2mb/s is horrible. At the rate they are planning 4G will be available and considerably faster than this broadband for all, which is sure to be monitored feverishly by the government.
If they engineered for peak hour they wouldn't have capacity problems. Let's not spin things creatively.
Meanwhile, the backbone they use for HDTV is not even having real capacity problems but hey guess what they did! They gave you a free downgrade on the bandwidth for their HD channels!
I hope that windows releases start edition on every new pc/notebook. Just imagine all the tech support issues: "I can't browse the web AND listen to music at the same time?"
linux would be adopted so fast that my head would swirl.
Good running shoes that are appropriately balanced, provide plenty of space so you don't sweat, etc are pretty expensive. However, I don't have the callouses nor do I intend to develop them. So I run with Mizunos (130$) and the difference between those and el cheapo running shoes is night and day. All my foot pains from exercising went away almost immediately once I swapped to em. I would suggest you check them out, their better line would fit exactly what you want.
To your question here, the answer is: outside the US, every owner of any bsuiness, CEO or not, does know how stuff works. Not always patching a cable, but do they have a good understanding beyond a simple layman on issues? absolutely, 100%.
There's some sort of nationalized US stupidity where bad ceo's don't feel they need to understand the underpinnings of their work.
In contrast, my CEO prefers firefox over IE. He knows about all the tech issues from VPN down the line, and I have spoken with him about them (I'm not even in IT myself for the company). If you don't understand something, how can you make sure its a: used efficiently or b: used properly? We're an engineering firm that has 0 to do with that aspect of technology, but yet he is knowledgeable about tech and is a fantastic ceo. coincidence? I doubt it.
This is like saying "you know how to drive a car but you shouldn't have to know how to change the oil". Reality here: it helps to have a basis of common skills, even if you specialize in something else.
If you don't have a common skill, you're going to understand something wrong, and get politicians who think the internet is a series of tubes trying to draft laws. See my original post. How well did that work in explaining to them net neutrality or DRM or DMCA, copyright, patents? The list goes on.
Literally no matter who was guilty/not would simply mean who shells out for the appeal (appeals are not free when convicted of cash amounts in the states, not sure if it's the same in sweden). Appeals are what set things in stone. Ex: the bilski case with the "business stuff can't be patented" that raised the bar on patents: it was not the case that was the issue, but the Appeal. There are lots of reasons judgments might be disagreed with between judges or errors or just infactual things, etc.
The thing is, this is not the highest court. This type of issue needs to go to the highest court. It is also the biggest mistake to take these people to court if the article about PirateParty being the 3rd biggest political bloc in sweden is accurate.
However, there is an entirely separate issue: if the appeals court has 0 understanding of technology, then they will probably make a horrible ruling thinking that this is just "the same as stuff from 100 years ago". Judges don't really like to set new precedents, and appeals tend to force that. On the flip side, the previous judge may have made this easier to appeal by nature of how he chose to give out the charges and for what. "assisting in copyright infringement" is quite different than saying that piratebay infringed directly, and makes a difference on the appeal.
a profit loss means no raises or promotions that increase pay, basically. Within any company that is established, this is a bigger threat than small companies. Cash on hand during a loss does not make up for raises, promotions, salaries. That's when that billions on hand starts getting used significantly faster than the amount of loss.
Want to see a business turn REAL fast? Give them a loss in money. Has been working in the markets for centuries. Look at AMD, for example.
taking someone who is not very tech-oriented/aligned and putting them as CTO is just like taking politicians and lawyers and asking them to draft bills on technology.
This is completely incorrect. Until the appeal has been determined in the case in years, this thing is still in legal limbo. Even new cases will "await the appeal decision".
Thus, this means nothing. The appeal will be everything, as was expected in the first place. All we have is a case of bad reporting/moral panic by forbes.
If any company was losing $1.8M a day you'd see people laid off daily. Corporations would lay off people daily if they broke even on revenue, because broke even means that the salaries and raises put you in the red. Common business sense.
The fact that google still supports youtube means a: it sees it as a profitable business venture and b: they probably buy bandwidth in bulk where usage doesn't affect the cost much. Especially considering this is commercial their monthly bandwidth costs are probably identical every month; only the electrical and man-hours charges change, and I suspect the variance is extremely low. No corporation wants volatile bills from month to month, and guess what? No corporation has completely volatile bills from month to month, or it would fail miserably./edit: oh god, it's that internet evolution site. Have they ever done anything actually FACTUAL instead of crap? Why didn't someone tag this internetevolution so we could skip this whole article?
Uh no, you cannot use that as evidence, there's some interesting 4th amendment issues but you are basically incorrect. Not only that, but you'd be unable to use the evidence of the stolen goods for the same reason. Not that a judge or jury will agree to the same conclusion, but it's very likely the thief would go free before you did, as they would have evidence of your breaking and entering.
As someone who worked for an ISP, you should know pretty well that the connections were being oversold for profit margin, and this "coming bandwidth crunch" has been coming for what, 15 years? I have no sympathy for ISP's that couldn't see a slowly rolling tide that they have been putting off. Honestly they are the companies that provide the capacity and they know what's coming down the line as far as upgrades. Even now they bitch about small investments to increase capacity for longterm or longer-term.
Okay, so this is something that should have been secret? Why, exactly? Do things have to be evil and/or sacred to somehow differentiate between things that should be part of transparency?
People want something that actually functions, not a complete piece of crap. Windows CE has to be the least functional OS I've ever seen, even beyond the windows 7 idea where you can only run 3 programs at once.
Why? Maybe people don't want to be tied to the windows market in general?
Lots of people are seeing the alternates begin to stretch beyond simple embedded devices and servers, so its understandable. We have HP, google, intel, everyone setting up their own non-windows stuff as they have been for years. I mean it's not like Moblin came out today.
Intel is at its core, a processor maker. I'd suspect they are agnostic to windows from that perspective.
Umm, you missed the significance here, which is the last sentence they said: "If you've ever had to deal with law enforcement when it comes to recovering what they took from you, you know what a nightmare this could turn into."
If I recall correctly, laws let them hold this shit for up to a month before they're obligated to move their asses and even start giving it back. That doesn't even mean they will. It's beyond ridiculous, people sue all the time for this abuse.
Jeez, this woman is trying to downplay everything. "Here we were, getting ready to stamp out your rights, and you're making a big fuss! oh, this is nothing".
From the article, from this woman. "I submitted a petition to ICANN to form a constituency representing the safety interests of non-commercial Internet users."
"The proposed CyberSafety Constituency is made up of many organizations and individuals, as evidenced on the roster linked above. Indeed, the CP80 Foundation, a group that supports port zoning and is represented by Ralph Yarro, who is also chairman of the board of The SCO Group , is anticipated to be a member of the constituency"
Yes, lets let not just let businesses and the individuals of those businesses represent their own interests, but lets tell them they speak for the community at large! Clearly SCO is the best company to tell netizens what they need, and to represent us through representing their own interests.
Talk about idiocy at its finest.
Does anyone know if this port restriction thing is anything other than stupid?
There are a whole lot of other licenses the MS-PL doesn't play nice with. Meanwhile as I said, if this wasn't barely shoved into OSI, it would get even less of a glance than now.
This is an improvement, but it's hardly a compatible license with most other licenses. Or shall we say, deliberately incompatible with their competition. Nothing like a little spin all over again.
If they had never managed to sneak this one under on OSI, it would still mean nothing. Considering that it's still MS-PL, it still means nothing.
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2mb/s is horrible. At the rate they are planning 4G will be available and considerably faster than this broadband for all, which is sure to be monitored feverishly by the government.
If they engineered for peak hour they wouldn't have capacity problems. Let's not spin things creatively.
Meanwhile, the backbone they use for HDTV is not even having real capacity problems but hey guess what they did! They gave you a free downgrade on the bandwidth for their HD channels!
What a value.
I hope that windows releases start edition on every new pc/notebook. Just imagine all the tech support issues: "I can't browse the web AND listen to music at the same time?"
linux would be adopted so fast that my head would swirl.
Good running shoes that are appropriately balanced, provide plenty of space so you don't sweat, etc are pretty expensive. However, I don't have the callouses nor do I intend to develop them. So I run with Mizunos (130$) and the difference between those and el cheapo running shoes is night and day. All my foot pains from exercising went away almost immediately once I swapped to em. I would suggest you check them out, their better line would fit exactly what you want.
eh, I guess I never realized that they actually opened it up, I just remember years of trouble and stupid drama crap as well. /good to know, thanks
To your question here, the answer is: outside the US, every owner of any bsuiness, CEO or not, does know how stuff works. Not always patching a cable, but do they have a good understanding beyond a simple layman on issues? absolutely, 100%.
There's some sort of nationalized US stupidity where bad ceo's don't feel they need to understand the underpinnings of their work.
In contrast, my CEO prefers firefox over IE. He knows about all the tech issues from VPN down the line, and I have spoken with him about them (I'm not even in IT myself for the company). If you don't understand something, how can you make sure its a: used efficiently or b: used properly? We're an engineering firm that has 0 to do with that aspect of technology, but yet he is knowledgeable about tech and is a fantastic ceo. coincidence? I doubt it.
This is like saying "you know how to drive a car but you shouldn't have to know how to change the oil". Reality here: it helps to have a basis of common skills, even if you specialize in something else.
If you don't have a common skill, you're going to understand something wrong, and get politicians who think the internet is a series of tubes trying to draft laws. See my original post. How well did that work in explaining to them net neutrality or DRM or DMCA, copyright, patents? The list goes on.
in the form of screwing over the entire planet with a physical lock in for another proprietary piece of crap?
no thanks.
I'd like options other than flash on my monitors, as opposed to a tv that will not function as a monitor because "flash is good enough".
No.
Literally no matter who was guilty/not would simply mean who shells out for the appeal (appeals are not free when convicted of cash amounts in the states, not sure if it's the same in sweden). Appeals are what set things in stone. Ex: the bilski case with the "business stuff can't be patented" that raised the bar on patents: it was not the case that was the issue, but the Appeal. There are lots of reasons judgments might be disagreed with between judges or errors or just infactual things, etc.
The thing is, this is not the highest court. This type of issue needs to go to the highest court. It is also the biggest mistake to take these people to court if the article about PirateParty being the 3rd biggest political bloc in sweden is accurate.
However, there is an entirely separate issue: if the appeals court has 0 understanding of technology, then they will probably make a horrible ruling thinking that this is just "the same as stuff from 100 years ago". Judges don't really like to set new precedents, and appeals tend to force that. On the flip side, the previous judge may have made this easier to appeal by nature of how he chose to give out the charges and for what. "assisting in copyright infringement" is quite different than saying that piratebay infringed directly, and makes a difference on the appeal.
a profit loss means no raises or promotions that increase pay, basically. Within any company that is established, this is a bigger threat than small companies. Cash on hand during a loss does not make up for raises, promotions, salaries. That's when that billions on hand starts getting used significantly faster than the amount of loss.
Want to see a business turn REAL fast? Give them a loss in money. Has been working in the markets for centuries. Look at AMD, for example.
taking someone who is not very tech-oriented/aligned and putting them as CTO is just like taking politicians and lawyers and asking them to draft bills on technology.
See how well that's been working for us?
This is completely incorrect. Until the appeal has been determined in the case in years, this thing is still in legal limbo. Even new cases will "await the appeal decision".
Thus, this means nothing. The appeal will be everything, as was expected in the first place. All we have is a case of bad reporting/moral panic by forbes.
Okay we have heard this for 5+ years now. The whole "how can google possibly make a profit?"
"loss leader" doesn't necessitate taking a loss, just less profit than everyone else to make up for it with volume.
Like what the AC said, losing 300+ mil a year could bankrupt Microsoft, let alone google.
Only if they are using Genuine Architecture Yuppies to program with.
If any company was losing $1.8M a day you'd see people laid off daily. Corporations would lay off people daily if they broke even on revenue, because broke even means that the salaries and raises put you in the red. Common business sense.
The fact that google still supports youtube means a: it sees it as a profitable business venture and b: they probably buy bandwidth in bulk where usage doesn't affect the cost much. Especially considering this is commercial their monthly bandwidth costs are probably identical every month; only the electrical and man-hours charges change, and I suspect the variance is extremely low. No corporation wants volatile bills from month to month, and guess what? No corporation has completely volatile bills from month to month, or it would fail miserably. /edit: oh god, it's that internet evolution site. Have they ever done anything actually FACTUAL instead of crap? Why didn't someone tag this internetevolution so we could skip this whole article?
Uh no, you cannot use that as evidence, there's some interesting 4th amendment issues but you are basically incorrect. Not only that, but you'd be unable to use the evidence of the stolen goods for the same reason. Not that a judge or jury will agree to the same conclusion, but it's very likely the thief would go free before you did, as they would have evidence of your breaking and entering.
As someone who worked for an ISP, you should know pretty well that the connections were being oversold for profit margin, and this "coming bandwidth crunch" has been coming for what, 15 years? I have no sympathy for ISP's that couldn't see a slowly rolling tide that they have been putting off. Honestly they are the companies that provide the capacity and they know what's coming down the line as far as upgrades. Even now they bitch about small investments to increase capacity for longterm or longer-term.
Okay, so this is something that should have been secret? Why, exactly? Do things have to be evil and/or sacred to somehow differentiate between things that should be part of transparency?
This sounds like a good passover joke. If they had dyed the atoms, it would have been good enough for us.
dye-atom!
People want something that actually functions, not a complete piece of crap. Windows CE has to be the least functional OS I've ever seen, even beyond the windows 7 idea where you can only run 3 programs at once.
So once again, they have no competition for ARM.
Why? Maybe people don't want to be tied to the windows market in general?
Lots of people are seeing the alternates begin to stretch beyond simple embedded devices and servers, so its understandable. We have HP, google, intel, everyone setting up their own non-windows stuff as they have been for years. I mean it's not like Moblin came out today.
Intel is at its core, a processor maker. I'd suspect they are agnostic to windows from that perspective.
Umm, you missed the significance here, which is the last sentence they said: "If you've ever had to deal with law enforcement when it comes to recovering what they took from you, you know what a nightmare this could turn into."
If I recall correctly, laws let them hold this shit for up to a month before they're obligated to move their asses and even start giving it back. That doesn't even mean they will. It's beyond ridiculous, people sue all the time for this abuse.
Do you have any clue what you're talking about? Water is not conductive.
Jeez, this woman is trying to downplay everything. "Here we were, getting ready to stamp out your rights, and you're making a big fuss! oh, this is nothing".
From the article, from this woman. "I submitted a petition to ICANN to form a constituency representing the safety interests of non-commercial Internet users."
"The proposed CyberSafety Constituency is made up of many organizations and individuals, as evidenced on the roster linked above. Indeed, the CP80 Foundation, a group that supports port zoning and is represented by Ralph Yarro, who is also chairman of the board of The SCO Group , is anticipated to be a member of the constituency"
Yes, lets let not just let businesses and the individuals of those businesses represent their own interests, but lets tell them they speak for the community at large! Clearly SCO is the best company to tell netizens what they need, and to represent us through representing their own interests.
Talk about idiocy at its finest.
Does anyone know if this port restriction thing is anything other than stupid?
Who said GPL? I specifically didn't say GPL.
There are a whole lot of other licenses the MS-PL doesn't play nice with. Meanwhile as I said, if this wasn't barely shoved into OSI, it would get even less of a glance than now.
This is an improvement, but it's hardly a compatible license with most other licenses. Or shall we say, deliberately incompatible with their competition. Nothing like a little spin all over again.
If they had never managed to sneak this one under on OSI, it would still mean nothing. Considering that it's still MS-PL, it still means nothing.