What is crippled about it? They have a distro, development tools, drivers for all the hardware. Hell, just port Gentoo to the sucker and store any large files over NFS on a PC.
Has anyone noticed on the Windows 2003 adds the very Indian looking gentleman placed next to the large "Do More With Less" slogan. I thought it a bit creepy. Especially on SlashDot.
If one person it ripped off, that's a tragedy. If one million people are ripped off, that a statistic.
I guess the only moral of the story here is that if you are going to rip people off, do it for a couple of million at a time, not a couple of hundred.
Though looking at what this guy managed to steal, $200 grand? Over 5 years that's $40k a year. And he is going to rot in jail for 6 years.
What a complete idiot.
If he had put a fraction of that brainpower used to scam people into LEGALLY scamming people he'd have made $200 million and not be facing any jail time at all. Look at Microsoft. One of the biggest companies in the world sells licenses to use software. Look at the RIAA. They pay artists peanuts to gouge consumers for recordings of them playing.
Well we all know he's seen things that you people wouldn't believe... Starships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Sea beams glistening in the dark... All these moments will be lost... like teardrops in the rain... Time to die.
Actually I'm waiting for a VDA - Vocal Digitial Assistant. Once you eliminate the screen, you can shrink the sucker to something that will fit in your ear. The unit would be a self-contained computing device with a wireless internet connection. Since it has an audio pickup, it could double as a mobile phone.
We already have people walking down the street looking posessed by talking to the air. The social stigma of holding a conversation with an inanimate object in public won't be a problem.
Heck, imagine V-mail. If you can't get someone live on the phone, have the computer take a dictation and formulate an email. I'm also forseeing folks who start to play back audio at an accellerated rate to save time. I already do that on our present Vmail system.
Of course, some information can only be presented optically. I propose a data terminal for those occasions. You simply hold it, or stand in front of it, and your VDA will display the images or video through the screen.
Since the unit is designed to talk on the internet, most of the brainwork will probably sit on the network. An "agent" would likely handle your business for you when you are "unplugged".
4. A redhead with an average build. She has a short temper, a very legalistic grammer parser. You can tell her anything, but if it is phrased incorrectly you have a whirling dervish on your hands. Also available in Italian.
Ouch I didn't realize that many moderators used OE.
But seriously folks, I've been fighting pitched battles to keep our place off of Outlook/OE and Exchange. For reasons technical, logistical, and financial.
One of the big claims that users have is "well, Outlook Express is built in. Why can't I use it?" Because
It has a nasty set of default values that clobber our IMAP server
Every email worm out there is designed to pull from it's address book.
It has a tendency to take a complete dump on your settings stored in your roaming profile
The address book has a habit of spontaneously combusting on our network.
That's why.
Now they no longer have the "It's built in" excuse.
That's like saying I only pay my sysadmin to backup some files, reset my password, post on slashdot, and forget to apply patches. hmmm... Then again, I guess some places do pay their sysadmins to do just that.
You do get internet access, but why not just become a Taoist? All the enlightenment, none of the dogma.
In any case you are correct. There is a hell of a lot of ice on land that will be added to the seas. Just look at the melting permafrost and receeding glaciers of Alaska and Canada.
This report also glosses over the affect all that melted ice will have on the ocean's salinity. It is predicted that a slight change in ocean salinity is enough to turn the taps off on the Gulf stream. This would leave Europe pretty screwed. England's weather would start to be more like Nova Scotia's.
Desertification is what destroyed North Africa. The area that is now the Sahara was once a fertile plain. As the soil dries out, it destroys a fungus that actually helps bind it together and retain moisture.
The rub is, Desert begets desert. As the land becomes arid, it heats up the surrounding land, causing the desert to spread.
Now one thing not helping the situation is Man. Certain agricultural practices accellerate desertification.
Indeed, start looking for deserts to form in Brazil. Rain forests don't really build good soil, and when you slash and burn the rainforest down to form farmland you only get a few good years out of it before the soil breaks down. Rain Forests generate their own weather patterns, and with no forest, no rain.
I was always under the impression that you could not be sued for not doing something wrong. Creative works have long had a special protection in our legal system.
It is a true travisty that people believe you need millions of dollars to defend yourself against a frivilous lawsuit. An understanding of the law, a stack of envelopes, and occasionally plane fare are more than enough.
Now the legal games that lawyers play is another issue entirely. The delays, the frivilous filings, the mountains of paperwork, hyperbole, press leaks, etc. That is what you are actually paying a lawyer for these days.
Ah the problem of Zealotry. People forget that most observations serve an agenda. A linux zealots does not want to hear about improvements in Windows stability as much as Windows zealots don't want to hear about improvements in usability.
In an Irony of ironies, I finally convinced my wife to let me ditch our XP partition by installing Win4lin under Linux. She loves it. Though she confesses that she spends a lot of time in the Windows session. She does say it runs better than when it was purely Linux. And she is getting pretty good at tweaking KDE.
I'll admit that on my work laptop I have found myself using the XP partition more now that I have Cygwin installed. I have a copy of MySQL, a decent SSH client, and automake.
I'm envisioning a day when a Windows user won't know he is in Linux, or a Linux user know he is in Windows.
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What is crippled about it? They have a distro, development tools, drivers for all the hardware. Hell, just port Gentoo to the sucker and store any large files over NFS on a PC.
Has anyone noticed on the Windows 2003 adds the very Indian looking gentleman placed next to the large "Do More With Less" slogan. I thought it a bit creepy. Especially on SlashDot.
I hadn't even thought about playing non-us games. Shoots a hole through my rant. Are US playstations able to output PAL?
Hey wait, all they did was tweak the sprite from Xbill!
Ah yes, slashdot, where folks discuss spending $200 on equipment to crack a $30 game.
Am I the last guy on earth who actually goes out an pays for things?
I guess the only moral of the story here is that if you are going to rip people off, do it for a couple of million at a time, not a couple of hundred.
Though looking at what this guy managed to steal, $200 grand? Over 5 years that's $40k a year. And he is going to rot in jail for 6 years.
What a complete idiot.
If he had put a fraction of that brainpower used to scam people into LEGALLY scamming people he'd have made $200 million and not be facing any jail time at all. Look at Microsoft. One of the biggest companies in the world sells licenses to use software. Look at the RIAA. They pay artists peanuts to gouge consumers for recordings of them playing.
Law enforcement my ass.
It's hard to look back on those days. The wayback machine wasn't online then...
I hear that. Sort of a virtual masquerade ball.
Hey, she told me it was her first time!
A shot on the hood of a pinto, or a beehive haircut are a pretty good indicator of an old photo too...
Okay, I'm just pissed I didn't think of it first.
We already have people walking down the street looking posessed by talking to the air. The social stigma of holding a conversation with an inanimate object in public won't be a problem.
Heck, imagine V-mail. If you can't get someone live on the phone, have the computer take a dictation and formulate an email. I'm also forseeing folks who start to play back audio at an accellerated rate to save time. I already do that on our present Vmail system.
Of course, some information can only be presented optically. I propose a data terminal for those occasions. You simply hold it, or stand in front of it, and your VDA will display the images or video through the screen.
Since the unit is designed to talk on the internet, most of the brainwork will probably sit on the network. An "agent" would likely handle your business for you when you are "unplugged".
4. A redhead with an average build. She has a short temper, a very legalistic grammer parser. You can tell her anything, but if it is phrased incorrectly you have a whirling dervish on your hands. Also available in Italian.
But seriously folks, I've been fighting pitched battles to keep our place off of Outlook/OE and Exchange. For reasons technical, logistical, and financial.
One of the big claims that users have is "well, Outlook Express is built in. Why can't I use it?" Because
- It has a nasty set of default values that clobber our IMAP server
- Every email worm out there is designed to pull from it's address book.
- It has a tendency to take a complete dump on your settings stored in your roaming profile
- The address book has a habit of spontaneously combusting on our network.
That's why.Now they no longer have the "It's built in" excuse.
Hey I resemble that remark!
In any case you are correct. There is a hell of a lot of ice on land that will be added to the seas. Just look at the melting permafrost and receeding glaciers of Alaska and Canada.
This report also glosses over the affect all that melted ice will have on the ocean's salinity. It is predicted that a slight change in ocean salinity is enough to turn the taps off on the Gulf stream. This would leave Europe pretty screwed. England's weather would start to be more like Nova Scotia's.
The rub is, Desert begets desert. As the land becomes arid, it heats up the surrounding land, causing the desert to spread.
Now one thing not helping the situation is Man. Certain agricultural practices accellerate desertification.
Indeed, start looking for deserts to form in Brazil. Rain forests don't really build good soil, and when you slash and burn the rainforest down to form farmland you only get a few good years out of it before the soil breaks down. Rain Forests generate their own weather patterns, and with no forest, no rain.
Great, just what I need, MORE M$ proprietary mail headers, HTTP extensions, and HTML tags.
Yeah, and try explaining that to Joe Service Pack.
That's why we don't support Outlook.
It is a true travisty that people believe you need millions of dollars to defend yourself against a frivilous lawsuit. An understanding of the law, a stack of envelopes, and occasionally plane fare are more than enough.
Now the legal games that lawyers play is another issue entirely. The delays, the frivilous filings, the mountains of paperwork, hyperbole, press leaks, etc. That is what you are actually paying a lawyer for these days.
In an Irony of ironies, I finally convinced my wife to let me ditch our XP partition by installing Win4lin under Linux. She loves it. Though she confesses that she spends a lot of time in the Windows session. She does say it runs better than when it was purely Linux. And she is getting pretty good at tweaking KDE.
I'll admit that on my work laptop I have found myself using the XP partition more now that I have Cygwin installed. I have a copy of MySQL, a decent SSH client, and automake.
I'm envisioning a day when a Windows user won't know he is in Linux, or a Linux user know he is in Windows.