In a library you have one purchased copy. You have one person checking it out at a time. Its truly 'borrowing'. You dont have concurrent 'non paying' users like is being proposed by google.
You and three friends walk into your local library, pick up a book, set it on the table, and all four of you begin reading it simultaneously, turning the page only when all four of you are done. Think the librarian will rush over and throw you all out?
Not unless you smell bad or are naked or something.
Is it in their job description to throw you out if you crap on the floor? If you were the head librarian, and people were crapping on the floor every day, and instead of throwing them out you continually stated that crapping on the floor was their first amendment right and you would not enforce the policy against it, would you expect to be fired?
The librarian doesn't own the library; he just works there. His job is to enforce the policies of his employers. If he refuses, he gets fired. If he has a moral objection to those policies, then he should rightly refuse to enforce them, but he should expect to be fired for it. Indeed, he should welcome it.
If their costs go down, they make more profit, and if their costs go up they make less.
See the item on your invoice labelled "fuel surcharge"? That goes up when fuel prices go up. I know this for certain; I am one of six people in the company who load the software patches for that project. (Well, actually, we just shifted teams around and soon I won't be doing that anymore, and there will be more like 12 people who do, but still.)
Oh, and I'll save you all time; I ain't commenting on my personal opinion about this issue. Too many people here know I work for the company, especially since I just admitted it.
Look, I'm an atheist and don't believe in Intelligent Design, but dismissing it as something that's only believed in by "conservative Christians" is a subtle attempt to imply that no scientists believe in God, and that's simply not true.
It's practically a two-word summation of Einstein's religious beliefs, and a lot of living scientists have beliefs that are in line with the basic idea of Intelligent Design, which is simply:
Evolution is how things work in the universe, because God made it that way.
I don't subscribe to that position, but it's hardly a radical one.
Is it just me, or is anybody else concerned about the fact that France is simultaneously trying to all but outlaw Islam, and building a fusion reactor?
If you want to abolish parties, you'll need to repeal the First Amendment, since it protects the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to freely express themselves. I.E., form political parties, and talk about them.
No, yellow means "proceed with caution" / "be ready to stop".
You're probably going to be very angry when you get that ticket. In every state in which I've ever had a driver's license, if you can stop at the yellow and don't, it's the exact same charge as if the light had been red. The only difference is that if you're going the speed limit when the light turns yellow and you can't safely stop, you don't have to stop. If a person at your distance from the light and going the speed limit (or the maximum speed consistent with local conditions, whichever is lower) could stop, it's a red light, legally.
The Nazi's created a giant interventionist government but it worked hand in hand with giant corporations and industrialists much like today's Republican party.
Such as George Soros.
Today's neo con Republicans are also big fans of aggressive warfare, you know unilaterally invading countries who haven't attacked you under false pretenses, like Nazi Germany.
I define "right" as "the auditors say I did it right, and we all get a bonus". You may feel free to define it as "this is impossible to comply with so I won't even try". Be sure to let us know what company you work for, though, so we can all sell short.
Boo hoo, wah wah, we had to enforce good security policies, and we had crappy software that wasn't up to the task, and it made our job HARD.
That's why they passed the law; because without it, some people don't want to do their jobs, and data gets pilfered because nobody has any consequences.
It was a pain in the ass here, too; but it finally allowed those of us who wanted to do things right to get them shoved through the "security Luddites" who wanted to be able to telnet into boxes as root instead of SSHing in and using sudo.
I've never done that, but just last week I typed "grep ###### *" (where ###### was an employee number, and I was in a crucial configuration directory for our single-sign-on solution) and hit enter, only to realize I'd typed "rm" instead of "grep"...
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In a library you have one purchased copy. You have one person checking it out at a time. Its truly 'borrowing'. You dont have concurrent 'non paying' users like is being proposed by google.
You and three friends walk into your local library, pick up a book, set it on the table, and all four of you begin reading it simultaneously, turning the page only when all four of you are done. Think the librarian will rush over and throw you all out?
Not unless you smell bad or are naked or something.
Is it in their job description to throw you out if you crap on the floor? If you were the head librarian, and people were crapping on the floor every day, and instead of throwing them out you continually stated that crapping on the floor was their first amendment right and you would not enforce the policy against it, would you expect to be fired?
The librarian doesn't own the library; he just works there. His job is to enforce the policies of his employers. If he refuses, he gets fired. If he has a moral objection to those policies, then he should rightly refuse to enforce them, but he should expect to be fired for it. Indeed, he should welcome it.
If their costs go down, they make more profit, and if their costs go up they make less.
See the item on your invoice labelled "fuel surcharge"? That goes up when fuel prices go up. I know this for certain; I am one of six people in the company who load the software patches for that project. (Well, actually, we just shifted teams around and soon I won't be doing that anymore, and there will be more like 12 people who do, but still.)
Oh, and I'll save you all time; I ain't commenting on my personal opinion about this issue. Too many people here know I work for the company, especially since I just admitted it.
Look, I'm an atheist and don't believe in Intelligent Design, but dismissing it as something that's only believed in by "conservative Christians" is a subtle attempt to imply that no scientists believe in God, and that's simply not true.
It's practically a two-word summation of Einstein's religious beliefs, and a lot of living scientists have beliefs that are in line with the basic idea of Intelligent Design, which is simply:
Evolution is how things work in the universe, because God made it that way.
I don't subscribe to that position, but it's hardly a radical one.
There's also the fact that they sold rights to another company, which makes money off the thing.
Suddenly giving away what they paid for would put them out of business.
What has you chained to your firewall?
Common sense. The fact that you've implemented a layer of security doesn't eliminate the need for another layer.
Finally found somebody to buy to RAISE their Evil Quotient.
Is it just me, or is anybody else concerned about the fact that France is simultaneously trying to all but outlaw Islam, and building a fusion reactor?
Yeah, except that a parsec is over three LIGHT YEARS. A Cessna could fly closer to a black hole than that.
I suppose next you'll argue that another part of that compensation is staplers and boxes of printer paper.
The best thing about Episode III for me was discovering just how incredibly powerful Leia is in the force.
I mean, she learned that her mother was kind but sad, in the five seconds she lived after Leia's birth! Amazing!
If you want to abolish parties, you'll need to repeal the First Amendment, since it protects the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to freely express themselves. I.E., form political parties, and talk about them.
Fidel, you're such a tease; how are they going to convict you in a Cuban court, much less extract you from the Buena Vista Social Club?
We'll just declare him to have been arrested under the PATRIOT Act and shipped to Cuba.
You may want to try Austria (and that's changing) or some of those strange islands with funny fiduciary policies.
Vermont?
No, yellow means "proceed with caution" / "be ready to stop".
You're probably going to be very angry when you get that ticket. In every state in which I've ever had a driver's license, if you can stop at the yellow and don't, it's the exact same charge as if the light had been red. The only difference is that if you're going the speed limit when the light turns yellow and you can't safely stop, you don't have to stop. If a person at your distance from the light and going the speed limit (or the maximum speed consistent with local conditions, whichever is lower) could stop, it's a red light, legally.
The Nazi's created a giant interventionist government but it worked hand in hand with giant corporations and industrialists much like today's Republican party.
Such as George Soros.
Today's neo con Republicans are also big fans of aggressive warfare, you know unilaterally invading countries who haven't attacked you under false pretenses, like Nazi Germany.
Such as Bosnia.
Without a doubt, Gentoo has set itself apart from every other distro out there.
Yeah, all the people who don't jump on bandwagons are using it.
We need an entire Slashdot story for something that's repeated daily on every IRC network, and documented all over the net?
This should have been a Geekleak and/or bash.org submission, not Slashdot.
No, they used a visual cue to virtually remove the metaphor so that Americans could understand it.
Well what the hell good is a movie that the audience doesn't understand? If you want the book, read the friggin' book.
I define "right" as "the auditors say I did it right, and we all get a bonus". You may feel free to define it as "this is impossible to comply with so I won't even try". Be sure to let us know what company you work for, though, so we can all sell short.
Meanwhile, Douglas Adams participated in this design; at least in the early revisions.
I think marvin was talking about relative processing power, not lamenting having a big head.
And God forbid they use a visual cue to reinforce a metaphor.
Boo hoo, wah wah, we had to enforce good security policies, and we had crappy software that wasn't up to the task, and it made our job HARD.
That's why they passed the law; because without it, some people don't want to do their jobs, and data gets pilfered because nobody has any consequences.
It was a pain in the ass here, too; but it finally allowed those of us who wanted to do things right to get them shoved through the "security Luddites" who wanted to be able to telnet into boxes as root instead of SSHing in and using sudo.
I've never done that, but just last week I typed "grep ###### *" (where ###### was an employee number, and I was in a crucial configuration directory for our single-sign-on solution) and hit enter, only to realize I'd typed "rm" instead of "grep"...
Thank goodness for backups.
I answered something similar to the SPAM that TrekUnited sent me.