We all do chemistry on a daily basis, the difference is that we usually don't do it as our daily plan. Brush your teeth, take a bath and even breathing. Cooking is actually an advanced version of chemistry.
The area of chemistry is so wide that it's in no way possible to ban it all. And some people are stupid enough to think that it's dangerous to create huge soap bubbles or analyze the water yourself.
The current Dalai Lama is a product of being in opposition, and therefore has a completely different perspective than if he had been in the isolated position that he would have had if Tibet wasn't invaded.
Not that the invasion was right either. Religion and government really doesn't mix well in the long run. There are too many examples of that.
To survive it's sometimes best to be good at what you are doing. But being too specialized isn't good either because then you will become extinct as a dinosaur because you suddenly find yourself left behind in a swamp of old technology.
VIA are good at producing low-power devices with reasonable performance for general use. There is competition from Intel now, but since the environmental concerns are growing over time VIA has a place in the server room for some applications that doesn't require a lot of computing power. Many of their processors actually have a lot of the chipset functionality built in instead of in an external chip. So they aren't leaving the chipset knowledge behind completely.
Intel and AMD are working on the high-performance end of processors and chipsets. But so far they have mostly been into standard machines with relatively few CPU:s. And I suspect that there will be an upcoming step when a lot of the chipset functionality moves into the processor itself.
SiS and others have their main area at just chipsets, but if they doesn't have alternate product lines or get into specialized solutions where they are filling out gaps that AMD and Intel are missing they will get a hard time.
The point is that if you are small you may have to provide a more complete product than if you are big. In the case of VIA you can get a complete working motherboard (add memory and go), but many of the other competing manufacturers are still depending on other key components like processors from Intel or AMD.
But then - AMD also need something that can distinguish them from Intel if they are going to survive. The 64-bit instruction set was a good step when it came, but now they need something else to get an advantage again. It's no idea to try to beat Intel at their own game, you must be different in some way and do something unexpected or something that makes you special.
I suspect that this is mainly to be able to nuke applications that are doing really evil things, but it's of course also possible that this will be used to kill off applications that Apple doesn't like for one reason or another.
And even if this is a single telemarketer, the catch is to make it impossibly ineconomical to run a telemarketing company. Many that are employed may have had to chose between being unemployed or be a telemarketer.
Add a TDM410 card to be able to connect your POTS line.
The use of a softphone like Express Talk will allow you to use your headset. Some softphones will automatically mute your movie or music when a call arrives.
At least 90% of the work done is bread and butter work, where the need and use of IP protection is outright counter-productive. The remaining 10% is where it may be worth to do some IP protection, but you shouldn't be too obnoxious about that either.
The only things worth to protect are the few items that can be classified as "Brilliant". And there are very few that actually has that class. And it's impossible to tell which picture or music tract that is going to be the next new hit. So your idea of spreading your work to give you more work has some merit.
The big disadvantage with IP protection schemes is that you as a producer will have to do the work of protecting your IP. (OK, you may hire a lawyer) but in effect it will result in that you have less and less time and resources over to produce something new.
In technology patents are also a way of protection against patent trolls. Which means that the patent offices and lawyers are the only ones really profiting from this scheme.
But there is also another way to cut it. You may spread your work widely but with an usage clause that states that as long as it's for non-commercial use it's free to use. I.e. nobody else shall be able to use your picture to do a profit unless you get a cut of the deal. And reasonable deals can always be worked out.
It was certainly paid for by someone that wanted to have their commercial at a certain time to be most remembered and therefore they also wanted the country of preference to be displayed in conjunction with that commercial.
Personally I would say that a purely mechanical key is insufficient in a high-security building.
It would be necessary to also have electronic support in the same way as the immobilizer in cars works so that the lock refuses to open whenever an unaccepted key is used. And even if possible also sound an alarm and keep the forged key in the lock, which will then be considered evidence.
If I have legitimate business and the key is kept by the lock I shouldn't be worried when Secret Service shows up to resolve the problem, but if I'm on illegitimate business then I will lose the key that probably carries some of my DNA and have to make myself scarce.
The idea behind locks are to deter entry from the people that are curious or looking for an opportunity and to delay those that really are planning to entry anyway.
I have fiddled around with Windows/Linux integration for central authentication and found that the only alternative TODAY that works acceptable is to use the "Windows Services for Unix" (SFU) add-on for Windows Server. And you can download that from Microsoft.
It is possible to set up Linux as a LDAP server and with Samba as a domain controller for Windows, but currently it's tricky. I haven't done any digging in Samba4 yet, so all my experience is from Samba 3.
To me it seems like there is a lot of work to be done yet. But the most important thing is in reality that the administration of accounts for both environments has to be both easy and central for an IT organization to be adopted.
For a pure *NIX environment there is no big issues setting up an LDAP server using OpenLDAP and then let the *NIX boxes authenticate against that. At least it is a lot easier to get that to work than to get a working environment using NIS+.
I wouldn't claim that SFU is the best solution or without flaws, but at least it contains an acceptable level of functionality.
As for LDAP servers, OpenLDAP is one that are relatively well-known. I have been fiddling around with the 2.4 branch for the issues of symmetrical replication. The disadvantage of OpenLDAP is that it's quirky to work with, but that's another story.
And don't forget - they also want to make sure that they get member fees and therefore activates blockades against competition from out of country companies where the workers may have a different union.
Like when Polish construction companies comes to Sweden and works.
Even competition between unions within the same country/state can be a cause for blockades.
A non-compete clause is effectively placing you into a slavery situation.
"You can't leave us for a better paid job at our competitor".
So that effectively leads anybody that has fallen for that clause to the following alternatives:
1. Migrate to a different area where the clause is invalid since you can't compete. 2. Change to a completely different area of work like cleaning pools, collecting garbage or growing carrots.
The aftermath was a lot of turbulence, but it sure is also a wakeup call to the remaining accounting companies that no one is safe from legal action regardless of size.
Bad business is contagious, just look at the bank problems right now. I'm sure that a lot of accounting companies cleared up their acts very silently after the Enron turbulence.
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We all do chemistry on a daily basis, the difference is that we usually don't do it as our daily plan. Brush your teeth, take a bath and even breathing. Cooking is actually an advanced version of chemistry.
The area of chemistry is so wide that it's in no way possible to ban it all. And some people are stupid enough to think that it's dangerous to create huge soap bubbles or analyze the water yourself.
The current Dalai Lama is a product of being in opposition, and therefore has a completely different perspective than if he had been in the isolated position that he would have had if Tibet wasn't invaded.
Not that the invasion was right either. Religion and government really doesn't mix well in the long run. There are too many examples of that.
For the same reason that there is no "+1 Troll" alternative. - But sometimes it could have been interesting.
Considering all the mess that IOC and some national Olympic committees has been involved with I no longer have any interest in the Olympic games.
My experience of the Grandstream devices are that they have a tendency to die after about 2 years of use.
I would say that this variation may survive because the persons having it are more persistent about getting sex.
If it isn't improving your survivability it must be about sex. Otherwise it wouldn't survive for long.
That would explain a lot right now.
And if this defect is so frequent it must have some kind of survivability bonus, or is it just that these people tends to get more sex?
Maybe insurance companies will take on to this and increase the fee if you have this genetic variation.
To survive it's sometimes best to be good at what you are doing. But being too specialized isn't good either because then you will become extinct as a dinosaur because you suddenly find yourself left behind in a swamp of old technology.
VIA are good at producing low-power devices with reasonable performance for general use. There is competition from Intel now, but since the environmental concerns are growing over time VIA has a place in the server room for some applications that doesn't require a lot of computing power. Many of their processors actually have a lot of the chipset functionality built in instead of in an external chip. So they aren't leaving the chipset knowledge behind completely.
Intel and AMD are working on the high-performance end of processors and chipsets. But so far they have mostly been into standard machines with relatively few CPU:s. And I suspect that there will be an upcoming step when a lot of the chipset functionality moves into the processor itself.
SiS and others have their main area at just chipsets, but if they doesn't have alternate product lines or get into specialized solutions where they are filling out gaps that AMD and Intel are missing they will get a hard time.
The point is that if you are small you may have to provide a more complete product than if you are big. In the case of VIA you can get a complete working motherboard (add memory and go), but many of the other competing manufacturers are still depending on other key components like processors from Intel or AMD.
But then - AMD also need something that can distinguish them from Intel if they are going to survive. The 64-bit instruction set was a good step when it came, but now they need something else to get an advantage again. It's no idea to try to beat Intel at their own game, you must be different in some way and do something unexpected or something that makes you special.
I suspect that this is mainly to be able to nuke applications that are doing really evil things, but it's of course also possible that this will be used to kill off applications that Apple doesn't like for one reason or another.
Censorship is a word that comes to mind.
I hope I'm wrong, otherwise we're going to have pages of posts helping a telemarketer do his or her job :)
That's a risk that we have to take. But don't forget that there are other people reading this too.
Just take a look at the Asterisk Telemarketer Torture if you have problems with Telemarketers.
And even if this is a single telemarketer, the catch is to make it impossibly ineconomical to run a telemarketing company. Many that are employed may have had to chose between being unemployed or be a telemarketer.
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I suggest that you take a look at http://www.asterisknow.org/ for Asterisk as an appliance.
Add a TDM410 card to be able to connect your POTS line.
The use of a softphone like Express Talk will allow you to use your headset. Some softphones will automatically mute your movie or music when a call arrives.
Maybe you should run Asterisk at home where you have a lot of flexibility available to do just about everything you ever wanted (and some more too)
As an added bonus you can even blacklist callers so you can get rid of the telemarketers.
There is probably room for both.
At least 90% of the work done is bread and butter work, where the need and use of IP protection is outright counter-productive. The remaining 10% is where it may be worth to do some IP protection, but you shouldn't be too obnoxious about that either.
The only things worth to protect are the few items that can be classified as "Brilliant". And there are very few that actually has that class. And it's impossible to tell which picture or music tract that is going to be the next new hit. So your idea of spreading your work to give you more work has some merit.
The big disadvantage with IP protection schemes is that you as a producer will have to do the work of protecting your IP. (OK, you may hire a lawyer) but in effect it will result in that you have less and less time and resources over to produce something new.
In technology patents are also a way of protection against patent trolls. Which means that the patent offices and lawyers are the only ones really profiting from this scheme.
But there is also another way to cut it. You may spread your work widely but with an usage clause that states that as long as it's for non-commercial use it's free to use. I.e. nobody else shall be able to use your picture to do a profit unless you get a cut of the deal. And reasonable deals can always be worked out.
By the way - there is a "Lima" in Sweden too, not just in Peru. And you have 9 more in USA.
Just to make things simple!
And Google Maps does give confusing alternatives all too often.
Just try to look for "Dannemora", you will have at least three alternatives. "Dannemora, Sweden", "Dannemora, NY" and "Dannemora, New Zealand".
As I understand it the ones in NY and New Zealand have been getting their names from Swedes emigrating from "Dannemora, Sweden".
And if you search for "Dannemora" only you will be located in New Zealand.
There are countless other cases with the same name confusion so this isn't surprising.
No it's all about money and product placement.
It was certainly paid for by someone that wanted to have their commercial at a certain time to be most remembered and therefore they also wanted the country of preference to be displayed in conjunction with that commercial.
Personally I would say that a purely mechanical key is insufficient in a high-security building.
It would be necessary to also have electronic support in the same way as the immobilizer in cars works so that the lock refuses to open whenever an unaccepted key is used. And even if possible also sound an alarm and keep the forged key in the lock, which will then be considered evidence.
If I have legitimate business and the key is kept by the lock I shouldn't be worried when Secret Service shows up to resolve the problem, but if I'm on illegitimate business then I will lose the key that probably carries some of my DNA and have to make myself scarce.
The idea behind locks are to deter entry from the people that are curious or looking for an opportunity and to delay those that really are planning to entry anyway.
And it applies to many other places in the world too.
Maybe time for Google to be a bit more careful about what they look at.
I have fiddled around with Windows/Linux integration for central authentication and found that the only alternative TODAY that works acceptable is to use the "Windows Services for Unix" (SFU) add-on for Windows Server. And you can download that from Microsoft.
It is possible to set up Linux as a LDAP server and with Samba as a domain controller for Windows, but currently it's tricky. I haven't done any digging in Samba4 yet, so all my experience is from Samba 3.
To me it seems like there is a lot of work to be done yet. But the most important thing is in reality that the administration of accounts for both environments has to be both easy and central for an IT organization to be adopted.
For a pure *NIX environment there is no big issues setting up an LDAP server using OpenLDAP and then let the *NIX boxes authenticate against that. At least it is a lot easier to get that to work than to get a working environment using NIS+.
I wouldn't claim that SFU is the best solution or without flaws, but at least it contains an acceptable level of functionality.
As for LDAP servers, OpenLDAP is one that are relatively well-known. I have been fiddling around with the 2.4 branch for the issues of symmetrical replication. The disadvantage of OpenLDAP is that it's quirky to work with, but that's another story.
May be, but it also depends on if you were forced to take the course to keep your employment or if you were volunteering for it.
And what if you are laid off, then there is also a question of if you shall be obliged to pay.
It can prove for interesting cases in court.
And what about the wigs?
And don't forget - they also want to make sure that they get member fees and therefore activates blockades against competition from out of country companies where the workers may have a different union.
Like when Polish construction companies comes to Sweden and works.
Even competition between unions within the same country/state can be a cause for blockades.
A non-compete clause is effectively placing you into a slavery situation.
"You can't leave us for a better paid job at our competitor".
So that effectively leads anybody that has fallen for that clause to the following alternatives:
1. Migrate to a different area where the clause is invalid since you can't compete.
2. Change to a completely different area of work like cleaning pools, collecting garbage or growing carrots.
And I'm sure that Accenture were extremely happy that they had to change from "Andersen Consulting" BEFORE the shit hit the fan.
In a way it was the correct action.
The aftermath was a lot of turbulence, but it sure is also a wakeup call to the remaining accounting companies that no one is safe from legal action regardless of size.
Bad business is contagious, just look at the bank problems right now. I'm sure that a lot of accounting companies cleared up their acts very silently after the Enron turbulence.