I think another problem would be the "NASA effect", when good people get old and couldn't move anywhere since there was no other place to go, then started to stay around for the paycheck. Or whatever it was that happened to NASA in the Shuttle era, forward.
Now if they'd go one step farther and compile a database of sites that "attacked" and allowed access to it for use as a blacklist. We've got spiders walking all over the net compiling all kinds of databases, I'm surprised nobody's done one like that before.
Actually they (MS) searched the net, found what other people were using as their hosts file and then visited those sites. So this is actually the opposite of what you are suggesting. MS is using other people's host files to find out what they considered "bad sites" and then visited them.
(And don't even get me started on the subject of not allowing an OS "upgrade" from a 'Full version' CD. I ran into this with Windows 98SE and ended up having to scrub my installation because my more expensive Full Version cd wouldn't upgrade my old Windows version.)
Maybe too late now, but all you had to do was rename win.com to something else and the full version would install. The upgrade version will install if win.com exists and the full version refuses to install if win.com exists. And if I remember right (from the last time I did a 98se install) the win.com file could be 0 bytes for the upgrade to work.
" I wonder if there was any reason that they were NOT saving files to Office/RTF format rather than native Staroffice format?" Because most people don't even understand what a "file format" is.
I would think that would have made it easier, not harder, to save to a compatible format designated by IT. Just set it to default to RTF/doc/whatever and forget it.
In my small company where I am partner and Technology Overlord we buy the extended warranty on the servers. Workstations are expendable and do not hold any data on them whatsoever - they run LTSP, so they don't get insurance other than standard business insurance.
Our tech budget is as follows:
Annual licensing fees (not everything can be beer free) Our major licensing outlay is for business software that is obsoleted each year, not all businesses have the same license experience.
Monthly connectivity fees
Reserve funds set aside equal to the cost of a replacement server - two after this year (we run two)
Hardware expansion - this year our network is being expanded due to moving to a new office location, but due to a sabbatical on the part of a new employee (who previously used his own equipment at home but who will work in the office when he is back) we are forgoing the purchase of a new workstation for six months to a year.
A reserve amount equal to one third the cost of our workstation machines is set aside each year. When they finally die (which still should be a few years out - I expect to push them longer than three years) the funds should be available to replace them. The workstations are cheap machines that PXE boot off the wire.
We add a 5%-10% premium to the hardware replacement estimates for reserves.
The amounts that we have set aside are for a catastrophic replacement strategy. In theory if it burned to the ground we could replace it all. Note that for accounting purposes the money is not all "spent" but it is moved to reserves on the balance sheet. Annual and monthly fees are necessarily expenses, reserves are not taken off the income statement.
Of course, the fine would likely be treated as a typical expense, which means it would help reduce overall taxes. The effect to the bottom line would then be considerably less than $10 million.
Depends. I haven't looked at corporate taxes specific to this, but if it's a fine for breaking a law you generally don't get to deduct it.
As I understand it non-compete clauses aren't very enforceable in the us. But it depends.
It depends upon which state you live in actually. Interesting that no one has brought this up. Most non-union states, ie you do not have to belong to a union to get a job, also called right to work states generally allow you to go to work for a competing employer. Where you might be prevented from doing so would be where you were paid to not compete through a severence package, etc.
Whether and how this would apply Lee has to be reviewed from the state where he actually worked, not the laws of Washington state unless he actually worked in Washington.
I worked for a multinational company whose contracts had a non-compete clause. Since the contract were not written to my state's laws certain sections were void, including the non-compete. Just because they might write, you agree that the state law where our attornies wrote the contract apply to you, doesn't neccessarily mean that they do.
When they scan your hand they compare it to your previous scan, and if it matches then they know it's you.
So it's a fingerprint of your fingerprint. How long before it's a real fingerprint and they're comparing it to RIAA and MPAA records to catch "downloaders" and sending files to the Feds?
I have the right to own a handgun, in the privacy of my own home, and shoot at tin
cans and squirrels. Now, where am I supposed to be crying about this as something
that is absolutely and completely missing in my life, what part of this blatant
restriction of rights means that I cannot and would not consider living another
painful, gunless day?
Replace guns with HD DVD, and do you see what I am getting at?
You cannot go about infringing on the rights of others to not get shot. Copyright law covers me making copies and distributing them. That would infringe on the copyright owners' right to distribute their material for a limited time. If I'm not infringing on their right to distribute, then why am I limited to viewing again? Oh that's right to artificially support MS, movie companies and hardware manufacturers.
My life will not be over if I can't make a VHS copy of my favorite movie to take to my night job and watch it during down time, but the movie companies are not getting any more money due to me purchasing a VHS copy of a movie I already own either.
Right, so you can buy a $500 box to decode the video and display it on an old
monitor.
Or perhaps on any video device you choose, not just MS- monitor.
That's nice. Why don't people just buy new monitors for $200-$300 that have
the capability of displaying the content?
The problem people miss here is that if you do have that capable display (any
decent TV for example), the content plays fine. To hell with restrictions if
you have the right hardware; the high definiton video is available to you.
Why is that always simply glossed over in favour of discussing the down side?:)
What was the upside that was 'glossed over' again? This is another attempt to reach into my home and tell me how I can watch, listen, etc. to content that I purchased the right to view (this film is licensed for personal use, etc. that you see at the beginning of every film if you don't rip it).
I don't "steal" - how can one steal a license to view, if I have the license I should be able to view right? - content whether it's a movie or a song or whatever, but why is it that I have to suffer Macrovision? Just try making a VHS copy of a movie that you own the license to view (it's on DVD) so you can watch it on a different device. I didn't purchase a "license to only view on the original media" I purchased a private viewing license right? If I can only view it on the original media then concessions need to be made on the price to compensate me for crippling my end of the license agreement.
"I would hire 20,000 temporary staff for a period of 5-15 years, without ever offering to hire them on permanently. Then, I would issue each of them a teaspoon and canoe. These would be deducted from their first paycheck of course, at full retail price"
Just make sure that by deducting the canoe and the teaspoon you don't push them below the Federal Minimum Wage or you run afoul of the FSLA.
It is completely opposite way of thought than how American's have previously thought about property. For example how many of you grew up and left doors unlocked to your house or car all the time. I for one never locked my car doors at home nor the front door to my house. It is your private property and you never expect anyone who wasn't welcome to break those boundries, but we have welcomed the Internet with it's complete opposite point of view.
In the Western US it's free range unless you fence other people out. That's what the cattle lobby gets you. I read somewhere (don't remember right now exactly where) that the internet is or should be similar in nature to the free range laws; if you are not specifically excluded, ie. "fenced out", then you have rights to "graze".
" Actually Michigan has passed the same law. Why is only Utah in title of the the post and refered to in most comments?"
Whatever happened to parents taking responsibility for their kids? Let's stop bashing the stupid laws and start bashing the stupid parents. I mean, we're pushing the responsibility to "check ID" off onto businesses who never see the face of their customers?
And from what I read this is mostly the crap spam that gets snarfed up by Spamassassin anyway (well except for the part about "any web page that links to the offensive ads/products")
MS always gets kicked around (especially here) for doing things like this, so my question is:
If a company is developing a product (RSS product seems an obvious example), and after exploring and using the standard meant for that type of product they see additional functionality which would be useful but isn't covered by the standards. What SHOULD they do? Just forget about additional functionality and live with the standard? Submit a request to the standard body, hope they agree, and wait for it to become part of the standard?
I think it remains to be seen if this is a good or bad thing. If what they are doing is related only to MS software, then maybe no one cares. If it has to do only with their reader, then probably no one will care. What they most likely will do is wreck feeds so that they look like crap... jam it in sideways into IIS and do a check so your rss feed reader has to begin "identifying" itself as "Really Simple Syndication reader for Longhorn 1.23; incompatible" or you won't be able to read any feeds from IIS driven sites. Then they'll add some form of Digital Restrictions Management and sell it as an "enterprise tool" probably with ads of people walking around with dinosaur heads on.
I'm no fan of the PATRIOT ACT but there is actually a lot of necessary changes in it. It allows different agencies to work more closely together, which is a good thing.
It might allow them to work together, but from what I hear they don't work any better together or share information any better than before.
It has also shut down "money houses" (informal version of wiring money overseas) and adds requirements to your bank and anyone dealing with any of your money. It places the requirement on your bank collect to a physical address. In some parts of the country that's 12 miles SE of mile marker 252, just past the fork on the left side of the big boulder. Can you tell anyone with a straight face that is better than PO Box 1234? That is where the bank starts to look for you though... just past the mile marker. There are a ton of anti-money laundering and ID requirements built into it too.
Just remember that none of these people had fake ID. They all obtained ID legitimately. They were all allowed to stay in the country (some past their visa expirations) a couple were reportedly on the no fly list but so were Ted Kennedy and Cat Stevens.
No. It was in response to the 3 or 4 people who kept hitting submit on the Family Television Decency (or whatever these nut jobs call themselves) web site over a boob popping out on television during the "family values" super bowl that caused stations to choose not to air Saving Private Ryan. Your comment while attempting to be funny completely misses the point.
There have been a few counter arguments showing that a small number of people merely hit submit and that there were relatively few "unique" complaints from viewers.
And if I may go off into flamebait land the FCC doesn't see fit to cover up that boob-fest called the White House so why should Janet's rate so high?
"A tool is not evil simply because someone can imagine an evil way to use it."
But in this case the tool is evil because it only works with IE 5.5 and up. I don't know if agent switching works or not other than you get the main page if you switch.
Unfortunately the agent doesn't have much choice in the matter. Most large brokers develop only for IE to point of "bullying" their agents into using IE. The real problem comes when you leave the brokerage web site. These are not all intranet apps, expecially if your agent is an independent one and most agents have access to the rest of the scary web. Smarter(more paranoid) agents will use IE only on the required sites and close that gaping hole when moving to the rest of the web, but don't think that agents don't access other web sites.
"Stallman is also a maniac who refused to give a speech on his views to the SIGLinux (LUG at the University of Texas) because we were using the name "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux." He doesn't know where to pick his fights and often ends up embroiled in petty feuds over things largely tangential to his main cause. His solutions are often overly idealistic and impractical, i.e. moving everyone who uses Java off of Java."
He refused to mention our Install Fest (timed to coincide with his visit to NAU) due to us calling ourselves LUNA instead of GNU/LUNA which sorta loses something. It was back and forth over the mailing list... and we never did change our name.
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Our tech budget is as follows:
- Annual licensing fees (not everything can be beer free) Our major licensing outlay is for business software that is obsoleted each year, not all businesses have the same license experience.
- Monthly connectivity fees
- Reserve funds set aside equal to the cost of a replacement server - two after this year (we run two)
- Hardware expansion - this year our network is being expanded due to moving to a new office location, but due to a sabbatical on the part of a new employee (who previously used his own equipment at home but who will work in the office when he is back) we are forgoing the purchase of a new workstation for six months to a year.
- A reserve amount equal to one third the cost of our workstation machines is set aside each year. When they finally die (which still should be a few years out - I expect to push them longer than three years) the funds should be available to replace them. The workstations are cheap machines that PXE boot off the wire.
- We add a 5%-10% premium to the hardware replacement estimates for reserves.
The amounts that we have set aside are for a catastrophic replacement strategy. In theory if it burned to the ground we could replace it all. Note that for accounting purposes the money is not all "spent" but it is moved to reserves on the balance sheet. Annual and monthly fees are necessarily expenses, reserves are not taken off the income statement.Of course, the fine would likely be treated as a typical expense, which means it would help reduce overall taxes. The effect to the bottom line would then be considerably less than $10 million. Depends. I haven't looked at corporate taxes specific to this, but if it's a fine for breaking a law you generally don't get to deduct it.
Whether and how this would apply Lee has to be reviewed from the state where he actually worked, not the laws of Washington state unless he actually worked in Washington.
I worked for a multinational company whose contracts had a non-compete clause. Since the contract were not written to my state's laws certain sections were void, including the non-compete. Just because they might write, you agree that the state law where our attornies wrote the contract apply to you, doesn't neccessarily mean that they do.
My life will not be over if I can't make a VHS copy of my favorite movie to take to my night job and watch it during down time, but the movie companies are not getting any more money due to me purchasing a VHS copy of a movie I already own either.
This is another attempt to reach into my home and tell me how I can watch, listen, etc. to content that I purchased the right to view (this film is licensed for personal use, etc. that you see at the beginning of every film if you don't rip it).
I don't "steal" - how can one steal a license to view, if I have the license I should be able to view right? - content whether it's a movie or a song or whatever, but why is it that I have to suffer Macrovision? Just try making a VHS copy of a movie that you own the license to view (it's on DVD) so you can watch it on a different device. I didn't purchase a "license to only view on the original media" I purchased a private viewing license right? If I can only view it on the original media then concessions need to be made on the price to compensate me for crippling my end of the license agreement.
Just make sure that by deducting the canoe and the teaspoon you don't push them below the Federal Minimum Wage or you run afoul of the FSLA.
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3) Profit!
4) Embrace and extend the underpants business model
5) ??????
6) Explode
And from what I read this is mostly the crap spam that gets snarfed up by Spamassassin anyway (well except for the part about "any web page that links to the offensive ads/products")
It has also shut down "money houses" (informal version of wiring money overseas) and adds requirements to your bank and anyone dealing with any of your money. It places the requirement on your bank collect to a physical address. In some parts of the country that's 12 miles SE of mile marker 252, just past the fork on the left side of the big boulder. Can you tell anyone with a straight face that is better than PO Box 1234? That is where the bank starts to look for you though... just past the mile marker. There are a ton of anti-money laundering and ID requirements built into it too.
Just remember that none of these people had fake ID. They all obtained ID legitimately. They were all allowed to stay in the country (some past their visa expirations) a couple were reportedly on the no fly list but so were Ted Kennedy and Cat Stevens.
No. It was in response to the 3 or 4 people who kept hitting submit on the Family Television Decency (or whatever these nut jobs call themselves) web site over a boob popping out on television during the "family values" super bowl that caused stations to choose not to air Saving Private Ryan. Your comment while attempting to be funny completely misses the point.
There have been a few counter arguments showing that a small number of people merely hit submit and that there were relatively few "unique" complaints from viewers.
And if I may go off into flamebait land the FCC doesn't see fit to cover up that boob-fest called the White House so why should Janet's rate so high?
"A tool is not evil simply because someone can imagine an evil way to use it."
But in this case the tool is evil because it only works with IE 5.5 and up. I don't know if agent switching works or not other than you get the main page if you switch.
OpenOffice.org calls it DataPilot.
Unfortunately the agent doesn't have much choice in the matter. Most large brokers develop only for IE to point of "bullying" their agents into using IE. The real problem comes when you leave the brokerage web site. These are not all intranet apps, expecially if your agent is an independent one and most agents have access to the rest of the scary web. Smarter(more paranoid) agents will use IE only on the required sites and close that gaping hole when moving to the rest of the web, but don't think that agents don't access other web sites.
But by now... I'm either redundant, fell for a troll or both.