Microsoft and Amazon are using smart marketing tactics. they want profits. And so they want a large number of sales. To do that they need visibility and hype. By offering a temporary price promotion, they get hype (wow, everybody's buying it!), and visibility from being pushed to the top of the Amazon charts. Marketing should have made some guesswork at the number of increased sales that will result from the initial discount. If they were smart, the cost of the discount is less than the net from increased sales. Also, they're fighting the stigma of their last OS. That could give even more potential value to effective marketing techniques.
fixed, but not pushed out yet. For the 'days to a fix' count, you need to count all days from the time the hole was discovered to the day a fixed version / patch is pushed out to users. (if I have to go looking for it, it's not 'fixed' yet) Most people are trained to only respond to Firefox's Update popups.
"Is there a lack of education about the long-term effects of traffic shaping on free communication? Or are net neutrality advocates just out of touch?"
No bias to that statement there. It seems that the people surveyed support fair traffic shaping. I.e., shape based on content, but be agnostic to the source. QoS has been talked about for quite some time without it being political. VOIP/televideo/VoD gets a certain degree of higher priority over things that are fine coming in possibly disordered packets. let customers know this when they buy a plan. But most importantly, do it fairly. If you sell VOIP, treat all VOIP at the same QoS level. Now, if Comcast offers live streaming TV, but degrades ALL non-streamed video delivery, maybe there's a problem. But that should be a treatable problem. As long as it is source/destination neutral, QoS can increase usefulness of a network for everyone.
many companies are starting to realize that the 3-5 year cycle was based on the last 20 years of significant hardware advances even among common low-end desktop hardware, which has significantly tailed off over the last few years. We were tied into a 3-year lease plan for a while. Now, we're looking at machines from 3 years ago and realizing they run all we need just fine. Some people need new workstations for more capability, but that's by far the exception, not the rule.
"If you can't manage to remember one new chunk of information every 6 months..."
You're just joking, right? If it was one new chunk of info every 6 months it would be no problem. It's the 9 new chunks of info, every 60-180 days depending on the system, some of which I only use once or twice a month, others daily, almost all with the same username... My favorite was the system with a 60 day password expiration that I only used every 3 months or so.
If your system was of top importance to me, I'd remember it. There are a few that fall into this category. Most don't. I've come up with an incrementing salt scheme with a common base that seems to work, but even recalling the increment becomes tedious.
2.2 (WIR1100), 3.4, App B.2 of DISA Wireless STIG Apriva Sensa Secure Wireless Email System Security Checklist, V5R2.1 states that:
"if CAC authentication is not available for Administrative passwords, the passwords should be at least 9 characters and should contain at least 2 lowercase letters, 2 uppercase letters, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters."
does knowing that somehow make it easier? wouldn't a pattern be required (no number for first character...) to make it easier?
hard to point to a 'legitimate' alternative, except for maybe the acceptable price for goods as determined by the law of supply and demand. RIAA v. Adam Smith
I am a (self assessed) highly technical individual with programming experience that stops at Matlab algorithms for physical simulation. Well, I've played with C++ once or twice, but I have no notion of software development. I would love to see an FOSS equivalent to SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, etc. I use these tools daily. I firmly believe that I could make a contribution to such a product, even if it was just user feedback.
Also, one of the basic problems with many open source projects is documentation. Some people are quite capable of clicking Help in MS Excel to find something they want to do. Excel has a very thorough help file. Any user could help put a help file together (a wiki doesn't necessarily count). Pretty graphic design, layout, etc., don't require programming experience ("hey guys, photoshop me what you'd like to see it look like, and I'll try to code it").
When people (a) know what it is, (b) know how to find it, and (c) don't feel like their sacrificing anything to use it, then people will use your product over something they have to pay for. Time has to be invested in (c), and that's all about the user experience.
looking at their site, they have a "Moonlight 2.0 Preview", which is supposed to provide support for Silverlight 2.0 media. I'm not exactly confident that Silverlight 3.0 content will be supported any time soon.
since you said Intellectual Property, what about stretching your claim to patents: if person X patents an item, and person Y makes the item for free and gives it away, is he in violation of the patent even though he isn't selling it? what if Y does it to flood the market and put person X out of business, because his other product lines can support the cost? I thought that IP law protects X in that regard. Perhaps the same or something similar could be said for copyright.
all linux distro's are copyrighted, no? Your right to copy much of that stuff is dictated by a free license. so it is copyrighted, and it's okay for you to copy it because license has been given for you to do so. Whether or not something is copyrighted should have no bearing on download legality. whether or not the copyrighted material is licensed for a particular download is what matters. there's no way a P2P or torrent site could know that a priori. Maybe the copyright holder could inform a site that a particular file was never licensed for such copying, in which case they should stop hosting and transferring the material. that then just leaves the.torrent file grey area, and the fact that there could possibly be a fair use claim on some transfer.
ll3.exe will do it for you, but since I didn't correctly read the system description, getting onto a floppy might be hard too. if you can do that, well, then ll3 might be a moot point.
If you can find an old LapLink executable and a serial cable you may be able to do direct PC-PC transfer. the hard part might be getting it set up right on the modern computer.
Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act sets forth the general requirements for a utility patent:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, may obtain a patent, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
In other words, for an invention to be patentable it must:
1. be statutory,
2. be new,
3. be useful, and
4. be nonobvious.
I believe my Verizon DSL service does this. It can be disabled either by changing your computer DNS settings or modem settings depending on which modem you use.
modern corporate culture demands profit growth. not just continued profit, but growth of profits. how do you expect that to happen in a saturated market?
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Well, how about Albums at minimum compression? Or in lossless formats (at least un-reduced CD quality)
"I could go on"
No you can't. You Godwin'd. All done.
Microsoft and Amazon are using smart marketing tactics. they want profits. And so they want a large number of sales. To do that they need visibility and hype. By offering a temporary price promotion, they get hype (wow, everybody's buying it!), and visibility from being pushed to the top of the Amazon charts. Marketing should have made some guesswork at the number of increased sales that will result from the initial discount. If they were smart, the cost of the discount is less than the net from increased sales. Also, they're fighting the stigma of their last OS. That could give even more potential value to effective marketing techniques.
that may have been a blessing with respect to the most recent one.
fixed, but not pushed out yet. For the 'days to a fix' count, you need to count all days from the time the hole was discovered to the day a fixed version / patch is pushed out to users. (if I have to go looking for it, it's not 'fixed' yet) Most people are trained to only respond to Firefox's Update popups.
But, the majority of users only update firefox when it pops up a "hey, there's an update. Click here!" prompt.
The issue is unfixed for 90% of users until that occurs.
"Is there a lack of education about the long-term effects of traffic shaping on free communication? Or are net neutrality advocates just out of touch?"
No bias to that statement there. It seems that the people surveyed support fair traffic shaping. I.e., shape based on content, but be agnostic to the source. QoS has been talked about for quite some time without it being political. VOIP/televideo/VoD gets a certain degree of higher priority over things that are fine coming in possibly disordered packets. let customers know this when they buy a plan. But most importantly, do it fairly. If you sell VOIP, treat all VOIP at the same QoS level. Now, if Comcast offers live streaming TV, but degrades ALL non-streamed video delivery, maybe there's a problem. But that should be a treatable problem. As long as it is source/destination neutral, QoS can increase usefulness of a network for everyone.
many companies are starting to realize that the 3-5 year cycle was based on the last 20 years of significant hardware advances even among common low-end desktop hardware, which has significantly tailed off over the last few years. We were tied into a 3-year lease plan for a while. Now, we're looking at machines from 3 years ago and realizing they run all we need just fine. Some people need new workstations for more capability, but that's by far the exception, not the rule.
and ME!?
"If you can't manage to remember one new chunk of information every 6 months..."
You're just joking, right? If it was one new chunk of info every 6 months it would be no problem. It's the 9 new chunks of info, every 60-180 days depending on the system, some of which I only use once or twice a month, others daily, almost all with the same username... My favorite was the system with a 60 day password expiration that I only used every 3 months or so.
If your system was of top importance to me, I'd remember it. There are a few that fall into this category. Most don't. I've come up with an incrementing salt scheme with a common base that seems to work, but even recalling the increment becomes tedious.
2.2 (WIR1100), 3.4, App B.2 of DISA Wireless STIG Apriva Sensa Secure Wireless Email System Security Checklist, V5R2.1 states that:
"if CAC authentication is not available for Administrative passwords, the passwords should be at least 9 characters and should contain at least 2 lowercase letters, 2 uppercase letters, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters."
does knowing that somehow make it easier? wouldn't a pattern be required (no number for first character...) to make it easier?
hard to point to a 'legitimate' alternative, except for maybe the acceptable price for goods as determined by the law of supply and demand. RIAA v. Adam Smith
I am a (self assessed) highly technical individual with programming experience that stops at Matlab algorithms for physical simulation. Well, I've played with C++ once or twice, but I have no notion of software development. I would love to see an FOSS equivalent to SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, etc. I use these tools daily. I firmly believe that I could make a contribution to such a product, even if it was just user feedback.
Also, one of the basic problems with many open source projects is documentation. Some people are quite capable of clicking Help in MS Excel to find something they want to do. Excel has a very thorough help file. Any user could help put a help file together (a wiki doesn't necessarily count). Pretty graphic design, layout, etc., don't require programming experience ("hey guys, photoshop me what you'd like to see it look like, and I'll try to code it").
When people (a) know what it is, (b) know how to find it, and (c) don't feel like their sacrificing anything to use it, then people will use your product over something they have to pay for. Time has to be invested in (c), and that's all about the user experience.
I stand somewhat corrected:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Mar-24-1.html
"Moonlight 1.9 now supports the Silverlight 3 api and can play oggvorbis"
I thought I had read elsewhere that they were going to keep the moonlight release base number matching the silverlight number to minimize confusion.
it installs okay and runs basic stuff ok, but have you tried an "3.0 heavy content" to see if it actually is up to snuff?
looking at their site, they have a "Moonlight 2.0 Preview", which is supposed to provide support for Silverlight 2.0 media. I'm not exactly confident that Silverlight 3.0 content will be supported any time soon.
since you said Intellectual Property, what about stretching your claim to patents: if person X patents an item, and person Y makes the item for free and gives it away, is he in violation of the patent even though he isn't selling it? what if Y does it to flood the market and put person X out of business, because his other product lines can support the cost? I thought that IP law protects X in that regard. Perhaps the same or something similar could be said for copyright.
all linux distro's are copyrighted, no? Your right to copy much of that stuff is dictated by a free license. so it is copyrighted, and it's okay for you to copy it because license has been given for you to do so. Whether or not something is copyrighted should have no bearing on download legality. whether or not the copyrighted material is licensed for a particular download is what matters. there's no way a P2P or torrent site could know that a priori. Maybe the copyright holder could inform a site that a particular file was never licensed for such copying, in which case they should stop hosting and transferring the material. that then just leaves the .torrent file grey area, and the fact that there could possibly be a fair use claim on some transfer.
http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/util/
ll3.exe will do it for you, but since I didn't correctly read the system description, getting onto a floppy might be hard too. if you can do that, well, then ll3 might be a moot point.
If you can find an old LapLink executable and a serial cable you may be able to do direct PC-PC transfer. the hard part might be getting it set up right on the modern computer.
you had shoes?
Done. From Bitlaw (emphasis mine):
Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act sets forth the general requirements for a utility patent:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, may obtain a patent, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
In other words, for an invention to be patentable it must:
1. be statutory,
2. be new,
3. be useful, and
4. be nonobvious.
thanks for keeping the dream alive...
I believe my Verizon DSL service does this. It can be disabled either by changing your computer DNS settings or modem settings depending on which modem you use.
Verizon Support - Opting out of DNS assistance
modern corporate culture demands profit growth. not just continued profit, but growth of profits. how do you expect that to happen in a saturated market?