I have just now started buying downloaded music because Amazon has started selling non-DRM'ed higher bit-rate mp3's. Up until now I would not buy music downloads due to the DRM or because it was not available in a format that I wanted to use and I wouldn't buy CDs because I will not buy the new disks that look like a CD but isn't really a CD.
Employees who were telecommuting had individual agreements that specifically said that the telecommuting could be terminated by the company at any time and that should have been taken into consideration when choosing a home. On occasion people would have to work in the office for a few days to a week at a time for meetings, training, special projects; that sort of thing. With a few exceptions, the people I knew who telecommuted lived within 50 or so miles of the office.
There was also a class of telecommuters who had a totally different agreement with the Company. These people had their home as their reporting location. This was seldom done and it was for the convenience of the company in order to have a person physically located in an area where the company didn't have an office. I suspect that this sort of telecommuter wasn't affected by this action.
When I worked for AT&T, telecommuters had a specific reporting office and were expected to live within commuting distance of that office. If they decided to live elsewhere, their reporting office didn't move. If a person's reporting office is in Seattle and he decides to move to Orlando, his reporting office would still be in Seattle. If he moved from Seattle to Orlando he should have made arrangements to have his reporting office moved to an AT&T office in Orlando or married somebody who works for an airlines that has direct flights between Orlando and Seattle.
I have worked with Engineers for Philips and with spam desk people from the Netherlands, ALL of whom expressed displeasure when working with people who will not speak English. They all spoke Dutch and very good English -- and they expect other people to speak English. Documentation for the equipment I was working on was written in English and the engineers said that the documents would not be translated into Dutch. The engineers even spoke English among themselves. I believe that most, if not all, educated Dutch can read English.
I am so happy for you that you and people like you in your ivory towers have access to ALL the major journals. Not all of us have that sort of access to those articles, even though our tax money paid for the research that allowed them to be written.
These sorts of patent lawsuits are nothing new. Henry Ford was just about sued into oblivion because of the Seldon patent and Western Union tried to sue Alex Bell into oblivion (retro-irony). RCA owned patents on radio and totally controlled production of radios in the US. RCA and AT&T both have a long tradition of filing lawsuits to drive out competition. AT&T and RCA were part of a very small group of companies that cross licensed their vacuum tube patents and drove startups out of business.
I have a very difficult time believing that Cisco has 40 senior executives in Brazil, unless they were there for Carnaval; and this is not Carnaval season. I would have believed it if they had said 40 sales "executives".
A native port of KDE on windows was started about two years ago; I don't recall seeing anything come of it. Personally, I see no reason for it to be ported to Windows.
The judge ruled that it did not lose on a recount and that the measure is to go back on the ballot in the next election. It was found that it was impossible to do a recount because the data had been erased.
I find it funny. The only reason it wouldn't have been his own fault would be if he had hired somebody to make sure that his important data was properly backed up and archived.
The guy obviously knew that his data was important to him and likely to be of monetary value, he also has the financial means to get competent IT assistance in setting up a backup strategy.
There is also the PHYSICAL security aspect -- which was obviously inadequate.
"We are disappointed that the jury did not recognize that our technology differs from that of Sprint's patents," chief legal officer Sharon O'Leary said in a statement....
"Vonage is working on a technology "workaround" to Sprint's patents similar to how it is addressing the Verizon patents."
Why would it be working on work-arounds for patents that it is not infringing?
I believe that in April 2009 that there will be A LOT of computers running XP and a comparatively small number of computers running Vista -- and XP may even still be available. I HOPE that MS knows better than to stop security patch support for XP when it is likely to still be the predominant OS. I really don't care about XP feature upgrades. I believe that hardware manufacturers will be providing XP drivers as long as there is a significant number of XP installations.
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I remember seeing advertising where Comcast used the word "Unlimited", they seem to have stopped using that word in their advertising. Since they stopped using the word "Unlimited", where have they said what the limit is? How many other industries could get away with saying that there is a limit but not disclose what that limit is?
Other than the inconsistent and vague stories regarding some sort of secret limit, the only official information I could find regarding any bandwidth limitation is in their TOS. The problem is that their TOS does not say what the actual limit is and it does not say where the actual limit is published.
Buried in Comcast's TOS is the sentence:
ndwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy."
"You shall ensure that your bandwidth consumption using the Service does not exceed the limitations that are now in effect or may be established in the future."
This limitation is meaningless when there are no published limits, no published limits means that there are no limits.
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I have just now started buying downloaded music because Amazon has started selling non-DRM'ed higher bit-rate mp3's. Up until now I would not buy music downloads due to the DRM or because it was not available in a format that I wanted to use and I wouldn't buy CDs because I will not buy the new disks that look like a CD but isn't really a CD.
Employees who were telecommuting had individual agreements that specifically said that the telecommuting could be terminated by the company at any time and that should have been taken into consideration when choosing a home. On occasion people would have to work in the office for a few days to a week at a time for meetings, training, special projects; that sort of thing. With a few exceptions, the people I knew who telecommuted lived within 50 or so miles of the office.
There was also a class of telecommuters who had a totally different agreement with the Company. These people had their home as their reporting location. This was seldom done and it was for the convenience of the company in order to have a person physically located in an area where the company didn't have an office. I suspect that this sort of telecommuter wasn't affected by this action.
When I worked for AT&T, telecommuters had a specific reporting office and were expected to live within commuting distance of that office. If they decided to live elsewhere, their reporting office didn't move. If a person's reporting office is in Seattle and he decides to move to Orlando, his reporting office would still be in Seattle. If he moved from Seattle to Orlando he should have made arrangements to have his reporting office moved to an AT&T office in Orlando or married somebody who works for an airlines that has direct flights between Orlando and Seattle.
Most or all of the people who are affected by this are not unionized, they are salaried (exempt).
With time off for good behavior, it will be less than 30 months. He may even be able to get most of that as work release.
I have worked with Engineers for Philips and with spam desk people from the Netherlands, ALL of whom expressed displeasure when working with people who will not speak English. They all spoke Dutch and very good English -- and they expect other people to speak English. Documentation for the equipment I was working on was written in English and the engineers said that the documents would not be translated into Dutch. The engineers even spoke English among themselves. I believe that most, if not all, educated Dutch can read English.
I am so happy for you that you and people like you in your ivory towers have access to ALL the major journals. Not all of us have that sort of access to those articles, even though our tax money paid for the research that allowed them to be written.
What a fuckin' tool ...
These sorts of patent lawsuits are nothing new. Henry Ford was just about sued into oblivion because of the Seldon patent and Western Union tried to sue Alex Bell into oblivion (retro-irony). RCA owned patents on radio and totally controlled production of radios in the US. RCA and AT&T both have a long tradition of filing lawsuits to drive out competition. AT&T and RCA were part of a very small group of companies that cross licensed their vacuum tube patents and drove startups out of business.
I have a very difficult time believing that Cisco has 40 senior executives in Brazil, unless they were there for Carnaval; and this is not Carnaval season. I would have believed it if they had said 40 sales "executives".
I find it interesting that they are holding Cisco's peons as hostages for Cisco corporate misdeeds.
Using a web server and application server like that is a very common architecture.
A native port of KDE on windows was started about two years ago; I don't recall seeing anything come of it. Personally, I see no reason for it to be ported to Windows.
I thought that the IRA's bomb making capabilities were WAYYYYY past The Anarchist Cookbook.
It is even Amazon Prime -- orders over $25 ship free, or you get free 2 day air if you are a member of Amazon Prime.
"The initiative lost again in a recount."
The judge ruled that it did not lose on a recount and that the measure is to go back on the ballot in the next election. It was found that it was impossible to do a recount because the data had been erased.
I find it funny. The only reason it wouldn't have been his own fault would be if he had hired somebody to make sure that his important data was properly backed up and archived.
The guy obviously knew that his data was important to him and likely to be of monetary value, he also has the financial means to get competent IT assistance in setting up a backup strategy.
There is also the PHYSICAL security aspect -- which was obviously inadequate.
That sentence is still valid if you substitute "Vista" for "ME".
Interesting contradiction in a CNN article:
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"We are disappointed that the jury did not recognize that our technology differs from that of Sprint's patents," chief legal officer Sharon O'Leary said in a statement.
"Vonage is working on a technology "workaround" to Sprint's patents similar to how it is addressing the Verizon patents."
Why would it be working on work-arounds for patents that it is not infringing?
I believe that in April 2009 that there will be A LOT of computers running XP and a comparatively small number of computers running Vista -- and XP may even still be available. I HOPE that MS knows better than to stop security patch support for XP when it is likely to still be the predominant OS. I really don't care about XP feature upgrades. I believe that hardware manufacturers will be providing XP drivers as long as there is a significant number of XP installations.
Vista is ME II.
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The List Price for a Ubuntu CDROM is $12.99 -- it's free if you want to wait a while for delivery.
I remember seeing advertising where Comcast used the word "Unlimited", they seem to have stopped using that word in their advertising. Since they stopped using the word "Unlimited", where have they said what the limit is? How many other industries could get away with saying that there is a limit but not disclose what that limit is?
Other than the inconsistent and vague stories regarding some sort of secret limit, the only official information I could find regarding any bandwidth limitation is in their TOS. The problem is that their TOS does not say what the actual limit is and it does not say where the actual limit is published.
Buried in Comcast's TOS is the sentence:
ndwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy."
"You shall ensure that your bandwidth consumption using the Service does not exceed the limitations that are now in effect or may be established in the future."
This limitation is meaningless when there are no published limits, no published limits means that there are no limits.
"He mentioned that it rarely happens, though, which is why they are completely baffled internally on why the press is so against on them right now..."
It has to do with the fact that customers are disconnected for over-using a service that is advertised as being 'unlimited'.
Don't forget SCO Mobile Server and HipCheck -- whatever the fuck they are.