If people *can* steal something, they will. The honor system doesn't work. In the old days of vinyl and open reel tapes, sure people could still copy the media, but the distribution network did not exist. Then, if you started selling and advertising pirated media, you ran a big risk of being discovered and shut down. Today, it's nearly trivial to rip a cd or dvd and post a torrent and let anybody with access to google find and download it. They just can't allow that to happen and still expect to recover the costs of producing content worth recording, let along make big bucks doing it.
Mod me troll but that what I really think. DRM will be a fact of life someday, and customers will either go along or listen to scratchy old albums of "Uriah Heep" while everybody else is enjoying "Sexcapades: 2010!".
SCO's OpenServer and TelSoft Solutions' MegaCall Combine to Meet the Call Processing Needs of Los Angeles County
LINDON, Utah, Oct. 19/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems, today announced that Los Angeles County will use SCO OpenServer as a platform for TelSoft's MegaCall turnkey call accounting and tracking system, ending the county's exhaustive search for a solution. TelSoft Solutions is a leading provider of call accounting and billing services for organizations of any size.
With 88 cities and 28 percent of all California residents, Los Angeles County is the largest county in the U.S. It requires an enterprise-level call-tracking system on a highly fault-tolerant application platform. MegaCall and OpenServer met this rigorous requirement among many other requirements, and will be implemented in more than 125 county locations.
"SCO has been a popular platform in the telecom industry for decades, providing platforms for companies such as: Lucent, Avaya, Siemens, Comverse and many others," said Alan Raymond, Vice President of Americas Sales, The SCO Group, Inc. "SCO's interoperability with other operating systems and adaptability to fit the server needs of any businesses also makes OpenServer a valuable addition to large corporations who utilize the MegaCall system."
Must be Chief Information Security Officer - otherwise you'd be in charge of the night watchman as well. Of course we could make it the Chief Information Security and Confidentiality Officer.
'back'? When did Microsoft ever have the search space? It's just another case of tech-envy and strong arm attempts at market takeover by trying to leverage their pc advantage, just like they always do, playing catch-up (like they did with gui windowing, internetworking, media, etc).
I call it the "videophone" effect, where a video extention of an audio system is posited as the 'future', and has been in action since 1927 where a Videophone was potrayed in the futuristic silent movie, "Metropolis". The dustbin of technology history is filled with failed attempts at videophones etc. Conference calls are useful to business, Video Conferencing, except for pr0n or showing slides, is just staring at blurry suits on a big screen.
When your goal is maximizing earnings and shareholder profites other priorities shift about that. If it's more profitable to support broad patents, that's what they'll do. If it's more profitable to oppose them, ditto. That's why politicians are so often caught speaking out both sides of their mouth, their stated views can change in persuit of their hidden agenda.
published this week in theregister.co.uk , But it's a very phony war. The MPAA is only too happy to play the cartoon role the techno utopians have created for them, in a narrative dominated by fear, domination and control. Like small children playing a game of ghost, they've succeeded only in frightening the bejesus out of each other.
And this thoroughly dishonest debate - you could call it the artistic versus the autistic - is lopsided to begin with. It's Jack, not Larry, who has Sin City and Mean Streets. But only by taking the long view can you see how irrelevant both of their phony stances really are.
Does it ever occur to people that "world hunger" is a necessary check on population? That is to say, should some brilliant inventor creating an infinite food supply, won't the population grow, what with having no predators and the usual sex drive, untill we're standing shoulder to shoulder with the accompanying housing, sanitation, employment, etc etc issues? IOW, wouldn't it be better to somehow deal with people who create offspring indiscriminately with no ability to properly take care of them, where they become a problem to everyone else? Why should those who properly take care of their own family be burdened with the problems of others in the name of some naive, impractical "end world hunger" utopian dream?
because homo-sapiens are the most adaptable creatures to evolve - we just change firmware (culture) and live on. Look at homo-sapiens living in the artic and in the deseart, near the sea and at high altitudes. There's a good probability that some humans would survive just about any change, and become the new remnant that goes on to populate the new world with a new species, and we will all just be areheological remains and vague story in their bibles.
Why any rationally thinking country would want to be at the mercy of a foreign owned commercial entity is beyond me.
That's why they (those dependant on foreign owned resources, like the US on Arabian (turm)oil) keep clamouring for 'globalism and free trade', and all 'isolationists' are invaded and plundered.
we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
It's kinda like talking with any politician, since M$ft wants to compete with Google they have to disagree at some level, even if they're trying to do the same things. It's like asking Ted Kennedy what he thinks about Bush's plan for, whatever, helping little children. Whatever the Bush plan is, Ted's gotta disagree with it, that's how the game is played.
That is, even if Gates secretely admired google's plan and slogan and is competing out of jealousy and fear of losing market and customer brand name recognition, he must try to publically discredit google somehow. Even if he thinks they're doing all the right things, he has to discredit it somehow, they're taking people's freedom away, etc. Unfortunately, when the PC Pope speaks, too many listen.
Guess Bill's part of the antidisenplatformization movement.
Thought the name sounded familiar - here's my copy of Innovation-Cubed, Silicon Graphics magazine, from 1997 presenting "Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and the future of the 3D Web". The mag also had some neat 3D glasses and photos from the mars sojourner rover.
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Tesla, you're fired. --Thomas Edison
If people *can* steal something, they will. The honor system doesn't work. In the old days of vinyl and open reel tapes, sure people could still copy the media, but the distribution network did not exist. Then, if you started selling and advertising pirated media, you ran a big risk of being discovered and shut down. Today, it's nearly trivial to rip a cd or dvd and post a torrent and let anybody with access to google find and download it. They just can't allow that to happen and still expect to recover the costs of producing content worth recording, let along make big bucks doing it.
Mod me troll but that what I really think. DRM will be a fact of life someday, and customers will either go along or listen to scratchy old albums of "Uriah Heep" while everybody else is enjoying "Sexcapades: 2010!".
You need one of these.
where do the limits go.
The lawyer pulls the curtains, sweeps the room for bugs, then asks in a low voice, "Where do you want the limits to go?"
SCO's OpenServer and TelSoft Solutions' MegaCall Combine to Meet the Call Processing Needs of Los Angeles County
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems, today announced that Los Angeles County will use SCO OpenServer as a platform for TelSoft's MegaCall turnkey call accounting and tracking system, ending the county's exhaustive search for a solution. TelSoft Solutions is a leading provider of call accounting and billing services for organizations of any size.
LINDON, Utah, Oct. 19
With 88 cities and 28 percent of all California residents, Los Angeles County is the largest county in the U.S. It requires an enterprise-level call-tracking system on a highly fault-tolerant application platform. MegaCall and OpenServer met this rigorous requirement among many other requirements, and will be implemented in more than 125 county locations.
"SCO has been a popular platform in the telecom industry for decades, providing platforms for companies such as: Lucent, Avaya, Siemens, Comverse and many others," said Alan Raymond, Vice President of Americas Sales, The SCO Group, Inc. "SCO's interoperability with other operating systems and adaptability to fit the server needs of any businesses also makes OpenServer a valuable addition to large corporations who utilize the MegaCall system."
On day zero, God thought, "Well, that universe isn't going to create itself".
But this book is Chief Security Officer handbook
Must be Chief Information Security Officer - otherwise you'd be in charge of the night watchman as well. Of course we could make it the Chief Information Security and Confidentiality Officer.
like a $500 power cord
Lets just say they've been "open sourced". 1160 people liberated, people want to be free.
But not me, I'm expensive.
are these
Maybe he was trying to say "I would DEFIANTLY download" TV episodes, even if they were illegal.
'back'? When did Microsoft ever have the search space? It's just another case of tech-envy and strong arm attempts at market takeover by trying to leverage their pc advantage, just like they always do, playing catch-up (like they did with gui windowing, internetworking, media, etc).
Now any woman that wants to have my baby will have to purchase a license as well as my normal 'stud fee'.
I call it the "videophone" effect, where a video extention of an audio system is posited as the 'future', and has been in action since 1927 where a Videophone was potrayed in the futuristic silent movie, "Metropolis". The dustbin of technology history is filled with failed attempts at videophones etc. Conference calls are useful to business, Video Conferencing, except for pr0n or showing slides, is just staring at blurry suits on a big screen.
When your goal is maximizing earnings and shareholder profites other priorities shift about that. If it's more profitable to support broad patents, that's what they'll do. If it's more profitable to oppose them, ditto. That's why politicians are so often caught speaking out both sides of their mouth, their stated views can change in persuit of their hidden agenda.
published this week in theregister.co.uk , But it's a very phony war. The MPAA is only too happy to play the cartoon role the techno utopians have created for them, in a narrative dominated by fear, domination and control. Like small children playing a game of ghost, they've succeeded only in frightening the bejesus out of each other.
And this thoroughly dishonest debate - you could call it the artistic versus the autistic - is lopsided to begin with. It's Jack, not Larry, who has Sin City and Mean Streets. But only by taking the long view can you see how irrelevant both of their phony stances really are.
nothing is ultimate but this one is a pretty good theatre for the ultimate home theatre PC.
Does it ever occur to people that "world hunger" is a necessary check on population? That is to say, should some brilliant inventor creating an infinite food supply, won't the population grow, what with having no predators and the usual sex drive, untill we're standing shoulder to shoulder with the accompanying housing, sanitation, employment, etc etc issues? IOW, wouldn't it be better to somehow deal with people who create offspring indiscriminately with no ability to properly take care of them, where they become a problem to everyone else? Why should those who properly take care of their own family be burdened with the problems of others in the name of some naive, impractical "end world hunger" utopian dream?
because homo-sapiens are the most adaptable creatures to evolve - we just change firmware (culture) and live on. Look at homo-sapiens living in the artic and in the deseart, near the sea and at high altitudes. There's a good probability that some humans would survive just about any change, and become the new remnant that goes on to populate the new world with a new species, and we will all just be areheological remains and vague story in their bibles.
Why any rationally thinking country would want to be at the mercy of a foreign owned commercial entity is beyond me.
That's why they (those dependant on foreign owned resources, like the US on Arabian (turm)oil) keep clamouring for 'globalism and free trade', and all 'isolationists' are invaded and plundered.
Current Fortune Cookie: Danger! Dragon in Flight!
No electronic village will be safe during these dark times.
and the next answer is that Blender has a pose mode.
we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
It's kinda like talking with any politician, since M$ft wants to compete with Google they have to disagree at some level, even if they're trying to do the same things. It's like asking Ted Kennedy what he thinks about Bush's plan for, whatever, helping little children. Whatever the Bush plan is, Ted's gotta disagree with it, that's how the game is played.
That is, even if Gates secretely admired google's plan and slogan and is competing out of jealousy and fear of losing market and customer brand name recognition, he must try to publically discredit google somehow. Even if he thinks they're doing all the right things, he has to discredit it somehow, they're taking people's freedom away, etc. Unfortunately, when the PC Pope speaks, too many listen.
Guess Bill's part of the antidisenplatformization movement.
Thought the name sounded familiar - here's my copy of Innovation-Cubed, Silicon Graphics magazine, from 1997 presenting "Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and the future of the 3D Web". The mag also had some neat 3D glasses and photos from the mars sojourner rover.
John Adams was president in 1978?
;)
try 1798