The argument with the couple snu-snu'ing isn't a good one since you are stopping the 'issue' by separating them, on this guy you can't solve the issue so easily because he is getting his snu-snu from the same tools he is expected to use for work. Although, at 19 years of employment and months away from retirement (don't you retire at 20yrs?) I do agree with the notion that the manager should have been more proactive, at least making it VERY clear what the out come will be if he doesn't snu-snu at his own home.
Well, it's a crisis for their wallet - I will occasionally pull down a movie to see if the $100 for 2 hours of entertainment between the theaters and the DVD is worth it or not, the video cam versions leave a lot to be desired in matters of quality, but they do get the point across whether the movie in question is worth it or not. Those crazy Canadians saved me *MY* wallet when it came to the Starwars trilogy and a few others, yay Canada!
Consider how this ban will affect those customers of Novell who use Linux. And consider the kind of reputation that this will give the open-source community.
Depends all on how you look at it
One reason companies pay for expensive proprietary software is that the companies that write proprietary software are considered reliable.They won't suddenly throw a tantrum and refuse to deliver.
On the flip side of that - most companies protect what is theirs, I would drastically loose faith in the OSS world if the community didn't protect their own property and let anyone do anything they wanted - and for their own gain. Aren't they just playing the same as ALL OTHER companies/organizations?
With IPv6, there are (effectively) an unlimited number of IP addresses available for spammers.
That's not going to change anything that much, spammers exploit servers and desktops all the time to do their dirty work. However, the SPF record in DNS is used to add and restrict mail relays for a specific domain, IMHO I's a good idea if everyone starts really using it, and we could rely on it - all I would have to do is add my static IPv6 address to this record as another relay and I would be good to go =)
I don't know the ratio of people who have their own domain name, to those who could care less - but I bet it's not that high. If the above is in M$'s plan, it's pretty smart IMHO - they would know where and how to get to all of their customers directly at any time, because you would have to update your SPF record if anything changed and you want to send/recv email.
For the better or worse, it'll be left to be seen - I'll cross my fingers it'll be for the better =)
I dont have any URl's to back this up since it was just annouced on FOX News (matter of minutes ago), but they did claim that traces of radioactivity *was* found in the air samples taken after the supposedly nuclear test...
Heh, when I moved to Corpus Christi a few years back - I was told by AT&T that they didn't cover that area, mainly S. Padre Island. I was told that it would be $500 to break the contract, when I inquired how fair that was when they couldn't provide the services anymore - their responce back was literally "AT&T didn't tell you to move, sir."
If your installing all this other software for them, install something that is OSS and would do the same as VMWare and an image of Linux. Set it up so they can delete it VERY easy, doesn't take up TO much space and takes a simple double click to get a taste of this mystical creature.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
IMHO, I don't think that is the issue and I would guess that those screaming know their peers abuse the system - the reasoning behind this. What the problem is, is that this is yet another example of "Guilty, before proven inocent..."
I doubt I will ever be one to download movies, but atleast for me Walmart doesn't need to worry about that when it comes to loosing me a DVD buying customer. I used to be religous about going in a buying atleast 1 DVD everytime I went shopping, 3-4+ a month, when they started putting the DVD's behind locked glass cabinets and had to have some low paid employee stand there and watch me as I tried to browse their selection- I stopped buying them there VERY quickly.
The security that goes into DVD's is bad enough by it self - but to have to stand there and have someone that barely makes a living (and likewise could care less except for loosing their job), watch me so I don't quitely open the packaging, carefully remove all that tape, and stuff the DVD down my pants is simply going WAY to far. I go to CircuitCity or Target for all my DVD's now.
I'm not trying to be a smart *ss, troll or get flamed or anything - but I've only heard about a few key differences for Vista - The new interface, extreme security and locked now media. The interface may end up being kind of cool (haven't personally seen it), but it's just an interface - I would upgrade if it were free (aka Linux stuff) otherwise it's not that big of a deal. With the security, they are locking out the guys who have and are securing their current systems because they are apparently really bad it - I would rather stay on XP -with- the guys who have proven to be able to secure it, as oppsed to upgrading and crossing my fingers that M$ finally got it right. Now with all this DRM stuff going hog wild, and them restricting the hell out of it - what is going to be the point of this new system?
Unless I'm missing something really ground breaking - all Vista is going to be is XP (relatively speaking) with a new interface, supposedly really tight sercurity that nothing can harm it, and any and all media locked down so much that it is going to seem like big brother just to listen/watch something.
Is there ANYTHING that is going to be worthwhile in Vista?!?!?! I am being serious - it doesn't sound like it will be worth...
Heh, I would agree with that if the system was already to go and completely functional with all the services I wanted. But I was just trying to install it in the first place, the *upgrade* I'm refering to is the first one you do after you build the kernel and reboot into your new system.
I completely 2nd this - it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was aiming for the gentoo distribution for a server. Only to find this new fangled installer (that I did NOT like), and then after spending a couple of hours getting the base system installed, tried to update everything - and what do you know? PAM and shadow libraries conflicting whith each other. I had remove both (making logging in impossible obviously) and the update the whole system. Completely breaking the OS, just to upgrade is *NOT* a good idea - even for M$...
RSS:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) In the typical scenario of using web feeds, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program running on their own machines; when instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically.
Obviously, a criminal case gets *more* due process than a civil case, because the potential deprivation of life and liberty is greater.
I've got a criminal record for being the briliant Einstien of a teenager I was - I've had MUCH, MUCH more of hassle with screwed up credit by far than anything with the criminal record. I just don't put it on my resume and don't work for the places that would be worried about it. As with bad credit (in a sence a civil registry), you will be more likely to be refused a job, money (obviously), a place to live, food, etc, etc..
The huge difference between this civil registry and this sexual version - only the business comunity will treat you like shit if your on the credit version, the sex'd up version everyone is going shun you.
Also, your given 3 square meals a day and shelter, lowsy maybe but you still get them with the criminal side of things - you have to work for that in the real world, and if your blacklisted to even associate with - what are you suppose to do?
After I RTFA I can see where this could be thought a good thing, but my god is Ohio's new modo going to be "I bend over, and you pucker..." - what's the ratio of people pissing off people in general, as compared the horindous crimes that mess people up so bad they block it out for 35 years?
The concept was offered by Roman Catholic bishops as an alternative to opening a one-time window for the filing of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that occurred as long as 35 years ago.
Isn't New Yorks unoficial modo - "It's every Newyorkers god given right to be an asshole..." (something like that - quote from the mayor in Ghostbusters...)? Let's hope Newyork doesn't adopt this law...
I'm not going within a state of Ohio if this is for real - how reputable is this Toledo Blade anyhow?
What your talking about is being abusive, I know your being a smart ass, but there is no gotcha about it - no legit excuse for it, regardless of reasoning...
What the parent is talking about however, more or less, is that those in charge of these corporations are the ones being abusive - only in an inderect and backwards way, they know there customers are going to be pissed, and they place pawns between themselves and those very customers - consequently, abusing those pawns.
I would take it a step further and say that CS is not about support anymore (other than convenient/automated support), it's more of a buffer zone. I can't remember the last time I had the *default* customer support that didn't make things worse one way or the other, the only time anything gets resolved is with specific departments or management.
Back when I was a kid, there used to be a saying, something stupid about the customer always being right - I don't think anyone has anything close to that modo anymore, more along the lines of "the customer is always wrong and try to pursude them to our way of thinking..."
Maybe I'm being a dunce, but I'm pretty dang confused on all this... =(
I'm looking at starting up a company in the next couple of months, I've got the data center picked out, and the colo drops picked that I will be able to afford for the first year.
1) If the telcos/cable get their way - it sounds like the 2mb drop, along with the greed tax from the telcos would practically be the same as just upping the drop from 2mb to say 5 or 10 without the greed tax. Is this there angle? Sounds more like a scheme to slow the entire internet (atleast in the US) down - in which they keep upping speeds for for their products on the end consumer, but in the end it will be pointless because they slowed the entire system down.
2) How in the hell are they going to be filtering these services/sites????? If it's off simply the IP address, then wouldn't they have to filter eveything going through the top/main pipes? And wouldn't that put a HUGE bottleneck on the whole system (and what happens if that filtering breaks for some reason, does the whole net go down?), making it (much?) slower for everyone? If it's not filtered by the IP address, are they planning on capping certain pipes or something - so essentially if 1/2 the customers at this datacenter wants the "priority" access, is the DC going to loose customers because they have to move to a *special* telco DC?
3) The telcos/cable claim they can't expand, but even at the DC i'm going into - they say that if you need the bandwidth, if worse comes to worse they will *buy* up some dark fiber they have access to, light it and give it you. As far as I understand, isn't this dark fiber owned by these huge greed mongers? So, basically they are complaining about not being able to afford to expand and grow, but yet they are making it possible for individual companies to buy up/make their own bandwidth (persay) by lighting this dark fiber - what are they going to expand on if it's not this dark fiber? From this angle, it looks like they are prepared and ready for expansions - but the need just isn't there, what are the complaining about?!?!?!
-OR-
4) Do these greed mongers have a ton of bandwidth that they are -NOT- using (all this dark fiber?), want to sell it - and expect/want these big guys (google, yahoo, etc..) to get off the main grid (bad terminology I know), pay a little more and get on these dark grids that are already in position for premium bandwidth?
All the clause effectively says is that the information disclosed at the conference is not confidential.
FTA ~ "They ask us to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and if we say anything in those meetings that Microsoft is able to use, they have the right to do so."
Exactly, this to me is or should be the same concept as programing in straight out 'C'. Regardless of which platform or architecture you are devloping on - printf is still printf, it is up the C libraries on the system to translate that statement into the machine code. I see no valid reason for this, I mean Linux went through a huge module change from 2.2 -> 2.4 -> 2.6 (2.4 -> 2.6 atleast), the video card comps had to only change the format of the module to work with the new kernels NOT change their hooks for the graphical subsystems.
The only valid reason for this that I can see, is that they are doing the equivalent of making the kernel more or less an interpreter for 'C'. That changes the sub system of the C libraries to being the system itself - which tells me they are putting WAYYYYY to much importance on the graphics.
This brings up another thought I was having... One of the things M$ IS known for is using there monopoly power to change things and lock out their competitors. Their biggest one is Linux, and she relies 100% (excluding SDL) on OpenGL for the fancy and pretty graphics. All the video cards I have purchased over the years have always had to support the given subsystem (DirectX/OpenGL), NOT the other way around, otherwise is just wouldnt work right. From what I am understanding here, either this would free up a lot of work on the video card side (not having to keep up with subsytem API's and changes) and there for they would have more resources to devote to OpenGL - OR - they have engineered a way that would make it VERY difficult, if not impossible in the same driver, for the drivers to support the two different subsystems.
Which leads to another question - is DirectX going to be such a huge part of the system that OpenGL will never be able to work right in Vista? And, if this subsystem is such an integral part of Vista, and there are 9 different versions of it, where #9(the most expensive) is where this subsystem is not disabled in anyway - will there be hacks for the basic versions of Vista to fully enable it?
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If they had a real argument they would have taken it to court by now. Failure to do so would be contrary to MSFT shareholder interests.
Unless he is addressing those interests now that Vista has apparently bombed, relatively speaking of course...
The argument with the couple snu-snu'ing isn't a good one since you are stopping the 'issue' by separating them, on this guy you can't solve the issue so easily because he is getting his snu-snu from the same tools he is expected to use for work. Although, at 19 years of employment and months away from retirement (don't you retire at 20yrs?) I do agree with the notion that the manager should have been more proactive, at least making it VERY clear what the out come will be if he doesn't snu-snu at his own home.
Well, it's a crisis for their wallet - I will occasionally pull down a movie to see if the $100 for 2 hours of entertainment between the theaters and the DVD is worth it or not, the video cam versions leave a lot to be desired in matters of quality, but they do get the point across whether the movie in question is worth it or not. Those crazy Canadians saved me *MY* wallet when it came to the Starwars trilogy and a few others, yay Canada!
Sadly, from the article, it looks as though this will not set a precedent that will discourage the RIAA from doing this sort of thing...
Sad but true - although Duke (the trainer) in Rocky IV lays it out pretty well..
"You cut him! You hurt him! You see? You see? He's not a machine, he's a man!" - Rocky IV
The same thing can now be said about the RIAA - they're not infallible and their BS can be given back to them, even with prejudice.
Consider how this ban will affect those customers of Novell who use Linux. And consider the kind of reputation that this will give the open-source community.
Depends all on how you look at it
One reason companies pay for expensive proprietary software is that the companies that write proprietary software are considered reliable.They won't suddenly throw a tantrum and refuse to deliver.
On the flip side of that - most companies protect what is theirs, I would drastically loose faith in the OSS world if the community didn't protect their own property and let anyone do anything they wanted - and for their own gain. Aren't they just playing the same as ALL OTHER companies/organizations?
So what is to stop things when 1 DVD will play on player A and not player B, but another DVD will play on B and not A?
With IPv6, there are (effectively) an unlimited number of IP addresses available for spammers.
/recv email.
That's not going to change anything that much, spammers exploit servers and desktops all the time to do their dirty work. However, the SPF record in DNS is used to add and restrict mail relays for a specific domain, IMHO I's a good idea if everyone starts really using it, and we could rely on it - all I would have to do is add my static IPv6 address to this record as another relay and I would be good to go =)
I don't know the ratio of people who have their own domain name, to those who could care less - but I bet it's not that high. If the above is in M$'s plan, it's pretty smart IMHO - they would know where and how to get to all of their customers directly at any time, because you would have to update your SPF record if anything changed and you want to send
For the better or worse, it'll be left to be seen - I'll cross my fingers it'll be for the better =)
I dont have any URl's to back this up since it was just annouced on FOX News (matter of minutes ago), but they did claim that traces of radioactivity *was* found in the air samples taken after the supposedly nuclear test...
Heh, when I moved to Corpus Christi a few years back - I was told by AT&T that they didn't cover that area, mainly S. Padre Island. I was told that it would be $500 to break the contract, when I inquired how fair that was when they couldn't provide the services anymore - their responce back was literally "AT&T didn't tell you to move, sir."
If your installing all this other software for them, install something that is OSS and would do the same as VMWare and an image of Linux. Set it up so they can delete it VERY easy, doesn't take up TO much space and takes a simple double click to get a taste of this mystical creature.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
IMHO, I don't think that is the issue and I would guess that those screaming know their peers abuse the system - the reasoning behind this. What the problem is, is that this is yet another example of "Guilty, before proven inocent..."
Wayyy back when, somewhere in the middle east - David saught out Goliath.
In the US - Goliath seeks out David...
I doubt I will ever be one to download movies, but atleast for me Walmart doesn't need to worry about that when it comes to loosing me a DVD buying customer. I used to be religous about going in a buying atleast 1 DVD everytime I went shopping, 3-4+ a month, when they started putting the DVD's behind locked glass cabinets and had to have some low paid employee stand there and watch me as I tried to browse their selection- I stopped buying them there VERY quickly.
The security that goes into DVD's is bad enough by it self - but to have to stand there and have someone that barely makes a living (and likewise could care less except for loosing their job), watch me so I don't quitely open the packaging, carefully remove all that tape, and stuff the DVD down my pants is simply going WAY to far. I go to CircuitCity or Target for all my DVD's now.
I'm not trying to be a smart *ss, troll or get flamed or anything - but I've only heard about a few key differences for Vista - The new interface, extreme security and locked now media. The interface may end up being kind of cool (haven't personally seen it), but it's just an interface - I would upgrade if it were free (aka Linux stuff) otherwise it's not that big of a deal. With the security, they are locking out the guys who have and are securing their current systems because they are apparently really bad it - I would rather stay on XP -with- the guys who have proven to be able to secure it, as oppsed to upgrading and crossing my fingers that M$ finally got it right. Now with all this DRM stuff going hog wild, and them restricting the hell out of it - what is going to be the point of this new system?
Unless I'm missing something really ground breaking - all Vista is going to be is XP (relatively speaking) with a new interface, supposedly really tight sercurity that nothing can harm it, and any and all media locked down so much that it is going to seem like big brother just to listen/watch something.
Is there ANYTHING that is going to be worthwhile in Vista?!?!?! I am being serious - it doesn't sound like it will be worth...
Heh, I would agree with that if the system was already to go and completely functional with all the services I wanted. But I was just trying to install it in the first place, the *upgrade* I'm refering to is the first one you do after you build the kernel and reboot into your new system.
NO MORE!
Here, here!!!!
I completely 2nd this - it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was aiming for the gentoo distribution for a server. Only to find this new fangled installer (that I did NOT like), and then after spending a couple of hours getting the base system installed, tried to update everything - and what do you know? PAM and shadow libraries conflicting whith each other. I had remove both (making logging in impossible obviously) and the update the whole system. Completely breaking the OS, just to upgrade is *NOT* a good idea - even for M$...
No, there isn't actually and it's beliefs like this that scare me.
u ld&x=0&y=0 to be able to; have the ability, power, or skill to:
u nd&x=0&y=0 to come upon by chance; meet with:
) In the typical scenario of using web feeds, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program running on their own machines; when instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically.
p ublish&x=0&y=0 to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
Alright, so let me get this straight...
I can't say it enough times: all of this information could quickly and easily be found in one location before - facebook.com.
could:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=co
found:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fo
as compared to....
RSS:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format
publish:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=
And to clarify yet again.... to be able to to come upon by chance this data, is the same as a content provider distributing to the public this data?
Security through obscurity will be the death of us...
That ain't the only thing either...
I'm amazed anyone would even have the gaul to propose this kind of thing, let alone try to actually pass it.
Let alone it actually even passing...
Obviously, a criminal case gets *more* due process than a civil case, because the potential deprivation of life and liberty is greater.
I've got a criminal record for being the briliant Einstien of a teenager I was - I've had MUCH, MUCH more of hassle with screwed up credit by far than anything with the criminal record. I just don't put it on my resume and don't work for the places that would be worried about it. As with bad credit (in a sence a civil registry), you will be more likely to be refused a job, money (obviously), a place to live, food, etc, etc..
The huge difference between this civil registry and this sexual version - only the business comunity will treat you like shit if your on the credit version, the sex'd up version everyone is going shun you.
Also, your given 3 square meals a day and shelter, lowsy maybe but you still get them with the criminal side of things - you have to work for that in the real world, and if your blacklisted to even associate with - what are you suppose to do?
Who says it has to be a woman?
After I RTFA I can see where this could be thought a good thing, but my god is Ohio's new modo going to be "I bend over, and you pucker..." - what's the ratio of people pissing off people in general, as compared the horindous crimes that mess people up so bad they block it out for 35 years?
The concept was offered by Roman Catholic bishops as an alternative to opening a one-time window for the filing of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that occurred as long as 35 years ago.
Isn't New Yorks unoficial modo - "It's every Newyorkers god given right to be an asshole..." (something like that - quote from the mayor in Ghostbusters...)? Let's hope Newyork doesn't adopt this law...
I'm not going within a state of Ohio if this is for real - how reputable is this Toledo Blade anyhow?
What your talking about is being abusive, I know your being a smart ass, but there is no gotcha about it - no legit excuse for it, regardless of reasoning...
What the parent is talking about however, more or less, is that those in charge of these corporations are the ones being abusive - only in an inderect and backwards way, they know there customers are going to be pissed, and they place pawns between themselves and those very customers - consequently, abusing those pawns.
I would take it a step further and say that CS is not about support anymore (other than convenient/automated support), it's more of a buffer zone. I can't remember the last time I had the *default* customer support that didn't make things worse one way or the other, the only time anything gets resolved is with specific departments or management.
Back when I was a kid, there used to be a saying, something stupid about the customer always being right - I don't think anyone has anything close to that modo anymore, more along the lines of "the customer is always wrong and try to pursude them to our way of thinking..."
Maybe I'm being a dunce, but I'm pretty dang confused on all this... =(
I'm looking at starting up a company in the next couple of months, I've got the data center picked out, and the colo drops picked that I will be able to afford for the first year.
1) If the telcos/cable get their way - it sounds like the 2mb drop, along with the greed tax from the telcos would practically be the same as just upping the drop from 2mb to say 5 or 10 without the greed tax. Is this there angle? Sounds more like a scheme to slow the entire internet (atleast in the US) down - in which they keep upping speeds for for their products on the end consumer, but in the end it will be pointless because they slowed the entire system down.
2) How in the hell are they going to be filtering these services/sites????? If it's off simply the IP address, then wouldn't they have to filter eveything going through the top/main pipes? And wouldn't that put a HUGE bottleneck on the whole system (and what happens if that filtering breaks for some reason, does the whole net go down?), making it (much?) slower for everyone? If it's not filtered by the IP address, are they planning on capping certain pipes or something - so essentially if 1/2 the customers at this datacenter wants the "priority" access, is the DC going to loose customers because they have to move to a *special* telco DC?
3) The telcos/cable claim they can't expand, but even at the DC i'm going into - they say that if you need the bandwidth, if worse comes to worse they will *buy* up some dark fiber they have access to, light it and give it you. As far as I understand, isn't this dark fiber owned by these huge greed mongers? So, basically they are complaining about not being able to afford to expand and grow, but yet they are making it possible for individual companies to buy up/make their own bandwidth (persay) by lighting this dark fiber - what are they going to expand on if it's not this dark fiber? From this angle, it looks like they are prepared and ready for expansions - but the need just isn't there, what are the complaining about?!?!?!
-OR-
4) Do these greed mongers have a ton of bandwidth that they are -NOT- using (all this dark fiber?), want to sell it - and expect/want these big guys (google, yahoo, etc..) to get off the main grid (bad terminology I know), pay a little more and get on these dark grids that are already in position for premium bandwidth?
All the clause effectively says is that the information disclosed at the conference is not confidential.
FTA ~ "They ask us to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and if we say anything in those meetings that Microsoft is able to use, they have the right to do so."
Doesn't this go against the whole idea of a nondisclosour agreement?
Exactly, this to me is or should be the same concept as programing in straight out 'C'. Regardless of which platform or architecture you are devloping on - printf is still printf, it is up the C libraries on the system to translate that statement into the machine code. I see no valid reason for this, I mean Linux went through a huge module change from 2.2 -> 2.4 -> 2.6 (2.4 -> 2.6 atleast), the video card comps had to only change the format of the module to work with the new kernels NOT change their hooks for the graphical subsystems.
The only valid reason for this that I can see, is that they are doing the equivalent of making the kernel more or less an interpreter for 'C'. That changes the sub system of the C libraries to being the system itself - which tells me they are putting WAYYYYY to much importance on the graphics.
This brings up another thought I was having... One of the things M$ IS known for is using there monopoly power to change things and lock out their competitors. Their biggest one is Linux, and she relies 100% (excluding SDL) on OpenGL for the fancy and pretty graphics. All the video cards I have purchased over the years have always had to support the given subsystem (DirectX/OpenGL), NOT the other way around, otherwise is just wouldnt work right. From what I am understanding here, either this would free up a lot of work on the video card side (not having to keep up with subsytem API's and changes) and there for they would have more resources to devote to OpenGL - OR - they have engineered a way that would make it VERY difficult, if not impossible in the same driver, for the drivers to support the two different subsystems.
Which leads to another question - is DirectX going to be such a huge part of the system that OpenGL will never be able to work right in Vista? And, if this subsystem is such an integral part of Vista, and there are 9 different versions of it, where #9(the most expensive) is where this subsystem is not disabled in anyway - will there be hacks for the basic versions of Vista to fully enable it?