That is why you BUY right of way, so you don't have to use Public property. Maybe in the EU that's different but here in the US utilities buy an "easement" from the property owners to run cables, then that easement belongs to them (subject to a few restrictions such as allowing free passage across right or way, or use as farm land, etc.). Even the Government has to pay for easements. Sounds to me like property rights over there are not the same as here.
I wasn't talking about the sociological aspects ("stateless society") but rather from a business angle. And in that context your data exactly supports my case. In SOCIALISM there can be private business under strict Gov't control (see Venezula for instance) so that everyone profits equally. So limited private enterprise is OK. In Communism there can be no private enterprise.
No COMMUNISM is when the Gov't owns the businesses. Socialism is making everyone "equal" via wealth transfer from those who have the wealth to those who do not.
AHA..they are still in the penalty box! Unless of course they get the law changed. In the USA they would just buy a Congressperson or six and make the law go away.
I hope that was satire. Many crops are NOT self-pollinating and it takes bees to spread the pollen. You will get some pollination from wind but bees are the best. Yields have increased 2-3X when orchards bring in bees versus just letting whatever ones are around do the job. Beekeepers actually lease hives to fruit/vegatable producers and make significant money for such (plus they get to keep the honey). The decline of bees is a BAD thing, it could really affect crops and thus the prices we pay for food.
Business can refuse service to anyone they want, excepting reasons of sex, race, sexual preference and veteran status. It's THEIR network, paid for with THIER dollars. If the network doesn't make money then they should consider opening it up for others to lease. They have bought the right of way for the cable and connections, so why should the Government basically nationalize it and make it open for everyone? Thats socialism not capitalism. There is ZERO incentive for new technologies or business ventures when there is nothing to be gained.
Correct. I think there is a misconception about how much time and money it takes to certify a product on an OS. If you do that process for every single variation of Linux in combination with the last 3 or 4 revisions of your Product X. Then multiply that times possibly 40 or 50 products. And then there is the distribution costs of new CDs, etc. (not everyone downloads from the web). Why should a vendor like IBM spend the money chasing down small bugs in a obscure Linux distro when spending the money either improving the overall product or fixing bugs with a major distro would bring more business value. It's wiser to spend the money adressing the "fat" part of the market rather than making 1 or 2 customers happy even if they are huge customers, they are still small in relation to the total market. Now of course if someone wants to pay for the service instead of insisting it is covered by maintenance contracts then it should be considered. But, there are not many times when someone will pay the mega-dollars to get support for a non-standard OS and/or pay for fixes.
...I'm not going to be putting it in any of my data center designs anytime soon,
If you are running the latest release of Solaris 10 you already are. I fully expect Xen to be bought by Sun ASAP.
The problem with building it into Hardware is it limits the flexibility of the Hypervisor to only support what is defined on the chip. I assume you can reprogram the chip (it's Flash right?).
Correct but even under the GPL if you modify the code you must share it, you cannot keep it secret. Under copyright law that isn't normally allowed. The GPL just promotes sharing w/o a specific license. But if you don't share, you invaldate the GPL and then you have problems.
German court rulings don't apply anywhere but Germany. And Daniel Wallace failed to state a valid claim so the issue NEVER WENT TO TRIAL. Wallace was dismissed in pre-trial motions. The comments from the court are just that COMMENTS, not rulings. See your own link: May of 2005, Daniel Wallace filed suit against the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the Southern District of Indiana, contending that the GPL is an illegal attempt to fix prices at zero. The suit was dismissed in March 2006, on the grounds that Wallace had failed to state a valid anti-trust claim; the court noted that "the GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers."[16] Wallace was denied the possibility of further amending his complaint, and was ordered to pay the FSF's legal expenses.
Problem is the GPL has never been validated in court so it sounds good but it's not a slam dunk like you make it out to be. And you think M$ is going to honor someone else license? They have shown time and again they don't and won't.
They can use Fair Market Value based on the value of the DVD player today. Sorry if that means you pay more taxes but thats the way it is if you don't have the paperwork.
You can also deduct the cut eBay gets when you calculate your profit. So you make less than $50. It adds up over time if you sell lots of items. Plus you can deduct other business expenses...but be careful the IRS loves to audit small biz!
Been here long? Any article posted by Ronald P is generally quite lame and in many cases he mis-states the facts. He does it to get hits on his webpage not to share useful info. Many many people here have complained the editors favor him for some reason. I too RTFA and found it to be very misleading after tracking it back to the source. I used to work at NASA (2X in fact) and know a bit about rocket engines! The ion drive idea isn't new, this throttling isn't either. IIRC, DS-1 has a version of it and there were experiements in the 80's and 90's with this concept. Just proves if the DOD group you are submitting your proposal to hasn't heard of it then it doesn't exist. Wasteful, duplicative research is common in DOD and NASA.
I've heard that if they are legit files or files you have stripped the DRM from you will be OK. If it's something pirated with the DRM still within the file Vista won't play it unless it can find you have a license for it. That's my understanding..which could be wrong.
I agree. Nothing there to make me run out and buy Vista. The things he mentioned as "improvements" are not things that bother me, I rarely use the Start Menu at all, I don't use sounds as I find them annoying, and the XP fonts look fine to me, I don't do graphics work and my speed is just fine! So, with nothing really cool added and with all the bugs, the embedded DRM crap, the 9 levels of OK boxes to click to change settings and strange quirkly things that software packages that run fine on XP do on Vista, I'll stay away. Plus I don't feel like springing for new hardware.
More likely someone put financial information in an email, or attached a spreadsheet of such, or got email containing their login information for the Accouting systems. Often when a new user gets setup the first thing they get is email and all the system access UIDs and passwords come via email. IF he can read that email he IS that person, the system knows no difference.
Any firm that allows an EXTERNAL user to login to the company LAN or email server w/o a very secure two factor authentication (such as a RSA token or PGP, etc.) is really asking to be hacked. People use very low quality passwords and with a little "social engineering" you can find out lots.
I thought "Hot Ice' was stolen diamonds. Guess I better quit watching those old movies and get with the modern term.
Mining (drilling?) this stuff could cause problems, it has to be melted and the water left over has to go somewhere. I suppose they could just make the water back into snow or ice and no harm with that.
NASA may not be putting people up there much longer. Shuttle is set to be retired in 2010 and there isn't a replacement even CLOSE to ready until 2012 or 2105. The older STS gets the more chances of another accident, and there are only two operational shuttles and there aren't are replacements for some parts (like main engines).
I do agree that ISS isn't what it's supposed to be, but then again it's not completed so there is still hope.
They can seal it from the General Public but whoever is the defendant gets to see the code. Discovery has to go to BOTH parties. In time things will leak out.
The risk of going down this road is MS opens itself up to counter-suits for using IP that belongs to someone else. And as we know MS has a LONG history of taking other peoples work w/o credit or payment until they get sued. Then they cough up the $$$ to settle. I think IBM would LOVE to take on MS in court over Linux. There is not any love at IBM for MS after the OS/2 issues back in the 1990s. And as we know IBM has good lawyers and MS does have quite a bit of dirty laundry. I wouldn't be surprised if the "monopolistic practices" card gets played to bring the Feds back into the issue.
MS isn't suing Linux over the money due them from the (supposed) IP in Linx that MS owns, it is doing so to DESTROY it, and thus make Windows have a bigger market share. They tried to do this via their stooge SCO but SCO screwed it up, so now they are trying via a different route with the Novell partnership.
There is no perfect solution. Disks fail, Murphy's Law says they will fail at the worst possible time (i.e during a RAID rebuild). There are some preventative strategies:
1) Mix disk mfgs in RAID arrays (not easy unless you build your own), have redundant controllers.
2) Make backups every day.
3) Don't wait until failures begin to replace disks, start replacing them at around 1/2 the stated MTBF (which is often overstated!). This is going to be tough in a production environment where the disks are online 24x7, but there are ways to do it.
4) Shop around for the most reliable drives and the best service plans.
5) Use lesser known but more reliable RAID technologies instead of just RAID 5. RAID 5 is the best balance of reliability and performance. Other solutions exist that can tremendously increase reliability w/o a big performance hit.
6) De-stress the drives with proper temp control and proper access mechanisms. Tuning the SQL can have performance benefits as well as help disks last longer.
The probability of another failure of a drive is the same as it was for the drive that failed (assuming same type and same mfg). However, when that failure point is reached is at a random point within the distribution so while the probability of another failure at any point in time is not zero it is pretty small. MTBF can be influenced by environment and usage patterns.
Rebuilding a RAID array isn't a very lengthy process, perhaps a day or two at most if it was a huge array. Plus you SHOULD have backups and snapshots if it was critical data. If you are really paranoid you could also mirror the full set of RAID drives (RAID 51 or RAID 15), that design while costly can handle any THREE drives failing. I'm rusty on my stats but I believe you would multiply the probabilities of 1 drive failing three times (X*X*X) which gets pretty small.
Not true. Subpoenas can be squashed by the lawyer of the person who was subpoenaed. It takes a good reason to get a judge to squash but it CAN be done.
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That is why you BUY right of way, so you don't have to use Public property. Maybe in the EU that's different but here in the US utilities buy an "easement" from the property owners to run cables, then that easement belongs to them (subject to a few restrictions such as allowing free passage across right or way, or use as farm land, etc.). Even the Government has to pay for easements. Sounds to me like property rights over there are not the same as here.
I wasn't talking about the sociological aspects ("stateless society") but rather from a business angle. And in that context your data exactly supports my case. In SOCIALISM there can be private business under strict Gov't control (see Venezula for instance) so that everyone profits equally. So limited private enterprise is OK. In Communism there can be no private enterprise.
No COMMUNISM is when the Gov't owns the businesses. Socialism is making everyone "equal" via wealth transfer from those who have the wealth to those who do not.
AHA..they are still in the penalty box! Unless of course they get the law changed. In the USA they would just buy a Congressperson or six and make the law go away.
I hope that was satire. Many crops are NOT self-pollinating and it takes bees to spread the pollen. You will get some pollination from wind but bees are the best. Yields have increased 2-3X when orchards bring in bees versus just letting whatever ones are around do the job. Beekeepers actually lease hives to fruit/vegatable producers and make significant money for such (plus they get to keep the honey). The decline of bees is a BAD thing, it could really affect crops and thus the prices we pay for food.
Business can refuse service to anyone they want, excepting reasons of sex, race, sexual preference and veteran status. It's THEIR network, paid for with THIER dollars. If the network doesn't make money then they should consider opening it up for others to lease. They have bought the right of way for the cable and connections, so why should the Government basically nationalize it and make it open for everyone? Thats socialism not capitalism. There is ZERO incentive for new technologies or business ventures when there is nothing to be gained.
Correct. I think there is a misconception about how much time and money it takes to certify a product on an OS. If you do that process for every single variation of Linux in combination with the last 3 or 4 revisions of your Product X. Then multiply that times possibly 40 or 50 products. And then there is the distribution costs of new CDs, etc. (not everyone downloads from the web). Why should a vendor like IBM spend the money chasing down small bugs in a obscure Linux distro when spending the money either improving the overall product or fixing bugs with a major distro would bring more business value. It's wiser to spend the money adressing the "fat" part of the market rather than making 1 or 2 customers happy even if they are huge customers, they are still small in relation to the total market. Now of course if someone wants to pay for the service instead of insisting it is covered by maintenance contracts then it should be considered. But, there are not many times when someone will pay the mega-dollars to get support for a non-standard OS and/or pay for fixes.
...I'm not going to be putting it in any of my data center designs anytime soon, If you are running the latest release of Solaris 10 you already are. I fully expect Xen to be bought by Sun ASAP.
The problem with building it into Hardware is it limits the flexibility of the Hypervisor to only support what is defined on the chip. I assume you can reprogram the chip (it's Flash right?).
Correct but even under the GPL if you modify the code you must share it, you cannot keep it secret. Under copyright law that isn't normally allowed. The GPL just promotes sharing w/o a specific license. But if you don't share, you invaldate the GPL and then you have problems.
German court rulings don't apply anywhere but Germany. And Daniel Wallace failed to state a valid claim so the issue NEVER WENT TO TRIAL. Wallace was dismissed in pre-trial motions. The comments from the court are just that COMMENTS, not rulings. See your own link: May of 2005, Daniel Wallace filed suit against the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the Southern District of Indiana, contending that the GPL is an illegal attempt to fix prices at zero. The suit was dismissed in March 2006, on the grounds that Wallace had failed to state a valid anti-trust claim; the court noted that "the GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers."[16] Wallace was denied the possibility of further amending his complaint, and was ordered to pay the FSF's legal expenses.
Problem is the GPL has never been validated in court so it sounds good but it's not a slam dunk like you make it out to be. And you think M$ is going to honor someone else license? They have shown time and again they don't and won't.
They can use Fair Market Value based on the value of the DVD player today. Sorry if that means you pay more taxes but thats the way it is if you don't have the paperwork.
You can also deduct the cut eBay gets when you calculate your profit. So you make less than $50. It adds up over time if you sell lots of items. Plus you can deduct other business expenses...but be careful the IRS loves to audit small biz!
Nothing on here lets you filter. :( If you invented one i think you 'd make a lot of people happy!
Been here long? Any article posted by Ronald P is generally quite lame and in many cases he mis-states the facts. He does it to get hits on his webpage not to share useful info. Many many people here have complained the editors favor him for some reason. I too RTFA and found it to be very misleading after tracking it back to the source. I used to work at NASA (2X in fact) and know a bit about rocket engines! The ion drive idea isn't new, this throttling isn't either. IIRC, DS-1 has a version of it and there were experiements in the 80's and 90's with this concept. Just proves if the DOD group you are submitting your proposal to hasn't heard of it then it doesn't exist. Wasteful, duplicative research is common in DOD and NASA.
I've heard that if they are legit files or files you have stripped the DRM from you will be OK. If it's something pirated with the DRM still within the file Vista won't play it unless it can find you have a license for it. That's my understanding..which could be wrong.
I agree. Nothing there to make me run out and buy Vista. The things he mentioned as "improvements" are not things that bother me, I rarely use the Start Menu at all, I don't use sounds as I find them annoying, and the XP fonts look fine to me, I don't do graphics work and my speed is just fine! So, with nothing really cool added and with all the bugs, the embedded DRM crap, the 9 levels of OK boxes to click to change settings and strange quirkly things that software packages that run fine on XP do on Vista, I'll stay away. Plus I don't feel like springing for new hardware.
More likely someone put financial information in an email, or attached a spreadsheet of such, or got email containing their login information for the Accouting systems. Often when a new user gets setup the first thing they get is email and all the system access UIDs and passwords come via email. IF he can read that email he IS that person, the system knows no difference.
Any firm that allows an EXTERNAL user to login to the company LAN or email server w/o a very secure two factor authentication (such as a RSA token or PGP, etc.) is really asking to be hacked. People use very low quality passwords and with a little "social engineering" you can find out lots.
I thought "Hot Ice' was stolen diamonds. Guess I better quit watching those old movies and get with the modern term. Mining (drilling?) this stuff could cause problems, it has to be melted and the water left over has to go somewhere. I suppose they could just make the water back into snow or ice and no harm with that.
NASA may not be putting people up there much longer. Shuttle is set to be retired in 2010 and there isn't a replacement even CLOSE to ready until 2012 or 2105. The older STS gets the more chances of another accident, and there are only two operational shuttles and there aren't are replacements for some parts (like main engines).
I do agree that ISS isn't what it's supposed to be, but then again it's not completed so there is still hope.
They can seal it from the General Public but whoever is the defendant gets to see the code. Discovery has to go to BOTH parties. In time things will leak out.
The risk of going down this road is MS opens itself up to counter-suits for using IP that belongs to someone else. And as we know MS has a LONG history of taking other peoples work w/o credit or payment until they get sued. Then they cough up the $$$ to settle. I think IBM would LOVE to take on MS in court over Linux. There is not any love at IBM for MS after the OS/2 issues back in the 1990s. And as we know IBM has good lawyers and MS does have quite a bit of dirty laundry. I wouldn't be surprised if the "monopolistic practices" card gets played to bring the Feds back into the issue.
MS isn't suing Linux over the money due them from the (supposed) IP in Linx that MS owns, it is doing so to DESTROY it, and thus make Windows have a bigger market share. They tried to do this via their stooge SCO but SCO screwed it up, so now they are trying via a different route with the Novell partnership.
There is no perfect solution. Disks fail, Murphy's Law says they will fail at the worst possible time (i.e during a RAID rebuild). There are some preventative strategies: 1) Mix disk mfgs in RAID arrays (not easy unless you build your own), have redundant controllers. 2) Make backups every day. 3) Don't wait until failures begin to replace disks, start replacing them at around 1/2 the stated MTBF (which is often overstated!). This is going to be tough in a production environment where the disks are online 24x7, but there are ways to do it. 4) Shop around for the most reliable drives and the best service plans. 5) Use lesser known but more reliable RAID technologies instead of just RAID 5. RAID 5 is the best balance of reliability and performance. Other solutions exist that can tremendously increase reliability w/o a big performance hit. 6) De-stress the drives with proper temp control and proper access mechanisms. Tuning the SQL can have performance benefits as well as help disks last longer.
The probability of another failure of a drive is the same as it was for the drive that failed (assuming same type and same mfg). However, when that failure point is reached is at a random point within the distribution so while the probability of another failure at any point in time is not zero it is pretty small. MTBF can be influenced by environment and usage patterns. Rebuilding a RAID array isn't a very lengthy process, perhaps a day or two at most if it was a huge array. Plus you SHOULD have backups and snapshots if it was critical data. If you are really paranoid you could also mirror the full set of RAID drives (RAID 51 or RAID 15), that design while costly can handle any THREE drives failing. I'm rusty on my stats but I believe you would multiply the probabilities of 1 drive failing three times (X*X*X) which gets pretty small.
Not true. Subpoenas can be squashed by the lawyer of the person who was subpoenaed. It takes a good reason to get a judge to squash but it CAN be done.