Well Spamhaus said their demise would be the end of the internet, so its basically kids in the play ground.
Well, they are the ONLY Real Time Black list on the internet, which of course is the ONLY anti-spam measure available to mail admins, and I'm pretty sure email traffic volumes are orders of magnitude larger than other protocols, such as http & Bitorrent.
So yeah, I agree with Slashdot in agreein with Spamhaus on the horros to be unleashed if this order had gone through.
Granted, the customers are the carriers, but the carriers put in a considerable effort to please the customers with their phone choices.
Verizon paid Motorola a considerable amount of money for exclusive access to their lastest phones, a deal they stole from Cingular. Why? Because consumers want those those phones, and being the exclusive provider means they might switch carriers to get them.
What outsells the marvelous powerful sophisticated Treo650 by an enormous margin? The Razr
Because the Razor is a great phone, whereas the Treo is a huge and unweildy PDA that also happens to be a phone. The Razr got it right, big screen, big buttons, load speakerphone, stylish, durable, etc. While the Treo is great at what it does, are you really surprised its not outselling the Razr? You couldn't pay me to carry the Treo as a cell phone, its a brick. Well, maybe you could pay me:)
"Sucking it up" by foregoing partying and vacations might do it for bachelors.
"Family" was obviously not one of the things on your list.
I just completed a EMBA program specifically geared toward professional who were working full time while earning a degree, perhaps 50% of my classmates had a family, and I'm not sure it was a disadvantage. The married students had a supporting partner who helped out with a lot of tasks, making dinner, doing laundry, that us single students had to take care of ourselves. (though be aware that EMBA programs are definately hard on marriages).
It is hard work, it takes dedication and commitment, if this is not a serious goal of yours don't waste your money because you will drop out under the stress. There are a variety of programs out there that target professionals, just be sure to define your goals do your research before commiting years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars. However, it is entirely accomplishable.
If someone told me a few years ago that there's big money (in per-unit profits) to be made in throwing together off the shelf boards, I wouldn't have believed them
The impressive thing was that Alienware showed up when the world was convinced computers were driving to a slim margin/cheapest possbile world. They identified a market where people were willing to pay big premiums that was previously dominated by do-it-yourselfers. Before Alienware, "gaming rigs" were a hobbiest thing
Somehow this solution seems penny wise and pound foolish. Lots of slow, unreliable, unstable systems (scanner perched on a laptop?), where it seems like a single high speed solution might be far better. There's probably other advantages to having copiers everywhere too, document feeders will definately be needed as well unless you'll only be facing single page digitation. And why risk old laptops, when new Mac mini's (or imitators) are cheap and available.
Heck, I imagine everybody has their own machine, why not save the system expense and just give out scanners like party favors?
It's not like you can legally obtain a version of that specific book from someone who's actually checked the facts, or who's selling it for $5 when all they're doing is paying for a print run.
Because if they didn't have to pay for the creation of the material, you believe they would pay for the fact checking? Or perhaps there would be a more expensive version, "with fact checking"? Take away the IP protection and the publisher has no choice but to create content the cheapest way possible, and that means no fact checking, accepting content from those willing to pay to get their viewpoint out, etc. Tales of how much better the middle ages would be with a Coke, how the Black Death could have been solved with Pfizer pharmaceuticals, how Goodyear helped turn the tide in WWII
The details you are so short sightedly missing is that it is a free market, there are dozens of textbooks on every subject a professor can choose to teach his course from, and that the only thing IP laws grant a monopoly on is the particular arrangement of words and pictures in a given book.If a professor believes a $20 book has as much detail, useful exercises, accurate facts, etc. versus a $40 book, he is free to select it. If you believe he is making poor decisions by selecting a more expensive book, you can complain to the university and/or take your tuition elsewhere. If you believe you can learn everything you need to know from Wikipedia and the library, you can keep it in your pocket even.
While I'll agree copyright law is seriously broken, calling it "substantial harm to the world" is insane. Global warming triggering an ice age, yes. Convincing an impoverished but industrious nation all their problems are caused by some minority group, yes. Releasing toads in Austrailia in a poorly thought out plan to kill bugs, I might buy. Preventing me from watching the "Sound of Music" whenever I want. NO. Show me evidence copyright law is preventing middle east peace and I'll reconsider.
It's ridiculously easy to get someone else's credit card number if you want--no digital expertise required.
Its all about scale. A waitress can get maybe 20 cards in an 8 hour shift, a phish site can get hundreds in its 3 hour lifespan, and a WiFi listener could get thousands sitting undetected for a month inside a (Major Retailer).
Nothing I've read about even comes close to the level of skill and amazingness that they pulled back in the sixties
Skill? They mislead a cheerleader into giving them the code. Audacity, yes. For skill, see the 1984 prank where they remotely hacked the electronic scoreboard. As I recall they had to invent stuff to pull that one off.
Nevermind the net - the whole world stops a short distance beyond the USA borders and if you would try to go beyond, you'll fall off the edge. Here, there be dragons...
Now now, Canada and Mexico are real, if not quite as large as the "atlases make them out to be
When you fly "internationally", the plane really loops back around and heads to Alaska, which is not really cold but actually a huge series of "studio sets" to fake various locations.
The servers aren't a good comparison, there's a ton of markup on them all over the place. But since everybody buys them through a Sales rep (I hope!!), nobody really pays those prices anyway, they just feel good about getting a 30% discount from Sales team. Witness the $200 upgrade from a 2.8 Ghz cpu to a 3.2 Ghz P4 that costs $40 in the Dimension line. (an old example, admitedly). I imagine the Workstations are the same way, though its been a while since I bought those (we use rack mount servers for those roles now).
The Optiplex line brings its own taxes (Dimensions used to get a big break on MS Office), and the hardware gets dated because the configs get "frozen" for consistency, but I also think they get a better design because corporate IT guys recognize the value of good design (with the exception of the cursed GX270 line)
Typically, egineering led implies the underpinnings were designed to accomplish the goals, then an interface was created to provide/relay the needed information. (Think Photoshop)
Design led implies that The UI was designed first and then the underpinnings needed were put in. (Think MacOS)
Neither is better or worse than the other, both have led to some good and bad systems, though I lean towards design led as engineers tend to think along what's know, whereas designer's are usually ignorant of whats possible, leading engineers to push the bounds of what's possible
Why teach ID? In my opinion, its downright blasphemous because it violates the principle of faith by claiming "This is proof god exists", whereas evolution just says this is how the world that god made works, God helps those who help themselves and understanding science and our world answers that. If "Young Earth" scientists find proof the Earth really is only 6,000 years old it means god screwed up and left behind proof he exists. I don't believe in a sloppy god, and I don't need proof he exists, and I don't think he'd waste time writing in Genesis that "one day" does not translate to a single rotation of the earth around the sun, considering the morning he started there was no sun, no earth, etc.
Want to protest HD content "protection"? Get a Dell 2405fpw, not 2407.
If you're going to post something intriguing like this in you sig, do us a favor and explain what you're talking about in your journal or something! As the owner of 2 2405fpw's, I'm curious.
but when have we heard a Press Release saying "no worries, the data is crypto-protected with this how-many-bit technology".
Because what good is 4096-bit encryption when the application, the weak link, has to know the key to decode it? Proper application/network/security design solves this problem, and while encryption might be a part of it any idiot who says "no worries, its protected by ROT-13 (or whatever) encryption" reveals himself to be that idiot.
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Interesting, but likely to backfire. Those manufacturers that don't dual price will have products that are available at a bigger discount online, and hence be perceived as a "better value". I could by the $500 Samung Home theater for $400 online, or the $500 Sony version for $470. This could eventually create a dual market, "retail" brands like Sony that shun the discounters, and "channel" brands that sell at bargain prices on the internet but are shunned by retailers who know consumers won't buy via bricks, perfering cheaper clicks sources. This is hardly unprecedented (lots of brands and products limit their distribution) but I seriously doubt Sony has the brand strength to pull it off, they have a hard time pulling the 20% premium over their competitors they used to as the Koreans move up market and the Japanese competitors rally. Of course, they way they've been losing market share lately, maybe they don't see any other choice.
Yes, we appear to have discussed this recently...but for me, the subject of Dell and Linux is kind-of boring now. I find it is the same old thing.
Just because Dell's been selling them for about 5 years now if I recall and EVERY ONE of the submitter's acts as if this is a new development (...Dell recently began selling...) Appearantly nobody's figured out they install a FreeOS on the system that nobody is going to use so they don't have to worry about software support (not to mention every zealoty in the world whining that RedHat/Suse/Gentoo/Mandrak/Knoppix sucks, why didn't they use RedHat/Suse/Gentoo/Mandrak/Knoppix?
Also note where the cameras are pointed. 9 times out of 10 the first cameras to go in are pointed at the registers to watch employee theft. Shockingly even when they are aware of the cameras they still steal sometimes.
Personally, I think most employee theft is a result of employee dissatisfaction, if folks like their jobs they don't steal from you, but there's always a few bad apples. Keep them from stealing from teh store and they steal from their co-workers.
Am I the only one to apply the brute force tactic? With enough force you can expand the gaps of most cubes to the point that a corner peice can be removed, from then on they dismantle easily.
I did eventually get a guide and solve it with instructions.
o build it from stuff already in space, or at the very least, on the moon.
Mmmm, Giant space magnet sucking up all the space debris, foriegn nations spy sattelites, Hubble, etc. Shame Skylab came back down, we could have used it up there!!
And for the record, I believe the moon is already in space;)
While you might not like the tactics designed to generate hype over the product, keep in mind that it's not a guaranteed win for them; they are running the risk of pissing off their customers and driving them to wait for a PS3 instead of buying an XBox.
Which is why this sounds like some half baked "Donald Trump's Apprentice" plan. We could put 5 million units on the shelves and sell 4 million day 1, or we can put 2 million out day 1 and "get the buzz" of a sell out. You're then stuck hoping the missing 2 million stop buy later that month and buy when the buzz is gone (what good is buzz if there's no product? See last years PS2 gen 2 issues, how many buyers got X-Box instead?), or worse aren't impressed when the see the neighbors (oh, my son needs a HDTV to really take advantage? I'm not buying THAT for his room).
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Well, they are the ONLY Real Time Black list on the internet, which of course is the ONLY anti-spam measure available to mail admins, and I'm pretty sure email traffic volumes are orders of magnitude larger than other protocols, such as http & Bitorrent.
So yeah, I agree with Slashdot in agreein with Spamhaus on the horros to be unleashed if this order had gone through.
Verizon paid Motorola a considerable amount of money for exclusive access to their lastest phones, a deal they stole from Cingular. Why? Because consumers want those those phones, and being the exclusive provider means they might switch carriers to get them.
What outsells the marvelous powerful sophisticated Treo650 by an enormous margin? The Razr
Because the Razor is a great phone, whereas the Treo is a huge and unweildy PDA that also happens to be a phone. The Razr got it right, big screen, big buttons, load speakerphone, stylish, durable, etc. While the Treo is great at what it does, are you really surprised its not outselling the Razr? You couldn't pay me to carry the Treo as a cell phone, its a brick. Well, maybe you could pay me :)
"Family" was obviously not one of the things on your list.
I just completed a EMBA program specifically geared toward professional who were working full time while earning a degree, perhaps 50% of my classmates had a family, and I'm not sure it was a disadvantage. The married students had a supporting partner who helped out with a lot of tasks, making dinner, doing laundry, that us single students had to take care of ourselves. (though be aware that EMBA programs are definately hard on marriages).
It is hard work, it takes dedication and commitment, if this is not a serious goal of yours don't waste your money because you will drop out under the stress. There are a variety of programs out there that target professionals, just be sure to define your goals do your research before commiting years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars. However, it is entirely accomplishable.
The impressive thing was that Alienware showed up when the world was convinced computers were driving to a slim margin/cheapest possbile world. They identified a market where people were willing to pay big premiums that was previously dominated by do-it-yourselfers. Before Alienware, "gaming rigs" were a hobbiest thing
Heck, I imagine everybody has their own machine, why not save the system expense and just give out scanners like party favors?
The distribution chosen is Red Hat. Same as most other companies, such as IBM and EMC.
Because if they didn't have to pay for the creation of the material, you believe they would pay for the fact checking? Or perhaps there would be a more expensive version, "with fact checking"? Take away the IP protection and the publisher has no choice but to create content the cheapest way possible, and that means no fact checking, accepting content from those willing to pay to get their viewpoint out, etc. Tales of how much better the middle ages would be with a Coke, how the Black Death could have been solved with Pfizer pharmaceuticals, how Goodyear helped turn the tide in WWII
The details you are so short sightedly missing is that it is a free market, there are dozens of textbooks on every subject a professor can choose to teach his course from, and that the only thing IP laws grant a monopoly on is the particular arrangement of words and pictures in a given book.If a professor believes a $20 book has as much detail, useful exercises, accurate facts, etc. versus a $40 book, he is free to select it. If you believe he is making poor decisions by selecting a more expensive book, you can complain to the university and/or take your tuition elsewhere. If you believe you can learn everything you need to know from Wikipedia and the library, you can keep it in your pocket even.
I'd love to be able to search IMDB of Gracenote from google toolbar
While I'll agree copyright law is seriously broken, calling it "substantial harm to the world" is insane. Global warming triggering an ice age, yes. Convincing an impoverished but industrious nation all their problems are caused by some minority group, yes. Releasing toads in Austrailia in a poorly thought out plan to kill bugs, I might buy. Preventing me from watching the "Sound of Music" whenever I want. NO. Show me evidence copyright law is preventing middle east peace and I'll reconsider.
Its all about scale. A waitress can get maybe 20 cards in an 8 hour shift, a phish site can get hundreds in its 3 hour lifespan, and a WiFi listener could get thousands sitting undetected for a month inside a (Major Retailer).
Skill? They mislead a cheerleader into giving them the code. Audacity, yes. For skill, see the 1984 prank where they remotely hacked the electronic scoreboard. As I recall they had to invent stuff to pull that one off.
Now now, Canada and Mexico are real, if not quite as large as the "atlases make them out to be
When you fly "internationally", the plane really loops back around and heads to Alaska, which is not really cold but actually a huge series of "studio sets" to fake various locations.
The Optiplex line brings its own taxes (Dimensions used to get a big break on MS Office), and the hardware gets dated because the configs get "frozen" for consistency, but I also think they get a better design because corporate IT guys recognize the value of good design (with the exception of the cursed GX270 line)
Design led implies that The UI was designed first and then the underpinnings needed were put in. (Think MacOS)
Neither is better or worse than the other, both have led to some good and bad systems, though I lean towards design led as engineers tend to think along what's know, whereas designer's are usually ignorant of whats possible, leading engineers to push the bounds of what's possible
Why teach ID? In my opinion, its downright blasphemous because it violates the principle of faith by claiming "This is proof god exists", whereas evolution just says this is how the world that god made works, God helps those who help themselves and understanding science and our world answers that. If "Young Earth" scientists find proof the Earth really is only 6,000 years old it means god screwed up and left behind proof he exists. I don't believe in a sloppy god, and I don't need proof he exists, and I don't think he'd waste time writing in Genesis that "one day" does not translate to a single rotation of the earth around the sun, considering the morning he started there was no sun, no earth, etc.
If you're going to post something intriguing like this in you sig, do us a favor and explain what you're talking about in your journal or something! As the owner of 2 2405fpw's, I'm curious.
Because what good is 4096-bit encryption when the application, the weak link, has to know the key to decode it? Proper application/network/security design solves this problem, and while encryption might be a part of it any idiot who says "no worries, its protected by ROT-13 (or whatever) encryption" reveals himself to be that idiot.
Interesting, but likely to backfire. Those manufacturers that don't dual price will have products that are available at a bigger discount online, and hence be perceived as a "better value". I could by the $500 Samung Home theater for $400 online, or the $500 Sony version for $470. This could eventually create a dual market, "retail" brands like Sony that shun the discounters, and "channel" brands that sell at bargain prices on the internet but are shunned by retailers who know consumers won't buy via bricks, perfering cheaper clicks sources. This is hardly unprecedented (lots of brands and products limit their distribution) but I seriously doubt Sony has the brand strength to pull it off, they have a hard time pulling the 20% premium over their competitors they used to as the Koreans move up market and the Japanese competitors rally. Of course, they way they've been losing market share lately, maybe they don't see any other choice.
Just because Dell's been selling them for about 5 years now if I recall and EVERY ONE of the submitter's acts as if this is a new development (...Dell recently began selling...) Appearantly nobody's figured out they install a FreeOS on the system that nobody is going to use so they don't have to worry about software support (not to mention every zealoty in the world whining that RedHat/Suse/Gentoo/Mandrak/Knoppix sucks, why didn't they use RedHat/Suse/Gentoo/Mandrak/Knoppix?
As Dogbert says, "Bah!"
Personally, I think most employee theft is a result of employee dissatisfaction, if folks like their jobs they don't steal from you, but there's always a few bad apples. Keep them from stealing from teh store and they steal from their co-workers.
This is clearly an attempt to get me to remove the tinfoil zucchetto (pope hat).
Am I the only one to apply the brute force tactic? With enough force you can expand the gaps of most cubes to the point that a corner peice can be removed, from then on they dismantle easily.
I did eventually get a guide and solve it with instructions.
Mmmm, Giant space magnet sucking up all the space debris, foriegn nations spy sattelites, Hubble, etc. Shame Skylab came back down, we could have used it up there!!
And for the record, I believe the moon is already in space ;)
Which is why this sounds like some half baked "Donald Trump's Apprentice" plan. We could put 5 million units on the shelves and sell 4 million day 1, or we can put 2 million out day 1 and "get the buzz" of a sell out. You're then stuck hoping the missing 2 million stop buy later that month and buy when the buzz is gone (what good is buzz if there's no product? See last years PS2 gen 2 issues, how many buyers got X-Box instead?), or worse aren't impressed when the see the neighbors (oh, my son needs a HDTV to really take advantage? I'm not buying THAT for his room).
Exactly. If only you had access to the document specification, then you might be able to do something to fix that problem.