Second, during Bush's speech, when he referred to the current legislation proposed by the Ashcroft, the Supreme Court justices did not join the crowd and stand or applaud.
They're not supposed to applaud for speeches, it would compromise the appearance of objectivity of the Court. Don't read anything into it.
We had those too... but they kept getting unplugged by annoyed students. It didn't take too long for some engineers to climb the roof and cover the receiver dish with foil. That took CTN off-air for about a week. One of the physics profs suggested coating the dish with a couple of inches of paraffin.
The school I just graduated from considered using it (the IDIOT running the IS department will buy anything if she gets a glossy brochure for it). Campus Pipeline uses a single login system to allow access to everything... you login once and you can read your email, register for classes, and look at your grades.
First, if you leave yourself logged in on a shared computer after checking your email, someone else could come along and screw with all your other personal information, too.
Second, the school is completely dependent on the company to maintain confidentiality of information. Who can say for sure that Campus Pipeline doesn't, for example, forward a list of students with high GPA to Who's Who?
The fact that it's full of frames, java, and way too many graphics makes it useless on a modem connection, too. Forget trying to use it over a modem when you're home on a break. I'll take SSH. Sucking in all those ads would have made it almost impossible to support 5000 students on my school's single T1 (which is already saturated in large part due to Napster, according to our network analysis). Of course, we were talking about spending the $100,000 for the ad-free version.
Unfortunately, these types of people are the last to want to get into the sewers of politics.
I dunno... I've seen a lot of celebrities embracing political causes, and I seem to remember a particular actor ending up in the White House... but I guess most of them never actually get around to running for office.
Thinking of how much the consumer would need to buy to play them...
That's why we still broadcast TV as chroma/luma, so all the old 1950's B&W units still work. It's the same reason FM stereo is transmitted L+R plus a 1/2 frequency impulse for an additional L-R (or R-L) component. Just filter below the stereo impulse and you get mono for all non-stereo FM receivers.
True, but most of us would still prefer to *have* a system administrator and someone else to fix the toilet, instead of eliminating those jobs and distributing the responsibilities amongst everyone else like the original poster suggested.
Do *you* want to be the one required to stay at work until everything's working perfectly again? I like my job. When the router blows up, I go home. The SAs are the ones who have to stick around until odd hours of the morning and fix it.
EMWIN is pretty cool. I used to use it back in my dark Windows days. You can even FTP the weather data files every 15 minutes or so, although they point out that the internet is slightly less reliable than the real-time satellite transmission. It would be really cool to have some basic Linux support that could be integrated into custom applications. --
It's not just that censorware is largely ineffective, but that taxpayers will fund the installation of it. If I'm going to pay for something like that, I want to be sure it's the most economical alternative, and that I can take a look under the hood before I buy it to be sure it does what the salesmen claim. I think the best alternative is to place all internet-connected machines in full public view, and only allow use by people who have signed a disclaimer and what-not.
If you aren't given licensed access to protected media, you are circumventing the measure. If there are no licensed tools available for Linux, then ipso facto you are violating the above provision if you are viewing CSS protected DVDs on Linux. In the US. Possibly elsewhere.
...and if you are attempting to play it on your *licensed* DVD player that came with *licensed* Windows DVD playback software, but you're running Linux... you're licensed, just lacking software that will run on your Linux machine.
This whole proposal is inherently flawed and another true recipe for disaster.
Yeah, it kinda reminds me of that education tax credit from last year ago that amounted to less than one percent of my college expenses, and cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Take a GS 4 job with uncle Sam and make 30K on the high end, or
Actually, if you look in the right places, EE and CS majors can start at GS12-GS14, but then again, with this proposal you'd probably have to agree to work at GS4 for 3 years to repay it.
Some students aren't fit for a high tech education and they should be weeded out of the program.
I agree completely. I'm graduating in less than 4 months, and prospective employers will respect my degree because they know I had to work hard for it. I have seen fellow students treating college like high school with bigger drinking parties, and being complete jerks in class because they had no dedication. They usually change majors or transfer to community colleges after the first year when they get their 1.7 GPA and lose their scholarships. Of course, that doesn't take care of the ones whose parents can afford to cover their tuition and new car payments indefinitely while they score 10 percent on final exams and retake classes 3-4 times.
'Fraid not. If you look around on the web you'll find all sorts of instructions for modifying the scanners you can buy today so they'll no longer specifically *block* various telephony frequencies (specifically 800 MHz, 900 MHz, and 1900 MHz, IIRC). The FCC definitely doesn't want you listening to analog cellular, and a variety of other things, too.
Somebody feel free to correct me if I'm way off base
To live up to the name, will there will be a 30% chance any given bottle of this stuff is methanol instead of ethanol? And people will expect that and pay money for it anyway?
The question I was attempting to raise is an ethical one, not a legal one, and I'm not commenting on DoJ rulings or whether Microsoft has any monopolies.
Regardless of law, is it ethical to subsidize development of a program designed to compete directly with another company's primary product with the cost of the operating system on which they both run? There is no free lunch. All NT Server licensees are paying for the development of the extra little widgets that ship with it, whether they use them or pay more money for competitive products.
The obvious ethical question being: Is bundling Netshow free with NT Server (which costs more than NT workstation because its license allows you to 'serve') tantamount to forcing users to buy Netshow even if they would rather buy RealServer?
This sounds too much like Micros~1's arguments for using IIS. IMHO this is the most blatant anti-competitiveness of M$, and yet, so few people outside the technical circles even think about it.
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Here's a good piece on the battle this bill faces in the Senate. Those of us in the broadband industry don't expect T-D to survive.
Second, during Bush's speech, when he referred to the current legislation proposed by the Ashcroft, the Supreme Court justices did not join the crowd and stand or applaud.
They're not supposed to applaud for speeches, it would compromise the appearance of objectivity of the Court. Don't read anything into it.
1 is generally not considered prime because it only has one factor.
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The funny thing about natural gas is that they actually burn it off at oil wells.
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We had those too... but they kept getting unplugged by annoyed students. It didn't take too long for some engineers to climb the roof and cover the receiver dish with foil. That took CTN off-air for about a week. One of the physics profs suggested coating the dish with a couple of inches of paraffin.
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The school I just graduated from considered using it (the IDIOT running the IS department will buy anything if she gets a glossy brochure for it). Campus Pipeline uses a single login system to allow access to everything... you login once and you can read your email, register for classes, and look at your grades.
First, if you leave yourself logged in on a shared computer after checking your email, someone else could come along and screw with all your other personal information, too.
Second, the school is completely dependent on the company to maintain confidentiality of information. Who can say for sure that Campus Pipeline doesn't, for example, forward a list of students with high GPA to Who's Who?
The fact that it's full of frames, java, and way too many graphics makes it useless on a modem connection, too. Forget trying to use it over a modem when you're home on a break. I'll take SSH. Sucking in all those ads would have made it almost impossible to support 5000 students on my school's single T1 (which is already saturated in large part due to Napster, according to our network analysis). Of course, we were talking about spending the $100,000 for the ad-free version.
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Unfortunately, these types of people are the last to want to get into the sewers of politics.
I dunno... I've seen a lot of celebrities embracing political causes, and I seem to remember a particular actor ending up in the White House... but I guess most of them never actually get around to running for office.
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Thinking of how much the consumer would need to buy to play them...
That's why we still broadcast TV as chroma/luma, so all the old 1950's B&W units still work. It's the same reason FM stereo is transmitted L+R plus a 1/2 frequency impulse for an additional L-R (or R-L) component. Just filter below the stereo impulse and you get mono for all non-stereo FM receivers.
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True, but most of us would still prefer to *have* a system administrator and someone else to fix the toilet, instead of eliminating those jobs and distributing the responsibilities amongst everyone else like the original poster suggested.
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10Brett-T
Do *you* want to be the one required to stay at work until everything's working perfectly again? I like my job. When the router blows up, I go home. The SAs are the ones who have to stick around until odd hours of the morning and fix it.
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EMWIN is pretty cool. I used to use it back in my dark Windows days. You can even FTP the weather data files every 15 minutes or so, although they point out that the internet is slightly less reliable than the real-time satellite transmission. It would be really cool to have some basic Linux support that could be integrated into custom applications.
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That's strange. I went to high school with that guy.
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It's not just that censorware is largely ineffective, but that taxpayers will fund the installation of it. If I'm going to pay for something like that, I want to be sure it's the most economical alternative, and that I can take a look under the hood before I buy it to be sure it does what the salesmen claim.
I think the best alternative is to place all internet-connected machines in full public view, and only allow use by people who have signed a disclaimer and what-not.
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Dude! SAM was awesome! I was just trying to remember the name of it...
If you aren't given licensed access to protected media, you are circumventing the measure. If there are no licensed tools available for Linux, then ipso facto you are violating the above provision if you are viewing CSS protected DVDs on Linux. In the US. Possibly elsewhere.
...and if you are attempting to play it on your *licensed* DVD player that came with *licensed* Windows DVD playback software, but you're running Linux... you're licensed, just lacking software that will run on your Linux machine.
This whole proposal is inherently flawed and another true recipe for disaster.
Yeah, it kinda reminds me of that education tax credit from last year ago that amounted to less than one percent of my college expenses, and cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Take a GS 4 job with uncle Sam and make 30K on the high end, or
Actually, if you look in the right places, EE and CS majors can start at GS12-GS14, but then again, with this proposal you'd probably have to agree to work at GS4 for 3 years to repay it.
Some students aren't fit for a high tech education and they should be weeded out of the program.
I agree completely. I'm graduating in less than 4 months, and prospective employers will respect my degree because they know I had to work hard for it. I have seen fellow students treating college like high school with bigger drinking parties, and being complete jerks in class because they had no dedication. They usually change majors or transfer to community colleges after the first year when they get their 1.7 GPA and lose their scholarships. Of course, that doesn't take care of the ones whose parents can afford to cover their tuition and new car payments indefinitely while they score 10 percent on final exams and retake classes 3-4 times.
Buy several boxes ($400 worth) of your favorite Linux distro and give them to unconverted friends.
'Fraid not. If you look around on the web you'll find all sorts of instructions for modifying the scanners you can buy today so they'll no longer specifically *block* various telephony frequencies (specifically 800 MHz, 900 MHz, and 1900 MHz, IIRC). The FCC definitely doesn't want you listening to analog cellular, and a variety of other things, too.
Somebody feel free to correct me if I'm way off base
To live up to the name, will there will be a 30% chance any given bottle of this stuff is methanol instead of ethanol? And people will expect that and pay money for it anyway?
Now the Linux server I use for my websites and mail (not at work!) is staying up....
Yeah, the only time we take WGZ.(org|com) offline is when our provider folds or sells out and forgets they have customers.
The question I was attempting to raise is an ethical one, not a legal one, and I'm not commenting on DoJ rulings or whether Microsoft has any monopolies.
Regardless of law, is it ethical to subsidize development of a program designed to compete directly with another company's primary product with the cost of the operating system on which they both run? There is no free lunch. All NT Server licensees are paying for the development of the extra little widgets that ship with it, whether they use them or pay more money for competitive products.
The obvious ethical question being:
Is bundling Netshow free with NT Server (which costs more than NT workstation because its license allows you to 'serve') tantamount to forcing users to buy Netshow even if they would rather buy RealServer?
This sounds too much like Micros~1's arguments for using IIS. IMHO this is the most blatant anti-competitiveness of M$, and yet, so few people outside the technical circles even think about it.
And the other links mentioned in comment #71:
Windows Overwrites Linux Boot Manager
Removing the Linux LILO Boot Manager
http://winpatch.hypermart.net/kb.pl?q24 7804
It's cached. Just change the article number for other Knowledge Base articles.