Where do they get off saying that they don't have the technical means to target? If they can tell what IPs belong to which schools then they absolutely have the means with which to target. You weren't expecting them to be honest, were you?
You seem to argue that the BDS developers working on not "quality" developers. Are you suggesting that commercial developers are better?
I've worked for two large commercial development groups. There were some excellent programmers, engineers and thinkers in all of them. But one thing about commercial development work is that it is often limited by financial constraints. Finding bugs doesn't add to the bottom line. When we would finish one software project we were on to the next.
I find that open source developers have a sense of personal responsibility for "their" code and they want to see it perfected.
You are entitled to your opinion, of course and perhaps that works for you. But, some of your statements don't match others experience. We set up a Linux server with Linux clients accessing a MySQL database and a file server. The file server was setup using NFS.
The Linux setup and the then 30 PCs (now 50) worked out of the box and required very little maintenance. What maintenance they needed was application specific (setting up a comm port for a serial-port scale) which I couldn't have done remotely with a Windows box. These machines were setup in 2002 and are still running today. We upgraded the OS once but it really wasn't necessary.
We do have some Windows PC. We bought an external accounting package. There were 5 PC's and a server for that. Those 5 machines require multiple times the maintenance workload of the 50 linux boxes. We have liceneses to pay for the SQLServer DB and limits on the numbers of clients. It is slower than the MySQL server even though it the MySQL server is on cheap commodity hardware and the SQLServer box was the most expensive system we could find (the vendor recommended a very high-end system). And all we do on the Windows box is simple reporting.
We run our business on the linux boxes and MySQL on cheap, standard hardware. I would recommend Windows if the application requires it or for games and some home use. Otherwise, you really can't justify it, unless you really haven't compared the two in a real world situation.
MS is probably financially supporting ASUS to make sure they don't release a Linux version to the mass market retailers. Now, if MS really felt that XP was so superior to Linux then why are they paying to prevent Linux from being offered to the mass market stores?
Gotta agree with you on the mail client. It doesn't come close to GMail. The fonts are too small and ugly. I don't find it as user-friendly and it doesn't offer tags.
Letting MS control my Unix/Linux boxes? Huh? I can see it the other way around, since Unix is secure, but there's no way I'd give an MS product my root password.
What's wrong with Paper ballots?
I live in Germany and everything is done by paper ballots. It works, it's transparent and votes are counted openly and are kept honest by all major parties.
And, it doesn't cost much. I don't understand why the US is so bent on Electronic voting machines, except that it allows a single company to "count", in secret, votes from their voting machine. That just doesn't make sense.
Indeed a risky game. I doubt we'd invade NK but there is a better chance we'd invade Iran to stabilize the gulf.
On the other hand, I'm not sure having or not having nukes is the reason we would invade Iran. We'd probably send cruise missiles to destroy suspected nuclear facilities but we'd invade for other reasons...
The shuttle, as far as I know, it the only vehicle with the capacity to send something like a research lab into space.
I wonder if we'll revive the Saturn 5. Pretty amazing that we would be going back to 40 year old technology and still have the highest capacity of any rocket available today.
Yep. They have some pretty good boosters. They are also cheaper than the shuttle for anything they can launch. They don't have the capacity of the shuttle, but most satellites don't need that much.
I agree with you that piracy is a huge problem. But, the RIAA is partly to blame. I never copied music and I have never downloaded music from the internet. However, in recent years, the German equivalent of the RIAA (Gema) has imposed a tax on virtually anything that could in any way be used to reproduce or store music. This included not just media (CD's, tapes, etc), but also computers, hard-drives, modems, paper, etc.
I don't copy music or distribute it but I'm forced to pay Gema for my computer, my fax machine, my internet connection and so on.
This kind of policy doesn't exactly endear the music industry to law-abiding citizens. Not to mention riduculous lawsuits in the 100's of thousands of dollars for downloading a few songs.
In addition to that, the copywrite on music is now 120 years. Our local kindergarten created a CD of their music (the kids singing, not copies of music from other sources). The Gema was there in short notice exacting a fee for each CD, since White Christmas or something similar which they were singing was copywrited.
I feel sorry for you and you business. You are an honest example of what makes America great. And I don't support piracy either, but part of the blame lies in the hands of the RIAA and similar organizations.
The 5$/hour group from Banglore (sp?) have been a bonanza for me. They are cheap and have created alot of work for me fixing (or, actually, mostly, replacing) their code.
There are certainly good programmers from India, but the really good ones are making more than 5$/hour and are already employed by large companies. The other ones are worth what you are paying. Good for simple, for well defined tasks, but, generally, not up to more complex tasks.
Perhaps it would be better to tax consumption (sales tax) and not income under the basic principle that taxation puts a break on whatever is taxed. Of course, there is no perfect system and a sales tax makes things expensive so, in the end, you still pay your taxes. But, it is also a very fair taxation because, when food, clothing and housing (basic needs) are not taxed, it is slightly progressive and hard to evade.
This way, the government has no need to know or even care about interest income or wealth. They only need to tax what it sold.
The republicans make all white house information inaccessible to the Freedom of Information Act and require citizens to log their every move with the government, who is protecting us from the enemy.
Hint: Right now, the "enemy" is the government. My thoughts exactly.
One would like to hope that this incident might mean that all 3 candidates now fully understand the importance of protecting everyone's privacy, and will ensure that its kept sacrosanct.
Yes, I don't think that will happen either. The difference between the republican's solution and the democrats solution to this problem is:
The democrats see this as a breach of privacy and introduce legislation to protect the information.
The republicans make all white house information inaccessible to the Freedom of Information Act and require citizens to log their every move with the government, who is protecting us from the enemy.
But, if BusyBox uses other GPL code, the coders of BusyBox can't just simply accept a payment and call it a day. The violators are liable for all of the GPL code they illegally misused.
I'm not an MS fan, but what does Yahoo really have that MS would get through the deal. Just the mere purchase of Yahoo by MS will turn off alot of Yahoo advertisers. MS already has all the elements that Yahoo has via their "live" brand which seems to be more modern than Yahoo's search.
For example, having to edit a handful of documented registry keys to re-enable old file formats in Office 2007 (ignoring the rights and wrongs of disabling them in the first place) is "ludicrous" and "impractical for 99% of the user-base", but much more complex command line actions are routinely required even on Ubuntu. I suggest that those who claim exclusive use of the GUI is sufficient are content with the default software and settings.
I do everything under Ubuntu Linux via gui interfaces. You've kind of hit the nail on the head - those who prefer Windows just don't know Linux. If you think you have to do everything via command line interfaces, you living in the 1990's.
The fact is that for most things Linux is now easier than Windows. We have 5 or 6 Windows boxes and 35 Linux boxes which run our mission critical applications. When we have a new Network printer or a monitor or whatever, Linux recognizes it automatically whereas Windows usually requires the installation of special drivers.
For a gaming PC Windows has more software but for real work or for the basic home user who surfs the web and reads email, Linux is better.
Most people who pass on the opportunity to use Microsoft's software usually have an irrational hate for Microsoft itself and put that above what would be the best tool for the job.
Funny. I use it, as a workstation, because it's secure, because I don't have to worry about license issues, because of the quality of development software, because it's quick, because installing most hardware is more automatic and because I want choice.
Those who continue to use Microsoft do it because they just don't know what's out there. And, they have to justify somehow the thousands they spent on software that Linux users already have in their distro.
You're free to use MS software but don't jump to irrational conclusions as to why those of us who really know both Linux and Windows continue to use Linux.
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You seem to argue that the BDS developers working on not "quality" developers. Are you suggesting that commercial developers are better?
I've worked for two large commercial development groups. There were some excellent programmers, engineers and thinkers in all of them. But one thing about commercial development work is that it is often limited by financial constraints. Finding bugs doesn't add to the bottom line. When we would finish one software project we were on to the next.
I find that open source developers have a sense of personal responsibility for "their" code and they want to see it perfected.
You are entitled to your opinion, of course and perhaps that works for you. But, some of your statements don't match others experience. We set up a Linux server with Linux clients accessing a MySQL database and a file server. The file server was setup using NFS.
The Linux setup and the then 30 PCs (now 50) worked out of the box and required very little maintenance. What maintenance they needed was application specific (setting up a comm port for a serial-port scale) which I couldn't have done remotely with a Windows box. These machines were setup in 2002 and are still running today. We upgraded the OS once but it really wasn't necessary.
We do have some Windows PC. We bought an external accounting package. There were 5 PC's and a server for that. Those 5 machines require multiple times the maintenance workload of the 50 linux boxes. We have liceneses to pay for the SQLServer DB and limits on the numbers of clients. It is slower than the MySQL server even though it the MySQL server is on cheap commodity hardware and the SQLServer box was the most expensive system we could find (the vendor recommended a very high-end system). And all we do on the Windows box is simple reporting.
We run our business on the linux boxes and MySQL on cheap, standard hardware. I would recommend Windows if the application requires it or for games and some home use. Otherwise, you really can't justify it, unless you really haven't compared the two in a real world situation.
MS is probably financially supporting ASUS to make sure they don't release a Linux version to the mass market retailers.
Now, if MS really felt that XP was so superior to Linux then why are they paying to prevent Linux from being offered to the mass market stores?
Gotta agree with you on the mail client. It doesn't come close to GMail. The fonts are too small and ugly. I don't find it as user-friendly and it doesn't offer tags.
Letting MS control my Unix/Linux boxes? Huh? I can see it the other way around, since Unix is secure, but there's no way I'd give an MS product my root password.
What's wrong with Paper ballots?
I live in Germany and everything is done by paper ballots. It works, it's transparent and votes are counted openly and are kept honest by all major parties.
And, it doesn't cost much. I don't understand why the US is so bent on Electronic voting machines, except that it allows a single company to "count", in secret, votes from their voting machine. That just doesn't make sense.
...but these are good, solid, Republican errors!God bless the American Voting System!
You got that right!On the other hand, I'm not sure having or not having nukes is the reason we would invade Iran. We'd probably send cruise missiles to destroy suspected nuclear facilities but we'd invade for other reasons ...
Seems sad that a jury can't get over the bad personality of a defendant and look at the facts.
More worrying is why relevant evidence apparently wasn't allowed.
The shuttle, as far as I know, it the only vehicle with the capacity to send something like a research lab into space.
I wonder if we'll revive the Saturn 5. Pretty amazing that we would be going back to 40 year old technology and still have the highest capacity of any rocket available today.
Yep. They have some pretty good boosters. They are also cheaper than the shuttle for anything they can launch. They don't have the capacity of the shuttle, but most satellites don't need that much.
I agree with you that piracy is a huge problem. But, the RIAA is partly to blame. I never copied music and I have never downloaded music from the internet. However, in recent years, the German equivalent of the RIAA (Gema) has imposed a tax on virtually anything that could in any way be used to reproduce or store music. This included not just media (CD's, tapes, etc), but also computers, hard-drives, modems, paper, etc.
I don't copy music or distribute it but I'm forced to pay Gema for my computer, my fax machine, my internet connection and so on.
This kind of policy doesn't exactly endear the music industry to law-abiding citizens. Not to mention riduculous lawsuits in the 100's of thousands of dollars for downloading a few songs.
In addition to that, the copywrite on music is now 120 years. Our local kindergarten created a CD of their music (the kids singing, not copies of music from other sources). The Gema was there in short notice exacting a fee for each CD, since White Christmas or something similar which they were singing was copywrited.
I feel sorry for you and you business. You are an honest example of what makes America great. And I don't support piracy either, but part of the blame lies in the hands of the RIAA and similar organizations.
C'mon people, we have the best government money can buy.
Verifiable Elections? Of course the Bush admin is against that.
The 5$/hour group from Banglore (sp?) have been a bonanza for me. They are cheap and have created alot of work for me fixing (or, actually, mostly, replacing) their code. There are certainly good programmers from India, but the really good ones are making more than 5$/hour and are already employed by large companies. The other ones are worth what you are paying. Good for simple, for well defined tasks, but, generally, not up to more complex tasks.
Perhaps it would be better to tax consumption (sales tax) and not income under the basic principle that taxation puts a break on whatever is taxed. Of course, there is no perfect system and a sales tax makes things expensive so, in the end, you still pay your taxes. But, it is also a very fair taxation because, when food, clothing and housing (basic needs) are not taxed, it is slightly progressive and hard to evade.
This way, the government has no need to know or even care about interest income or wealth. They only need to tax what it sold.
Some people don't understand sarcasm.
Hint: Right now, the "enemy" is the government.
My thoughts exactly.
Yes, I don't think that will happen either. The difference between the republican's solution and the democrats solution to this problem is:
But, if BusyBox uses other GPL code, the coders of BusyBox can't just simply accept a payment and call it a day. The violators are liable for all of the GPL code they illegally misused.
I'm not an MS fan, but what does Yahoo really have that MS would get through the deal. Just the mere purchase of Yahoo by MS will turn off alot of Yahoo advertisers. MS already has all the elements that Yahoo has via their "live" brand which seems to be more modern than Yahoo's search.
So what does MS really expect to gain?
I do everything under Ubuntu Linux via gui interfaces. You've kind of hit the nail on the head - those who prefer Windows just don't know Linux. If you think you have to do everything via command line interfaces, you living in the 1990's.
The fact is that for most things Linux is now easier than Windows. We have 5 or 6 Windows boxes and 35 Linux boxes which run our mission critical applications. When we have a new Network printer or a monitor or whatever, Linux recognizes it automatically whereas Windows usually requires the installation of special drivers.
For a gaming PC Windows has more software but for real work or for the basic home user who surfs the web and reads email, Linux is better.
Funny. I use it, as a workstation, because it's secure, because I don't have to worry about license issues, because of the quality of development software, because it's quick, because installing most hardware is more automatic and because I want choice.
Those who continue to use Microsoft do it because they just don't know what's out there. And, they have to justify somehow the thousands they spent on software that Linux users already have in their distro.
You're free to use MS software but don't jump to irrational conclusions as to why those of us who really know both Linux and Windows continue to use Linux.