Planning is incredibly important. Make sure you understood and try not to use passion as much as logic. Remember that he/she may listen, understand and disagree. Remember also that what you tell him/her may possibly the first in depth information on the subject he/she may have heard and if you provide him with information that is lacking he/she could base his decision against open source on a predisposition from your 'speech'.
Of course he/she may not be as clueless re open source as you think. Be prepared to counter any questions he/she may have. He/she is not a member of the house by not paying attention to what is happening in the world.
It wasn't that long ago that a purchase, by the Chinese government, of a jet by Boeing included bugs. I recall the chinese stripping down the jet and rebuilding it...bug free.
I would suggest that the Chinese Government would be remiss in buying from other 'non friendly' governments.
The precedent was set as to how the US government could be trusted in such matters. Unless I am to believe that Boeing put the bugs in for their own reasons, which I surely don't.
Hiring you might be deemed funny but this seems to be the correct answer.
I fail to see how, while hiking in the back country, finding out via a pager that there is an issue will help. Not be able to 'call out' with solutions....hey, he's not asking for Satellite phone info.....but Satellite pager info. Knowing that somethings is amiss leads to two results.
1), Hurredly unhiking out of the back country until you reach a location where you can 'call out' and/or solve the issue.
2), Stressing about what the outcome of the issue is while you continue to enjoy your hike.
Neither seem worthwhile to me unless you are the "only person" who can do this job and you trust no one else in your company or employ to handle the task. You really should have someone who can.
So you take your computer and never change the software.....I hope it runs for a long time without crashing "whoop dee dooo".
I'd like to see 10 'experts' in their os'es set up secure servers and see how long these servers run without crashing. I am certain that windows would fare far better then windows uptime commonly is.
The fact is that windows users f%&k around with their pc's adding any of 100,000's of application, uninstalling, doing whatever they want without worrying about backing up and what not. You do that on a linux box and see how stable it is after 6 months abuse.
As has been said many times under this topic..... 3 years is the maximum.
As for a single copy.... I suppose if I go to O'Hara or Kennedy airport and purposefully infected a "single" person with Sars I should be dealt with lightly as I ONLY infected a single person? The internet is very much like a large airport. Quiet often "infecting" or providing a copyrighted piece to 1 person leads to 1,000's if not 100,000's of copies.'
Assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the punishment is meted out fairly the average Joe sharing a copy that is already 'out there' should be simply laughed at by the courts.
I can not EVER remember purchasing ANYTHING the first time I have visited a site. It almost always requires a 2nd or 3rd visit. The internet allow me to search for better prices or better products. That does not mean that I have never purchased something from a website that I found through an ad online....to the contrary. I have purchased much this way.
It would not be fair to google for an advertiser to not be paid for getting me to a website via a google ad from work that led to me purchasing that item when I got home. I suspect that the majority of legitamite click throughs do not result in a purchase with the initial visit. Google (or any other ad provider) has done it's job properly though and should be rewarded.
It shouldn't matter why they are in jail. Now this of course is a general statement. But the average prisoner follows a defined set of rules. There are always exceptions.
Now what I am curious about is this.... Many prisoners have written letters to the editor or even had books published while in prison. Not much different than a blog or a website. Should this be prevented?
Many prisoners have written hundreds of letters to whomever they may want to plead their cases or even simply fall in love. There have been many cases where people have been swindled money by prisoners via mail. Yet to have access to email would be horrid?
The internet really is just a means. To remove phone, mail and internet access to a prisoner may seem fine.......and I'd probably in many circumstances not argue with it.....but to define the internet as being different than another medium leaves my ears perking.
18 Albums and 25 Juno awards (the Canadian Grammy) from 1983 to 2001. Cochrane had one 13, so over half of those BEFORE "Life is a Highway" came out on the album, that in the year of it's release, so more albums in Canada the ANY OTHER ALBUM - foreign or otherwise. To call this one minor hit is simply wrong.
This all in the year that Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" won the Grammy and fellow Canadian's K.D. Lang and Celine Dion won 2 of the top Grammy's.
So yeah. Rock star.
Juno Awards Year
Nomination Outcome 2003 The Canadian Music Hall of Fame Inductee
2000 Best Male Artist
1996 Male Vocalist of the Year
1996 Album of the Year: Ragged Ass Road
1993 Songwriter of the Year
1993 Best Selling Album [Foreign or Domestic] Mad Mad World
1993 Canadian Entertainer of the Year
1992 Producer of the Year: All The King`s Men
1992 Songwriter of the Year Winner
1992 Male Vocalist of the Year Winner
1992 Single of the Year: Life Is A Highway Winner
1992 Album of the Year: Mad Mad World Winner
1990 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1990 Album of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider): Victory Day
1990 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1989 Composer of the Year Winner
1989 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1989 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1987 Composer of the Year
1987 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider) Winner
1987 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
What of the poor sap who has an affair with someone who happens to get raped/murdered on her way home.
That his sperm has been found in her body and definitly matches means he's guilty?
How do you prove you had consentual sex with a now dead women. There are many such instances were the DNA found at the scene does not mean guilt. It seems to be the rule of thumb these days. If the DNA is there you are deemed guilty.
Microsoft is not applying for a patent on XML but rather, a patent
" that cover word processing documents stored in the XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. The proposed patent would cover methods for an application other than the original word processor to access data in the document."
You can simply turn on the XP firewall that comes with XP out of the box.
It is more then enough to keep you safe and secure until you get your windows updates. The time to infection is a heck of a long time with that turned on. That it isn't turned on by default was a mistake but to say that XP out of the box will be infected before you have the ability to update is outright incorrect.
that anyone selling a box online without putting the most recent patches on the operating system provided should be shot. At a bare minimum making certain that reasonable measures are taken like some sort of firewall and an OS updater running OR a caveat to the buyer should be required.
Putting a box with almost 4 year old unpatched OS is stupid and should not have been included in the test. To include the original XP and not lets say RedHat 7 for example shows a bit of a skewed results.
Windows is already more prone to attacks. There really is no need to offer the original XP in the story EXCEPT to show users how imnportant it is to patch after a format or system recovery.
I can get a free cell phone almost anywhere. 3 years and $2000 later it's paid for.
I can buy a car at 0% interest....but if I pay cash it's $$$thousands$$$ less than if I do credit.
How come none of these advertisers are sued? Does the government really need to protect me against the cost of a DVD because I didn't read the fine print while ignoring far larger issues?
To be frank. Advice on how to save money for a small company is the topic at hand.
You indicate 25,000 computer with 15 techs.
Quite obviously saving $100 in hardware per PC would save you $1/4 million. Cutting back on 15 cell phones....peanuts. You are likely to be inclined to look for savings in regards to hardware - or per PC. A small computer with 30 computers and 3 staff will have far different needs. Saving $100 per computer would be the same as 2 weeks wages..... Peanuts.
I don't know the answer but I do think that you're situation is far from similar.
Except for the fact that most of the MP3's traded via bittorrent are fulls cd's or full Artist Discographies I'd agree. As it now stands though a person could go out and in a couple of hours have the complete discography of a large number of artists.
As far as pirate mp3's, for this reason alone, Bittorrent is far faster and offers better results if what is being searched for can be found.
What is even scarier is the any agency could theoretically electronic archive ONLY materials that they don't mind being shared. Or since you can't convert everything immediatly - archive stuff you want hidden once you've archived everything else. This would actually seem the logical way to do things. Articles that "may" be secret should be read and re-read before being made public. An agency could simply create "3 piles". PUBLIC, TO BE DETERMINED, and SECRET when converting. They could they convert them electronically in that order.
Then if a request is made, do an electronic search, come up with nothing, and claim they 'did their best', while effectively not searching for anything that fit into the second category.
You are a webmaster and you want to see what the ads link to for relevance. Mouse over and check the status bar for the link and then simply type it into your browser window.
You've adhered to google's policies AND discovered what the result of that click is. If you are a webmaster and you CANNOT figure this out you deserve to lose any money Google TextAds would have earned you. The policy is simple. Click on the ad yourself and forfeit the right to your earnings.
50 years ago when car's were expensive and walking was the norm downtown's thrived. After cars became cheaper and roads led everywhere the malls tore into the business the downtown core had thrived on. We now see big box stores killing downtown's everywhere.
Microsoft is as 'big box' as they come.......while there is no doubt that strategies behind operating systems and the internet will meld together I don't see it as a reason to see Microsoft to not be a prominent part of that.
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Planning is incredibly important. Make sure you understood and try not to use passion as much as logic. Remember that he/she may listen, understand and disagree. Remember also that what you tell him/her may possibly the first in depth information on the subject he/she may have heard and if you provide him with information that is lacking he/she could base his decision against open source on a predisposition from your 'speech'.
Of course he/she may not be as clueless re open source as you think. Be prepared to counter any questions he/she may have. He/she is not a member of the house by not paying attention to what is happening in the world.
It wasn't that long ago that a purchase, by the Chinese government, of a jet by Boeing included bugs. I recall the chinese stripping down the jet and rebuilding it...bug free.
I would suggest that the Chinese Government would be remiss in buying from other 'non friendly' governments.
The precedent was set as to how the US government could be trusted in such matters. Unless I am to believe that Boeing put the bugs in for their own reasons, which I surely don't.
Hiring you might be deemed funny but this seems to be the correct answer.
I fail to see how, while hiking in the back country, finding out via a pager that there is an issue will help. Not be able to 'call out' with solutions....hey, he's not asking for Satellite phone info.....but Satellite pager info. Knowing that somethings is amiss leads to two results.
1), Hurredly unhiking out of the back country until you reach a location where you can 'call out' and/or solve the issue.
2), Stressing about what the outcome of the issue is while you continue to enjoy your hike.
Neither seem worthwhile to me unless you are the "only person" who can do this job and you trust no one else in your company or employ to handle the task. You really should have someone who can.
So you take your computer and never change the software.....I hope it runs for a long time without crashing "whoop dee dooo".
I'd like to see 10 'experts' in their os'es set up secure servers and see how long these servers run without crashing. I am certain that windows would fare far better then windows uptime commonly is.
The fact is that windows users f%&k around with their pc's adding any of 100,000's of application, uninstalling, doing whatever they want without worrying about backing up and what not. You do that on a linux box and see how stable it is after 6 months abuse.
I've got to get me a pair of 90fps contacts.
The hell with sports, let's give gamers a boost!
As has been said many times under this topic..... 3 years is the maximum.
As for a single copy.... I suppose if I go to O'Hara or Kennedy airport and purposefully infected a "single" person with Sars I should be dealt with lightly as I ONLY infected a single person? The internet is very much like a large airport. Quiet often "infecting" or providing a copyrighted piece to 1 person leads to 1,000's if not 100,000's of copies.'
Assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the punishment is meted out fairly the average Joe sharing a copy that is already 'out there' should be simply laughed at by the courts.
That I don't purchase something means little.
I can not EVER remember purchasing ANYTHING the first time I have visited a site. It almost always requires a 2nd or 3rd visit. The internet allow me to search for better prices or better products. That does not mean that I have never purchased something from a website that I found through an ad online....to the contrary. I have purchased much this way.
It would not be fair to google for an advertiser to not be paid for getting me to a website via a google ad from work that led to me purchasing that item when I got home. I suspect that the majority of legitamite click throughs do not result in a purchase with the initial visit. Google (or any other ad provider) has done it's job properly though and should be rewarded.
It shouldn't matter why they are in jail. Now this of course is a general statement. But the average prisoner follows a defined set of rules. There are always exceptions.
Now what I am curious about is this.... Many prisoners have written letters to the editor or even had books published while in prison. Not much different than a blog or a website. Should this be prevented?
Many prisoners have written hundreds of letters to whomever they may want to plead their cases or even simply fall in love. There have been many cases where people have been swindled money by prisoners via mail. Yet to have access to email would be horrid?
The internet really is just a means. To remove phone, mail and internet access to a prisoner may seem fine.......and I'd probably in many circumstances not argue with it.....but to define the internet as being different than another medium leaves my ears perking.
18 Albums and 25 Juno awards (the Canadian Grammy) from 1983 to 2001. Cochrane had one 13, so over half of those BEFORE "Life is a Highway" came out on the album, that in the year of it's release, so more albums in Canada the ANY OTHER ALBUM - foreign or otherwise. To call this one minor hit is simply wrong.
This all in the year that Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" won the Grammy and fellow Canadian's K.D. Lang and Celine Dion won 2 of the top Grammy's.
So yeah. Rock star.
Juno Awards
Year
Nomination Outcome
2003 The Canadian Music Hall of Fame Inductee
2000 Best Male Artist
1996 Male Vocalist of the Year
1996 Album of the Year: Ragged Ass Road
1993 Songwriter of the Year
1993 Best Selling Album [Foreign or Domestic] Mad Mad World
1993 Canadian Entertainer of the Year
1992 Producer of the Year: All The King`s Men
1992 Songwriter of the Year Winner
1992 Male Vocalist of the Year Winner
1992 Single of the Year: Life Is A Highway Winner
1992 Album of the Year: Mad Mad World Winner
1990 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1990 Album of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider): Victory Day
1990 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1989 Composer of the Year Winner
1989 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1989 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1987 Composer of the Year
1987 Group of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider) Winner
1987 Canadian Entertainer of the Year (Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
1984 Group of the Year (Red Rider)
1984 Album of the Year (Red Rider): Neruda
1982 Most Promising Group of the Year (Red Rider)
1981 Most Promising Group of the Year (Red Rider)
everyone is always a potential suspect.
What of the poor sap who has an affair with someone who happens to get raped/murdered on her way home.
That his sperm has been found in her body and definitly matches means he's guilty?
How do you prove you had consentual sex with a now dead women. There are many such instances were the DNA found at the scene does not mean guilt. It seems to be the rule of thumb these days. If the DNA is there you are deemed guilty.
Microsoft is not applying for a patent on XML but rather, a patent
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" that cover word processing documents stored in the XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. The proposed patent would cover methods for an application other than the original word processor to access data in the document."
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What is a disgrace is that with 71% of users falling for this 4 years ago they haven't audited again for it in the interim.
Did they not think that there was a potential security risk here?
"How can I possibly listen to you when you cant even used the shift key properly."
If you had enough intelligence to use the apostrophe key in the word can't maybe your opinion would have merit.
Those in glass houses......
You can simply turn on the XP firewall that comes with XP out of the box.
It is more then enough to keep you safe and secure until you get your windows updates. The time to infection is a heck of a long time with that turned on. That it isn't turned on by default was a mistake but to say that XP out of the box will be infected before you have the ability to update is outright incorrect.
The fact is.......
that anyone selling a box online without putting the most recent patches on the operating system provided should be shot. At a bare minimum making certain that reasonable measures are taken like some sort of firewall and an OS updater running OR a caveat to the buyer should be required.
Putting a box with almost 4 year old unpatched OS is stupid and should not have been included in the test. To include the original XP and not lets say RedHat 7 for example shows a bit of a skewed results.
Windows is already more prone to attacks. There really is no need to offer the original XP in the story EXCEPT to show users how imnportant it is to patch after a format or system recovery.
But isn't a litre of water 1 kilo of water at ATP?
Circular weight system?
But imagine my iPod with headphones using my body as the 'wire'.......
Let's see.
I can get a free cell phone almost anywhere. 3 years and $2000 later it's paid for.
I can buy a car at 0% interest....but if I pay cash it's $$$thousands$$$ less than if I do credit.
How come none of these advertisers are sued? Does the government really need to protect me against the cost of a DVD because I didn't read the fine print while ignoring far larger issues?
To be frank. Advice on how to save money for a small company is the topic at hand.
You indicate 25,000 computer with 15 techs.
Quite obviously saving $100 in hardware per PC would save you $1/4 million. Cutting back on 15 cell phones....peanuts. You are likely to be inclined to look for savings in regards to hardware - or per PC. A small computer with 30 computers and 3 staff will have far different needs. Saving $100 per computer would be the same as 2 weeks wages..... Peanuts.
I don't know the answer but I do think that you're situation is far from similar.
Except for the fact that most of the MP3's traded via bittorrent are fulls cd's or full Artist Discographies I'd agree. As it now stands though a person could go out and in a couple of hours have the complete discography of a large number of artists.
As far as pirate mp3's, for this reason alone, Bittorrent is far faster and offers better results if what is being searched for can be found.
This is also a "phone survey". Asking someone whether or not they know the difference is not the same as them knowing the difference.
What is even scarier is the any agency could theoretically electronic archive ONLY materials that they don't mind being shared. Or since you can't convert everything immediatly - archive stuff you want hidden once you've archived everything else. This would actually seem the logical way to do things. Articles that "may" be secret should be read and re-read before being made public. An agency could simply create "3 piles". PUBLIC, TO BE DETERMINED, and SECRET when converting. They could they convert them electronically in that order.
Then if a request is made, do an electronic search, come up with nothing, and claim they 'did their best', while effectively not searching for anything that fit into the second category.
You are a webmaster and you want to see what the ads link to for relevance. Mouse over and check the status bar for the link and then simply type it into your browser window.
You've adhered to google's policies AND discovered what the result of that click is. If you are a webmaster and you CANNOT figure this out you deserve to lose any money Google TextAds would have earned you. The policy is simple. Click on the ad yourself and forfeit the right to your earnings.
A real life comparison could be easily made here.
50 years ago when car's were expensive and walking was the norm downtown's thrived. After cars became cheaper and roads led everywhere the malls tore into the business the downtown core had thrived on. We now see big box stores killing downtown's everywhere.
Microsoft is as 'big box' as they come.......while there is no doubt that strategies behind operating systems and the internet will meld together I don't see it as a reason to see Microsoft to not be a prominent part of that.
A few thousand feet?
8,500 feet straight up is more than a few thousand feet at enough of an angle that you could be in line of site of the pilot.
I strongly doubt that this was a hand held laser. At about 10,000 feet - 2 miles - that would take a pretty steady hand and damn good eyes.....