Satellites == restricted bandwidth since it has to go by some frequency on the radio band. Satellites == susceptible to solar storms, debris, and (soon) attack from ground/air based lasers and high inertia weapons. Satellites == poor TCP performance (doesn't mean you could not use another format of course:http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/470799.html). Satellite == "High Bandwidth" is in gigabytes per second (not Tbits). So you would need a lot of them. Latency is 400ms. That's pretty high. Satellite == roughly 80,000 miles via satellite vs roughly 12,000 via cable.
It's a well known problem guy. Drop down lists on web pages stop working. Trivial search on google.
Solution is to make unscheduled software changes to a multi-billion dollar web package- required testing means this would take at least a month even if it was red-lined tomorrow.
10 years at $700 per month == $84,000 (same as taxes and mortgage) 10 years at $1000 per month == $120,000 (taxes and mortgage about $90,000) 10 years at $1400 per month == $168,000 (taxes and mortgage about $100,000)
Likely rental cost after 30 years == $372,000:Equity = $0. (equity / value of home is probably about $300,000)
$700 seems really low- property taxes on a $100,000 house is about $3000 in texas. Most people are playing $1,100 for $100,000 houses.
Houses are a good choice if you are staying in place and your local population is going up and the town isnt' dying (say because it lost a major business).
Rent is good if you are not sure about your future (or the local economy's future).
I pay $600 for repair insurance and my repairs cost me $35 each.
I actually wrote a custom petition and sent it to all of my congressmen. No response from them but it was worth a few minutes of my time. This is a serious issue.
Our major application is broken because New Windows is not compatible with Old Windows.
It is going to take us several months to fix this. Microsoft is aware of the issue (CSS differences) and has no plan ot address it.
That means we have to have ONE block of code that works in all browsers and another block of code that works in IE7.
Likewise, a couple years ago.. Microsoft completely divorced backwards compatibility in Visual Basic leaving many developers stranded unless they could swing a.net job. A large part of this decision seems to have been mainly just to screw with java (which is a HUGE threat to them).
As the hardware gets more powerful, java applications (and other generic languages) are going to be a better choice to develop in. And when you can get the same software to run on any hardware (and we are even seeing video games lately) you start to lose the need to be in Windows.
And that's a nice rational decision. We make those kind of decisions all the time and there is nothing wrong with it. There are probably a lot of windows users who really appreciate that you are a good windows developer.
As a developer, I'm typing on a windows machine right now tho I create java programs. I'm more of a project leader these days tho (havn't coded in months) and I like it. A fixed body of knowledge to learn and master (like the older programming languages) instead of the constant treadmill of learning things that are obsolete 12 months later.
As an end user, I've personally moved everything but everquest to applications that will run on any platform because I see that windows wants to move me to a tightly controlled environment that i pay a monthly subscription fee to use.
This will probably only be an issue if your company tries to sell the code or release it. It should have no impact on internal use and maintenance. The contracting house may not exist in a few years anyway.
Error Message Reads: "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."
They've remotely disabled a DVD playing software (you must upgrade) because it was identified to have a DRM hole.
I'm not sure to the extent of their control
I do not think that I could use any open source dvd player under Vista like i could under XP or other OS's. If it uses certain system functions then it must be secure to use them. That typically means some kind of security certificate which means a small pile of money.
I do not think it limits software which is not part of the system however. So if you had completely divorced libraries, you'd probably be okay. However, I think support to lock out that software and those libraries if they were identified as a problem is present. I think this is unlikely unless it was egregarious but the possibility is there.
All of the security and DRM upgrades seem to be designed to block open source and to control my computer for the content providers. The claim is they are there for anti-virus but we had day zero exploits so I have to wonder if they were more serious about stopping me from playing a movie than they were about stopping viruses and botkits.
For example, it won't play some things unless there is a secure path to the output device. It can invalidate software remotely that is identified as a problem by the vendor. It can invalidate data remotely to make it unplayable.
Basically, everyone except you owns their data and software on your machine. You still own your data-- but the tools are there to render it unusable too so the possibility of forced upgrades are there in the future.
* Vacuum (we sort of have that but I have dogs so i need a real sized canister) * Clean and stack Dirty Dishes * Fold and hang clothes (I can wash and dry them). * Mow lawn (we sort of have that)
I can't see buying a robot for fun. But I would pay about $300 to $500 per item on that list.
Students are now paying fairly big bucks and the universities have been bought by corporations to be research arms for much cheaper than the corporations would have to pay for the research if they were paying market rates for all the work done by students.
The average grad student probably defers a couple hundred thousand dollars in income and works basically "for free".
Its the fundamental failure of libertarian philosophy.
A big, rich corporation or person can use the court system and money to smother and destroy opponents.
No one except a strong government can usually stand against such a person or organization. Unfortunately, the organization has bought the government. Only the incredible impossibility and over the top greed of Riaa have slowed them down so far (suing people without computers, arguing for infinite copyright, suing children, lying, using unbelievably unqualified "experts", etc.)
There are a lot of solid targets they could go after but they are doing this on the cheap for cash and not to really make their point.
Love a link to an online store that sold at MSRP. Seriously- not challenging you. I tried that route and all are out of stock.
I refuse so far to pay a premium on ebay-- not because of the premium but because I won't have a clear chain of custody to the store if there was a warranty issue.
I hear we are due for another shipment at the end of this month. Perhaps i'll be lucky-- but the last set of 25 at walmart apparently was sold out in under 2 hours. I've never even heard of Fry's having them in stock. A friend's mother got one at target because she walked up as they were unloaded-- and they were all gone before she finished the purchase apparently.
Man, I agree with you with regard to recent works (as in under 28 years old).
For anything over that age, I think you misapply the word piracy.
Riaa and others have pirated public property (for goddess's sake, just consider the travesties of "Happy Birthday Song" and "It's a wonderful Life") and made it clear that their intention is to take it "forever plus one day" and to charge the world for every instance until the end of time.
Copyright exists to encourage creation of works which will then enter the public domain. It was never created to create indefinate monopolies for corporations.
If it is legal, then screw'em I always say. I think abolishing debtor's prison was a terrible idea in fact and it was great that we recently reduced people's ability to declare bankruptcy when they develop catastrophic illnesses. Honest businesses were just losing too much money on destitute people who still had a small amount of money they could fork over. The way we charge people without insurance five to ten times as much for the same procedure as we charge the insurance ($75 vs $1500 in some cases) company so we can have a "retail" rate is completely legal. Vicious and evil-- but completely legal.
All these things and eternal copyrights for mickey mouse are what makes America great.
While there are limitations for the programmers at infosys, I have to respect their competency. It is roughly equivalent ot american coders these days and currently costs 1/3 the price.
They are cheaper in other fields than coding too-- medicine, accounting, legal (with an american bar certified front man), etc.
These cost differences are rapidly being erased but a lot of damage is going to be done to americans until the prices even out (4-8 years! from now).
At that point, US companies are not going to be able to afford indian labor and there will not be a good supply of american programmers since a) many are retiring b) US companies are not hiring a lot less junior positions (7years+ experience) which is creating a HUGE hole like that of petroleum engineers back in the early 1980s and c) Given a $50k investment in a degree- students are rationally choosing other careers that have a better return on investment.
Personally, I hope the companies fry in their own juices and look forward to billing very high rates between 2013 and 2018.
Wages have been generally flat since 2000. (disclaimer; mine have been going up but that's what the paper said today-- interesting that multiple sources are pushing this slant today with non-identical articles-- astroturf campaign??)
Our company has over 200 indian nationals working for us from infosys INSTEAD of Americans.
And there are rumors they plan to offshore the rest of our jobs in the next two to three years. It is really a race against inflation and appreciation of the rupee (18% combined inflation and appreciation means indian workers will be *double* the cost in only four years).
While I hope these companies fry in the pan they made by destroying so many american IT people's lives that the students all got the correct idea that you didnt' want to spend $50,000 to train for a field where you might get 3-5 years of work before being laid off for a year- lose your house- your insurance- etc.
I understand that indians are cheaper and speak english. I have nothing against them and obviously work on a lot of projects with them. They can take these wages and live like kings back home for now.
But I don't understand and agree with paying $5.50 a pill for my BP medicine that sells there for $.10. I don't understand paying $20.00 for the same DVD that sells there for $2.49. I dont' understand microsoft GIVING AWAY.net development software to them while it wants to charge me close to $800 for it.
And I understand but burn with the hippocracy of laying off a $80k programmer but not laying off a $800,000 executive (whose job could easily be done by a competant indian executive).
I agree. It's a shame that people are trying to undermine the successful and legitimate efforts by these businessmen to successfully lock up all major distribution channels, radio stations and to have laws passed to extend their copyrights indefinitely or as jack valenti said, "forever plus one day."
It's just wrong that corporations should not be able to force artists into contracts which deny them any profits after millions of dollars worth of sales. If this goes on, we might see the destruction of copyrighting sequences of notes and see entire new genre's of music like blues which shamelessly infringe on the same set of riffs for different songs.
A unique combination of generations of producers, lawyers, organized criminals, and the congressmen and senators that they bought have worked hard to create a virtual monopoly. Where is our respect for all that work?
I don't use warner cable (Dish) because the "digital" cable signal was digital crap. The signals were much better five years ago than today. I don't think they are watching their satellites any more. You get something that is a bad signal on a 27" TV and yet other stations are crystal clear. To me that says they are taking a bad signal, digitizing it and sending that out.
However... my cable connection is fine and runs about $54 a month.
This is exactly the kind of down-mod's I'm talking about in the other thread.
It is a FACT that I am subsidizing medical care, medicine, entertainment (DVD, CD), and now software ($3 for Microsoft software stack -- free VB &.net development environments-- if you happen to be Chinese or Indian but $850 for me).
Using moderation to try and shut it up by calling a troll doesn't change the fact that the same people I am competing against for a job are getting huge discounts on their infrastructure from american companies.
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Satellites == restricted bandwidth since it has to go by some frequency on the radio band.
Satellites == susceptible to solar storms, debris, and (soon) attack from ground/air based lasers and high inertia weapons.
Satellites == poor TCP performance (doesn't mean you could not use another format of course:http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/470799.html).
Satellite == "High Bandwidth" is in gigabytes per second (not Tbits). So you would need a lot of them. Latency is 400ms. That's pretty high.
Satellite == roughly 80,000 miles via satellite vs roughly 12,000 via cable.
It's a well known problem guy. Drop down lists on web pages stop working.
Trivial search on google.
Solution is to make unscheduled software changes to a multi-billion dollar web package- required testing means this would take at least a month even if it was red-lined tomorrow.
10 years at $700 per month == $84,000 (same as taxes and mortgage)
10 years at $1000 per month == $120,000 (taxes and mortgage about $90,000)
10 years at $1400 per month == $168,000 (taxes and mortgage about $100,000)
Likely rental cost after 30 years == $372,000:Equity = $0. (equity / value of home is probably about $300,000)
$700 seems really low- property taxes on a $100,000 house is about $3000 in texas.
Most people are playing $1,100 for $100,000 houses.
Houses are a good choice if you are staying in place and your local population is going up and the town isnt' dying (say because it lost a major business).
Rent is good if you are not sure about your future (or the local economy's future).
I pay $600 for repair insurance and my repairs cost me $35 each.
I actually wrote a custom petition and sent it to all of my congressmen.
No response from them but it was worth a few minutes of my time. This is a serious issue.
The problem is..
.net job. A large part of this decision seems to have been mainly just to screw with java (which is a HUGE threat to them).
Our major application is broken because New Windows is not compatible with Old Windows.
It is going to take us several months to fix this. Microsoft is aware of the issue (CSS differences) and has no plan ot address it.
That means we have to have ONE block of code that works in all browsers and another block of code that works in IE7.
Likewise, a couple years ago.. Microsoft completely divorced backwards compatibility in Visual Basic leaving many developers stranded unless they could swing a
As the hardware gets more powerful, java applications (and other generic languages) are going to be a better choice to develop in. And when you can get the same software to run on any hardware (and we are even seeing video games lately) you start to lose the need to be in Windows.
And that's a nice rational decision.
We make those kind of decisions all the time and there is nothing wrong with it.
There are probably a lot of windows users who really appreciate that you are a good windows developer.
As a developer, I'm typing on a windows machine right now tho I create java programs. I'm more of a project leader these days tho (havn't coded in months) and I like it. A fixed body of knowledge to learn and master (like the older programming languages) instead of the constant treadmill of learning things that are obsolete 12 months later.
As an end user, I've personally moved everything but everquest to applications that will run on any platform because I see that windows wants to move me to a tightly controlled environment that i pay a monthly subscription fee to use.
The acronym is SUE-W (Sony universal, [emi?], w???) for sue the world.
dang- I've already forgotten the evil "W" company.
This will probably only be an issue if your company tries to sell the code or release it.
It should have no impact on internal use and maintenance.
The contracting house may not exist in a few years anyway.
Here is one example:/ t134757.html
http://forums.pcpitstop.com/lofiversion/index.php
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I get the following error when trying to play a DVD. My guess is an video driver problem:
Error Message Reads:
"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."
They've remotely disabled a DVD playing software (you must upgrade) because it was identified to have a DRM hole.
I'm not sure to the extent of their control
I do not think that I could use any open source dvd player under Vista like i could under XP or other OS's. If it uses certain system functions then it must be secure to use them. That typically means some kind of security certificate which means a small pile of money.
I do not think it limits software which is not part of the system however. So if you had completely divorced libraries, you'd probably be okay. However, I think support to lock out that software and those libraries if they were identified as a problem is present. I think this is unlikely unless it was egregarious but the possibility is there.
All of the security and DRM upgrades seem to be designed to block open source and to control my computer for the content providers. The claim is they are there for anti-virus but we had day zero exploits so I have to wonder if they were more serious about stopping me from playing a movie than they were about stopping viruses and botkits.
Vista enforces DRM mores strictly than XP.
For example, it won't play some things unless there is a secure path to the output device.
It can invalidate software remotely that is identified as a problem by the vendor.
It can invalidate data remotely to make it unplayable.
Basically, everyone except you owns their data and software on your machine.
You still own your data-- but the tools are there to render it unusable too so the possibility of
forced upgrades are there in the future.
* Vacuum (we sort of have that but I have dogs so i need a real sized canister)
* Clean and stack Dirty Dishes
* Fold and hang clothes (I can wash and dry them).
* Mow lawn (we sort of have that)
I can't see buying a robot for fun. But I would pay about $300 to $500 per item on that list.
Students are now paying fairly big bucks and the universities have been bought by corporations to be research arms for much cheaper than the corporations would have to pay for the research if they were paying market rates for all the work done by students.
The average grad student probably defers a couple hundred thousand dollars in income and works basically "for free".
Its the fundamental failure of libertarian philosophy.
A big, rich corporation or person can use the court system and money to smother and destroy opponents.
No one except a strong government can usually stand against such a person or organization. Unfortunately, the organization has bought the government. Only the incredible impossibility and over the top greed of Riaa have slowed them down so far (suing people without computers, arguing for infinite copyright, suing children, lying, using unbelievably unqualified "experts", etc.)
There are a lot of solid targets they could go after but they are doing this on the cheap for cash and not to really make their point.
I wouldn't say a little work.
Jeez, I troll the stores in Texas and no luck.
55 controllers and zero Wii's at every store.
Love a link to an online store that sold at MSRP. Seriously- not challenging you. I tried that route and all are out of stock.
I refuse so far to pay a premium on ebay-- not because of the premium but because I won't have a clear chain of custody to the store if there was a warranty issue.
I hear we are due for another shipment at the end of this month. Perhaps i'll be lucky-- but the last set of 25 at walmart apparently was sold out in under 2 hours. I've never even heard of Fry's having them in stock. A friend's mother got one at target because she walked up as they were unloaded-- and they were all gone before she finished the purchase apparently.
Actually it is a somewhat valid arguement.
The Wii IS selling at those prices.
PS3's are not selling at a loss.
Man,
I agree with you with regard to recent works (as in under 28 years old).
For anything over that age, I think you misapply the word piracy.
Riaa and others have pirated public property (for goddess's sake, just consider the travesties of "Happy Birthday Song" and "It's a wonderful Life") and made it clear that their intention is to take it "forever plus one day" and to charge the world for every instance until the end of time.
Copyright exists to encourage creation of works which will then enter the public domain. It was never created to create indefinate monopolies for corporations.
I agree. And all that nonsense about breaking up "company stores" that kept workers in virtual slavery back in the 1800's was nonsense. I think it is wonderful to have a captive audience of customers who you can sign contracts with and then execute them in a way so they can never get free of the contracts.m l) 28%3A4%3C729%3A%22MFOST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/bigsugar/sugar.ht
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175(198610
If it is legal, then screw'em I always say. I think abolishing debtor's prison was a terrible idea in fact and it was great that we recently reduced people's ability to declare bankruptcy when they develop catastrophic illnesses. Honest businesses were just losing too much money on destitute people who still had a small amount of money they could fork over. The way we charge people without insurance five to ten times as much for the same procedure as we charge the insurance ($75 vs $1500 in some cases) company so we can have a "retail" rate is completely legal. Vicious and evil-- but completely legal.
All these things and eternal copyrights for mickey mouse are what makes America great.
What bothered me most about them was that they never understood the concept of paragraphs.
It made it hard to read their writing.
While there are limitations for the programmers at infosys, I have to respect their competency. It is roughly equivalent ot american coders these days and currently costs 1/3 the price.
They are cheaper in other fields than coding too-- medicine, accounting, legal (with an american bar certified front man), etc.
These cost differences are rapidly being erased but a lot of damage is going to be done to americans until the prices even out (4-8 years! from now).
At that point, US companies are not going to be able to afford indian labor and there will not be a good supply of american programmers since a) many are retiring b) US companies are not hiring a lot less junior positions (7years+ experience) which is creating a HUGE hole like that of petroleum engineers back in the early 1980s and c) Given a $50k investment in a degree- students are rationally choosing other careers that have a better return on investment.
Personally, I hope the companies fry in their own juices and look forward to billing very high rates between 2013 and 2018.
Wages have been generally flat since 2000. (disclaimer; mine have been going up but that's what the paper said today-- interesting that multiple sources are pushing this slant today with non-identical articles-- astroturf campaign??)
Our company has over 200 indian nationals working for us from infosys INSTEAD of Americans.
And there are rumors they plan to offshore the rest of our jobs in the next two to three years. It is really a race against inflation and appreciation of the rupee (18% combined inflation and appreciation means indian workers will be *double* the cost in only four years).
While I hope these companies fry in the pan they made by destroying so many american IT people's lives that the students all got the correct idea that you didnt' want to spend $50,000 to train for a field where you might get 3-5 years of work before being laid off for a year- lose your house- your insurance- etc.
I understand that indians are cheaper and speak english. I have nothing against them and obviously work on a lot of projects with them. They can take these wages and live like kings back home for now.
But I don't understand and agree with paying $5.50 a pill for my BP medicine that sells there for $.10. I don't understand paying $20.00 for the same DVD that sells there for $2.49. I dont' understand microsoft GIVING AWAY
And I understand but burn with the hippocracy of laying off a $80k programmer but not laying off a $800,000 executive (whose job could easily be done by a competant indian executive).
I agree. It's a shame that people are trying to undermine the successful and legitimate efforts by these businessmen to successfully lock up all major distribution channels, radio stations and to have laws passed to extend their copyrights indefinitely or as jack valenti said, "forever plus one day."
It's just wrong that corporations should not be able to force artists into contracts which deny them any profits after millions of dollars worth of sales. If this goes on, we might see the destruction of copyrighting sequences of notes and see entire new genre's of music like blues which shamelessly infringe on the same set of riffs for different songs.
A unique combination of generations of producers, lawyers, organized criminals, and the congressmen and senators that they bought have worked hard to create a virtual monopoly. Where is our respect for all that work?
It couldn't be less accurate than Florida in the last two elections and at least there would be no "hanging" chads.
You just have every one dip their computer in purple ink after they vote.
Service is good in Houston.
I don't use warner cable (Dish) because the "digital" cable signal was digital crap. The signals were much better five years ago than today. I don't think they are watching their satellites any more. You get something that is a bad signal on a 27" TV and yet other stations are crystal clear. To me that says they are taking a bad signal, digitizing it and sending that out.
However... my cable connection is fine and runs about $54 a month.
This is exactly the kind of down-mod's I'm talking about in the other thread.
.net development environments-- if you happen to be Chinese or Indian but $850 for me).
It is a FACT that I am subsidizing medical care, medicine, entertainment (DVD, CD), and now software ($3 for Microsoft software stack -- free VB &
Using moderation to try and shut it up by calling a troll doesn't change the fact that the same people I am competing against for a job are getting huge discounts on their infrastructure from american companies.