They nationalized property without compensating international businesses.
So did Mexico. So did Venezuela.
News update, when Exxon asked (and got) a freeze over U$S 12.000M of PDVSA assets, Mr Chavez did not start a party but got upset and started yelling and screaming. Seems that the "nationalization" or "I'll take over your assets in a way you'll most certainly loose" is not welcome in both sides of the fence. I don't know why is that.
From Reuters:
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) won court orders in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles freezing assets of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in each jurisdiction worth up to $12 billion, according to a company spokeswoman. (Reporting by Matt Daily)
So, let's add "so did Exxon" and see what happens. Tough Exxon freeze should be in exchange for the assets lost, if any,.... hopefully.
Or *invest* those earnings from the big hit and live off of that. I have no sympathy for people who were millionaires due to some one time hit and then frittered it away.
if this bill ever passess the EU, it would certainly become known as the "Britney bill".
My problem is that the attitude that "we don't need IPv6 because NAT solves the problem" is just wrong.
What about the following sentence: 'My problem is that the attitude that "we don't need NAT because IPv6 solves the problem" is just wrong.'. I also find myself thinking about said sentence. When people comes to me with the "no more NAT because we have IPv6 and you can have an IP address for every cell of your body", I wonder if they really want me to, for examle, assign a publicly addressable IP address to every internal machine for example inside a bank. Is that a good idea? By my standards of today, I say no way.
So, think about it:
a) My problem is that the attitude that "we don't need IPv6 because NAT solves the problem" is just wrong.
b) My problem is that the attitude that "we don't need NAT because IPv6 solves the problem" is just wrong.
What's left? That is where IPv6 has to win, but for certain scenarios, NAT seems to be a "good thing (tm)".
B) The knowledge of 50+ yr old career politicians w/regards to technology
And what about the marketing/mafia/legal knowledge of the NASA technology experts radiating "across the universe" from The Beatles to the whole Universe? I sense a massive URIAA (universal Riaa) and his legal team from Omicron IV to beat the hell out those NASA nerds. Or is it going to be transmitted with DRM? The amount of cease-and-desist-letters rain coming from outer space will make the leonids a picnic. Just imagine, we discover an extraterrestrial life form represented by: their lawyers. We could be starting a war here. The rammifications are endless.
TFA: You may have heard that at 7pm EST on Feb. 4, NASA plans to blast The Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into deep space in order to serenade otherworldly beings hundreds, thousands or millions of light years away with our very best pop music. I have several problems with this.
For starters, NASA: You got the choice of the entire Beatles catalog, and you pick a song only because it contains a relevant metaphor? I mean, have you ever listened to Revolver? Wait, actually, you clearly must've, since Paul McCartney performed "Good Day Sunshine" in Nov. 2005 for the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. If you're aiming at aliens, why not choose something a little less intelligible, like "Dig a Pony," "Come Together" or "Tomorrow Never Knows." If those weren't written for space aliens, I don't know what.
Next on my shitlist: EMI and Apple Corp. WTF???? I've been a lifelong fan of your stupid Fab Four, but you're giving six billion purple globules from the Crab Nebula a shot at digitally retrieving The Beatles before I get one single measly 99-cent download? How is that fair? (Of course, the complete Beatles catalog is already on my iPod, but still!)
And finally, a message to the Crab people: Don't trust these downloads. You'll see the file streaming into your antenna array and you'll be like, "Sweet! Free music!" But then you open the file, and you get this message on your Crab Nebula equivalent of Windows Media Player 11, saying that in order to enjoy this track, you need to get authorization from a central server. You click okay, and the message has to travel back to earth, taking another 50,000 years or so. Which may seem worth the wait, only the track itself expires in 30 days.
So good luck to you, purple Crab people. And GFY, recording industry. You have dissed me for the last time. [Network World via The Inquirer]
Well, funny as it is, usually if you contract IBM services, and you buy say 30 hs a week of a certain skill at a certain rate, they would have another rate if case you overshot that 30hs/week timeframe. Do you think they are going to lower services contract by 15, 10, or 5% now?
Well, TFA mentions Dec 7 1997 as "the day". In 1996, I worked in a project which involves Oracle Parallel Server on a RS/6000 SP2 parallel system. OPS used "I/O shipping" to send to several nodes the I/O request for a given query, and used the VSD subsystem for doing that (VSD stands for Virtual Shared Disk. The disk were attached to several SP2 nodes, which did the actual I/O while the many OPS nodes all saw the complete database as directly connected to it). Back then, 1996, the other "standard" of doing the parallel-database-thing was called "function shipping", in which not the IO, but the query was split among the nodes that had the tables and/or data involved.
Of course, in both cases, all the nodes were networked using the SP2 switch in order to have huge bandwidht and low latency. Sounds familiar...
Everyone I know with a BluRay player has an HD-DVD player.
The opposite is not true.
That probably says something.
Hi tgd!
I own a PS3 60 GB + Blu Ray, and I don't own a HD-DVD. I live in South America. Nice to meet you. BTW, this is my cousin, he owns a PS3 with blu ray too, and he lives in NYC. he does not own an HD-DVD player either, and rents most of his stuff from blockbuster.
Let me tell you, now that the broke the ice, that you are the first guy I talk to who has an HD-DVD player, and also a BD player. What blu ray hw do you own?
Yeah, I guess all this probably says we should get outside more often and start talking with real people, outside our respective forums...
Even if Cisco/Linksys are missing from the list, Broadcom is not, and a lot of Linksys routers (earlier WRT54G's, WRT54GL's, WRT350's) are based on broadcom chipsets.
I wonder how much will the European governments, and Europe in general, buy from Microsoft in this fiscal year. I would like to know how much these 497M euros are, expressed as a % of the former figure, to see how much of a "discount" did they get.
I don't mean this is bad, but we need to have a clear whole picture, to see if this has any chance of working.
because there was a famous USA court ruling that car manufactures could not artificially restrict the ability of third parties
That's rather interesting, because I've been said from the Peugeot 307 sellers here (I own a 306) that if I were to change the radio of a 307, I would loose the (or some of the) warranties on the car.
Guess our european law-abiding-corporate-abuse-killers overlords might have problems eating parts of their own cooking:-).
ODF advocates want ODF to be the sole ISO standard so they can use that status as ammo when lobbying governments to mandate exclusive use of ODF. They want to deny any competing format from achieving the same status, lest their talking point disappears.
OR : They don't want a competing format becaming a standard, when implementation of said "other" standard seems both impossible, and also having to do with propietary formats not clearly "defined" in the standard and also covered with patents owned by the company, which happens to be a convicted monopolist, that it pushing for the "second" standard. Having parts of the "open standard" covered by patents, or not clearly defined, makes such an standard as open as any closed format...:)
Nothing is stopping this other company from implementing ODF if it becomes an open standard. No patents to pay for its use.
What do you figure out of this? C'mon... seems easy...
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And I vehemently disagree with that line of thinking. I do not think the government's job is to force people to "play nice". If MS uses it's Windows position to take over the browser market, so be it. Obviously they've done their homework.
The fact is, they can try to take over the browser market, and if fact they did. Fact also is, abusing a monopoly is not only "not playing nice", but against the law. Governments are somehow supposed to have their citizens (both persons and companies) play by rules, have "rules" that implement "justice", and deliver that "justice". What has happened in this particular case is left as an exercise to the reader:)
The Court of Appeals judged the case on merit rather than on prejudice. Microsoft lost on every single point. The court held that:
* Microsoft does indeed poses a monopoly.
* Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly in clear violation of the law.
* The guilty verdict is completely sound and there is no reason to reconsider it.
* Breaking up Microsoft is not an overly harsh penalty and could be re-imposed.
So, if they were really "convicted", then it might get new "legal meaning" if they go to court for the same reason once again. Also, I did not wrote that because of a legal meaning, I just said it because that what they seem they are, similar to when I talk about the blue sky, or about the white moon.
Look. MS wrote the OS. MS owns the OS. MS can do whatever they want with it. If that means integrate whatever the **** they want, then piss off. If you don't like it, don't use it. It is not drinking water. Yes, you can live with MS. I don't use Windows, but I will do whatever it takes to make sure MS does not loose this fundamental freedom.
Well..er.. they have that fundamental freedom. But, they happen to be a convicted monopolist too. See, if you are in a position, which derives from you being a monopoly, and that sole position helps you leverage to get market share another product, which happens to compete with a third party (which you so badly want to hurt), then, there's no competition/freedom. You are just using your monopoly in order to push your product.
Also, bear in mind that MS seems to be afraid of Google, so this seems to be some kind of dirty trick in order to hurt Google.
Of course they can innovate! They can make their OS much safer than it already is. They are the ones that can do it, but yet they don't. Sorry, I dont want another insecure desktop search gadget, as the totally insecure Web browser we have now (remember the IE-Netscape chapter of the digital era?) on "most" pc (and I guess you know what pc's are those... and why).
ps: I don't use Windows. This post was brougth to you with no MS software between my workstation and my external router. Anyway, I suffer from other people using it (received any spam lately?)
They are in big trouble indeed!: look, they acknowledge an american, living in the states, for the provision of wireless routers with their MAC adjusted for long distance communications. If this was really done, then is clearly being done under the supervision of Washington.
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News update, when Exxon asked (and got) a freeze over U$S 12.000M of PDVSA assets, Mr Chavez did not start a party but got upset and started yelling and screaming. Seems that the "nationalization" or "I'll take over your assets in a way you'll most certainly loose" is not welcome in both sides of the fence. I don't know why is that.
From Reuters: NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) won court orders in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles freezing assets of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in each jurisdiction worth up to $12 billion, according to a company spokeswoman. (Reporting by Matt Daily)
So, let's add "so did Exxon" and see what happens. Tough Exxon freeze should be in exchange for the assets lost, if any,.... hopefully.
Not to be outdone, Fidel also tried to spread the "Blessings" of his kind of government with a strong fist and gun powder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Cuba#Cuban_Military_Action.27s_in_Angola_.281961-2002.29 Maybe you'll love going to live to some of those places if they are still true to Fidel's ideals.
if this bill ever passess the EU, it would certainly become known as the "Britney bill".
And what about the marketing/mafia/legal knowledge of the NASA technology experts radiating "across the universe" from The Beatles to the whole Universe? I sense a massive URIAA (universal Riaa) and his legal team from Omicron IV to beat the hell out those NASA nerds. Or is it going to be transmitted with DRM? The amount of cease-and-desist-letters rain coming from outer space will make the leonids a picnic. Just imagine, we discover an extraterrestrial life form represented by: their lawyers. We could be starting a war here. The rammifications are endless.
http://gizmodo.com/351542/space-aliens-first-to-get-drm+free-beatles-music
TFA:
You may have heard that at 7pm EST on Feb. 4, NASA plans to blast The Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into deep space in order to serenade otherworldly beings hundreds, thousands or millions of light years away with our very best pop music. I have several problems with this.
For starters, NASA: You got the choice of the entire Beatles catalog, and you pick a song only because it contains a relevant metaphor? I mean, have you ever listened to Revolver? Wait, actually, you clearly must've, since Paul McCartney performed "Good Day Sunshine" in Nov. 2005 for the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. If you're aiming at aliens, why not choose something a little less intelligible, like "Dig a Pony," "Come Together" or "Tomorrow Never Knows." If those weren't written for space aliens, I don't know what.
Next on my shitlist: EMI and Apple Corp. WTF???? I've been a lifelong fan of your stupid Fab Four, but you're giving six billion purple globules from the Crab Nebula a shot at digitally retrieving The Beatles before I get one single measly 99-cent download? How is that fair? (Of course, the complete Beatles catalog is already on my iPod, but still!)
And finally, a message to the Crab people: Don't trust these downloads. You'll see the file streaming into your antenna array and you'll be like, "Sweet! Free music!" But then you open the file, and you get this message on your Crab Nebula equivalent of Windows Media Player 11, saying that in order to enjoy this track, you need to get authorization from a central server. You click okay, and the message has to travel back to earth, taking another 50,000 years or so. Which may seem worth the wait, only the track itself expires in 30 days.
So good luck to you, purple Crab people. And GFY, recording industry. You have dissed me for the last time. [Network World via The Inquirer]
Well, funny as it is, usually if you contract IBM services, and you buy say 30 hs a week of a certain skill at a certain rate, they would have another rate if case you overshot that 30hs/week timeframe. Do you think they are going to lower services contract by 15, 10, or 5% now?
is SCO still alive? What it is up to? I'm going to check in netcraft to see if the rumor has been confirmed....
Wasn't Brazil that started "fingerprinting" americans just out of "reciprocity" ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3366519.stm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE0D81E30F935A25752C0A9629C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/P/Profanity
Well, TFA mentions Dec 7 1997 as "the day". In 1996, I worked in a project which involves Oracle Parallel Server on a RS/6000 SP2 parallel system. OPS used "I/O shipping" to send to several nodes the I/O request for a given query, and used the VSD subsystem for doing that (VSD stands for Virtual Shared Disk. The disk were attached to several SP2 nodes, which did the actual I/O while the many OPS nodes all saw the complete database as directly connected to it). Back then, 1996, the other "standard" of doing the parallel-database-thing was called "function shipping", in which not the IO, but the query was split among the nodes that had the tables and/or data involved. Of course, in both cases, all the nodes were networked using the SP2 switch in order to have huge bandwidht and low latency. Sounds familiar...
Hi tgd!
I own a PS3 60 GB + Blu Ray, and I don't own a HD-DVD. I live in South America. Nice to meet you. BTW, this is my cousin, he owns a PS3 with blu ray too, and he lives in NYC. he does not own an HD-DVD player either, and rents most of his stuff from blockbuster.
Let me tell you, now that the broke the ice, that you are the first guy I talk to who has an HD-DVD player, and also a BD player. What blu ray hw do you own?
Yeah, I guess all this probably says we should get outside more often and start talking with real people, outside our respective forums...
... as if 17.000 chairs cried in despair and then suddenly were silenced.
Even if Cisco/Linksys are missing from the list, Broadcom is not, and a lot of Linksys routers (earlier WRT54G's, WRT54GL's, WRT350's) are based on broadcom chipsets.
Only problem is: Would a lot of people can claim "prior art"?.
I wonder how much will the European governments, and Europe in general, buy from Microsoft in this fiscal year. I would like to know how much these 497M euros are, expressed as a % of the former figure, to see how much of a "discount" did they get. I don't mean this is bad, but we need to have a clear whole picture, to see if this has any chance of working.
OR : They don't want a competing format becaming a standard, when implementation of said "other" standard seems both impossible, and also having to do with propietary formats not clearly "defined" in the standard and also covered with patents owned by the company, which happens to be a convicted monopolist, that it pushing for the "second" standard. Having parts of the "open standard" covered by patents, or not clearly defined, makes such an standard as open as any closed format ... :)
Nothing is stopping this other company from implementing ODF if it becomes an open standard. No patents to pay for its use.
What do you figure out of this? C'mon... seems easy...
Are US-based users going to start using china-based proxies??!?!? Did hell just freeze?
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... Parallel Processing receives an undisclosed amount of cash from MS.
Thanks god IBM quit building those RS/6000 SP2 system parallel thingies.
First, IANAL.
Second: two things:
a) This link migth help : http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit019.html
Read for example the portion of:. Also, take a look at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.h
b) google for "microsoft convicted monopoly" to improve understanding.
So, if they were really "convicted", then it might get new "legal meaning" if they go to court for the same reason once again. Also, I did not wrote that because of a legal meaning, I just said it because that what they seem they are, similar to when I talk about the blue sky, or about the white moon.
Well..er.. they have that fundamental freedom. But, they happen to be a convicted monopolist too. See, if you are in a position, which derives from you being a monopoly, and that sole position helps you leverage to get market share another product, which happens to compete with a third party (which you so badly want to hurt), then, there's no competition/freedom. You are just using your monopoly in order to push your product.
Also, bear in mind that MS seems to be afraid of Google, so this seems to be some kind of dirty trick in order to hurt Google.
Of course they can innovate! They can make their OS much safer than it already is. They are the ones that can do it, but yet they don't. Sorry, I dont want another insecure desktop search gadget, as the totally insecure Web browser we have now (remember the IE-Netscape chapter of the digital era?) on "most" pc (and I guess you know what pc's are those... and why).
ps: I don't use Windows. This post was brougth to you with no MS software between my workstation and my external router. Anyway, I suffer from other people using it (received any spam lately?)
They are in big trouble indeed!: look, they acknowledge an american, living in the states, for the provision of wireless routers with their MAC adjusted for long distance communications. If this was really done, then is clearly being done under the supervision of Washington.