The TTG feature uses the DRM feature in Windows Media Player, so they can't be tranfered without giving away a password and a unique key for each box. The second one of the files was found in a file swapping program, TiVo could identify the box it came from.
An intersting aside is that any who has used Windows Media Player knows that it sucks for fast forwarding in any kind of planned or predictable way. You have to hold and pull and watch the seconds and all kind of crap... so the net effect is when I watch TTG files on my PC or laptop I end up just watching the commercials.
I believe the restraining orders are also often specified for the persons home and work. Also, if you've ever watched an episode of Cops you know that the restraining order is most often violated at the persons home.:)
In the case of the sarbanes-oxley regulations formatting those hard drives for a public company, any public company, is not allowed if the message relates to the system which falls under the sarbanes-oxley regulations.
This seems to be in opposition to sarbanes- oxley regulations, which specifically require communications to be held and maintained. So either this would not be doable for public companies, or sarbanes-oxley regulations would have to change.
Some people say the USSR failed because of an inability to allocate capital effectively. Have you ever sat around saying "I wish the Linux community would focus some more effort on X, Y or Z feature."??
I'm not saying they are exactly the same, I'm just thinking out loud. Looking at similar, though not identical, things and wondering....
It's a thought experiment, not a diagnosis or prediction of open source's failure.
Capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
communism: 1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Open-source *is* a communist structure, and we all know how well that structure worked out in Russia.
1. the government needs X money to pay for Y maintenance and Z programs
2. They got X from gasoline
3. If gasoline use goes down they don't get X
4. They need another way to get X
5. They will find a way to get it from you.
THat other way is coming, you will continue to pay X one way or the other even if your car uses no gasoline and does no damage to the roads. This is one of the problems with large and centralized government.
I've used newsgroups since around the same time as you. And I still use them for the core of any troubleshooting searches. The signal to noise *is* too high unless you use some form of search tool though.
"According to Powell, his understanding is that the blocking is not coming from major service providers, but from rural Local Exchange Carriers (LECs). Brooke Schulz, Vonage's senior vice president for corporate communications, said Monday that the company would not comment on the report."
From that it sounds like it is certainly the phone companies not the ISPs that are blocking the Vonage traffic. This probably means that they *are* common carriers. However the article states there are currently no laws regarding this type of blockage. But, I repeat, "this has nothing to do with the ISPs"!!!!!!
My xbox died shortly after the warranty expired... and until that point the games were pretty average with the sole exception of halo. Which when you consider the PC games in that genre are as good, why do you need halo? My personal opinion is that the xbox is doomed to die at some point. We'll just have to see if I am right.
People said the same thing about the original PlayStation "it's going to be X bazillion dollars". Which didn't materialize, Sony knows where the price points are and will design accordingly.
The original poster said Linux enjoys far more testers and Windows. At the code level I would have to say that is most likely theoretical potential. And that the quality is probably nearly abysmal.
yeah, respond to this post if *you* or *someone you know* is actually engaged in testing Linux software at the code level.
You have your logic all screwed up: "due to the open nature of Linux development, Linux enjoys far more testers than Windows."
The open nature of Linux means there is the theoretical potential for more testers, eyeballs and such. This does not in any way speak to the quality of that testing. Quantity (even massive theoretical quantity) does not make quality.
You could also make the argument that as far as free testing goes (on the functional side of things not the code level) Windows knocks the crap out of Linux because of its installed based of users.
The article actually says "the research calls into question the ability of high-pressure tests such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT to accurately gauge who will succeed in future academic endeavors". They are calling into question whether that person will succeed in future academic endeavors..... though I,like you, would be more concerned about their ability to succeed in future real-life endeavors. If they can cut out the soft ones before the even get a chance to get the high-pressure in real-life, that sounds good to me.
"On Jan. 26, an edited version of the blog reappeared on the site, with a new entry explaining the on-again, off-again commentary. Gone was the first day's post explaining his reasons for creating the blog, as well as a description of an employee orientation event that vaguely touched on discussions of Google's booming business."
But I don't believe he would have been fired over the vauge description of the benefits, since it isn't really priveleged information, and the benefits angle is what the parent referenced.
He didn't seem to publish anything I could not gain from being in an interview at Google. At which time I would not be under and NDA or the like. He talked about company wide available benefits and he only spoke of salaries in the most vauge way. I just don't see it as priveleged info.
Everything that he said (that is in his blog currently) has been mentioned in news articles. Otherwise as a nonprivileged visitor you could gain much of the information he provided. You could also gain much of that information in an interview, prior to being under any NDA.
Yeah, look, this guy started a blog specifically to talk about his life at Google. What a loser. I would've said "get a Google tattoo and shut down the blog or get out".
I would love to see statistics on how many companies actually perform examination of open-source software. Then to go one step further I would really like to see some indication of how effective those examinations are. I'm skeptical that they are thorough or effective. Instead, people reply "oh but, we *can* expect it" as if that is some holy Grail and the possibility of inspection actually replaces in people's minds the necessity of the inspection itself.
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The TTG feature uses the DRM feature in Windows Media Player, so they can't be tranfered without giving away a password and a unique key for each box. The second one of the files was found in a file swapping program, TiVo could identify the box it came from.
An intersting aside is that any who has used Windows Media Player knows that it sucks for fast forwarding in any kind of planned or predictable way. You have to hold and pull and watch the seconds and all kind of crap... so the net effect is when I watch TTG files on my PC or laptop I end up just watching the commercials.
Anarchy Online was sold online only for quite a while.... and did quite well I think.
I believe the restraining orders are also often specified for the persons home and work. Also, if you've ever watched an episode of Cops you know that the restraining order is most often violated at the persons home. :)
In the case of the sarbanes-oxley regulations formatting those hard drives for a public company, any public company, is not allowed if the message relates to the system which falls under the sarbanes-oxley regulations.
This seems to be in opposition to sarbanes- oxley regulations, which specifically require communications to be held and maintained. So either this would not be doable for public companies, or sarbanes-oxley regulations would have to change.
Some people say the USSR failed because of an inability to allocate capital effectively. Have you ever sat around saying "I wish the Linux community would focus some more effort on X, Y or Z feature."??
I'm not saying they are exactly the same, I'm just thinking out loud. Looking at similar, though not identical, things and wondering....
It's a thought experiment, not a diagnosis or prediction of open source's failure.
Capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
communism: 1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Open-source *is* a communist structure, and we all know how well that structure worked out in Russia.
1. the government needs X money to pay for Y maintenance and Z programs
2. They got X from gasoline
3. If gasoline use goes down they don't get X
4. They need another way to get X
5. They will find a way to get it from you.
THat other way is coming, you will continue to pay X one way or the other even if your car uses no gasoline and does no damage to the roads. This is one of the problems with large and centralized government.
I've used newsgroups since around the same time as you. And I still use them for the core of any troubleshooting searches. The signal to noise *is* too high unless you use some form of search tool though.
no it is not being done that way. Read the article.
The article states:
"According to Powell, his understanding is that the blocking is not coming from major service providers, but from rural Local Exchange Carriers (LECs). Brooke Schulz, Vonage's senior vice president for corporate communications, said Monday that the company would not comment on the report."
From that it sounds like it is certainly the phone companies not the ISPs that are blocking the Vonage traffic. This probably means that they *are* common carriers. However the article states there are currently no laws regarding this type of blockage. But, I repeat, "this has nothing to do with the ISPs"!!!!!!
My xbox died shortly after the warranty expired... and until that point the games were pretty average with the sole exception of halo. Which when you consider the PC games in that genre are as good, why do you need halo? My personal opinion is that the xbox is doomed to die at some point. We'll just have to see if I am right.
People said the same thing about the original PlayStation "it's going to be X bazillion dollars". Which didn't materialize, Sony knows where the price points are and will design accordingly.
I'm not saying that that the end result is not a well tested piece of software. Linux is obviously well tested in the end.
The original poster said Linux enjoys far more testers and Windows. At the code level I would have to say that is most likely theoretical potential. And that the quality is probably nearly abysmal.
yeah, respond to this post if *you* or *someone you know* is actually engaged in testing Linux software at the code level.
You have your logic all screwed up: "due to the open nature of Linux development, Linux enjoys far more testers than Windows."
The open nature of Linux means there is the theoretical potential for more testers, eyeballs and such. This does not in any way speak to the quality of that testing. Quantity (even massive theoretical quantity) does not make quality.
You could also make the argument that as far as free testing goes (on the functional side of things not the code level) Windows knocks the crap out of Linux because of its installed based of users.
The article actually says "the research calls into question the ability of high-pressure tests such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT to accurately gauge who will succeed in future academic endeavors". They are calling into question whether that person will succeed in future academic endeavors..... though I ,like you, would be more concerned about their ability to succeed in future real-life endeavors. If they can cut out the soft ones before the even get a chance to get the high-pressure in real-life, that sounds good to me.
He may have been fired over this:
"On Jan. 26, an edited version of the blog reappeared on the site, with a new entry explaining the on-again, off-again commentary. Gone was the first day's post explaining his reasons for creating the blog, as well as a description of an employee orientation event that vaguely touched on discussions of Google's booming business. "
But I don't believe he would have been fired over the vauge description of the benefits, since it isn't really priveleged information, and the benefits angle is what the parent referenced.
He didn't seem to publish anything I could not gain from being in an interview at Google. At which time I would not be under and NDA or the like. He talked about company wide available benefits and he only spoke of salaries in the most vauge way. I just don't see it as priveleged info.
except that all the stuff (that I saw) he talked about was alread public knowledge.
Everything that he said (that is in his blog currently) has been mentioned in news articles. Otherwise as a nonprivileged visitor you could gain much of the information he provided. You could also gain much of that information in an interview, prior to being under any NDA.
Yeah, look, this guy started a blog specifically to talk about his life at Google. What a loser. I would've said "get a Google tattoo and shut down the blog or get out".
I heard this same crap on the news. If Google fired him over this I would be really surprised.
I would love to see statistics on how many companies actually perform examination of open-source software. Then to go one step further I would really like to see some indication of how effective those examinations are. I'm skeptical that they are thorough or effective. Instead, people reply "oh but, we *can* expect it" as if that is some holy Grail and the possibility of inspection actually replaces in people's minds the necessity of the inspection itself.
Also, bear in mind that this discussion is in the context of viruses and the machines vulnerability when connected via a network.