You made your comment while wearing an asbestos suit right ?
We are talking about a convicted monopolist company that has used anti-competitive practises and regularly alters their file formats so they can extract more money from their users.
If I were the guy on stage, I would be very tempted to reply with "Why should we open this up to you anyway?"
Maybe because the EU and other governments have stated that if M$ wants to continue selling their products then they have to open standards so that the governments doesn't lose their data in a few years because nothing reads the file format. AND So businesses that have to deal with government offices aren't forced to use the same products.
What the complainers don't realize, is that they only make up a small percentage of the users, and the other 95% use the system and are fairly happy. Of course there were other people who were un-happy, and they moved on- possibly to Weight Watchers, where they are paying $200/year- of COURSE it is better, I am sure they have more than one developer.
While this may be true for your app it doesn't directly apply to M$. Granted a large number of customers are happy with the version of office they have. They are NOT happy being forced to upgrade and spend vast sums of money simply to continue operating when OS's are discontinued, and their old office products will no longer function on their new OS, or more likely they are forced to upgrade their OS because to read & write documents in the format that their customers / suppliers use they need the next version of office, which happens to only run on the next version of the OS. (note I avoided saying users because we are talking about a corporate environment here and hence the end user has no direct input)
You haven't noticed how lately M$ has been writing more and more on a per OS basis. eg office XP for windows XP. Again another example of We'll tie everything to the OS then make the file formats incompatible. That way when one of the companies in the chain need to upgrade this year, they trigger an upgrade cycle for an entire sector.
Well there are a bunch of UK providers who will give a free national rate number (0870) and also a bunch who will do numbers in specific area codes.
voip-info.org and www.google.co.uk are good for getting the info
www.calluk.com/fwd will forward 0870 numbers to a free world dialup account
www.gossiptel.com has options for 0870 numbers and local numbers
Also as most people in the UK have to pay for local calls, national rate calls are quite standard for many businesses.
Ironically as I've only delt with either replacing an existing pbx solution (where they didn't want to use multiple carriers (yet) ) or a very small one I haven't really had to deal with UK VOIP providers
As for other parts of the EU, sorry I can't comment.
I'd say one to avoid is the supra one. I've got it and I'm not happy with it. It does not provide enough volume and sounds almost like there is a mic near a speaker
Seriously though how many closed source products steadily increase in performance while also providing more features. Mostly it's a case of "The app will run at the same speed because we've added a bunch of bloat to compensate for the faster CPU"
Your example of Altiris Carbon Copy in the contex you use it is a bad one.
Your example implies the use of this software in an office, installed by the IT Dept (or whatever you want to call it). Office computers are supplied (like a phone) as a tool for you to work. You're not trying to say people should be able to do whatever they want (aka non work related things) with office equipment?
I've done that a bunch of times. Mostly taken it up to the till, had them ring it up and then won't given them the cash when I "then" notice it has the warning label.
Ok, yes I'm wasting their time, but it drives the point home to the cashier.
Either way I don't think the labels take any notice of that. Perhaps if Walmart or similar turned around and said "no more copy protected cd's" then it might stop. Until then, a single consumer (lost sale) isn't important, after all you're just "Why buy it when you can download it"
People usually have problems with the water because it's contaminated. Most disasters tend to have plenty of water, just none of it can be drunk. But assuming the cases where lack of water is an issue. The question that the article doesn't answer is how much water is needed and if any other liquids can be used.
What if the water didn't smell that good, would you be left with a structure that smelt bad too ?
It's not hard to sterilize water. You can buy water sterilization tablets at most supermarkets and pharmacies (they are usually in the baby section). The Sterile air, well if it's needed then they will have to use compressed gas.
My thought was how to keep the thing sterile beyond the first few days.
Read the article. 230kg (about 500lbs), ok not something you'd want to lift yourself, but I'd hardly call it ALOT of weight.
That much weight, hey even triple it to include the water, and now think of it the size of a family tent. No way are you going to require fork lift's or high pressure air.
The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
Hello? He's the CEO of http://www.alcatel.com/, NOT the CEO of Universal/ Sony etc. You might as well have asked the CEO of Cisco if they think video data will be delieverd on disks or as data streams over networks. These guys have a vested interest in saying "Hey invest in us because we are the way of the future"
You're forgetting the case has to be locked so that the bios couldn't be reset.
Not to nitpick, and I can't remember the exact spec, but it wasn't any copy of Windows NT 4.0 on any hardware. It was Windows NT 4.0 SP# running on specific hardware. The reason for the hardware spec in the security rating was drivers run as part of the kernel.
This however is a case where there are very few technical answers to.
Your some magic header strings would have to really be magic so spammers don't just fake their own.
While denying any email from a non-standards-compliant ISP is a good idea you then get your users complaining that they aren't getting the email from their freinds / customers because they are using the only affordable ISP in their area.
Spammers are annoying, but legislating it in the US will not stop it. Go type "top spam country" into google, then tell me if you think your statement is correct.
Our laws are powerless to stop people in other countries from Spamming us. While that may be true, alot of that spam is from american companies directed at average americans, just delivered through a foreign country so it's harder to stop / trace.
While I agree that Rape & Murder are far more serious crimes, I do not agree with how light your views to spam are. Spammers make HUGE money off spam AND do so using illegal techniques (spyware, hacks, zombies etc). They also do with very little chance of getting caught. So when they are caught at doing it I think they should get VERY harsh penalties.
Debian fits in because the localization in it is already very good and tested.
If you take a look at almost any debian.org webpage there are already quite a few translations. The rest of the distro is similar in that not only does it support many different hardware platforms, it also has support for most major languages
That make me think, If the show is subsidized, who should the profits go to ?
Assuming that an entire episode is paid for by donations, wouldn't that mean that whoever is distributing it couldn't take more than costs ?
What happens then when it's distributed on P2P networks ? Are we going to start getting court cases where the defendants start showing what programs they have donated money to and so should have some ownership over the episodes produced, as a legal defence for distributing episodes.
In short wouldn't the MPAA start to get into trouble if their members started accepting money to make shows.
Plus, I normally don't have to hunt for *nix drivers on the web
One of the problems I've noticed for a bunch of never linux compatable devices is that they expect you to compile and install a seperate driver that is already included with the kernel. I've seen it done with intel hardware (raid card) and a friends d-link network card.
The install instructions were something like make sure you have your kernel source then
1) copy tgz from CD and untar
2) make driver
3) copy driver to/lib/modules etc
4) edit/etc/hodules.conf (or similar)
etc
Why don't they just say
You'll want to use the following module...
If you are recompiling it's under... and called...
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You made your comment while wearing an asbestos suit right ?
We are talking about a convicted monopolist company that has used anti-competitive practises and regularly alters their file formats so they can extract more money from their users.
If I were the guy on stage, I would be very tempted to reply with "Why should we open this up to you anyway?"
Maybe because the EU and other governments have stated that if M$ wants to continue selling their products then they have to open standards so that the governments doesn't lose their data in a few years because nothing reads the file format. AND So businesses that have to deal with government offices aren't forced to use the same products.
What the complainers don't realize, is that they only make up a small percentage of the users, and the other 95% use the system and are fairly happy. Of course there were other people who were un-happy, and they moved on- possibly to Weight Watchers, where they are paying $200/year- of COURSE it is better, I am sure they have more than one developer.
While this may be true for your app it doesn't directly apply to M$. Granted a large number of customers are happy with the version of office they have. They are NOT happy being forced to upgrade and spend vast sums of money simply to continue operating when OS's are discontinued, and their old office products will no longer function on their new OS, or more likely they are forced to upgrade their OS because to read & write documents in the format that their customers / suppliers use they need the next version of office, which happens to only run on the next version of the OS. (note I avoided saying users because we are talking about a corporate environment here and hence the end user has no direct input)
You haven't noticed how lately M$ has been writing more and more on a per OS basis. eg office XP for windows XP. Again another example of We'll tie everything to the OS then make the file formats incompatible. That way when one of the companies in the chain need to upgrade this year, they trigger an upgrade cycle for an entire sector.
Well there are a bunch of UK providers who will give a free national rate number (0870) and also a bunch who will do numbers in specific area codes.
voip-info.org and www.google.co.uk are good for getting the info
www.calluk.com/fwd will forward 0870 numbers to a free world dialup account
www.gossiptel.com has options for 0870 numbers and local numbers
Also as most people in the UK have to pay for local calls, national rate calls are quite standard for many businesses.
Ironically as I've only delt with either replacing an existing pbx solution (where they didn't want to use multiple carriers (yet) ) or a very small one I haven't really had to deal with UK VOIP providers
As for other parts of the EU, sorry I can't comment.
I'd say one to avoid is the supra one. I've got it and I'm not happy with it. It does not provide enough volume and sounds almost like there is a mic near a speaker
In the EU incoming or outgoing ?
Ok, so when in recient history has the american goverment really been bound by such treaties ?
My perception (certainly over the term of the current president) is "We'll do what ever we want because we've got the biggest military."
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Seriously though how many closed source products steadily increase in performance while also providing more features.
Mostly it's a case of "The app will run at the same speed because we've added a bunch of bloat to compensate for the faster CPU"
Your example of Altiris Carbon Copy in the contex you use it is a bad one.
Your example implies the use of this software in an office, installed by the IT Dept (or whatever you want to call it). Office computers are supplied (like a phone) as a tool for you to work. You're not trying to say people should be able to do whatever they want (aka non work related things) with office equipment?
I've done that a bunch of times. Mostly taken it up to the till, had them ring it up and then won't given them the cash when I "then" notice it has the warning label.
Ok, yes I'm wasting their time, but it drives the point home to the cashier.
Either way I don't think the labels take any notice of that. Perhaps if Walmart or similar turned around and said "no more copy protected cd's" then it might stop. Until then, a single consumer (lost sale) isn't important, after all you're just "Why buy it when you can download it"
People usually have problems with the water because it's contaminated. Most disasters tend to have plenty of water, just none of it can be drunk. But assuming the cases where lack of water is an issue.
The question that the article doesn't answer is how much water is needed and if any other liquids can be used.
What if the water didn't smell that good, would you be left with a structure that smelt bad too ?
It's not hard to sterilize water. You can buy water sterilization tablets at most supermarkets and pharmacies (they are usually in the baby section). The Sterile air, well if it's needed then they will have to use compressed gas. My thought was how to keep the thing sterile beyond the first few days.
Read the article. 230kg (about 500lbs), ok not something you'd want to lift yourself, but I'd hardly call it ALOT of weight.
That much weight, hey even triple it to include the water, and now think of it the size of a family tent. No way are you going to require fork lift's or high pressure air.
The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
Hello? He's the CEO of http://www.alcatel.com/, NOT the CEO of Universal/ Sony etc. You might as well have asked the CEO of Cisco if they think video data will be delieverd on disks or as data streams over networks.
These guys have a vested interest in saying "Hey invest in us because we are the way of the future"
I guess while they are banning livejournal they can ban http://suicidegirls.com/ just because of the domain name
While it's a very nice client I've always found it to be slower (in terms of network throughput) than other clients.
And there I thought StrongARM was designed by http://www.arm.com/ and only fabricated by intel.
You're forgetting the case has to be locked so that the bios couldn't be reset.
Not to nitpick, and I can't remember the exact spec, but it wasn't any copy of Windows NT 4.0 on any hardware. It was Windows NT 4.0 SP# running on specific hardware.
The reason for the hardware spec in the security rating was drivers run as part of the kernel.
This however is a case where there are very few technical answers to.
Your some magic header strings would have to really be magic so spammers don't just fake their own.
While denying any email from a non-standards-compliant ISP is a good idea you then get your users complaining that they aren't getting the email from their freinds / customers because they are using the only affordable ISP in their area.
Spammers are annoying, but legislating it in the US will not stop it.
Go type "top spam country" into google, then tell me if you think your statement is correct.
Our laws are powerless to stop people in other countries from Spamming us. While that may be true, alot of that spam is from american companies directed at average americans, just delivered through a foreign country so it's harder to stop / trace.
While I agree that Rape & Murder are far more serious crimes, I do not agree with how light your views to spam are. Spammers make HUGE money off spam AND do so using illegal techniques (spyware, hacks, zombies etc). They also do with very little chance of getting caught. So when they are caught at doing it I think they should get VERY harsh penalties.
I assume you meant emails not letters :p
Is that the torrent for the trailer or the film ?
Debian fits in because the localization in it is already very good and tested.
If you take a look at almost any debian.org webpage there are already quite a few translations. The rest of the distro is similar in that not only does it support many different hardware platforms, it also has support for most major languages
Personally instead of using stable / testing / unstable I've always had my sources.list use woody / sarge / sid
But I agree totally about moving from woody to sarge. I've been running it on production systems for over a year and had no downtime.
That make me think, If the show is subsidized, who should the profits go to ?
Assuming that an entire episode is paid for by donations, wouldn't that mean that whoever is distributing it couldn't take more than costs ?
What happens then when it's distributed on P2P networks ?
Are we going to start getting court cases where the defendants start showing what programs they have donated money to and so should have some ownership over the episodes produced, as a legal defence for distributing episodes.
In short wouldn't the MPAA start to get into trouble if their members started accepting money to make shows.
Plus, I normally don't have to hunt for *nix drivers on the web
One of the problems I've noticed for a bunch of never linux compatable devices is that they expect you to compile and install a seperate driver that is already included with the kernel. I've seen it done with intel hardware (raid card) and a friends d-link network card.
The install instructions were something like make sure you have your kernel source then /lib/modules etc /etc/hodules.conf (or similar)
1) copy tgz from CD and untar
2) make driver
3) copy driver to
4) edit
etc
Why don't they just say ... and called ...
You'll want to use the following module...
If you are recompiling it's under
er make that DMCA