Yes because the reformation of good old singular ATT is an awesome idea... Americans paying to receive texts and voice, paying $100 a month for broadband that is slower than EU is definitely the way to go.
You are making me feel so old:) My first expose to writing C was getting James Hendrix small C compiler going on a customer build z80 homebrew machine I helped my Dad build(my dad was a mainframe programmer). My first memory of using a computer was going to my dads work and typing my name on a Burroughs mainframe terminal. This was before I went to school I think. Writing software back in that day is almost forgotten. Mostly they had no terminals but large pads of paper they would write their code on. This would be turned into tape or punched cards and fed into a mainframe for testing. I cant even imagine living in that world these days.
This is the team lead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Sullivan_(engineer) I think he is doing just fine. And as an Australian citizen I would rather all this lovely money go back to CSIRO so they can carry on their work.
Hey. Just a show of support... I was very aware of UDI at the time and followed it with interest. At that time I was a device driver developer for various bits of hardware that need to run on Windows(old 9x model)/windowsNT/linux and QNX beleive it or not... I used to be a QNX4/6 developer. I wish it had taken of very badly at the time... would have made my life much easier:)
Why does it seem bizarre? I actually find you attitude strange. I left uni a long time ago but if I had access to alternate lectures of the same material from other universities I would have been all over that shit.
Sci-fi can be succinctly defined as speculation, whether based on established scientific facts or on logical pseudo-facts consistent with the framework of the fiction in question, involving smelly green pimply aliens furiously raping or eating, or both, beautiful naked bare-breasted chicks, covering them in slime, red, oozing, living slime, dribbling from every horrific orifice, squeezing out between bulbous pulpy lips onto the sensuous velvety skin of the writhing sweating slave-girls, their bodies cut and bruised by knotted whips brandished by giant blond vast-biceped androids called Simon, and written in the Gothic mode.
-- Peter Nicholls, True Rat 7 (1976)
You are correct that we do have the same thing in Australia. But I suspect no one is spared from idiocy, uniformed or otherwise. I forgot to add that the story told to me was from a friend of the guy that did this. He had actually raised concerns that there was no point in installing such a door but was ignored. The upshot of it was there was no ramifications for him and they did eventually get their secure room(I assume horribly over budget).
Thank you for bringing up horrible memories of having to go through pages and pages of such documents to make sure we were compliant:) It's good to know that it is a universal constant that applies in the US as much as anywhere else.
I worked for many years in the security industry. We had to do this to prevent security guards turning off the machine when they alarmed as it would interrupt their naps. Probably the best story I heard about a secure room was in Australian Defence. A contractor was installing a secure door to make a secure room(where you store your import and documents and hard disks after hours). Once completed a senior military guy comes down and is really impressed by this thick steel door with massive bolts etc. The contractor said its pretty good, but he reckoned he could get inside within 10 seconds. The military guys cannot believe it and bets the guy $100 he cant do it. They lock the door and the contractor then proceeds to go to the side of the secure room and put his foot thru the plaster board panelling, kicking out a large chunk and allowing him to crawl into the room in about 5 seconds.
Oh I also meant to mention... our GG has no real political power to tell anyone to do anything. She is bound by the constition and has vitually no poltical autonomy. They certainly don;t let them talk to foreign leaders.
I'm an Australian and my judgment is the only way the US could get any results from Australia would be some serious economic pressure. And that would be highly risky. There is currently a general election going on that is a very tight call... a popular move right now for a polititian would be to tell the US to go fuck themselves and defend the little Aussie battler.
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You are correct. One thing google seemed to expect was that the users would figure out what to do and start creating uses. I cant understand why google didn't use wave to implement specific ideas. Why not use it as part of say the bug tracking/ticket management in google code or something?
Ummm most of those systems are not general purpose computing systems. And frankly I would be all for a TV or microwave I could install software on... I can think of dozens of uses for such things.
I agree with you. I am referring to lawsuit against small startups such as the ones I have had expereince with. There are numerous examples of actions between the large players such as this. Such cases tend to reinforce the idea the MPEG-LA will win.
I know of no example of these casesx actually going to court. I might point out I am also in the EU not the US and lawyers here pretty much advised us that the onyl real option was to negotiate a payment of royalties. To take it to court is a large risk... imagine you have a product that has heavily invested in video... a court could suspend or site or shut down sales while things are decided. For a startup it is simply not worth the risk.
This does hold up in court. I have been involved with online video companies and have dealt with the MPEG-LA... the standard MPEG-LA attitude is once you start making enough money to make it worth their while(say > 100k... that was the figure I was quoted) the MPEG-LA will negotiate payments from you. And they do it to everyone. What you find outlandish is in fact their business model.
Happily those people are *exactly* the kinds of customers insurance companies are looking for. Those pesky sick people just complicate everything... any they always complain about *everything*
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And even if it was... they are not "perverting" anything... this is how markets work.
Yes because the reformation of good old singular ATT is an awesome idea... Americans paying to receive texts and voice, paying $100 a month for broadband that is slower than EU is definitely the way to go.
You are making me feel so old :) My first expose to writing C was getting James Hendrix small C compiler going on a customer build z80 homebrew machine I helped my Dad build(my dad was a mainframe programmer). My first memory of using a computer was going to my dads work and typing my name on a Burroughs mainframe terminal. This was before I went to school I think. Writing software back in that day is almost forgotten. Mostly they had no terminals but large pads of paper they would write their code on. This would be turned into tape or punched cards and fed into a mainframe for testing. I cant even imagine living in that world these days.
This is the team lead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Sullivan_(engineer) I think he is doing just fine. And as an Australian citizen I would rather all this lovely money go back to CSIRO so they can carry on their work.
If the government is not writing the shutdown cost as a deposit into the license then you live in some kind of third world hellhole.
And lets be honest. Business and Sales weenies want to be able to play Angry Birds when in boring meetings.
Hey. Just a show of support... I was very aware of UDI at the time and followed it with interest. At that time I was a device driver developer for various bits of hardware that need to run on Windows(old 9x model)/windowsNT/linux and QNX beleive it or not... I used to be a QNX4/6 developer. I wish it had taken of very badly at the time... would have made my life much easier :)
Why does it seem bizarre? I actually find you attitude strange. I left uni a long time ago but if I had access to alternate lectures of the same material from other universities I would have been all over that shit.
Sci-fi can be succinctly defined as speculation, whether based on established scientific facts or on logical pseudo-facts consistent with the framework of the fiction in question, involving smelly green pimply aliens furiously raping or eating, or both, beautiful naked bare-breasted chicks, covering them in slime, red, oozing, living slime, dribbling from every horrific orifice, squeezing out between bulbous pulpy lips onto the sensuous velvety skin of the writhing sweating slave-girls, their bodies cut and bruised by knotted whips brandished by giant blond vast-biceped androids called Simon, and written in the Gothic mode. -- Peter Nicholls, True Rat 7 (1976)
The ESA buys into plenty of NASA led programs. Hubble and the James Webb sapce telescopes are both NASA/ESA projects.
I have never heard anyone try to "shut her down" from public speaking. How are they going about this?
Why do you need lots of servers in data centres for a P2P distribution network?
You are correct that we do have the same thing in Australia. But I suspect no one is spared from idiocy, uniformed or otherwise. I forgot to add that the story told to me was from a friend of the guy that did this. He had actually raised concerns that there was no point in installing such a door but was ignored. The upshot of it was there was no ramifications for him and they did eventually get their secure room(I assume horribly over budget).
Thank you for bringing up horrible memories of having to go through pages and pages of such documents to make sure we were compliant :) It's good to know that it is a universal constant that applies in the US as much as anywhere else.
I worked for many years in the security industry. We had to do this to prevent security guards turning off the machine when they alarmed as it would interrupt their naps. Probably the best story I heard about a secure room was in Australian Defence. A contractor was installing a secure door to make a secure room(where you store your import and documents and hard disks after hours). Once completed a senior military guy comes down and is really impressed by this thick steel door with massive bolts etc. The contractor said its pretty good, but he reckoned he could get inside within 10 seconds. The military guys cannot believe it and bets the guy $100 he cant do it. They lock the door and the contractor then proceeds to go to the side of the secure room and put his foot thru the plaster board panelling, kicking out a large chunk and allowing him to crawl into the room in about 5 seconds.
Oh I also meant to mention... our GG has no real political power to tell anyone to do anything. She is bound by the constition and has vitually no poltical autonomy. They certainly don;t let them talk to foreign leaders.
I'm an Australian and my judgment is the only way the US could get any results from Australia would be some serious economic pressure. And that would be highly risky. There is currently a general election going on that is a very tight call... a popular move right now for a polititian would be to tell the US to go fuck themselves and defend the little Aussie battler.
You are correct. One thing google seemed to expect was that the users would figure out what to do and start creating uses. I cant understand why google didn't use wave to implement specific ideas. Why not use it as part of say the bug tracking/ticket management in google code or something?
Except in the case of global warming in the scientific community wouldn't the "unusual" be to suggest that nothing at all was going on?
Ummm most of those systems are not general purpose computing systems. And frankly I would be all for a TV or microwave I could install software on... I can think of dozens of uses for such things.
I'm not sure I understand your point. How does it differ from me using the same codecs to transcode orr play back video in a web application.
I agree with you. I am referring to lawsuit against small startups such as the ones I have had expereince with. There are numerous examples of actions between the large players such as this. Such cases tend to reinforce the idea the MPEG-LA will win.
I know of no example of these casesx actually going to court. I might point out I am also in the EU not the US and lawyers here pretty much advised us that the onyl real option was to negotiate a payment of royalties. To take it to court is a large risk... imagine you have a product that has heavily invested in video... a court could suspend or site or shut down sales while things are decided. For a startup it is simply not worth the risk.
This does hold up in court. I have been involved with online video companies and have dealt with the MPEG-LA... the standard MPEG-LA attitude is once you start making enough money to make it worth their while(say > 100k... that was the figure I was quoted) the MPEG-LA will negotiate payments from you. And they do it to everyone. What you find outlandish is in fact their business model.
Happily those people are *exactly* the kinds of customers insurance companies are looking for. Those pesky sick people just complicate everything... any they always complain about *everything*