---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <n7van4$p23$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 07:39:16 -0000 (UTC) From: David Clayton <dc33box-cdt@yahoo.com.au> Subject: Re: AT&T chooses Ubuntu Linux over Microsoft Windows On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:58:52 +0000, Clarence Dold wrote: ....... > Too bad Novell and SCO drove The One True Unix into the ground. > > --- > Clarence A Dold - Santa Rosa, CA, USA GPS: 38.47,-122.65 > > ***** Moderator's Note ***** ...... > SCO, OTOH, threatened to sue everyone that didn't pay them a "license" > fee for a product they didn't own. > > Bill Horne Moderator That "SCO" was just a shell bought out by greedy rip-off merchants and barely resembled the company that controlled the small server Unix market when they were still a true software company. I used to install SCO Unix and Open Server systems back in the 1990's for systems that controlled Nortel switches and it was great software (even if I hated feeding in 40+ floppy disks in the pre-CD era). -- Regards, David. David Clayton, e-mail: dc33box-cdt@yahoo.com.au Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <78D901FE-6BAC-40CF-B1B2-179C2D989B84@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:51:59 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: As More Pay by Smartphone, Banks Scramble to Keep Up A millennial-led shift to digital financial services could upend the consumer banking industry. Ryan Craine hates carrying cash and finds writing checks to be a headache. He doesn't do much of either anymore - he mostly uses his smartphone to pay for things. Mr. Craine, a 28-year-old tech support worker in Washington, D.C., uses Apple Pay at the stores and restaurants that accept it. About 20 times a month, he turns to Venmo, a digital wallet for transferring money from one person to another, to pay his share of rent, meals, groceries and utility bills. To refinance his student loans last year, he went to an online lending start-up, Earnest. http://www.nytimes.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <1C259647-C017-415C-A02D-A138C0F91EBA@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:52:07 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Netflix's Opaque Disruption Annoys Rivals on TV Netflix's refusal to disclose ratings has led to mounting frustration from traditional television industry executives. PASADENA, Calif. - Tensions between Netflix and traditional television networks escalated this weekend after industry executives expressed mounting frustration over Netflix's refusal to disclose ratings. At a Television Critics Association event, NBC Universal introduced viewership figures last Wednesday provided by an outside firm that suggested several of Netflix's shows fall in line with broadcast and cable shows, implying that traditional television remains vibrant. On Saturday, John Landgraf, the chief executive of the cable network FX, picked up the theme, saying it was "ridiculous" that Netflix did not release viewership numbers. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/business/media/disruption-by-netflix-irks-tv-foes.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160124031908.GA22647@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:19:08 -0500 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom.csail.mit.edu> Subject: Western Union History of Technical Progress Thanks to Jim Haynes, we have added an important document to our archives: The Western Union Telegraph Corporation History of Technical Progress, Volumes 1 & 2 These two volumes are contained in PDF files on the telecom-digest server: http://telecom-digest.org/wutechprogress/ The files are large: about 250 MB each, so please try to download them during off hours. On behalf of the readers, I thank Jim for his contribution. Bill Horne -- Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <barmar-9DB772.22243423012016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:24:34 -0500 From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Netflix's Opaque Disruption Annoys Rivals on TV In article <1C259647-C017-415C-A02D-A138C0F91EBA@roscom.com>, Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote: > Saturday, John Landgraf, the chief executive of the cable network FX, > picked up the theme, saying it was "ridiculous" that Netflix did not > release viewership numbers. Why does ANYONE have to release viewership numbers? The broadcast networks don't have the technical ability to measure their audiences directly, like Netflix can, so they need to use a third party like Nielsen. My guess is that they could have gotten the data exclusively (along with it being shared with advertisers, who are the ones that really care), but Nielsen would have charged much more for that; so Nielsen releases the data to the public, and the networks/advertisers get to use it as well. Netflix has no need to be a part of this, since they don't have advertisers. If the traditional networks want to engage in a pissing contest based on these ratings, let them. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 24 Jan 2016