Is it just me or is this a BS Microsoftesque stat? Digging it up on a Sunday to me suggests that while they are looking to get a good sampling of home users they are also getting a sample that is likely skewed towards the geek crowd as opposed to a weekday sample when you'd get more non-technical people using the browser to surf the web for information to complete the tasks in their daily life. When I was living in France almost 9 years ago there wasn't much you could do on a Sunday commercially this may have changed though.
How is this different from the movie industry that awards a rating, the producers don't like it, reedit the film, get the rating they want and move on? Oh wait there's an entire other industry dedicated to getting XXX ratings when it comes to movies. Guess we just needs more games like GTA SA that way the ratings will fit a nice bell curve and everyone can be happy
Several months back I was looking to end my cell service contract beause my employer was willing to provide me a cell phone and lets face it free as in beer is much better than $40/month. I've been a Vonage subscriber for well over a year and had contacted them to find out about porting my cell number to my Vonage account as many people knew that number as a contact for me.
The customer service rep said that it would take 3-4 weeks to complete the porting. When I pushed him further because of stories I had read on the web about it taking 3-6 months to get numbers ported he acknowledged that it does happen from time to time and used the same excuse which is that their 3rd party providers are responsable for the delays not them.
The pattern I am seeing is that they have everything subcontracted out so that nothing can possibly be their fault. I wonder how long it will be until they get the e911 subcontractor. Personally I have a cell, my fiance has a cell, I've activated Vonage 911 service, and my neighbors have landlines so I'm perfectly OK without e911 service. The fact that Vonage has never once made it appear that their 911 service is the same as traditional service, I believe should exempt them from this requirement. Why is it that terms of service are only enforcable when copyright is at stake?
To start with getting the names of all the people that worked on windows should be trivial as any competant IT department should be able to provide a list of all checkins made to the RCS system.
Secondly if I were bidding on a contract that had some sticky requirement that I could not get around say for example I sold manufacturing equipment in Europe which is 220V but I desperately wanted to break into the US market I would not be able to get the contract then turn around and argue that the requirements are too strict and I should be able to sell them 220V equipment instead of the 110V equipment required in the US.
What Dibold is doing is equivalent in my opinion to the latter. They got the contract and now they're unhappy with the requirements. Maybe they should leave NC as it would send the message that you must provide what you were contracted to nothing more and nothing less
The reason for this is simply support. Linux doesn't have to provide support for binaries on all pltforms they'll compile on. Microsoft has a hard enough time producing secure code on just one platform what would make you think that they, or anybody, could write stable, secure code on many dissimilar platform and support it for what MSFT charges? I realize they charge a hefty licensing fee but not nearly as much as some other organizations (which start with OR and end with ACLE) charge for support and do manage to support all the various UNIXes and Windows
The increased range of this thing will be great my biggest complaint about my current logitech desktop is the limited range once the batteries start to go.
Well it would appear that Jack feels he doesn't need to be reached by his fans, clients as the email address he provided to the FL BAR Assn' is no longer valid. As someone who wants people to be accountable for their actions he seems very resistant to following this rule himself.
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...on my thunb drive. Seriously though this is nothing different that running the Windows search for all *.jpg *.gif *.mp3 *.wav etc... If they really wanted to be helpful (in a very perverse way) They would collect SHA1 figner prints from P2P and compare the files against those but I guess that would be more work for the same headline. As far as removing P2P sharing programs I'm reminded of the scene in Casablanca where Captain Reno is collecting on his winnings and closing down Rick's place at the same time. Wouldn't anyone who had P2P be aware of it and want to keep it? How many self installing P2P apps are out there?
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In a separate press release today DVD John stated that he expects to release a crack for the encryption on 5/25/06.
Is it just me or is this a BS Microsoftesque stat? Digging it up on a Sunday to me suggests that while they are looking to get a good sampling of home users they are also getting a sample that is likely skewed towards the geek crowd as opposed to a weekday sample when you'd get more non-technical people using the browser to surf the web for information to complete the tasks in their daily life. When I was living in France almost 9 years ago there wasn't much you could do on a Sunday commercially this may have changed though.
How is this different from the movie industry that awards a rating, the producers don't like it, reedit the film, get the rating they want and move on? Oh wait there's an entire other industry dedicated to getting XXX ratings when it comes to movies. Guess we just needs more games like GTA SA that way the ratings will fit a nice bell curve and everyone can be happy
Several months back I was looking to end my cell service contract beause my employer was willing to provide me a cell phone and lets face it free as in beer is much better than $40/month. I've been a Vonage subscriber for well over a year and had contacted them to find out about porting my cell number to my Vonage account as many people knew that number as a contact for me.
The customer service rep said that it would take 3-4 weeks to complete the porting. When I pushed him further because of stories I had read on the web about it taking 3-6 months to get numbers ported he acknowledged that it does happen from time to time and used the same excuse which is that their 3rd party providers are responsable for the delays not them.
The pattern I am seeing is that they have everything subcontracted out so that nothing can possibly be their fault. I wonder how long it will be until they get the e911 subcontractor. Personally I have a cell, my fiance has a cell, I've activated Vonage 911 service, and my neighbors have landlines so I'm perfectly OK without e911 service. The fact that Vonage has never once made it appear that their 911 service is the same as traditional service, I believe should exempt them from this requirement. Why is it that terms of service are only enforcable when copyright is at stake?
To start with getting the names of all the people that worked on windows should be trivial as any competant IT department should be able to provide a list of all checkins made to the RCS system. Secondly if I were bidding on a contract that had some sticky requirement that I could not get around say for example I sold manufacturing equipment in Europe which is 220V but I desperately wanted to break into the US market I would not be able to get the contract then turn around and argue that the requirements are too strict and I should be able to sell them 220V equipment instead of the 110V equipment required in the US. What Dibold is doing is equivalent in my opinion to the latter. They got the contract and now they're unhappy with the requirements. Maybe they should leave NC as it would send the message that you must provide what you were contracted to nothing more and nothing less
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The reason for this is simply support. Linux doesn't have to provide support for binaries on all pltforms they'll compile on. Microsoft has a hard enough time producing secure code on just one platform what would make you think that they, or anybody, could write stable, secure code on many dissimilar platform and support it for what MSFT charges? I realize they charge a hefty licensing fee but not nearly as much as some other organizations (which start with OR and end with ACLE) charge for support and do manage to support all the various UNIXes and Windows
The increased range of this thing will be great my biggest complaint about my current logitech desktop is the limited range once the batteries start to go.
Well it would appear that Jack feels he doesn't need to be reached by his fans, clients as the email address he provided to the FL BAR Assn' is no longer valid. As someone who wants people to be accountable for their actions he seems very resistant to following this rule himself.
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...on my thunb drive. Seriously though this is nothing different that running the Windows search for all *.jpg *.gif *.mp3 *.wav etc... If they really wanted to be helpful (in a very perverse way) They would collect SHA1 figner prints from P2P and compare the files against those but I guess that would be more work for the same headline. As far as removing P2P sharing programs I'm reminded of the scene in Casablanca where Captain Reno is collecting on his winnings and closing down Rick's place at the same time. Wouldn't anyone who had P2P be aware of it and want to keep it? How many self installing P2P apps are out there?