I have been using this at our companies for the past two years and has GREATLY simplified our redeployment strategy. If you have different clients who use different computer systems that all run Windows. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
Wait until the day before launch and then sick your lawyers on em... man. I just don't have the stomach for this capitalism stuff. It's way too competitive.
This lawsuit will only further "dilute their brand"... wait... perhaps this is just a ploy to plaster tiger direct all over the news and that way reclaim their ranking in the search engines!
rivendahl wrote: "So, Alaa, if you're reading this, please, I encourage you, spread the word back home that people here care and would love to help. We just need to know how."
You could start with this. " Arabic support is getting better but its true that its still hard to get things to work, for instance this Mozilla bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197375 is a show stopper and slowing the adoption of GNU/Linux here yet no one in the Mozilla developer community or the Arabic community is working on it.
if you want to help please vote this bug, if you know the Mozilla source base please look into it or contact Arabeyes.org and give them directions on where to look."
I must agree that I found his responses at times to be a bit abrasive. This isn't so uncommon among 'geek' types however./. is full of this kind of talk. If you think that's bad, hang out on debian-user for a day.:)happyfrogcow wrote, "answering questions with responses like "You're kidding, right???" or "[The] only word I have for you is 'Ya Moftary'" or "this question is meaningless, it is based on an assumption that there is a lack of awareness" doesn't do much to keep a dialog open between two unfamiliar cultures that should be friends."
I must agree that I found his responses at times to be a bit abrasive. This isn't so uncommon among 'geek' types however./. is full of this kind of talk. If you think that's bad, hang out on debian-user for a day.:)
AC wrote, " Who gives a steaming shit about Egyptian Linux?"
I do. I care about the adoption of OSS everywhere. The more countries that begin to see value in OS software, wider spread adoption will occur. If you are interested in the freedom to be able to innovate based on the free flow of ideas, at least in terms of software; widespread global adoption is crucial.
Help me out here. I don't understand why a hardware company would not release their specs to developers. Does this put them at some sort of disadvantage with the competition? How does it "hurt" a hardware company to provide this information?
"Besides you can re-rip the ACC file into MP3 anyway, with iTunes as well using its own tools."
Ok, perhaps I made an assumption about your above statement that was/is incorrect. If what you mean is after downloading the song (that you paid for in ACC format) you can "right click" on the song and select "Convert to MP3". You are wrong.
If however you were/are suggesting that you buy the music, cut to cd, and then re-rip as a mp3; then you are right...
Besides you can rerip the AAC file into MP3 anyway, with iTunes as well using its own tools.
Um. No you can't.
You seem ignorant (parent) and stupid all in one post.
Slow down...:)
This is from ESR's letter: "Matters aren't helped by the fact that Sun appears, with Microsoft, to be one of the two companies doing most to stuff SCO's war chest for its attack on Linux."
So explain to me how ESR "refrained" from "accusations" in this case?
Good question. I often wonder if companies that choose the closed source route are "testing the market". What I am suggesting is that they want to see how little they can give, but still make the sale.
What if this catches on? Then what will we have? Imagine mb chipset manufacturers doing the same thing.
Perhaps nVidea has no intention of providing a open source driver as long as people are happy to pay for a card that gives them SOME way to use it. Not necessarily the preferred way.
True, blocking can be dynamic. I would assume that they have taken this into consideration... Then again, this is the US Government we're talking about here!;-)
All in all, this seams like a stupid game to be playing... Iranian users should just use some sort of distributed network like freenet...
Read the article... "Cottrell and Berman agree that it's only a matter of time before the Iranonymity service winds on the official blacklist. But Berman hints that the U.S. is ready for a prolonged electronic shell game with Tehran. "In China we're continually monitoring the state of the proxy, and when we see the traffic drop off, we change the proxy's address, usually within 24 hours," says Berman. "In Iran, we're prepared to change the proxy address every day if necessary."
I admit, this is kind of a silly game to be playing, but at least they recognize what they need to do to ensure this service is available.
The intent of my comment was not to evoke the thought that I am somehow in distress because I will no longer be able to horde all of this money I have lying around. My intent _was_ to spark awareness of U.S. corporate decisions and the effect that they have on the economy that supported them in the first place.
I will concede that this is helpful for Indian workers. I am even pleased that a side effect of IBM's investment will be the creation of high paying jobs in a poor economy. It would even be great to give all of these people healthcare.
But as another poster pointed out. This is simply hoarding resources. Big business wants it both ways. They want cheap labor and a wealthy customer base. You cannot continue a trend of starving the worlds most profitable market while expecting them to buy your products and services. If basic economic theory is even somewhat correct; for a market to work properly you must have a customer base that is employed and able to buy your products and services.
In 100 years, perhaps globalization will have run it's course and what will the world look like? What will happen when all economies are as "strong" as ours? Will we have stagnating wages, unemployment, lack of healthcare, poor education, shrinking middle class, enormous debt load... only on a global scale?
This is just a case of short sighted decisions, fueled by investor desire for short term gains.
I need to make sure I have this right. If we give the rich a tax break, they will create more jobs. Those jobs in turn will be transfered overseas where the rich will again see an increase in their capital investments which are now taxed less. Ok. Just making sure I understand. No further questions.
Good luck with that. As someone already said, the Canopy group already owns the company. Even if that were not the case, the company has a Market Cap. of 149 Million. Last I checked the Slashdot community was not made up of 13047285 members. (This is figuring the cost of the company at the current SCOX stock price of $11.42/share)
Even if we only wanted to own 51% of the shares (again, if it were possible), we would still have to come up with about 75 million bucks...
I admit this is all speculative math, but $20 is not going to cut it. Just for the record though, funny idea!:)
On another note, UoP is shooting itself in the foot by having an age requirement.
Although I am not UofP's biggest fan, I think the theory behind the age requirement is sound. The theory goes, "our students have both 'real life' (whatever that means) experiences to bring to the classroom and add to the learning experience".
UofP was designed for working adults. If you are under the age of 21, in most cases, you have the ability to attend a brick and mortar college. In most cases this is a more desirable atmosphere for you anyway. Most of the students that have been in my classes are professionals and have interesting things to say about their experiences in the profession. When I was 21, my experiences had more to do with weed and beer than professional experiences.
Perhaps you could make an argument against this, after all their are always exceptions to the rule. Perhaps these could be evaluated on a case basis. I certainly don't think that this would be considered a scenario where they are, "shooting [...themselves...] in the foot"
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I have been using this at our companies for the past two years and has GREATLY simplified our redeployment strategy. If you have different clients who use different computer systems that all run Windows. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
I must be number 3... and I do all of my work from the shell anyway. :)
I just searched for "tiger" in Google. Tiger Direct came up second. OSX Tiger came up fourth.
Did a search for "tiger direct". Tiger Direct came up first.
Did a search for "tiger osx". Apple's OSX Tiger search came up first.
Did a search for "tiger computer". Tiger Direct came up first.
What are they complaining about? All seems just fine with their rankings... at least on the Google side.
Wait until the day before launch and then sick your lawyers on em... man. I just don't have the stomach for this capitalism stuff. It's way too competitive.
This lawsuit will only further "dilute their brand"... wait... perhaps this is just a ploy to plaster tiger direct all over the news and that way reclaim their ranking in the search engines!
Huh? I am from Wisconsin. Feingold was the only one who voted against it. Thank God for him.
The record is here.
Wellstone voted Nay... don't you just love misinformation. Conspiracy theorists love that!
rivendahl wrote: "So, Alaa, if you're reading this, please, I encourage you, spread the word back home that people here care and would love to help. We just need to know how."
5 is a show stopper and slowing the adoption of GNU/Linux here yet no one in the Mozilla developer community or the Arabic community is working on it.
You could start with this. " Arabic support is getting better but its true that its still hard to get things to work, for instance this Mozilla bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19737
if you want to help please vote this bug, if you know the Mozilla source base please look into it or contact Arabeyes.org and give them directions on where to look."
I must agree that I found his responses at times to be a bit abrasive. This isn't so uncommon among 'geek' types however. /. is full of this kind of talk. If you think that's bad, hang out on debian-user for a day. :)happyfrogcow wrote, "answering questions with responses like "You're kidding, right???" or "[The] only word I have for you is 'Ya Moftary'" or "this question is meaningless, it is based on an assumption that there is a lack of awareness" doesn't do much to keep a dialog open between two unfamiliar cultures that should be friends."
/. is full of this kind of talk. If you think that's bad, hang out on debian-user for a day. :)
I must agree that I found his responses at times to be a bit abrasive. This isn't so uncommon among 'geek' types however.
AC wrote, " Who gives a steaming shit about Egyptian Linux?"
I do. I care about the adoption of OSS everywhere. The more countries that begin to see value in OS software, wider spread adoption will occur. If you are interested in the freedom to be able to innovate based on the free flow of ideas, at least in terms of software; widespread global adoption is crucial.
So count me in. I care.
From the review, "UNIX has this wonderful habit of trying to protect users from their own stupidity without recognising its own."
*sigh* too true.
Help me out here. I don't understand why a hardware company would not release their specs to developers. Does this put them at some sort of disadvantage with the competition? How does it "hurt" a hardware company to provide this information?
"Besides you can re-rip the ACC file into MP3 anyway, with iTunes as well using its own tools."
Ok, perhaps I made an assumption about your above statement that was/is incorrect. If what you mean is after downloading the song (that you paid for in ACC format) you can "right click" on the song and select "Convert to MP3". You are wrong.
If however you were/are suggesting that you buy the music, cut to cd, and then re-rip as a mp3; then you are right...
Sorry.
No you can't. :)
Besides you can rerip the AAC file into MP3 anyway, with iTunes as well using its own tools. :)
Um. No you can't.
You seem ignorant (parent) and stupid all in one post.
Slow down...
This is from ESR's letter:
"Matters aren't helped by the fact that Sun appears, with Microsoft, to be one of the two companies doing most to stuff SCO's war chest for its attack on Linux."
So explain to me how ESR "refrained" from "accusations" in this case?
Good question. I often wonder if companies that choose the closed source route are "testing the market". What I am suggesting is that they want to see how little they can give, but still make the sale.
What if this catches on? Then what will we have? Imagine mb chipset manufacturers doing the same thing.
Perhaps nVidea has no intention of providing a open source driver as long as people are happy to pay for a card that gives them SOME way to use it. Not necessarily the preferred way.
Is Cory R. just Jon Katz's pen name? I haven't read a story so, so, how do I say? Forcefully irrelevant in far too long. Thanks Cory!
You know, condescending; which means to talk down to.
[Enter Cheezy Rebirth Techno]
Can you hear...
Our stock price plummet?!?
The Future... is... HERE!
SUNNCOMM!
Do you read Slashdot!?! Since when are we anti-monopoly or anti-Microsoft for that matter? Troll.
*giggle*
True, blocking can be dynamic. I would assume that they have taken this into consideration... Then again, this is the US Government we're talking about here! ;-)
All in all, this seams like a stupid game to be playing... Iranian users should just use some sort of distributed network like freenet...
Read the article... "Cottrell and Berman agree that it's only a matter of time before the Iranonymity service winds on the official blacklist. But Berman hints that the U.S. is ready for a prolonged electronic shell game with Tehran. "In China we're continually monitoring the state of the proxy, and when we see the traffic drop off, we change the proxy's address, usually within 24 hours," says Berman. "In Iran, we're prepared to change the proxy address every day if necessary."
I admit, this is kind of a silly game to be playing, but at least they recognize what they need to do to ensure this service is available.
The intent of my comment was not to evoke the thought that I am somehow in distress because I will no longer be able to horde all of this money I have lying around. My intent _was_ to spark awareness of U.S. corporate decisions and the effect that they have on the economy that supported them in the first place.
I will concede that this is helpful for Indian workers. I am even pleased that a side effect of IBM's investment will be the creation of high paying jobs in a poor economy. It would even be great to give all of these people healthcare.
But as another poster pointed out. This is simply hoarding resources. Big business wants it both ways. They want cheap labor and a wealthy customer base. You cannot continue a trend of starving the worlds most profitable market while expecting them to buy your products and services. If basic economic theory is even somewhat correct; for a market to work properly you must have a customer base that is employed and able to buy your products and services.
In 100 years, perhaps globalization will have run it's course and what will the world look like? What will happen when all economies are as "strong" as ours? Will we have stagnating wages, unemployment, lack of healthcare, poor education, shrinking middle class, enormous debt load... only on a global scale?
This is just a case of short sighted decisions, fueled by investor desire for short term gains.
Greed.
I need to make sure I have this right. If we give the rich a tax break, they will create more jobs. Those jobs in turn will be transfered overseas where the rich will again see an increase in their capital investments which are now taxed less. Ok. Just making sure I understand. No further questions.
Good luck with that. As someone already said, the Canopy group already owns the company. Even if that were not the case, the company has a Market Cap. of 149 Million. Last I checked the Slashdot community was not made up of 13047285 members. (This is figuring the cost of the company at the current SCOX stock price of $11.42/share)
:)
Even if we only wanted to own 51% of the shares (again, if it were possible), we would still have to come up with about 75 million bucks...
I admit this is all speculative math, but $20 is not going to cut it. Just for the record though, funny idea!
On another note, UoP is shooting itself in the foot by having an age requirement.
Although I am not UofP's biggest fan, I think the theory behind the age requirement is sound. The theory goes, "our students have both 'real life' (whatever that means) experiences to bring to the classroom and add to the learning experience".
UofP was designed for working adults. If you are under the age of 21, in most cases, you have the ability to attend a brick and mortar college. In most cases this is a more desirable atmosphere for you anyway. Most of the students that have been in my classes are professionals and have interesting things to say about their experiences in the profession. When I was 21, my experiences had more to do with weed and beer than professional experiences.
Perhaps you could make an argument against this, after all their are always exceptions to the rule. Perhaps these could be evaluated on a case basis. I certainly don't think that this would be considered a scenario where they are, "shooting [...themselves...] in the foot"
- Michael