Because hoppy beers taste better at "cellar temperature" - cool but not freezing. If a beer is too cold it masks any flavour. For many mass-market American beers, this might be considered an advantage.
(Brit who lives in the US, and likes my microbrews)
at least until the new European constitution is ratified (if it is) the EU pariament has somewhat limited powers. While technically they can veto a decision by the Council of Ministers with an absolute majority vote, that does only apply to some areas of EU law, and the council is far stronger politically.
According to the Wikipedia article on IANA, control of the root zone is technically still in the hands of the US Department of Commerce, not ICANN. Though of the 13 root servers, 4 are run by non-US organizations.
Wasn't China complaining about this earlier this week?
No one (and this article itself) has ever really objectively described the compromises/disputes between the old internet governance infrastructure and the increasingly corporate-dominated and somewhat authoritarian ICANN.
ICANN is supposed to have a standards pillar. However all internet standards are really developed by the IETF, published by the RFC Editor and adopted by the community the way that they have always been. (The exception being HTML/HTTP and its derivatives - the W3C is entirely corporate)
There's some mention here of the dispute over IANA. Back in the day, it was just Postel, and he demonstrated entire control over the root servers. But now it's really not clear who controls the root servers, allocates IP address ranges to the regional registries, and assigns other numbers. This stuff should be transparent!
You create something, you own the copyright in it. No need to demonstrate intent, no need to put a copyright mark on it. However, you can only sue for actual damages unless the copyright is registered within 90 days of "first publication".
Isle of Man, Channel Islands. Gibraltar Monserrat British Virgin Islands British Indian Ocean Territory Pitcairn Island Ascension Island Falkland Islands South Georgia
I saw last week that something like 49% of the UK population now has regular access to the Internet. You'll start seeing significant percentages like that across industrial democracies. And, once they have been online for a while, well they are going to start getting seriously pissed about spam.
Maybe it will take longer in the US, as the politicians seem more insulated from the voters, and more beholden to corporate interests than other democracies, but those politicians are going to start getting the message loud and clear from a mojority of their electors 'FOR GODS SAKE DO SOMETHING EFFECTIVE ABOUT SPAM!!'
And why the hell would Microsoft be opposed to an anti-spam bill? Spam must cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hotmail hardware, filtering and abuse staff.
From Gartner's comments last week, it becomes clear that SCO's claims, press-releases and lawsuits are damaging the adoption of Linux, in the short-term, in corporate environments. I believe that is, partially, what RedHat's case against SCO is about.
So when do we expect that axe to fall? With the IBM case going into Oral arguments next month? Is there not anyway that this process can be accelerated by one of the judges, so that this hideous trainwreck can be put to bed.
Though Slashdot may not have anything to publish if there wan't a faily SCO story.
OK, That's not entirely possible, given that he died a few years ago, but the whole thing ran a whole lot smoother when Jon was the dictator of the entire 'net.
However the institutions of that time, the Internet Architecture Board, the IETF and the Internet Society providing a corporate, but hands-off, home for it all ran a whole lot smoother than the overly beurocratic mess that we have now.
But the ITU would be worse. Remember how they fought TCP/IP tooth and nail?
IBM sell a product called WebSphere Portal Server. It's reasonably inexpensive for the Enterprise Portal space, they have been getting fairly competitive on software pricing recently.
But here's the hidden little feature. As a sample portlet included with the server are server-side portlets that read and write Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents.
They don't do it perfectly, not yet, and IBM is not doing a lot to publicize them. And they certainly won't be competing with a full-featured word processor or spreadsheet application.
But take a large corporate customer, who's users need to be able to read, change and create Office documents, but the vast majority only needing the base functionality, why would you be buying each of them an Office license when you can get it for free with your $20,000 Intranet Portal.
As Tim Thatcher, program director for IBM WebSphere Portal emphasises, these productivity components are not a stand-in for Microsoft Office. "We're targeting the users who don't need all the features of Word or WordPro," says Thatcher. "Businesses realise it's not cost-effective to deliver a full-functioned desktop to every user. On a manufacturing floor, for example, a factory worker in the breakroom can jot a letter off the kiosk using the built-in portal applications."
I was at IBM's booth at LinuxWorld on Wednesday, they had an AS/400 (they're called iSeries now) with a gigantic stuffed Tux on top and Linux running on a partion. Their demo was pretty cool, Linux running on a couple of CPUs on a mainframe, 2 PowerPC boxes (pSeries, what used to be the AIX RS/6000) the iSeries and a bunch of intel boxen.
They were using a load-balancing product on the mainframe that split work across all 8 cpus on their network. Grid Computing, they call it, and the fact that everything runs Linux makes the whole thing work.
Bianca's has actually been around WAY longer. They've already had a 7th birthday party, 8th will be in February. I guess people always want to talk about sex.
They are a fine organization that helps homebuilders of various unusual aircraft.
Ya see, if you want to get a new aircraft FAA approved, it costs millions of dollars and a couple of years of expensive testing. Until Cirrus Aviation got the SR200 certified in 2000, no one had got a new light General Aviation aircraft certified in years, everyone was just building them off the old type certificates.
But, if you build it yourself. (More than 50% of the effort) you can fly any weird-assed kind of airplane, with a very minimal level of certification.
Most homebuilders use kits, though theres still a lot of work to do to complete the aircraft, and qualify under the 50% rule.
Former UK Prime Minister prior to Mrs. Thatcher. He pushed this one through as a special Bill in the House of Lords. Questionable precedent for a very good cause.
I work for a large and nameless consulting organization. And we organize, pretty much all of our projects with a Project Manager, who is responsible for budgets, client relations, timeframes and administrivia, an an Architect (or Technical Lead, or whatever) who is reponsible for the technology and the solution.
Now the two have to work reasonably close together, but the PM is not there to micromanage the developers, and the Architect doesnt get bogged down in budgets and politics.
This works well.
And dont get me wrong, we are are a large and structured organization, but an effective architect has as much opportunity to earn the big bucks and reap the other rewards as a PM or an administrative manager.
ASRS (The Aviation Safety Reporting System) is a program run by NASA for pilots and other aviation workers to, without fear of reprisal, report safety issues. They have a fine website at http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov This document is a collection of raw reports relating to electronic interference with navigational instruments. Makes an interesting read.
Slashdot Mirror
That I shot for the SF Bay Guardian.
old photograph
She's not just a lawyer, she's a cute geeky lawyer!
If you Google "Dynamic IP DNS" you'll see a large number of services that will provide DNS to run a domain from a Dynamic IP.
http://www.google.com/search?q=dns+dynamic+ip
Because hoppy beers taste better at "cellar temperature" - cool but not freezing. If a beer is too cold it masks any flavour. For many mass-market American beers, this might be considered an advantage.
(Brit who lives in the US, and likes my microbrews)
http://www.userfriendly.org/contact/
UserFriendly.Org
140-8380 Lansdowne Road, Suite 716
Richmond,
British Columbia
Canada, V6X 1B9
But all us Commonwealth folks sound alike, right?
at least until the new European constitution is ratified (if it is) the EU pariament has somewhat limited powers. While technically they can veto a decision by the Council of Ministers with an absolute majority vote, that does only apply to some areas of EU law, and the council is far stronger politically.
http://www.derossa.com/asp/guideEPworks.asp
That was informative. Thank you.
According to the Wikipedia article on IANA, control of the root zone is technically still in the hands of the US Department of Commerce, not ICANN. Though of the 13 root servers, 4 are run by non-US organizations.
Wasn't China complaining about this earlier this week?
No one (and this article itself) has ever really objectively described the compromises/disputes between the old internet governance infrastructure and the increasingly corporate-dominated and somewhat authoritarian ICANN.
ICANN is supposed to have a standards pillar. However all internet standards are really developed by the IETF, published by the RFC Editor and adopted by the community the way that they have always been. (The exception being HTML/HTTP and its derivatives - the W3C is entirely corporate)
There's some mention here of the dispute over IANA. Back in the day, it was just Postel, and he demonstrated entire control over the root servers. But now it's really not clear who controls the root servers, allocates IP address ranges to the regional registries, and assigns other numbers. This stuff should be transparent!
As a photographer for the Bay Guardian. (You can only see my lovely portrait of Helen Seltzer if you pick up the dead tree edition of the paper.)
There were three women there. They were taking apart computers. I saw it and (even) photographed it.
You create something, you own the copyright in it. No need to demonstrate intent, no need to put a copyright mark on it. However, you can only sue for actual damages unless the copyright is registered within 90 days of "first publication".
Isle of Man, Channel Islands.
Gibraltar
Monserrat
British Virgin Islands
British Indian Ocean Territory
Pitcairn Island
Ascension Island
Falkland Islands
South Georgia
umm... http://london.craigslist.org/
They beat ya to it. I hear that the London CL is a fine fine place to get laid.
Where do I sign up to get wages lowered, health benefits removed, and longer work days under poor working conditions? Walmart. Duh!
Now that was a fun contract. However, yeah, the security restrictions were remarkable.
I saw last week that something like 49% of the UK population now has regular access to the Internet. You'll start seeing significant percentages like that across industrial democracies. And, once they have been online for a while, well they are going to start getting seriously pissed about spam.
Maybe it will take longer in the US, as the politicians seem more insulated from the voters, and more beholden to corporate interests than other democracies, but those politicians are going to start getting the message loud and clear from a mojority of their electors 'FOR GODS SAKE DO SOMETHING EFFECTIVE ABOUT SPAM!!'
And why the hell would Microsoft be opposed to an anti-spam bill? Spam must cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hotmail hardware, filtering and abuse staff.
From Gartner's comments last week, it becomes clear that SCO's claims, press-releases and lawsuits are damaging the adoption of Linux, in the short-term, in corporate environments. I believe that is, partially, what RedHat's case against SCO is about.
So when do we expect that axe to fall? With the IBM case going into Oral arguments next month? Is there not anyway that this process can be accelerated by one of the judges, so that this hideous trainwreck can be put to bed.
Though Slashdot may not have anything to publish if there wan't a faily SCO story.
OK, That's not entirely possible, given that he died a few years ago, but the whole thing ran a whole lot smoother when Jon was the dictator of the entire 'net.
However the institutions of that time, the Internet Architecture Board, the IETF and the Internet Society providing a corporate, but hands-off, home for it all ran a whole lot smoother than the overly beurocratic mess that we have now.
But the ITU would be worse. Remember how they fought TCP/IP tooth and nail?
In the Bay Area, they market SBC/Yahoo! DSL as 'The Internet that logs on to YOU!'.
Creepy enough for me to stick with Speakeasy, thank you very much.
IBM sell a product called WebSphere Portal Server. It's reasonably inexpensive for the Enterprise Portal space, they have been getting fairly competitive on software pricing recently.
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But here's the hidden little feature. As a sample portlet included with the server are server-side portlets that read and write Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents.
They don't do it perfectly, not yet, and IBM is not doing a lot to publicize them. And they certainly won't be competing with a full-featured word processor or spreadsheet application.
But take a large corporate customer, who's users need to be able to read, change and create Office documents, but the vast majority only needing the base functionality, why would you be buying each of them an Office license when you can get it for free with your $20,000 Intranet Portal.
As Tim Thatcher, program director for IBM WebSphere Portal emphasises, these productivity components are not a stand-in for Microsoft Office. "We're targeting the users who don't need all the features of Word or WordPro," says Thatcher. "Businesses realise it's not cost-effective to deliver a full-functioned desktop to every user. On a manufacturing floor, for example, a factory worker in the breakroom can jot a letter off the kiosk using the built-in portal applications."
http://www.eos-solutions.com.au/news_sept/news_se
Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs. .. a use for AOL CDs
I was at IBM's booth at LinuxWorld on Wednesday, they had an AS/400 (they're called iSeries now) with a gigantic stuffed Tux on top and Linux running on a partion. Their demo was pretty cool, Linux running on a couple of CPUs on a mainframe, 2 PowerPC boxes (pSeries, what used to be the AIX RS/6000) the iSeries and a bunch of intel boxen.
They were using a load-balancing product on the mainframe that split work across all 8 cpus on their network. Grid Computing, they call it, and the fact that everything runs Linux makes the whole thing work.
Bianca's has actually been around WAY longer. They've already had a 7th birthday party, 8th will be in February. I guess people always want to talk about sex.
They are a fine organization that helps homebuilders of various unusual aircraft.
Ya see, if you want to get a new aircraft FAA approved, it costs millions of dollars and a couple of years of expensive testing. Until Cirrus Aviation got the SR200 certified in 2000, no one had got a new light General Aviation aircraft certified in years, everyone was just building them off the old type certificates.
But, if you build it yourself. (More than 50% of the effort) you can fly any weird-assed kind of airplane, with a very minimal level of certification.
Most homebuilders use kits, though theres still a lot of work to do to complete the aircraft, and qualify under the 50% rule.
The EAA exists to help these people.
Former UK Prime Minister prior to Mrs. Thatcher. He pushed this one through as a special Bill in the House of Lords. Questionable precedent for a very good cause.
I work for a large and nameless consulting organization. And we organize, pretty much all of our projects with a Project Manager, who is responsible for budgets, client relations, timeframes and administrivia, an an Architect (or Technical Lead, or whatever) who is reponsible for the technology and the solution. Now the two have to work reasonably close together, but the PM is not there to micromanage the developers, and the Architect doesnt get bogged down in budgets and politics. This works well. And dont get me wrong, we are are a large and structured organization, but an effective architect has as much opportunity to earn the big bucks and reap the other rewards as a PM or an administrative manager.
ASRS (The Aviation Safety Reporting System) is a program run by NASA for pilots and other aviation workers to, without fear of reprisal, report safety issues. They have a fine website at http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov This document is a collection of raw reports relating to electronic interference with navigational instruments. Makes an interesting read.