No, I don't have any adds on my clothing. I also don't agree with the consumerism that you are implying. That doesn't mean I can't be part of a healthy and cooperative society.
I didn't take the morally bankrupt way out, I have come to the conclusion that I am part of society and need to do my part to make it better for everyone. I also don't believe that anyone can live outside of society.
If the gov't needs extra monitoring to provide better services, maybe the cost is worthwhile and I'm willing to pitch in.
I totally agree with you on the tracking of health benefits, but, it is something that states and private organization already do.
My health benefits are tracked by every insurance I've subscribed to and I believe that the current laws make it difficult, not impossible or cheap, for the gov't to obtain. Which is as it should be.
I have relatives who are on state welfare and disability and know for a fact that gov't agencies are tracking their current health status. I would like to think that the same privacy rules for health care would apply, but I'm sure that it's much easier and cheaper for the gov't to their info than mine.
The upside to this is that I know my relatives are receiving the critical care required and I don't have to foot the entire bill. They also can be assured that the gov't can make a projection of how much money will need to allocated in the future.
I fully support a person's right to privacy and their desire to not participate in society, however, getting government handouts and not participating in society are mutually exclusive.
Why not track their benefits? The gov't and private agencies track all of my benefits: SS benefits, income tax, disability insurance, health care status. By tracking the "benefits" the homeless recieve, the gov't will be able to provide better care and make better plans and budgets thereby saving the taxpayer money.
If they really want to live "off the grid" and not participate in society, screw 'em. They shouldn't get any gov't supplied and organized benefits from my taxes.
I've chosen to participate in society and will not support an individual who wants to live outside society, they're on their own.
As to the Secret Service getting the info at their own discretion, I'm against that.
I've been reading everything about this SCO lawsuit against the world and I've finally come to the conclusion that I don't care what SCO does.
I only use Linux at home for personal projects like hosting my family web site, surfing the web, sending e-mail and supporting OSS projects. According to SCO, since all my activity is non-commercial, I don't need a license.
Now if I were supporting a commercial product like a TiVo (which I'm sure is using an older kernel anyway), Zaurus or SELLING a distribution, I'd either sue SCO right back or buy a license. If I didn't have the money for either of those options, then I'd be switching to QNX or FreeBSD.
Anybody who supports OSS software like myself or puts together a non-commercial distribution should not be affected. After all, most of the people are in this for the love of programming. Making gobs of money from a fun side project would be cool, but that's not the point.
Let all the commercial entities like IBM, RedHat, TiVo, Sharp and SCO sue each other over licenses and contracts. Really, how much sympathy do you think I'll have for IBM whether they win or lose. Sure, corporate acceptance of Linux will help push it more into the mainstream, but this doesn't matter to me either. At the end of the day, I'll still be using Linux and I'll never pay a dime for a license.
Sure that could be part of their EULA, but this will bring up the age old debate, who really owns the software after it is sold? What rights does the user have when running it?
This could become really tricky for Microsoft and Mono when and if.NET starts to become big. Can Microsoft prohibit.NET applications from running on non-MS OS's? It seems rather foolish for them to start pulling stuff like this if they plan on inplementing their CLR on multiple platforms.
Also, it could be the case that the libraries used by VFP are not freely redistributable to other machines unless that machine contains a licensed version of VFP. Yes, I read the summary article, but that point was still not clear.
As for Open Source projects, I think most developers would be happy to see MS using their projects as long as they released any modified source code. Imagine that a MS operating system release with only Open Source software on top of the OS.
After Noah's Ark landed, he stood by as the animals left. "Go forth and multiply", he would say as the pairs of animals passed by.
A few days later, a pair snakes returned and complained to Noah that they couldn't reproduce. Noah said to his son, "Go find a tree, cut it down and make a pair of tables for these snakes."
The snakes accepted the tables with thanks and left. Noah's son was confused and asked how that would help. Noah replied, "My son, adders can't multiply without log tables."
They DO list ARQ1's on ebay, that's where I bought mine. They usually fetch somewhere around $450-600. You could also make a post on boards.request.com, many of the ARQ1 survivors like to purchase spare machines.
Once upon a time there was a machine called the AudioRequest ARQ1 that did everything but the burning and had support for visualizations. I'm certain you could have hacked it to add a CD-R drive, too. All for under $800. ThinkGeek once carried them, but the company that made them decided to upgrade to the high-end business and now sells a rack-mount device for triple the price. So sad, because it was a much better device and could even run Linux.
See the official announcement here
http://www.request.com/CEOLetter.html
As I much as I can't stand Microsoft, I am going to go out and buy as much stock as possible. This is one of the absolutely best ideas for a revenue stream ever! It's like multi-level marketing to the Nth degree. Windows/Microsoft becomes the middleman in every single transaction that passes through their approved vendor lists. Think of the potential in the number of transactions, a penny per web search, a nickel per roll of film, a dollar for every airline ticket, hotel room or car rental and that's just the beginning. The income potential here is absolutely enormous.
Of course you don't know what the code is supposed to do, the code is just an example. That's the problem using contrived code as an example; they provide no context to explain what the code is supposed to do.
If I were working on a project and saw some stray code with cryptic variables such as x and y being assigned to for no apparent reason, I would question whoever wrote the code.
Code from the above example should REQUIRE some comments explaining what x and y are and why they are being changed.
Maybe you should read the entire article. They go on to say that the "Ch. 1 platform also supports an internal hard disk option, presumably to add the feature of video recording and storage." It's not a guarantee for video recording support, but maybe they're not into making vaporware statements. With flash memory you'll probably be allowed to make the upgrade if it's released.
What really bugs me about this, and should probably really make the French angry is that this tax is going on hard drives, too. The article says HDD will be taxed from US$86-144, and DVD-RAM about US$8.29. I'm guessing a CD-ROM would be around US$1-2. I don't how many HDD the French buy, but record companies must be excited about this.
If I lived in France, you can bet my hard drive would be filled with Metallica MP3's.
Please read the article. AOL and Time Warner are already close to finalizing deals with EarthLink and Juno Online, which, according to the article are the number 2 and 3 national ISP's, AOL being number 1. So now they're also courting number 4 (or whatever rank Microsoft holds). How is this a monopoly?
TBS Superstation made a movie called "Fatal Error". Talk about really bad movies. The plot is a computer virus that has mutated to a carbon-based virus and is killing people. It's on this week I think. Check it out for a few laughs.
When we talk about the "What if so-and-so gets hit by a bus?" question, I think the point is who will provide the vision, leadership and technical skills to keep Linux a stable, well-built OS. It's not about who understands how the kernel works and what each line of code does. There are many people who know code are have the capability to understand it, but, do they have the unique skills to be the driving force behind the kernel.
I'd like to see Kasparov against a distributed chess program ala distributed.net. Maybe we could get Deep Blue out of retirement for a match against a world-wide distributed chess program.
I think this is a great system, better than grafitti. My problem is with the layout. I would rather have all the letters alphabetical and the numbers along one side. That way if I have to hunt and peck, it's so much easier because I know where everything should be.
That's same problem I have with ultra small keyboards. Once I can't touch type, I'd rather just have an alphabetical layout because my eyes don't know where the keys are, only my fingers do.
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Troll, but I'll bite.
No, I don't have any adds on my clothing. I also don't agree with the consumerism that you are implying. That doesn't mean I can't be part of a healthy and cooperative society.
I didn't take the morally bankrupt way out, I have come to the conclusion that I am part of society and need to do my part to make it better for everyone. I also don't believe that anyone can live outside of society.
If the gov't needs extra monitoring to provide better services, maybe the cost is worthwhile and I'm willing to pitch in.
Harry
I totally agree with you on the tracking of health benefits, but, it is something that states and private organization already do.
My health benefits are tracked by every insurance I've subscribed to and I believe that the current laws make it difficult, not impossible or cheap, for the gov't to obtain. Which is as it should be.
I have relatives who are on state welfare and disability and know for a fact that gov't agencies are tracking their current health status. I would like to think that the same privacy rules for health care would apply, but I'm sure that it's much easier and cheaper for the gov't to their info than mine.
The upside to this is that I know my relatives are receiving the critical care required and I don't have to foot the entire bill. They also can be assured that the gov't can make a projection of how much money will need to allocated in the future.
Harry
I fully support a person's right to privacy and their desire to not participate in society, however, getting government handouts and not participating in society are mutually exclusive.
Why not track their benefits? The gov't and private agencies track all of my benefits: SS benefits, income tax, disability insurance, health care status. By tracking the "benefits" the homeless recieve, the gov't will be able to provide better care and make better plans and budgets thereby saving the taxpayer money.
If they really want to live "off the grid" and not participate in society, screw 'em. They shouldn't get any gov't supplied and organized benefits from my taxes.
I've chosen to participate in society and will not support an individual who wants to live outside society, they're on their own.
As to the Secret Service getting the info at their own discretion, I'm against that.
Harry
I've been reading everything about this SCO lawsuit against the world and I've finally come to the conclusion that I don't care what SCO does.
I only use Linux at home for personal projects like hosting my family web site, surfing the web, sending e-mail and supporting OSS projects. According to SCO, since all my activity is non-commercial, I don't need a license.
Now if I were supporting a commercial product like a TiVo (which I'm sure is using an older kernel anyway), Zaurus or SELLING a distribution, I'd either sue SCO right back or buy a license. If I didn't have the money for either of those options, then I'd be switching to QNX or FreeBSD.
Anybody who supports OSS software like myself or puts together a non-commercial distribution should not be affected. After all, most of the people are in this for the love of programming. Making gobs of money from a fun side project would be cool, but that's not the point.
Let all the commercial entities like IBM, RedHat, TiVo, Sharp and SCO sue each other over licenses and contracts. Really, how much sympathy do you think I'll have for IBM whether they win or lose. Sure, corporate acceptance of Linux will help push it more into the mainstream, but this doesn't matter to me either. At the end of the day, I'll still be using Linux and I'll never pay a dime for a license.
Harry
Sure that could be part of their EULA, but this will bring up the age old debate, who really owns the software after it is sold? What rights does the user have when running it?
.NET starts to become big. Can Microsoft prohibit .NET applications from running on non-MS OS's? It seems rather foolish for them to start pulling stuff like this if they plan on inplementing their CLR on multiple platforms.
This could become really tricky for Microsoft and Mono when and if
Also, it could be the case that the libraries used by VFP are not freely redistributable to other machines unless that machine contains a licensed version of VFP. Yes, I read the summary article, but that point was still not clear.
As for Open Source projects, I think most developers would be happy to see MS using their projects as long as they released any modified source code. Imagine that a MS operating system release with only Open Source software on top of the OS.
Ob. Simpsons: Mmmmm... Free goo.
After Noah's Ark landed, he stood by as the animals left. "Go forth and multiply", he would say as the pairs of animals passed by.
A few days later, a pair snakes returned and complained to Noah that they couldn't reproduce. Noah said to his son, "Go find a tree, cut it down and make a pair of tables for these snakes."
The snakes accepted the tables with thanks and left. Noah's son was confused and asked how that would help. Noah replied, "My son, adders can't multiply without log tables."
They DO list ARQ1's on ebay, that's where I bought mine. They usually fetch somewhere around $450-600. You could also make a post on boards.request.com, many of the ARQ1 survivors like to purchase spare machines.
-harry
The use of a laser to get a cat to move. is already patented. You may have to come up with a new idea.
-harry
There is a better story on the UA newspaper. And here is the link to research department. Not much here yet except for an animation.
Once upon a time there was a machine called the AudioRequest ARQ1 that did everything but the burning and had support for visualizations. I'm certain you could have hacked it to add a CD-R drive, too. All for under $800. ThinkGeek once carried them, but the company that made them decided to upgrade to the high-end business and now sells a rack-mount device for triple the price. So sad, because it was a much better device and could even run Linux.
See the official announcement here
http://www.request.com/CEOLetter.html
-harry
As I much as I can't stand Microsoft, I am going to go out and buy as much stock as possible. This is one of the absolutely best ideas for a revenue stream ever! It's like multi-level marketing to the Nth degree. Windows/Microsoft becomes the middleman in every single transaction that passes through their approved vendor lists. Think of the potential in the number of transactions, a penny per web search, a nickel per roll of film, a dollar for every airline ticket, hotel room or car rental and that's just the beginning. The income potential here is absolutely enormous.
Wow.
-harry
Of course you don't know what the code is supposed to do, the code is just an example. That's the problem using contrived code as an example; they provide no context to explain what the code is supposed to do.
If I were working on a project and saw some stray code with cryptic variables such as x and y being assigned to for no apparent reason, I would question whoever wrote the code.
Code from the above example should REQUIRE some comments explaining what x and y are and why they are being changed.
Maybe you should read the entire article. They go on to say that the "Ch. 1 platform also supports an internal hard disk option, presumably to add the feature of video recording and storage." It's not a guarantee for video recording support, but maybe they're not into making vaporware statements. With flash memory you'll probably be allowed to make the upgrade if it's released.
What really bugs me about this, and should probably really make the French angry is that this tax is going on hard drives, too. The article says HDD will be taxed from US$86-144, and DVD-RAM about US$8.29. I'm guessing a CD-ROM would be around US$1-2. I don't how many HDD the French buy, but record companies must be excited about this.
If I lived in France, you can bet my hard drive would be filled with Metallica MP3's.
Please read the article. AOL and Time Warner are already close to finalizing deals with EarthLink and Juno Online, which, according to the article are the number 2 and 3 national ISP's, AOL being number 1. So now they're also courting number 4 (or whatever rank Microsoft holds). How is this a monopoly?
The FAQ indicates there is already an open source implementation in the works.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uddi
-harry
Not to mention the note at the bottom that says,
"This is satire".
geez.
Then I'm sure RMS would want one, too. Probably :)
want it called GnuKBE though.
-harry
TBS Superstation made a movie called "Fatal
Error". Talk about really bad movies. The
plot is a computer virus that has mutated to
a carbon-based virus and is killing people.
It's on this week I think. Check it out for a
few laughs.
When we talk about the "What if so-and-so gets hit by a bus?" question, I think the point is who will provide the vision, leadership and technical skills to keep Linux a stable, well-built OS. It's not about who understands how the kernel works and what each line of code does. There are many people who know code are have the capability to understand it, but, do they have the unique skills to be the driving force behind the kernel.
-harry
I'd like to see Kasparov against a distributed chess program ala distributed.net. Maybe we could get Deep Blue out of retirement for a match against a world-wide distributed chess program.
Am I the only person in the world that finds no humor in this comic strip? I have never read a strip that even made me smile.
Every strip I read is an illustrated version of some computer joke, anecdote, urban legend or Dilbert cartoon that I've already read 10 times.
-harry
I think this is a great system, better than grafitti. My problem is with the layout. I would rather have all the letters alphabetical and the numbers along one side. That way if I have to hunt and peck, it's so much easier because I know where everything should be.
That's same problem I have with ultra small keyboards. Once I can't touch type, I'd rather just have an alphabetical layout because my eyes don't know where the keys are, only my fingers do.
-harry
No, you have to remember that all the features in Windows are really undocumented bugs. Of course it has more "features".
Seriously, he was really vague about that.
-harry