18.20 lets say that is for a 30 minute session. travel time 0. 18.20 time 2 is 36.40 an hour. Lets figure on a 40 hour week or about 2080 hours per year. That's $75.712.00 The more you work the more you make. I also don't know what the exchange rates and fees are. I also don't know if there is taxes involved. (income tax for one.) These girls are making a little less than strippers but have 0 physical risk.
I've lately become a firm believer in wasting the time of the company that has used the power of government against me -- in this case, the content and distribution cartels (RIAA, MPAA). Instead of calling your elected official,
What you are suggesting sound like a something from a William Gibbson{sp} of Neal Stephenson{sp} novel. I am not yet ready to give up on the government and start petitioning the corporations themselves for my civil liberties.
Your elected offical may send the first 100 people a letter explaining why they will not change their position on an issue but after 10,000 such letters they may change their position if not use the voting booth or better yet run for an office.
But lets continue to use and have a government and not a set of corps acting like Feudal Lords.
Unfortunately, powerful databases are large and complex beasts, and take years to get right. As much as I can understand why folks would flee from Larry, I think he'd be quite pleased if the mysql team were to go off and spend another five years recreating it.
Being an old fart I remember when MySQL first came out one of its selling features was that it was very small and lightweight. The developer lost some of the powerfull features that the big boys had but that was okay because MySQL was a little DB that you could run on a web server to keep track of Aunt Mildred's recipies and the like.
MySQL has of course since become a huge database with many of the abilities that it original small incarnation didn't need or want.
And now for something completely different
I can't even find what the the license cost for MySQL I have vague recollections of something about $250.00 for a commercial license free for non profit. On the web site there is a $595.00 survice contract, but no mention of a commercial use license.
On Oracle's web site I can get oracle 10 standard edition one for $4995.00 Processor Perpetual and enterprize for $40000.00 Processor perpetual. So I can only assume its double for your dual processor system.
So I can only assume that those of us that need a database and not even a feature rich database will simply move on to something else or pony up the $5000 to $40000 to have a DB to keep track of the CD collection.
You have a typo. Can the same be said of Oracle? If Oracle falls apart tomorrow due to some massive accounting fraud being publicized, where does that leave all the current Oracle users?
You ment to say:
Can the same be said of Oracle? If Oracle falls apart tomorrow due to ANOTHER massive accounting fraud being publicized, where does that leave all the current Oracle users?
What is the RIAA? I have always been a little vague about that. It seems to be an association of big lables and distributors on the one hand, but on the other it seems to have the mission of protecting the copyrights of all audio recording in the US. Down to your friendly local garage bands originals?
They seem to be trying to control all channels to market for the American audio consumer.
The story itself is less than twice as long as the/. header. (and I did not read the Judges ruling.) But it does mention that the porn in question came from Russia.
The question becomes was the porn legal in Russia (I don't know their age of consent) but it hardly seems unlikely that you could find yourself in the USA sufing a British porn site looking at 16 years old fscking and 20 years in jail.
The internet does cross international bondries and laws.
I could be wrong, but the copyright holder only has control over how much they sell the product to Apple for. What Apple sells it for is Apple's desition.
I think it's price fixing if the record companies force their vedors to charge a certain amount for the product.
If the record companies really want Apple to charge more all they have to do is raise their prices until Apple is forced to raise it's or stop being profitable.
They also make the music and the mp3 player and the cd and dvd burners. Correct me if I am wrong but they hold the patent on the cd/cd player. If I remember correctly Intel was the ones who invented the dvd. So I don't know the level of involvement that sony had in that.
I wonder what there market share of the portable mp3 player market they had before the iPod took over everything.
As a player in both the content provision and playing they seem to be using their postion to control all the channels to market for audio and video.
Where do we draw the line between a very small laptop and a large PDA. The price point is good for a PDA especially if you add the price of a detachable keyboard but really what is the point.
The Problem is that the police stopped the tube system. At that point they needed a damm good reason for suspecting this individual. He mentions several time in the artical that he had to correct there version of things.
I don't think that the new police states of the west have a real problem with arresting people at random. But if the police shut down a major transportation network even for a few minutes they had damm well better be able to cover their ass.
As I understand it London has almost complete police video servalance. (I live in New York we are having it installed now.) It will be interesting to note if there turned out to be *a problem* with the cameras durring these events.
He is also very lucky that he did not have a stash in his Apt.
I have to ask myself how serious they where about the migration they anounced it in 2003 and from the artical don't seem to have started yet at as we approach Q4 2005.
It just seems to me that they hopped on the linux bandwangon waved the "we are a cool happening busness flag" and now that it's time to do something they realize that migrating their server infastructure is a hell of a lot of work.
The system that they own works so why fsck it. As a real administrator who works as a cunsultant to real companies the way I work is to suggest things like: "Hey your ten year old Novell file server is giving you trouble why not see how Samba works for you. We can try it on an older system and if you like it why not move more stuff to Linux etc."
I would never say lets rip everything up and start over on a new OS on January 1st 2006.
One if you have an accident is it the passengers fault or the cars?
Two how long do you think it will be before someone figures out how to add advertising to the navagation system so that you stop at every starbucks/macdonalds/porn hut. With in twenty miles of you line of travel.
The real problem is what do you do when the HR department starts demanding things like an MSCE in Solarus and or an MSCA in Linux. Yes I have been asked for these
The worst thing that M$ did to all of us was change thier product nameing scheem. At least befor XP came out we could all laugh in the face of a recuiter that wnated 10 years windows 2000 experence.
Never having played Lineage II I don't know if the game requires you to pay for the game items that you use. So I don't think that you can call it a form of gambling. I think the problem is the auction sites the let you trade the Ever War Sims sword of falic enlargement for real money and even more the people these things. This gives the game items real world value. And then the question arrises that if the player aquired the item fradulently is it fraud or not.
IANAL and I am definatly not a Japanese Lawyer but I think that the issue is that the individual commited fraud and made money off of it. It is the last bit that is so important. There have been other articals on/. about the real world money side of online games as well as the murders By using a bot the defendant fraudulently came into possesions of real value in the game world and sold them for real value. I don't know how seriously the courts should take this but it is going to set some very funky presidence.
The other issue that you have to take into account is the expectation of privacy. This came up with e-mail a while back. There is no expectation of privacy in an e-mail so you don't need a warrent to get them. If enough cases come down that show that cell phone conversations can be scanned then the expectation of privacy on a cell phone call will be lost. The same is true of any communication medium.
They are pritty much trapped in the model that they are using, if they what out of the box interopablilty between devices because most of these units have no way of entering a password (no general interface what so ever.) So how do you enter a personal password in your headset and your cell phone. Your cell phone at least has a keypad. but your bluetooth mp3 player propably does not.
The perpose of a company a limited liability company is to protect the investers from an unforseen debt. Therefore the company becomes an indevidual with an Employer ID Number (EIN) basicly a social security number like it is a person. The idea is that the paper person the company is responsible for the debt that it incurs not any of the people involved. Now you can't sue for an appology you can only sue for money. So many companies get forced into bankruptcy by fines and law suits.
So your general idea of shutting down law breaking companies does happen. However the idea jail time for a corp is impossible because the _person_ that really broke the law is not really a person. All you can do is sue and fine them until they have to start selling off assets to cover the fines. In the case of a company like sony this would be a huge number.
This become even harder because it only costs about a hundred dollers to set up an LLC, so a law breaking corp only has to make a new paper person and move its assets behind that new LLC and an new EIN new paper person to hide behind. That is why so many large corps rent their furniture and officespace from holding companies so that no real world assets are at risk from their activities.
The problem with the death penalty is that it has a perminent finality to it. If an innocent is sent to jail, even for a long time. There is still the possibility of release and appology when new evidence arrises. However if they have been exocuted, how are we as a state to make amends.
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18.20 lets say that is for a 30 minute session. travel time 0.
18.20 time 2 is 36.40 an hour. Lets figure on a 40 hour week or about 2080 hours per year. That's $75.712.00 The more you work the more you make.
I also don't know what the exchange rates and fees are. I also don't know if there is taxes involved. (income tax for one.) These girls are making a little less than strippers but have 0 physical risk.
Just some math
JACEM
In the articale one of the girls talked about a veting organization called varified girl.
JACEM
I've lately become a firm believer in wasting the time of the company that has used the power of government against me -- in this case, the content and distribution cartels (RIAA, MPAA). Instead of calling your elected official,
What you are suggesting sound like a something from a William Gibbson{sp} of Neal Stephenson{sp} novel. I am not yet ready to give up on the government and start petitioning the corporations themselves for my civil liberties.
Your elected offical may send the first 100 people a letter explaining why they will not change their position on an issue but after 10,000 such letters they may change their position if not use the voting booth or better yet run for an office.
But lets continue to use and have a government and not a set of corps acting like Feudal Lords.
JACEM
I have to buy two new cars if I want to listen to the radio while I drive.
JACEM
IANAL
In fact, a criminal defense laywer is positively charged with helping his client getting away with it (assuming the client is guilty).
There are limitls to this. If the laywer knows that the the guy did it and tells their client to lie about it the laywer is guilty of a crime.
JACEM
Unfortunately, powerful databases are large and complex beasts, and take years to get right. As much as I can understand why folks would flee from Larry, I think he'd be quite pleased if the mysql team were to go off and spend another five years recreating it.
Being an old fart I remember when MySQL first came out one of its selling features was that it was very small and lightweight. The developer lost some of the powerfull features that the big boys had but that was okay because MySQL was a little DB that you could run on a web server to keep track of Aunt Mildred's recipies and the like.
MySQL has of course since become a huge database with many of the abilities that it original small incarnation didn't need or want.
And now for something completely different
I can't even find what the the license cost for MySQL I have vague recollections of something about $250.00 for a commercial license free for non profit. On the web site there is a $595.00 survice contract, but no mention of a commercial use license.
On Oracle's web site I can get oracle 10 standard edition one for $4995.00 Processor Perpetual and enterprize for $40000.00 Processor perpetual. So I can only assume its double for your dual processor system.
So I can only assume that those of us that need a database and not even a feature rich database will simply move on to something else or pony up the $5000 to $40000 to have a DB to keep track of the CD collection.
JACEM
You have a typo.
Can the same be said of Oracle? If Oracle falls apart tomorrow due to some massive accounting fraud being publicized, where does that leave all the current Oracle users?
You ment to say:
Can the same be said of Oracle? If Oracle falls apart tomorrow due to ANOTHER massive accounting fraud being publicized, where does that leave all the current Oracle users?
JACEM
What is the RIAA? I have always been a little vague about that. It seems to be an association of big lables and distributors on the one hand, but on the other it seems to have the mission of protecting the copyrights of all audio recording in the US. Down to your friendly local garage bands originals?
They seem to be trying to control all channels to market for the American audio consumer.
JACEM
The story itself is less than twice as long as the /. header. (and I did not read the Judges ruling.) But it does mention that the porn in question came from Russia.
The question becomes was the porn legal in Russia (I don't know their age of consent) but it hardly seems unlikely that you could find yourself in the USA sufing a British porn site looking at 16 years old fscking and 20 years in jail.
The internet does cross international bondries and laws.
JACEM
Haven't these people seen The Terminator or the Matrix?
I personally do not want to see a baowolf{sp} cluster of these things.
JACEM
I could be wrong, but the copyright holder only has control over how much they sell the product to Apple for. What Apple sells it for is Apple's desition.
I think it's price fixing if the record companies force their vedors to charge a certain amount for the product.
If the record companies really want Apple to charge more all they have to do is raise their prices until Apple is forced to raise it's or stop being profitable.
JACEM
They also make the music and the mp3 player and the cd and dvd burners. Correct me if I am wrong but they hold the patent on the cd/cd player. If I remember correctly Intel was the ones who invented the dvd. So I don't know the level of involvement that sony had in that.
I wonder what there market share of the portable mp3 player market they had before the iPod took over everything.
As a player in both the content provision and playing they seem to be using their postion to control all the channels to market for audio and video.
JACEM
Where do we draw the line between a very small laptop and a large PDA. The price point is good for a PDA especially if you add the price of a detachable keyboard but really what is the point.
The Problem is that the police stopped the tube system. At that point they needed a damm good reason for suspecting this individual. He mentions several time in the artical that he had to correct there version of things.
I don't think that the new police states of the west have a real problem with arresting people at random. But if the police shut down a major transportation network even for a few minutes they had damm well better be able to cover their ass.
As I understand it London has almost complete police video servalance. (I live in New York we are having it installed now.) It will be interesting to note if there turned out to be *a problem* with the cameras durring these events.
He is also very lucky that he did not have a stash in his Apt.
JACEM
I have to ask myself how serious they where about the migration they anounced it in 2003 and from the artical don't seem to have started yet at as we approach Q4 2005.
It just seems to me that they hopped on the linux bandwangon waved the "we are a cool happening busness flag" and now that it's time to do something they realize that migrating their server infastructure is a hell of a lot of work.
The system that they own works so why fsck it. As a real administrator who works as a cunsultant to real companies the way I work is to suggest things like: "Hey your ten year old Novell file server is giving you trouble why not see how Samba works for you. We can try it on an older system and if you like it why not move more stuff to Linux etc."
I would never say lets rip everything up and start over on a new OS on January 1st 2006.
JACEM
One if you have an accident is it the passengers fault or the cars?
Two how long do you think it will be before someone figures out how to add advertising to the navagation system so that you stop at every starbucks/macdonalds/porn hut. With in twenty miles of you line of travel.
Three profit????
JACEM
Being forced to actually know a little something about the profession that you are being asked to practice is hardly a "barrier to entry".
Yes it is it keeps the people who don't know what they are doing out.
JACEM
The real problem is what do you do when the HR department starts demanding things like an MSCE in Solarus and or an MSCA in Linux. Yes I have been asked for these
The worst thing that M$ did to all of us was change thier product nameing scheem. At least befor XP came out we could all laugh in the face of a recuiter that wnated 10 years windows 2000 experence.
JACEM
Never having played Lineage II I don't know if the game requires you to pay for the game items that you use. So I don't think that you can call it a form of gambling. I think the problem is the auction sites the let you trade the Ever War Sims sword of falic enlargement for real money and even more the people these things. This gives the game items real world value. And then the question arrises that if the player aquired the item fradulently is it fraud or not.
JACEM
IANAL and I am definatly not a Japanese Lawyer but I think that the issue is that the individual commited fraud and made money off of it. It is the last bit that is so important. There have been other articals on /. about the real world money side of online games as well as the murders By using a bot the defendant fraudulently came into possesions of real value in the game world and sold them for real value.
I don't know how seriously the courts should take this but it is going to set some very funky presidence.
JACEM
The other issue that you have to take into account is the expectation of privacy. This came up with e-mail a while back. There is no expectation of privacy in an e-mail so you don't need a warrent to get them. If enough cases come down that show that cell phone conversations can be scanned then the expectation of privacy on a cell phone call will be lost. The same is true of any communication medium.
JACEM
They are pritty much trapped in the model that they are using, if they what out of the box interopablilty between devices because most of these units have no way of entering a password (no general interface what so ever.) So how do you enter a personal password in your headset and your cell phone. Your cell phone at least has a keypad. but your bluetooth mp3 player propably does not.
JACEM
The perpose of a company a limited liability company is to protect the investers from an unforseen debt. Therefore the company becomes an indevidual with an Employer ID Number (EIN) basicly a social security number like it is a person. The idea is that the paper person the company is responsible for the debt that it incurs not any of the people involved. Now you can't sue for an appology you can only sue for money. So many companies get forced into bankruptcy by fines and law suits.
So your general idea of shutting down law breaking companies does happen. However the idea jail time for a corp is impossible because the _person_ that really broke the law is not really a person. All you can do is sue and fine them until they have to start selling off assets to cover the fines. In the case of a company like sony this would be a huge number.
This become even harder because it only costs about a hundred dollers to set up an LLC, so a law breaking corp only has to make a new paper person and move its assets behind that new LLC and an new EIN new paper person to hide behind. That is why so many large corps rent their furniture and officespace from holding companies so that no real world assets are at risk from their activities.
JACEM
The problem with the death penalty is that it has a perminent finality to it. If an innocent is sent to jail, even for a long time. There is still the possibility of release and appology when new evidence arrises. However if they have been exocuted, how are we as a state to make amends.
JACEM
Here Here. This is one of the best posts I've seen on /. for a while.
JACEM