I don't know what else but open source you could use especially on the database side. You have only a few choices:
Microsoft ($$$) (approx. $50,000 per server per year in licensing costs since it's a public (unlimited CAL) enterprise-level site) IBM ($$) (approx. $500,000 per year for leasing the whole operation, another load for support) Oracle ($) (approx. $20,000 per backend and about 30 contractors for the next 5 years for the implementation) Linux, MySQL, PHP (Free)
Not to mention, with Microsoft you'll need more servers to handle the same amount of load especially if you use Microsoft-based software package for the frontend as well (ASP.NET, MS CRM or SharePoint).
For IBM you'll have special hardware that nobody can handle but IBM certified support personnel.
For Oracle you're pretty much on your own anyway and you'll have to find a frontend.
I didn't know it was necessary to prove usage in a particular way to kill a patent. The logic seems off to me, if he can prove he has a certain product that did a specific thing before 1995 (and I'm certain he can resurrect a few 1995-era computer boxes and operating systems (Windows 95 or NT 3.5, DR-DOS 7, Novell Netware 4)).
If you really have to prove usage, the patent system would be really off (well it already is, but further than you can imagine) since to get a patent and file a lawsuit you only need to claim (not prove) that you thought of something somewhat related (you don't even have to implement or sell it).
I don't know if an EULA is even enforceable but we'll see how this EULA holds up against the GPL since almost all packages on their system are licensed under the GPL. Too bad it'll probably take another lawsuit to test this flying heap of poo.
How about large datacenters having their own fairly large power generator? If you can buy gas, oil or coal in bulk it might be on par or cheaper and more reliable than buying general grid-based power. If you need cleaner energy, there was a news post a few months ago about a "backyard" nuclear generator similar to the ones used on nuclear powered subs and vessels.
For smaller applications like home, a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator might do, they've been used in military applications since the middle of the last century and have been used extensively in civilian applications in the Soviet Union with several of them still operative and forgotten about.
Read the fine print in your contract. Most contracts promise you something like 64k down, 24k up minimum. Some even go as far as promising you a 128k down, 64k up. Of course you can't hold them responsible if you don't get that at certain points.
I've once seen such service used and they just sent you an e-mail with a URL linking to the message somebody sent you. Then that URL would become inactive after one time looking at it or locked onto your browser with a cookie. Of course copy/pasting the text is a simple yet effective tool.
I don't know, but the rough designs seem to be available on Wikipedia and any team of nuclear engineers and scientists can assemble one based on those descriptions. The difficult part is 1) getting enough live material to be effective and 2) not getting detected either in making, transporting or delivery and 3) nobody wants a nuclear war with any country.
You're wrong. If you buy a gun and modify it in a way you're still allowed to have that gun, you just can't use it anymore or brandish it in public (depending on your locality). You can still own it and store it in your gun cabinet since in the USA you're still allowed to own guns (it's in the constitution somewhere), usually the use, transportation and places of use is regulated by state or local laws (like you can't shoot within 300 ft of any houses or in the direction of animals or people).
Your argument doesn't match the exact circumstances either. An XBox hardware isn't a weapon (the software running on it can be classified as a weapon in the US), it's just a piece of electronics like a TV or a VCR/DVD player.
Either their lawyers are incompetent or crooks or both but this is ridiculous. What were they expecting? That nobody was going to find out? Thanks to NYCL we get a little bit of fairness in the crooked justice system. How can you file a 'secret' lawsuit anyway?
I would like to see those numbers over the years. I think (wild speculation) space travel would be (on a relative yearly basis) safer than both cars and airplanes. Also compare Russian, European, Chinese and US based space programs. AFAIK most crashes and malfunctions happen on the Shuttle program with the Soyuz program having the lowest cost and casualties.
Ultimately they always vote for the ones that keep them in poverty, it doesn't matter which side they chose, the majority of people are always on the losing end, the businesses and upper-middle class are always on the receiving end (tax-breaks if you earn over $400.000).
I've worked myself out of the lower class (earning under 40k within the family) to the lower-middle class (earning 100k within the family) and I am already reaping the benefits. I can afford a place that is quite nice and things that aren't a necessity to live but are quite nice and then I can afford somebody to do my taxes who finds out that what I spend in the place related to my job (like second phone lines, secondary tv, desks, cars and gas etc.) I can bring back in to the taxes. They then calculate what I should bring in and how much of it to reap the maximum benefits from my already-paid tax dollars. I can also afford to overpay slightly on my taxes throughout the year thus maximizing my return (since what you get back will be more if you overpaid). What I pay the guy, I can bring into the taxes again the next year.
If you would be in the lower class, first it would cost you (comparative) a lot more to afford somebody like that (would you rather spend $500 on some payment or food/gas right now or on a bureaucrat). Then, you can't afford the more expensive (and usually better quality) products so you can't bring enough into your taxes to go over the threshold (which is, if I'm correct over $5000 for single and $10000 for family) to maximize a return.
Who uses unlimited talk and text anyway? I hardly send texts (e-mails are the norm now and since you can send e-mails to/from most phones (phonenumber@provider.com), only the receiver has to pay for them in case you send texts (instead of both sender and receiver paying for texts). I have a 500 minute phone plan with unlimited nights and weekends (the norm), pay over $70 to Sprint for two lines without anything (the second phone line is 'free' but still adds about $12 in taxes and fees) and hardly use 200 of the 500 daytime minutes.
I call a heck of a lot more but usually not during business hours. I'll gladly pay AT&T for a way better reception and service (reception of Sprint/Nextel sucks anywhere outside the city even in the suburbs where I live), unlimited data etc. and I'll still fork around the same amount of cash for 2 lines (after 15% employer discount).
Is there any difference today? Look at Untraceable (or rather don't look). Next to the heaping mistakes as in any hacker-like movie (it's worse than Swordfish), Untraceable talks about "DNS Servers in Russia we (FBI, USA) have no control over" and "Net Neutrality is bad because it allows everybody to be anonymous and do whatever they want (child porn, hacking, killing) without government control" and "Unregistered guns are bad"
I meant ferromagnetic metals as that is what most people think about. We just say metal in our environment and we have to check in any case with a doctor for any type of metal (like titanium implants) to see if they're mri-safe or mri-compatible. The precaution part comes straight out of our safety documentation from Siemens, I know it usually doesn't do anything but I'm not about to test it either.
My tin-foil-hat response to that is: they don't want to find him. They combed the mountains and have any resource from spies and scouts to ulv's, spy-planes and satellites and still can't find him? If they find him, the 'war' would be over and without a war they would lose control through fear over the general populace or start up another one which not a lot of people would like.
I do it. All my websites, even commercial ones are W3C HTML Strict or XHTML Strict. It works well in Safari and Firefox. If somebody really complains that there is a huge problem with IE to the point of unusability, then I let them know the alternatives out there and if really necessary, I might even show a message whenever they come to my website that their browser might not work well and they'll need to download Firefox. And you don't even need Admin rights in Windows, Linux or Mac to install and use Firefox, just install it in your Users' home directory and run it from there.
Well, we can withstand quite large magnetic fields. MRI scanners are up to 16T right now (experimental) and the side effects minimal. I work in a 3T environment, and the only thing that is a problem is metal in, on or around the body, they get ripped straight out into the bore as soon as you pass the.5 Gauss line. The other precaution is when body parts form loops (like crossed arms or legs or arms/hands holding other body parts) they could potentially cause electric shocks and minor burns. Minor tingling or heat sensations of the extremities is considered not harmful. I think however, in the range (really close since magnetic fields drop with distance) of these type of things you might be able to shock or burn somebody to dead since their body acts as a coil.
Well, maybe we'll get market forces at work for cell phone prices. In Europe, you CAN get unlocked phones that cost $25, $50 or $100. The cost of production to store of the iPhone was initially about $250 and should currently have gone down greatly everything else is just markup. However, I still can't get an unlocked phone in the US (even the simplest ones without any fancy stuff like bluetooth or 3G) for less than $150 if I buy it with my carrier. The Blackberries can easily cost more than $500 if you don't want to get locked in. Getting an open source phone that has lower production rate and more components (bluetooth, 3G, touch screen) is cheaper than that.
I would like a cell phone market where you can go to the mall, go into a cell phone store and order what you want, then go into your preferred carriers store and get what you want. Off course the prices should reflect that, knowing AT&T, Verizon or Sprint, they're just going to maintain the prices for subscriptions and jack up the prices of the cell phones.
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I don't know what else but open source you could use especially on the database side. You have only a few choices:
Microsoft ($$$) (approx. $50,000 per server per year in licensing costs since it's a public (unlimited CAL) enterprise-level site)
IBM ($$) (approx. $500,000 per year for leasing the whole operation, another load for support)
Oracle ($) (approx. $20,000 per backend and about 30 contractors for the next 5 years for the implementation)
Linux, MySQL, PHP (Free)
Not to mention, with Microsoft you'll need more servers to handle the same amount of load especially if you use Microsoft-based software package for the frontend as well (ASP.NET, MS CRM or SharePoint).
For IBM you'll have special hardware that nobody can handle but IBM certified support personnel.
For Oracle you're pretty much on your own anyway and you'll have to find a frontend.
I didn't know it was necessary to prove usage in a particular way to kill a patent. The logic seems off to me, if he can prove he has a certain product that did a specific thing before 1995 (and I'm certain he can resurrect a few 1995-era computer boxes and operating systems (Windows 95 or NT 3.5, DR-DOS 7, Novell Netware 4)).
If you really have to prove usage, the patent system would be really off (well it already is, but further than you can imagine) since to get a patent and file a lawsuit you only need to claim (not prove) that you thought of something somewhat related (you don't even have to implement or sell it).
I don't know if an EULA is even enforceable but we'll see how this EULA holds up against the GPL since almost all packages on their system are licensed under the GPL. Too bad it'll probably take another lawsuit to test this flying heap of poo.
Just remove their public key out of the authorized_keys file. Simple as that.
Catch-22, the other side also thinks they are the good guys.
A court told him to stop using his free speech. It's not like he's engaging in deceptive business practices or something.
Still got a copy of your wedding picture? http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/wallpapers/wedding_1024.jpg
How about large datacenters having their own fairly large power generator? If you can buy gas, oil or coal in bulk it might be on par or cheaper and more reliable than buying general grid-based power. If you need cleaner energy, there was a news post a few months ago about a "backyard" nuclear generator similar to the ones used on nuclear powered subs and vessels.
For smaller applications like home, a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator might do, they've been used in military applications since the middle of the last century and have been used extensively in civilian applications in the Soviet Union with several of them still operative and forgotten about.
Read the fine print in your contract. Most contracts promise you something like 64k down, 24k up minimum. Some even go as far as promising you a 128k down, 64k up. Of course you can't hold them responsible if you don't get that at certain points.
I've once seen such service used and they just sent you an e-mail with a URL linking to the message somebody sent you. Then that URL would become inactive after one time looking at it or locked onto your browser with a cookie. Of course copy/pasting the text is a simple yet effective tool.
And that's also why IDE/ATA killed SCSI although SCSI was and still is the better standard.
I don't know, but the rough designs seem to be available on Wikipedia and any team of nuclear engineers and scientists can assemble one based on those descriptions. The difficult part is 1) getting enough live material to be effective and 2) not getting detected either in making, transporting or delivery and 3) nobody wants a nuclear war with any country.
Just download some MP3's, after all, we paid already for them through our taxes right?
You're wrong. If you buy a gun and modify it in a way you're still allowed to have that gun, you just can't use it anymore or brandish it in public (depending on your locality). You can still own it and store it in your gun cabinet since in the USA you're still allowed to own guns (it's in the constitution somewhere), usually the use, transportation and places of use is regulated by state or local laws (like you can't shoot within 300 ft of any houses or in the direction of animals or people).
Your argument doesn't match the exact circumstances either. An XBox hardware isn't a weapon (the software running on it can be classified as a weapon in the US), it's just a piece of electronics like a TV or a VCR/DVD player.
Either their lawyers are incompetent or crooks or both but this is ridiculous. What were they expecting? That nobody was going to find out? Thanks to NYCL we get a little bit of fairness in the crooked justice system. How can you file a 'secret' lawsuit anyway?
I would like to see those numbers over the years. I think (wild speculation) space travel would be (on a relative yearly basis) safer than both cars and airplanes. Also compare Russian, European, Chinese and US based space programs. AFAIK most crashes and malfunctions happen on the Shuttle program with the Soyuz program having the lowest cost and casualties.
Ultimately they always vote for the ones that keep them in poverty, it doesn't matter which side they chose, the majority of people are always on the losing end, the businesses and upper-middle class are always on the receiving end (tax-breaks if you earn over $400.000).
I've worked myself out of the lower class (earning under 40k within the family) to the lower-middle class (earning 100k within the family) and I am already reaping the benefits. I can afford a place that is quite nice and things that aren't a necessity to live but are quite nice and then I can afford somebody to do my taxes who finds out that what I spend in the place related to my job (like second phone lines, secondary tv, desks, cars and gas etc.) I can bring back in to the taxes. They then calculate what I should bring in and how much of it to reap the maximum benefits from my already-paid tax dollars. I can also afford to overpay slightly on my taxes throughout the year thus maximizing my return (since what you get back will be more if you overpaid). What I pay the guy, I can bring into the taxes again the next year.
If you would be in the lower class, first it would cost you (comparative) a lot more to afford somebody like that (would you rather spend $500 on some payment or food/gas right now or on a bureaucrat). Then, you can't afford the more expensive (and usually better quality) products so you can't bring enough into your taxes to go over the threshold (which is, if I'm correct over $5000 for single and $10000 for family) to maximize a return.
Who uses unlimited talk and text anyway? I hardly send texts (e-mails are the norm now and since you can send e-mails to/from most phones (phonenumber@provider.com), only the receiver has to pay for them in case you send texts (instead of both sender and receiver paying for texts). I have a 500 minute phone plan with unlimited nights and weekends (the norm), pay over $70 to Sprint for two lines without anything (the second phone line is 'free' but still adds about $12 in taxes and fees) and hardly use 200 of the 500 daytime minutes.
I call a heck of a lot more but usually not during business hours. I'll gladly pay AT&T for a way better reception and service (reception of Sprint/Nextel sucks anywhere outside the city even in the suburbs where I live), unlimited data etc. and I'll still fork around the same amount of cash for 2 lines (after 15% employer discount).
Is there any difference today? Look at Untraceable (or rather don't look). Next to the heaping mistakes as in any hacker-like movie (it's worse than Swordfish), Untraceable talks about "DNS Servers in Russia we (FBI, USA) have no control over" and "Net Neutrality is bad because it allows everybody to be anonymous and do whatever they want (child porn, hacking, killing) without government control" and "Unregistered guns are bad"
I meant ferromagnetic metals as that is what most people think about. We just say metal in our environment and we have to check in any case with a doctor for any type of metal (like titanium implants) to see if they're mri-safe or mri-compatible. The precaution part comes straight out of our safety documentation from Siemens, I know it usually doesn't do anything but I'm not about to test it either.
My tin-foil-hat response to that is: they don't want to find him. They combed the mountains and have any resource from spies and scouts to ulv's, spy-planes and satellites and still can't find him? If they find him, the 'war' would be over and without a war they would lose control through fear over the general populace or start up another one which not a lot of people would like.
I do it. All my websites, even commercial ones are W3C HTML Strict or XHTML Strict. It works well in Safari and Firefox. If somebody really complains that there is a huge problem with IE to the point of unusability, then I let them know the alternatives out there and if really necessary, I might even show a message whenever they come to my website that their browser might not work well and they'll need to download Firefox. And you don't even need Admin rights in Windows, Linux or Mac to install and use Firefox, just install it in your Users' home directory and run it from there.
Well, we can withstand quite large magnetic fields. MRI scanners are up to 16T right now (experimental) and the side effects minimal. I work in a 3T environment, and the only thing that is a problem is metal in, on or around the body, they get ripped straight out into the bore as soon as you pass the .5 Gauss line. The other precaution is when body parts form loops (like crossed arms or legs or arms/hands holding other body parts) they could potentially cause electric shocks and minor burns. Minor tingling or heat sensations of the extremities is considered not harmful. I think however, in the range (really close since magnetic fields drop with distance) of these type of things you might be able to shock or burn somebody to dead since their body acts as a coil.
As always, you should've left it with support, they usually know what to do with it and that's where all the junk ends up anyway.
Well, maybe we'll get market forces at work for cell phone prices. In Europe, you CAN get unlocked phones that cost $25, $50 or $100. The cost of production to store of the iPhone was initially about $250 and should currently have gone down greatly everything else is just markup. However, I still can't get an unlocked phone in the US (even the simplest ones without any fancy stuff like bluetooth or 3G) for less than $150 if I buy it with my carrier. The Blackberries can easily cost more than $500 if you don't want to get locked in. Getting an open source phone that has lower production rate and more components (bluetooth, 3G, touch screen) is cheaper than that.
I would like a cell phone market where you can go to the mall, go into a cell phone store and order what you want, then go into your preferred carriers store and get what you want. Off course the prices should reflect that, knowing AT&T, Verizon or Sprint, they're just going to maintain the prices for subscriptions and jack up the prices of the cell phones.