I dunno what the situation is in france but here in the UK the governement is fixing the price of education, universities DO NOT get to freely set thier prices (they can charge less than the maximum and some shitty ones do, the good ones charge as much as the governement will let them)
Also a UK masters is traditionally only one year, afaict a US masters is traditionally longer.
BTW the above only applies to home students, IIRC students from elsewhere in the EU get a slightly worse deal (not sure on the details) and students from outside the EU have to pay whatever the university wants to charge with no subsidy so don't think you can come here for a cheap education.
A lot of software is just a variant on a theme though, similar to lots of software that existed before but slightly different to fit the demands of a different business.
As I understand it the problem now is MS released a fix but did it in such a way that the current firefox blocking mechanisms can't tell if the fix is applied or not.
IIRC the problem is that the bug was not actually in the plugin but in a library it depended on and the plugin version was not bumped. As such there is no way for the blocking system in current firefox to tell if you are vulnerable or not.
Afaict mozilla was stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one. They had to chose between breakign functionality some enterprise users relied on or leaving a large propertion of firefox users vulnerable to a bug in libraries depended on by a plugin and extention that were installed behind thier back.
That is the immediate reason for the block yes but afaict the way MS pushed it on a load of users who don't want or need it without the users informed consent was a major contributing factor.
If this addon and plugin had only been deployed in situations where it was actually needed then I strongly suspect mozilla would have taken a far less agressive approach.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that the company that is competing for market shares in the web browser area would create a addon for a competing company? There is no desktop web browser market anymore, MS killed that years ago and even opera which hung on for a while has now given up trying to sell thier desktop browser.
Microsofts goal is to keep people on windows (and prefferably office too but that is not relevent here). Whether that is through relying on IE or relying on a MS plugin for.NET in firefox doesn't really make a whole lot of difference.
when we start using octal cores High end workstations are already shipping with dual quad (8 cores total) and will probablly be shipping with dual hex (12 cores total) in the not too distant future. Quad core is fairly common in the midrange and is even available on some fairly low end machines (e.g. the dell vostro 420). Laptops and low end desktops are generally shipping with dual cores.
With the exception of nettops and netbooks single cores are pretty much history.
The bottom line is that cores aren't getting that much faster so most of our gains in computing power are likely to come from more cores and software that needs to get the most out of CPUs is going to need to embrace that and soon.
Pretty much all combustion produces some ammount of CO. Far more is produced if there is insufficiant oxygen. Properly designed and installed equipment is designed to ensure the burning conditions produce minimal CO and ensure what is produced is vented to outside before it harms the occupants.
Faulty or incorrectly installed equipment on the other hand can produce a lot of CO and depending on the nature of the fault or incorrect installation may release it into the indoor air.
IMO a CO alarm is a good idea if you have any fuel burning equipment in a property.
How many of you guys generate your own power 24x7? C'mon, you're really going to place the face of your business in the hands of people running off the wire? Wire power. Feh! That wire could be going anywhere. Real men run their own generators! As I see it there are three options for power
1: local generators with an appropriate degree of redundancy 2: grid power only maybe with redundant links 3: both
Option 2 is not acceptable for anything that needs high reliability, So that leaves options 1 and 3, option 3 has higher capital costs but this is more than made up for by the fact that large scale generation is both more efficient and can use cheaper fuel so the running costs are lower.
I don't see any similarly compelling reasons to use cloud services as to use grid electricity. Especially if you have decided that you can't rely on cloud services.
Like every other cellular provider T-Mobile sells bandwidth and connectivity and nothing more I dunno what it's like where you are but afaict currently in the US and until recently in the UK heavy users were virtually forced into contracts that included a "free" or subsidised phone every year or so and did not get any discount for not taking said phone (payg is an option but is even more expensive for heavy users than paying for a phone you don't want as part of your contract).
So you either essentially pay twice for your phones (once bundled in with your subscription once seperately) or you take one of the phones your carrier offers. In some cases the phone providers even take out exclusive deals and brand the phones with thier own names (t-mobile seems to do this quite a bit, see the G1 and the sidekick).
The way copyright works nowadays is that works are automatically copyrighted as soon as they are created.
So if you want to do anything with a work beyond what your countries fair use/fair dealing/etc rules allow then you need explicit permission to do so from the copyright holder.
1. A number of stocks don't pay dividends, instead providing a hilarious fiction named capital appreciation. Capital appreciation works by assuming that someone will pay more for a worthless piece of paper than you were willing to pay for it. Capital appreciation works until the final sucker buys it and realizes that no one is dumber than they are. There is such a thing as legitimate capital appriciation where a company is reinvesting it's profits to grow the company. I agree on your other points though.
Unfortunately financial prudence is something that seems to have been distinctly lacking in the banking sector recently. That is why we have ended up in the current mess in the first place.
I'm wondering how day trading, as an activity, benefits society. By keeping a constant flow of trades day traders bring liquidity to the market. In general high liquidity investments are considered preferable because they mean if you want/need to get out you can do so quickly.
Ahhh that make sense. errrr...ummm... Okay not really. I still don't understand why MS-DOS needs the c:\ because without that slash it could still support multiple current directories. In DOS you can use a command like "copy a:filename c:filename" to copy a file from the current directory on drive a to the current directory on drive c.
The only way to truly clean a site up is to remove the contaminated material. You then either try and seperate it into hazardous and non-hazardous or you just bury it somewhere.
Either way this has a high cost (both financially and in energy terms) and in the latter case doesn't really do anything to solve the problem, just move it.
Another option is to not clean up the site but to try and seal the hazardous material in. A lot of landfills do this and it works to an extent but it means you have to be very carefull how you use the land in future to avoid releasing the contamination. You also have to be careful that you don't go sealing in gasses only to later either have them go boom (e.g. methane) or be released suddently suffocating the local population (e.g. CO2)
It seems these import blocks let them do an end run arround the regular courts thereby effectively forcing the company to settle (under the threat of an import block) rather than having thier case heard in the normal way.
then discarding ServerA and the drive from it after Wouldn't the more logical thing to do have been to clearly label it and store it with the offsite backups until such time as you were sure all backups made with it were no longer needed.
I have a food mixer that used to belong to my grandmother, it's as old as I am. It has an AC motor, with brushes. Sounds like what is known of as a "universal motor". That is a motor that can run off AC but is based on the design principles of DC motors.
How long have brushless motors been around? Induction motors have been arround for years but without inverter based drives thier applications were limited to those requiring a relatively constant speed.
Brushless DC motors are a relatively new invention afaict (though i'm not sure exactly how new).
They would sue the Chinese government if they thought they had a chance, but they can't, so they have to work through I'd disagree with calling this "working through", I doubt a legal attack on a download site will have any impact on the Chinese government whatsoever.
a patsy who was unethical enough to think that redistributing repressive software was a good idea. Is it really unethical to run a large archive of freeware/shareware? Can you really expect them to look at the ethics of every peice of software uploaded?
Even if you do think they should be checking the ethics of software that is pretty tangential to this case. Software for an "ethical" purpose can also contain unknown copyright violations.
the deployment needs haven't changed. They have changed in a couple of ways
1: if my app has always been written with 2005 previously I only needed to deploy the CRT on initial install, now I need to deploy it on updates as well. 2: I need to ensure that my installer build system uses the new version of the crt, not the version it was using before.
I still maintain that security updates should not introduce silent breakage like this.
One thing i've noticed about MS is that so far at least they really aren't that anal about using technical means to enforce thier licensing. Afaict a kms can activate as many vista machines are try to connect to it and they stay activated for a long time. XP volume licenses didn't need activating at all. MS offers some subscription licensing options but afaict thier expiry is only enforced through the legal system not by anything technical.
Compare that to specialist products like matlab and altium where mac locked or even dongle locked licenses are the norm for single installations and installations using a license server disable themselves if they can't access the license server for some short period of time (I think it's about 15 minuites for altium)
well every iso known to man would obviously include ISOs that you didn't have legal rights to share (or even have) and most TOS have rules against illegal use.
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I dunno what the situation is in france but here in the UK the governement is fixing the price of education, universities DO NOT get to freely set thier prices (they can charge less than the maximum and some shitty ones do, the good ones charge as much as the governement will let them)
Also a UK masters is traditionally only one year, afaict a US masters is traditionally longer.
BTW the above only applies to home students, IIRC students from elsewhere in the EU get a slightly worse deal (not sure on the details) and students from outside the EU have to pay whatever the university wants to charge with no subsidy so don't think you can come here for a cheap education.
A lot of software is just a variant on a theme though, similar to lots of software that existed before but slightly different to fit the demands of a different business.
As I understand it the problem now is MS released a fix but did it in such a way that the current firefox blocking mechanisms can't tell if the fix is applied or not.
IIRC the problem is that the bug was not actually in the plugin but in a library it depended on and the plugin version was not bumped. As such there is no way for the blocking system in current firefox to tell if you are vulnerable or not.
Afaict mozilla was stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one. They had to chose between breakign functionality some enterprise users relied on or leaving a large propertion of firefox users vulnerable to a bug in libraries depended on by a plugin and extention that were installed behind thier back.
That is the immediate reason for the block yes but afaict the way MS pushed it on a load of users who don't want or need it without the users informed consent was a major contributing factor.
If this addon and plugin had only been deployed in situations where it was actually needed then I strongly suspect mozilla would have taken a far less agressive approach.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that the company that is competing for market shares in the web browser area would create a addon for a competing company?
There is no desktop web browser market anymore, MS killed that years ago and even opera which hung on for a while has now given up trying to sell thier desktop browser.
Microsofts goal is to keep people on windows (and prefferably office too but that is not relevent here). Whether that is through relying on IE or relying on a MS plugin for .NET in firefox doesn't really make a whole lot of difference.
when we start using octal cores
High end workstations are already shipping with dual quad (8 cores total) and will probablly be shipping with dual hex (12 cores total) in the not too distant future. Quad core is fairly common in the midrange and is even available on some fairly low end machines (e.g. the dell vostro 420). Laptops and low end desktops are generally shipping with dual cores.
With the exception of nettops and netbooks single cores are pretty much history.
The bottom line is that cores aren't getting that much faster so most of our gains in computing power are likely to come from more cores and software that needs to get the most out of CPUs is going to need to embrace that and soon.
Pretty much all combustion produces some ammount of CO. Far more is produced if there is insufficiant oxygen. Properly designed and installed equipment is designed to ensure the burning conditions produce minimal CO and ensure what is produced is vented to outside before it harms the occupants.
Faulty or incorrectly installed equipment on the other hand can produce a lot of CO and depending on the nature of the fault or incorrect installation may release it into the indoor air.
IMO a CO alarm is a good idea if you have any fuel burning equipment in a property.
How many of you guys generate your own power 24x7? C'mon, you're really going to place the face of your business in the hands of people running off the wire? Wire power. Feh! That wire could be going anywhere. Real men run their own generators!
As I see it there are three options for power
1: local generators with an appropriate degree of redundancy
2: grid power only maybe with redundant links
3: both
Option 2 is not acceptable for anything that needs high reliability, So that leaves options 1 and 3, option 3 has higher capital costs but this is more than made up for by the fact that large scale generation is both more efficient and can use cheaper fuel so the running costs are lower.
I don't see any similarly compelling reasons to use cloud services as to use grid electricity. Especially if you have decided that you can't rely on cloud services.
Like every other cellular provider T-Mobile sells bandwidth and connectivity and nothing more
I dunno what it's like where you are but afaict currently in the US and until recently in the UK heavy users were virtually forced into contracts that included a "free" or subsidised phone every year or so and did not get any discount for not taking said phone (payg is an option but is even more expensive for heavy users than paying for a phone you don't want as part of your contract).
So you either essentially pay twice for your phones (once bundled in with your subscription once seperately) or you take one of the phones your carrier offers. In some cases the phone providers even take out exclusive deals and brand the phones with thier own names (t-mobile seems to do this quite a bit, see the G1 and the sidekick).
Capital K in the SI system is kelvin not kilo.
The way copyright works nowadays is that works are automatically copyrighted as soon as they are created.
So if you want to do anything with a work beyond what your countries fair use/fair dealing/etc rules allow then you need explicit permission to do so from the copyright holder.
1. A number of stocks don't pay dividends, instead providing a hilarious fiction named capital appreciation. Capital appreciation works by assuming that someone will pay more for a worthless piece of paper than you were willing to pay for it. Capital appreciation works until the final sucker buys it and realizes that no one is dumber than they are.
There is such a thing as legitimate capital appriciation where a company is reinvesting it's profits to grow the company. I agree on your other points though.
Unfortunately financial prudence is something that seems to have been distinctly lacking in the banking sector recently. That is why we have ended up in the current mess in the first place.
I'm wondering how day trading, as an activity, benefits society.
By keeping a constant flow of trades day traders bring liquidity to the market. In general high liquidity investments are considered preferable because they mean if you want/need to get out you can do so quickly.
Ahhh that make sense. errrr...ummm... Okay not really. I still don't understand why MS-DOS needs the c:\ because without that slash it could still support multiple current directories.
In DOS you can use a command like "copy a:filename c:filename" to copy a file from the current directory on drive a to the current directory on drive c.
The only way to truly clean a site up is to remove the contaminated material. You then either try and seperate it into hazardous and non-hazardous or you just bury it somewhere.
Either way this has a high cost (both financially and in energy terms) and in the latter case doesn't really do anything to solve the problem, just move it.
Another option is to not clean up the site but to try and seal the hazardous material in. A lot of landfills do this and it works to an extent but it means you have to be very carefull how you use the land in future to avoid releasing the contamination. You also have to be careful that you don't go sealing in gasses only to later either have them go boom (e.g. methane) or be released suddently suffocating the local population (e.g. CO2)
It seems these import blocks let them do an end run arround the regular courts thereby effectively forcing the company to settle (under the threat of an import block) rather than having thier case heard in the normal way.
Is my understanding correct?
then discarding ServerA and the drive from it after
Wouldn't the more logical thing to do have been to clearly label it and store it with the offsite backups until such time as you were sure all backups made with it were no longer needed.
Do you know what the definition of a book is for VAT purposes and whether ebooks meet it?
I have a food mixer that used to belong to my grandmother, it's as old as I am. It has an AC motor, with brushes.
Sounds like what is known of as a "universal motor". That is a motor that can run off AC but is based on the design principles of DC motors.
How long have brushless motors been around?
Induction motors have been arround for years but without inverter based drives thier applications were limited to those requiring a relatively constant speed.
Brushless DC motors are a relatively new invention afaict (though i'm not sure exactly how new).
They would sue the Chinese government if they thought they had a chance, but they can't, so they have to work through
I'd disagree with calling this "working through", I doubt a legal attack on a download site will have any impact on the Chinese government whatsoever.
a patsy who was unethical enough to think that redistributing repressive software was a good idea.
Is it really unethical to run a large archive of freeware/shareware? Can you really expect them to look at the ethics of every peice of software uploaded?
Even if you do think they should be checking the ethics of software that is pretty tangential to this case. Software for an "ethical" purpose can also contain unknown copyright violations.
the deployment needs haven't changed.
They have changed in a couple of ways
1: if my app has always been written with 2005 previously I only needed to deploy the CRT on initial install, now I need to deploy it on updates as well.
2: I need to ensure that my installer build system uses the new version of the crt, not the version it was using before.
I still maintain that security updates should not introduce silent breakage like this.
One thing i've noticed about MS is that so far at least they really aren't that anal about using technical means to enforce thier licensing. Afaict a kms can activate as many vista machines are try to connect to it and they stay activated for a long time. XP volume licenses didn't need activating at all. MS offers some subscription licensing options but afaict thier expiry is only enforced through the legal system not by anything technical.
Compare that to specialist products like matlab and altium where mac locked or even dongle locked licenses are the norm for single installations and installations using a license server disable themselves if they can't access the license server for some short period of time (I think it's about 15 minuites for altium)
well every iso known to man would obviously include ISOs that you didn't have legal rights to share (or even have) and most TOS have rules against illegal use.