. Charging Dell a lower price might get them in trouble, but there are few laws about who you have to give access to early technology mules.
This is always accompanied by a lovely blue screen chock full of almost useless stack dumps, etc; hence, Blue Screen of Death
However, most states have an "employment at will" policy, meaning I don't have to have a reason to fire you. So as long as I don't say "I'm firing you because you left when you shift ended" I can just say "You are fired, no reason given" and you have no recourse. Got knows I don't want a law quoting nancy-pants working for me that is going to pointing out my legal responsibilities every time its too busy to give him his 15 minute break exactly on time.
In other words, such laws are rarely much protection, more a guideline to let you know when you job sucks
Strangely, our problem was triggered by an especially cold day, the night cold triggered a second mode for the condenser that was meant to prevent "overcooling", instead they shut down entirely. Took a few visits to fix too because when they arrived it was warm enough the mode was enabled, and the system thus worked fine...
Thats why we actually have 2 A/C units working in parallel, one goes down the other stays up. Unfortunately I know from experience a failed server room will stabilize around 140F once the A/C goes out, which will cook some equipment. You know there's a problem when the walls to your server room are warm to the touch.
Why would we need to improve room cooling techniques? We can readily freeze CO2 solid, I'd say we're pretty damn good at making things cold.
Hire contractors to do the extra work, they'll be able to put a price tag on it. Hire a Lease Decommission specialist, they can put a pricetag on that. Write a report on what the leasing costs your department in time so they can calculate the costs (they know what an hour of IT staff time costs more than you do most likely).
"Corporate America" cares about maximizing productivity, getting the most out of every resource, and the most universal stick that exists is "dollars".
If you think accounting is "misunderestimating" your costs, talk to them. Just remember, they specialize in this, don't try to tell them they're jobs, or you'll come off like an accountant trying to explain the benefits of using desktops instead of enterprise servers to you.
I always wondered if these women knew they were being hired as geek eye candy and just how far they might go to secure a sale. Alas, my sens eof morals keeps getting in the way of finding out...
Also, if you were to lease refurbished equipment, why wouldn't you reformat the system from scratch with the latest software, etc. Heck, why don't you do this with NEW equipment? God only knows how long its been sitting in a box on the shelf?
True, it won't have any fancy warranties, but as downtime is the most expensive part of any IT operation, fancy warranties that companies rarely honor anyway are of little value.
You should be working with reputable vendors, not fly by night whitebox assemblers operating out of Pakistan. All my critical equipment is covered under 4 hour response warranties, and once I've identifie dthe problem I usually have a replacement part on site in 2 hours. The only exception I've had is during a hurricane when the part had to be sent from a remote fulfillment center, then it took 6 hours. Something tells me you're an order the parts and build it yourself guy, useful for making your clients dependant on you I guess, but not much else.