Ferrari's run on Bridgestone (naturally), my old man's Merc came fitted with 4 Pirelli's (he did go for the sport option tyres). I know for a fact that some of the top end BMW's are sold on Michelin's, Audi's often come sitting on Michelin rubber, Aston Martin's run on Yokohama (as do Lotus) or Bridgestone & so on.
Some very expensive performance car's are engineered with specific tires in mind, some manufacturers are inked into deals with companies that supply for factory race teams, sometimes the car companies just want to use the best tyres they can get hold of.
Maybe the analogy wasn't the best I could have come up with, but I don't think I'ts quite as cut & dried as you make it out to be, yes there is an element of nationalistic pride to all companies, but quite often the French take it to another level. Oh & isn't Goodyear an American company?? (-:
The French have a reputation for industrial protectionism.
Many French companies were nationalised & the government effectively kept the businesses afloat with taxpayers money.
Here's one I know about for a fact (I used to work there) I believe the EU actually got on the case about the government propping up the company in the late 90's but seeing as how the French & Germans run Europe nothing much happened. d-: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Bull
You may also notice that French companies tend to source components from other French companies (eg. new Renault, Citroen & Peugeot cars most likely all use Michelin tyres) whether this is due to tax breaks or cheaper costs I don't know.
Consumers have always been like that, if a brand name is pushed early in a new technologies lifespan. Think of all the people who go to their local electrical store & ask for a "Hoover" rather than a vacuum cleaner.
Wandering round some superstores recently here in the UK I spotted Skype branded USB phones for broadband users, so here begins the mainstream usage of Skype instead of VoIP.
Erm, about the fella that thinks he's already got R2...
R2 is a somewhat confusing new Microsoft-ism, it appears to me to be an upgrade of sorts to get new features for a variety of software "created" by MS, amongst them:
My guess would be he's running Windows 2003 Server R2 (I think it's been available for some time now)
I'd expect the "non-final core components" is a PR term for a bug, maybe one that was patched this month & was deemed important enough to stop shipment of the software? More likely just some crappy code coming from a MS developer (who'd guess huh??)
We should say well done to whoever made this decision, SBS is a key product for MS now & the fact that they didn't want to send out second rate code out to the front line of organisations who are most likely to leave open relays/become part of a botnet/whatever should be applauded.
I'd hazard a guess that the effected software didn't make it past the MS partners, if the code was checked on the production line it should have been found within a week or so of the first copies of the media being sent out. I doubt any organisation can figure out a way to neatly package & sell an update piece of Microsoft software that quickly!!
Although installing SBS on a server, downloading & installing Apache, the Sysinternals utilities, the Google Pack, running Windows Update & finally sysprep doesn't take too long I suppose?? (-;
The FIA is a non-profit association that acts as the voice of motoring organisations & car users. It's position with F1 is as the govorning body that regulates the rules & regulations of the championship. Manufacturers are not part of the FIA they did gang together to form the Grand Prix Manufactorers Association & threaten to start their own event (calling it the Grand Prix World Championship) in the past few years, but it all seems to have been for political posturing to gain influence & money & appears to be resolved.
Max Mosley is the President of the FIA & has a huge say in all matters, but Bernie Ecclestone is an entirely separate influence. Their close history means it is often said both are working together (not the case as they both had differing opinions of what to do in the Indy-gate 2005 fiasco) Bernie Ecclestone is the commercial rights holder for F1 & does deals with TV stations, circuits & generally tries to bring the whole event together (for an awful lot of money it must be said), it was he who organised the customised Boeing 747 that all the cars & equipment are transported outside of Europe in.
There's an awful lot of history to all this, I'm sure if you google/wikipedia it you'll find enough to keep you reading for a good few days straight, you'll probably die of boredom first though...
Back to the topic, the deal is part of a new impetus to make F1 more exciting to watch & cheaper to participate in Toyota apparently spend well over $200M & haven't even won a race yet! It's a good idea but they may be going the wrong way of going about it.
Magneti Marelli (who have been ECU suppliers for the winning F1 constructor for the last 12 years straight & most likely will be again this year as they supply both Renault & Ferrari amongst others) seem to have had their noses put out of place by Microsoft winning the tender. Still there's not much that Redmond's money can't buy huh?
"doing your almighty best to get people off of those workstations without knowing what happened while using pirating tools to change the key to the legitimate one"
How about moving servers built with the Dell OEM CD onto an ESX VMware server, realising that because of the change of hardware W2k3 needs re-activating.
Then finding that because the VMware server doesn't use a Dell chipset (natch) & your enterprise key doesn't work with the Dell OEM cd, you have to use those same trustworthy tools to get your servers to migrate!!
There was a clip of this on Top Gear in the UK. Apparently a journalist asked Mercedes to show hiw how well it worked, so they filled one of their testing facilities with smoke & arranged a demo for the cameras.
The cars braked fine, they just stopped about 15 yards too late!! So obviously there's something not quite right with the radar system, you've gotta chuckle at the comparison they make...
Others blamed widespread illicit copying of commercial games.
Actually this "problem" is one of the things that really helped the PSX get such a huge market share.
The number of people who bought games from EB/Game in the UK & copied the cd's & sold them on at car boot sales created a second market of gamers. They bought the hardware & never bought a legit game. That said I'm sure some have done the same with the current Xbox by chipping it & sticking in a whacking great HDD!!
So you're a heavy broadband user, you pay for a service, naturally you want to get you're money's worth (maybe it's because I'm a Yorkshireman) I cannot think of any other service industry that would even discuss doing this. Imagine the conversation with your energy supplier, a slightly more critical need but...
"You seem to be using lots of electricity sir, you aren't perhaps doing something illegal" Well no, I'm not... "Not making a bomb, planning a bank raid, growing drugs or the like??" Certainly not!! "Well we're cutting you off just to be safe, have a nice day"
I know this could happen to anyone given a lax state of security.
But it's surely much tougher to vet people who have access to your systems when their whole culture is different (nevermind the fact that they're half the world away)
A lot more care needs to be taken when outsourcing internationally, otherwise the savings made will end up being spent on PR & the like after a cock up.
I don't know quite how they'd do this? I suppose they could tax TV cards at sale, or maybe they can detect the use of the receiving equipment as they currently do. That said maybe they can pick up any CRT display device??
It could have all been much worse, the
Communications Act very nearly opened the door too far, by allowing businesses to own a large share of all the UK media. Thankfully it was changed keeping possible market anyone & others from owning a majority of the media.
Murdoch (from what I can recall) owns something approaching 90% of the Australian newspapers. But he had to become a US citizen to
buy into the US media
I personally enjoy living in the UK, being able to watch TV without adverts, independent news broadcasting & seeing the informative programmes that have already been mentioned above. Long may it continue!!
I know some Europeans have been using chips on cards for some time now & they're rolling it out here in the UK as well now. http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/
Many shops I go into now don't even swipe the card, just slot it in the reader. Might there be a plan to eliminate using the mag stripe for the sensitive data (or even having one at all) in the longer term?? Obviously the ATM's...etc will need updating first
I've had a couple of dozy shop staff put my card over the antitheft magnet under the counter, there's an immediate benefit.
MS have struggled a lot in the Japanese territory with Xbox sales (in some months hardware sales didn't surpass the PSOne). They've tried releasing Japan only special hardware bundles (they're a little mad on special editions over there, just look at all the different GBA/SP versions) & games but still they struggle, it seems the consumers prefer homegrown talent & back the "local" companies.
This however seems to be a concerted effort to break in to a huge market for the Xbox 2 (or whatever it's called). I hope it works then we can have more games from Japanese developers on all next gen consoles worldwide!!
"Fire services are one of the few things run by government that ever works"
I don't know, sure they may not be the most efficiently run entities, but most things run by the government "work".
From my experience if you go to hospital with a broken leg you are seen ASAP. When you're a victim of crime & you call the police they come to your aid...etc
There's plenty governments do right, I just hope this helps a few more people be a little more aware of InfoSec
Sega split their market with the Mega CD/32X addons back in the 90's, different platforms under similar guises lead to much confusion with Joe Public. This began to move Sega onto a slippery slope which ultimately leading them out of the console hardware business.
Why don't MS just stick with a HDD as standard in the next gen Xbox, it's not like they're that expensive is it?? The article states the developers "should not rely on its (the HDD) presence for their games" so why bother buying an expensive model unless you hack it, or is it for the home entertainment market MS are looking for?? The drive is not really for games but for videos, music...etc, I wonder...
Maybe, I seem to remember when it came out that they weren't allowed to be exported to Iraq, apparently they were powerful enough to make missiles out of??
I remember some British tabloids making a full page spread about it.
Granted there is plenty out there, there's plenty of background radiation still about from the "Big Bang".
It's more the proximity of the signal, mobile phones, wi-fi PDA's all live too close in my opinion.
I thought it was all a bunch of crap before I started getting headaches after being on a mobile phone for prolonged periods of time (& I never get headaches usually)
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Well you say that but:
Ferrari's run on Bridgestone (naturally), my old man's Merc came fitted with 4 Pirelli's (he did go for the sport option tyres). I know for a fact that some of the top end BMW's are sold on Michelin's, Audi's often come sitting on Michelin rubber, Aston Martin's run on Yokohama (as do Lotus) or Bridgestone & so on.
Some very expensive performance car's are engineered with specific tires in mind, some manufacturers are inked into deals with companies that supply for factory race teams, sometimes the car companies just want to use the best tyres they can get hold of.
Maybe the analogy wasn't the best I could have come up with, but I don't think I'ts quite as cut & dried as you make it out to be, yes there is an element of nationalistic pride to all companies, but quite often the French take it to another level. Oh & isn't Goodyear an American company?? (-:
The French have a reputation for industrial protectionism.
Many French companies were nationalised & the government effectively kept the businesses afloat with taxpayers money.
Here's one I know about for a fact (I used to work there) I believe the EU actually got on the case about the government propping up the company in the late 90's but seeing as how the French & Germans run Europe nothing much happened. d-:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Bull
You may also notice that French companies tend to source components from other French companies (eg. new Renault, Citroen & Peugeot cars most likely all use Michelin tyres) whether this is due to tax breaks or cheaper costs I don't know.
But how will we make them ill-tempered?? Will the journey do that for us, or is there more work needed??
Consumers have always been like that, if a brand name is pushed early in a new technologies lifespan. Think of all the people who go to their local electrical store & ask for a "Hoover" rather than a vacuum cleaner.
Wandering round some superstores recently here in the UK I spotted Skype branded USB phones for broadband users, so here begins the mainstream usage of Skype instead of VoIP.
Erm, about the fella that thinks he's already got R2...
R2 is a somewhat confusing new Microsoft-ism, it appears to me to be an upgrade of sorts to get new features for a variety of software "created" by MS, amongst them:
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 R2
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
My guess would be he's running Windows 2003 Server R2 (I think it's been available for some time now)
I'd expect the "non-final core components" is a PR term for a bug, maybe one that was patched this month & was deemed important enough to stop shipment of the software? More likely just some crappy code coming from a MS developer (who'd guess huh??)
We should say well done to whoever made this decision, SBS is a key product for MS now & the fact that they didn't want to send out second rate code out to the front line of organisations who are most likely to leave open relays/become part of a botnet/whatever should be applauded.
I'd hazard a guess that the effected software didn't make it past the MS partners, if the code was checked on the production line it should have been found within a week or so of the first copies of the media being sent out. I doubt any organisation can figure out a way to neatly package & sell an update piece of Microsoft software that quickly!!
Although installing SBS on a server, downloading & installing Apache, the Sysinternals utilities, the Google Pack, running Windows Update & finally sysprep doesn't take too long I suppose?? (-;
What?? You seem to be a little misinformed...
The FIA is a non-profit association that acts as the voice of motoring organisations & car users. It's position with F1 is as the govorning body that regulates the rules & regulations of the championship. Manufacturers are not part of the FIA they did gang together to form the Grand Prix Manufactorers Association & threaten to start their own event (calling it the Grand Prix World Championship) in the past few years, but it all seems to have been for political posturing to gain influence & money & appears to be resolved.
Max Mosley is the President of the FIA & has a huge say in all matters, but Bernie Ecclestone is an entirely separate influence. Their close history means it is often said both are working together (not the case as they both had differing opinions of what to do in the Indy-gate 2005 fiasco)
Bernie Ecclestone is the commercial rights holder for F1 & does deals with TV stations, circuits & generally tries to bring the whole event together (for an awful lot of money it must be said), it was he who organised the customised Boeing 747 that all the cars & equipment are transported outside of Europe in.
There's an awful lot of history to all this, I'm sure if you google/wikipedia it you'll find enough to keep you reading for a good few days straight, you'll probably die of boredom first though...
Back to the topic, the deal is part of a new impetus to make F1 more exciting to watch & cheaper to participate in Toyota apparently spend well over $200M & haven't even won a race yet! It's a good idea but they may be going the wrong way of going about it.
Magneti Marelli (who have been ECU suppliers for the winning F1 constructor for the last 12 years straight & most likely will be again this year as they supply both Renault & Ferrari amongst others) seem to have had their noses put out of place by Microsoft winning the tender. Still there's not much that Redmond's money can't buy huh?
"doing your almighty best to get people off of those workstations without knowing what happened while using pirating tools to change the key to the legitimate one"
How about moving servers built with the Dell OEM CD onto an ESX VMware server, realising that because of the change of hardware W2k3 needs re-activating.
Then finding that because the VMware server doesn't use a Dell chipset (natch) & your enterprise key doesn't work with the Dell OEM cd, you have to use those same trustworthy tools to get your servers to migrate!!
There was a clip of this on Top Gear in the UK. Apparently a journalist asked Mercedes to show hiw how well it worked, so they filled one of their testing facilities with smoke & arranged a demo for the cameras.
The cars braked fine, they just stopped about 15 yards too late!! So obviously there's something not quite right with the radar system, you've gotta chuckle at the comparison they make...
Actually this "problem" is one of the things that really helped the PSX get such a huge market share.
The number of people who bought games from EB/Game in the UK & copied the cd's & sold them on at car boot sales created a second market of gamers. They bought the hardware & never bought a legit game. That said I'm sure some have done the same with the current Xbox by chipping it & sticking in a whacking great HDD!!
...there was a similar competition in the early 90's to design a game.
It ended up with the game Worms being created.
I know the industry has changed quite a lot since then but I would like to see something similar happen if a really good idea for a game comes up!!
Actually I didn't know it had been used but hey it seemed to fit the comment!!
I've not heard about this particular tactic here in the UK but I suppose it makes some kind of sense, good link too!!
So you're a heavy broadband user, you pay for a service, naturally you want to get you're money's worth (maybe it's because I'm a Yorkshireman)
I cannot think of any other service industry that would even discuss doing this. Imagine the conversation with your energy supplier, a slightly more critical need but...
"You seem to be using lots of electricity sir, you aren't perhaps doing something illegal"
Well no, I'm not...
"Not making a bomb, planning a bank raid, growing drugs or the like??"
Certainly not!!
"Well we're cutting you off just to be safe, have a nice day"
I know this could happen to anyone given a lax state of security.
But it's surely much tougher to vet people who have access to your systems when their whole culture is different (nevermind the fact that they're half the world away)
A lot more care needs to be taken when outsourcing internationally, otherwise the savings made will end up being spent on PR & the like after a cock up.
The BBC have done something similar for a while now (it's based on UK media coverage), there is a celebrity market & a sports market.
Neither are tech related but it's all a bit of fun. Although I'm afraid there's no serious prizes attached to these markets either
I guess people outside Russia dowloading from the site are still in breach of copyright in their own country?
I thought this was kind of covered already
I don't know quite how they'd do this? I suppose they could tax TV cards at sale, or maybe they can detect the use of the receiving equipment as they currently do. That said maybe they can pick up any CRT display device??
I hope they'll be able to get all of the buttons working on the new revision of the hardware.
It could have all been much worse, the Communications Act very nearly opened the door too far, by allowing businesses to own a large share of all the UK media. Thankfully it was changed keeping possible market anyone & others from owning a majority of the media.
Murdoch (from what I can recall) owns something approaching 90% of the Australian newspapers. But he had to become a US citizen to buy into the US media
I personally enjoy living in the UK, being able to watch TV without adverts, independent news broadcasting & seeing the informative programmes that have already been mentioned above. Long may it continue!!
I know some Europeans have been using chips on cards for some time now & they're rolling it out here in the UK as well now.
http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/
Many shops I go into now don't even swipe the card, just slot it in the reader. Might there be a plan to eliminate using the mag stripe for the sensitive data (or even having one at all) in the longer term?? Obviously the ATM's...etc will need updating first
I've had a couple of dozy shop staff put my card over the antitheft magnet under the counter, there's an immediate benefit.
It's not so bad, we've had no duplicate stories!!
Plus it's Friday so most of us have got a couple of days off from work/college/whatever...
MS have struggled a lot in the Japanese territory with Xbox sales (in some months hardware sales didn't surpass the PSOne).
They've tried releasing Japan only special hardware bundles (they're a little mad on special editions over there, just look at all the different GBA/SP versions) & games but still they struggle, it seems the consumers prefer homegrown talent & back the "local" companies.
This however seems to be a concerted effort to break in to a huge market for the Xbox 2 (or whatever it's called). I hope it works then we can have more games from Japanese developers on all next gen consoles worldwide!!
"Fire services are one of the few things run by government that ever works"
I don't know, sure they may not be the most efficiently run entities, but most things run by the government "work".
From my experience if you go to hospital with a broken leg you are seen ASAP. When you're a victim of crime & you call the police they come to your aid...etc
There's plenty governments do right, I just hope this helps a few more people be a little more aware of InfoSec
Sega split their market with the Mega CD/32X addons back in the 90's, different platforms under similar guises lead to much confusion with Joe Public. This began to move Sega onto a slippery slope which ultimately leading them out of the console hardware business.
Why don't MS just stick with a HDD as standard in the next gen Xbox, it's not like they're that expensive is it??
The article states the developers "should not rely on its (the HDD) presence for their games" so why bother buying an expensive model unless you hack it, or is it for the home entertainment market MS are looking for?? The drive is not really for games but for videos, music...etc, I wonder...
Maybe, I seem to remember when it came out that they weren't allowed to be exported to Iraq, apparently they were powerful enough to make missiles out of??
I remember some British tabloids making a full page spread about it.
Granted there is plenty out there, there's plenty of background radiation still about from the "Big Bang".
It's more the proximity of the signal, mobile phones, wi-fi PDA's all live too close in my opinion.
I thought it was all a bunch of crap before I started getting headaches after being on a mobile phone for prolonged periods of time (& I never get headaches usually)