Maybe it is somewhat a self preservation from nasty licensing claims: "You have to show receipts for xxx copies, if you can't, we offer you a deal to get all your copies of _our_ software legal or you owe us yyy million bucks".
Also, the business concepts enforced with software run contrary to human nature: "I have something great - would you like me to give it to you?" and in a more easygoing culture as Brazil the schemes running contrary to human nature would be harder to enforce leaving the government (with government computer systems) liable.
Leaving the whole licensing fee box out looks like a very smart move.
What a great field for additional measures needed to get a handle to "control" all the possible violations.
The system is great - automatic cashflow. Every inkjet printer is charged 20.- Euro's, multipurpose 38.- Euro's on top out of the consumer's pocket, well that's planned.
It's not a question of balancing interests or any adequacy of measures. Pure greed!
The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver...quite a display
It seem to have escaped you that there are humans getting killed by this "firework". They have family, brothers, sisters, friends. Ever wondered, how one becomes a terrorist?
"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."
--General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm"
terror campaign (200,000 people!)]
Well, I figured that watching US TV programming, somebody would need to pay me - and not too low, to expose myself to all of this interrupting, flashing and what have you.
Next, I figured, nobody would do this, so I did not get a TV hookup after I moved. After being weaned off for a while, the drain this media causes becomes even more intense.
I am not sure, what exposure does long term - if there would be any research on maybe causing attention span decrease or zombylitis, maybe there even is, just won't get any attention.
I think, you are totally right in what you say. The US has lost the opportunity to develop that maglev technology and has to go shopping overseas. Other "green" technologies will follow. This is, because the priorities are different.
1. US Military (build huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, aircraft and troops for defense from that other major superpower, um, Iraq (?)
The defense purpose is not the issue - making a buck on selling gear, control of resources in other countries, making bucks short term and blowing up bully egos because something else is too small (brain utilization, courage;-).
... i'm getting closer to taking the advice of those people who don't like my ideas and just leaving the country
Where would you go? Don't you think that things in the US would need to change?
...the military has brought us some good technological advances (computers...)
That's propaganda and an often used argument to justify spending the $$'s for destructive and harmful technology. If you would just finance a needed technology, it would be much cheaper. This is not even considering the cost of the trauma forced into a populations of countries "blessed" with military technology. Just think about landmines or local warlord egos terrorizing a population. Destroying infrastructures and then giving loans for rebuilding with the automatically following control would be modern colonizialism?
you all know there is way too much money in the military anyways.
That's a somewhat naive assumption. Fact is that the US population is taken for a ride and the majority agrees with what is happening - even supports it. Either active by thinking to need "security" as suggested by the corrupted polititians or passive by just not giving a damn. If there would be a shift in a higher % of US's populations thinking about military spending, it would change.
... this is probably a flame
Happens often that personal opinions are found inflaming and people get put in jail, tortured or killed for it. Non-conform ideas are hard to control and considered dangerous by tight people. On/., you can count with a high chance to get a "flamebait" when you show a negative opinion about US in a post (my limited observation). That's fairly cheap and I think, if you keep up writing what you think, that's just great:-)
Very simple - it serves the purpose of distracting from real issues. It's an old tactic: Put something out there - ideas and then hype it up to keep people interested, occupied and distracted.
What are real issues? Look for yourself - where does the money go and what are the priorities? Are folks happy on this planet?
On a global level: resources used prudently used, human population numbers kept within reason?
This is too hot a potatoe to be even discussed on a wider scale.
In US, for example, is there a decent traffic system in the works - like a bullet train? US school system - smart people are not needed, they may look behind the facades. Health care - one big money making machine for some.
So - moon and mars expeditions? Humans have a finite number of muscle cells and if the cells are not used, they die: muscle atrophy. This process starts after a couple of month and is irreversible.Under gravity (planet earth strength), muscles are constantly in use to keep a body upright. In space, this does not happen. Long term reduced or missing gravity in a human body from this planet - forget it!
So - maybe the whole space hype is in essence a chicken scratch effect - when chicken are in an unusual situation and don't know what to do, they start scratching the ground.
Don't those goofs have anything better to do to compensate for their inferiority- or whatever complex/defect and trying to stand out to get what - liked, respected?
Contemplating - what's a good place these days?
I heard of some cities having it more together, one in Brazil, another in India.
This trial becomes more and more a charade - actually it is one getting more and more.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was right on:
Cut out the OS - give it to a separtate company and let all the other's compete as they choose on applications.
As long as this clear separation is avoided, there is bickering and cheating - in particular from the side of Microsoft. They are very skillful in this game. That's why they got there in the first place.
The company owning the OS and writing applications to it always has an advantage and Microsoft tried and is succeeding in blurring the border between OS and applications to keep this advantage.
This opportunity to clean this up was missed due to the fact that the judges of the appeals court are wimps.
Just look at the possibility of being prejudiced. Has it ever been looked at if any of the judges or their close relatives had any stock or mututal fund with Microsoft stock in it? I doubt it.
The courage to do "what is right" is missing in the US judidical system, things are done which are "politially right" or "don't hurt the consumer". What a mess!
The danger with all registration issues is to have one unique key per individual where all gathered information can be linked to across a variety of entities.
This is almost successfully completed with the common use of the Social Security Number required for activities totally unrelated to the original purpose (for example, insurance- and medical transactions).
If a personalized key is used, it's purpose should be restricted to a narrow dedicated purpose and all other uses forbidden.
With increasing computer power and ever more personal information entered into computer systems - SS# and biometric information on drivers licenses, image recognition and DNS profiling open the doors to abuse.
- Refuse to give out your SS# - write complaints, if you are unreasonably forced to do so (for example to obtain car insurance or telephone service).
- Resist every attempt to create a centralized key which is not tightly restricted to a particluar purpose.
I heard about your recent campaign against Amazon.com and found this section on your web site:
Amazon's practice does damage to the publishing industry, decreasing royalty payments to authors and profits to publishers. In time, as we pointed out to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos when it first began this practice over a year ago, the financial loss to the industry could affect the quality and diversity of literature made available through booksellers. If profits suffer, publishers will cut their investments in new works, and authors facing reduced advances and royalties will have to find other ways to earn income.
Whatever your arguments and reasons for it are, in essence, your campaign is an effort to prevent trade with used goods and - if this principle would be applied to other categories, like cars, it would cause an extreme wastage of irreplaceable natural resources.
Transposing your attempted action into car sales, the appropriate response
would be:
"Selling used cars harms manufacturers and therefore should be prohibited - right? Sure - get real!"
That this type of campaigning comes from an organizations like yours is disappointing
and puts you in the same bin as the mind set which brought the DMCA, CBDTPA and patent idiocy going on these days, like Amazon's One-Click affair.
Couldn't the individuals standing behind the actions get less greedy, money oriented and come to their senses to see what is behind this behavior, see the consequences and become sensible?
I see very low chances for this.
Sincerely,
Re:Military threats promote innovation
on
Space Wars
·
· Score: 1
Ok - I hit the wrong button and the post went off incomplete.
Uh, what is the "smartness" approach you would suggest?
I think it is an individual matter having to do with empowering individuals, with the first step recognizing, then acting upon it. There is no general "recipe" or "approach" which works. This would be the "old" way, as religions and political doctrines have it. These are rules, often against nature, like speed limits & sex before... which are impossible to obey and make you wrong. This has profound consequences - it makes you more controllable.
For me it is to find the thing, which feels right to do in this scenario.
Anything to do with promoting military, weapons or patriotism creates just too much trauma in populations - for generations.
Ever thought about synchronicity, like an invention done on one side of the planet and the same thing done independently on a different place? I think that's what's happening - the brown stuff is just getting too much and it becomes more obvious, many see and act upon it.
There will be no change unless a significant percentage of the population becomes conscious about a need and sticks up for it. I doubt if it can happen easily in US - people are very much hypnotized.
Politicians are totally powerless when this happens. That's what they are afraid of and need to control everything with laws and, well, what they have - FBI, ATF, INS, CIA..
The formula on this planet:
consciousness level + suffering = constant * time
- you do the math.... is valid
Great toys - smart bombs, daisy cutters, drones, star wars, land mines, humans obeying push buttons doing "duty" for "their country"
and immature psychopaths pulling the strings, itching to "do what has to be done", so they can finally see if it all works.
Guess what that increasingly creates?
Re:Military threats promote innovation
on
Space Wars
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Sheesh - old propaganda trap you fell into!
The military budget is so overblown, wasteful and outdated: stoneage dialog: Uh - you hit me, I hit you better with a stone
Fact is all the $$ are going into a destructive porpose which could be avoided altogether with a little bit more smartness
I gave up shipping computer equipment by UPS - no amount of packiging, padding would avoid freight damage with them.
Trying to get reimbursed is a tremendous hassle. They want to see the original package material and their attitude is towards saving the company money - against you, the customer. I did it once. They sent a company which took the computer and put it in a new housing - different, of cause. Maybe they get taken advantage off, I am not blaming them for that but for the unability to manage damage free movement of goods correctly padded (double boxed with cushioning).
It is not only the material damage, but also the time lost, hassle to get replacement equipment for something planned.
I am still using UPS for small things, chips, books - material which can survive a 6' free fall drop on concrete in the shipping box.
The impact on computer equipment which was damaged in transport with them was impressive. Housings bent, warped and shifted. Anything with a mass inside the computer got so much momentum by impact that suspensions were bend and parts got loose. CPU heat sinks came off and moved around in the housing. Seeing this kind of damage - similar to the original poster - on a repeated basis left me with no other choice but to avoid them.
I use Fedex and USPS which cost more but not when the overhead for damages is accounted for.
They are pathologically incapable of uttering anything but lies.
<RANT> How else can one cheat millions of people with building a monopoly, milking everyone and get by? This needs arrogance and perversion in the magnitude of [...] [...] [...] - fill in your favorite war lords, dictators, politicians, military leaders, bosses and what you have on suckers.
The suckers are extremely successful blocking decency out of their behavior and showing the finger to everyone else. Pawlow reflex needs 5 x negative response to counter one positive response. They are so high and drugged by themselves, they'll never get it not even in 5 lifetimes!
US folks won't get it either - average TV consumption is 4 hours per day - totally brainwashed from childhood on! Statistically, there are _some_ exceptions just not enough or this would not be happening! </RANT>
Well, if you use qwest under Linux you may
be screwed even more as you are anyway (
see below) unless you use one of their business
account offerings which won't change as Qwest
stated today and repeatedly before.
Please note that your Qwest.net Internet
access service will be unavailable starting
November 5th, 2001.
<RANT MODE>
Qwest sucks major when it comes to Linux
or anything out of the mainstream M$oft world.
What it boils down to that I have to know
more than the support person in order to
guide
them through to what needs to be fixed since
they go by a computer interface solving problems
in a standardized way.
The choices in their support telephone menu
are:
- W95,98,3.1
-NT
-Mac
Here is my strategy:
I select NT in order to get in to a support
person. If they ask me, which OS I am using,
I sidestep the issue by asking them back
what they want - I have many W2000, NT, W98
and the OS is not the issue - then I state
the problem. If I would mention Linux, Netscape
or Eurdora, I get the "not supported
- we cannot help you" on their forehead
display.
DSL router issues:
Qwest requires M$oft OS software in order
to talk to the router.
Solution for me: I have the router accessed
over the serial line and have the root access
window open to be able to debunk anything
via command line.
The initial support person is confronted
with me being able to ping from the router
in and out. This is over their head and they
need to expedite the call. The results are
poor, however.
POP issues:
I talk to the support person and ask them
to help me to debunk the problem by using
telnet in accessing their mail server.
Qwests web interface to add/change email
accounts and passwords does not seem to be
functional since I need to call support in
order to make a change work.
DNS issues:
Their web interface apparently does not work
since I need to call tech support several
times in order to get changes implemented.
</RANT MODE>
I am not sure if you are trying to kid somebody since a similar text has been around. But I assume, you are serious. So please excuse me, I think you are dreaming or got too much smoke in your head.
First, give their women a better lot in life.
You probably can't imagine what consequence "giving women a better life" by somebody else except their husbands in a Moslem country with a fundamental belief system would give but you could try informing yourself. There are very strict rules, breaking the rules is sin and outsiders intruding blasphemy. American occupants trying to change anything would stir up things even more.
Gain territory. Then make the territory safe. Then give the people within that territory everything their hearts desire. Food. Clothing. Shelter. Jewelry. Television. McDonald's.
Gain territory? Do you think the American politics and military would change all of a sudden from before - arrogant, dictating, blackmailing, demanding, occupying, blockading, exployting and be the great helpers? Events during the recent days speak against it. US pushes, people flee and UN scrambles to prevent an even greater catastrophy. Make territory safe? Please understand that there is hate, for decades - against everything America represents - in the populations of several Muslem states - Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan.... Can you imagine, that your grandfather had an enemy, your father had the same enemy, so does your teacher and so do you. Your brother and uncle were killed in war, your sister raped - and this enemy (everything non-muslem) you are now projecting all your anger on comes in your area by force and wants to make it "safe". I guess this won't work either.
....everything their hearts desire. Food. Clothing. Shelter. Jewelry. Television. McDonald's - would 2 to 3 Million refugees fleeing and in camps out of fear because a "president spoke", winter approaching, under the threat of famine, UN scrambling to prevent a catastrophe, really, would they be desiring MacDonalds, Jewelry and a TV?
Build them a beautiful mosque. Allow them to pray. Give them a world where they need not fear, where they are defended by the United States military.
Please imagine a Satanist cult (Americans) building a church (mosque) for Christians (Muslems)- would anyone go there, being "allowed" by Satanists (Americans), at the same time being your arch-enemies to pray and protect you?
When the Taliban tries to assert itself....found the security and freedom we Americans usually tend to take for granted, - yadiyadiyaa, try being a little bit different from mainstream happyness, then it's Waco/Ruby Ridge time in this freedom America.
You ask them what they want, and then give them more than they asked for. They won't be asked, they will be forced and given -War, bombs and landmines!
Well, not quite, first of all, this is all happening in krautland.
It's the GE
Adobe apparently hiring the
krautlawyers from redneck kraut southend bavaria.
One can send them email at rsw@isarpatent.com.
Maybe sending friendly emails to GE and US Adobe and tell the lawyers what jerks they are would help??
I think what the lawyers are up to is serious.They apparently are employed by GE Adobe and they are not willing to compromise.
Normally, one would send a demand letter to change something and then, if changes are not done accordingly within an adequate time frame, the plaintiff can get a judge to sign a decree. The next step then is to fight it out in court.
IANAL, so I don't know if they can carge up front.
I doubt that things are done properly in this case and the kraut lawyers are full of hot air.
Kay-Uwe needs to get himself a lawyer
and get this sorted out and protection from this kind of bull. Of cause, that costs money.
There was talk about donating money. If you are serious about it, please send email to help-kay-uwe@mtbwr.net, if there is need, I can set something up with paypal and make it available for Kay-Uwe in GE.
PS: one can still see the website in Google's cache. I wonder if they would sue Google too?
HP dropped it's per seat licensing for HP-UX (16/32/64.. user licenses). I am sure they are doing it to make money, not to avoid it, where Caldera seems to head with this.
Unless.. the other distributions follow suit or Caldera has some jewels hidden in their distribution. Does anyone know about it?
Is there an office software package equivalent to M$oft's products?
This multi seat is where the scam starts.
I think it violates the spirit of OSF, software reusability and all.They should suffer for doing that!
How much more effort does it take to allow more user per system? NONE! So, why charge for it?
When NT came out on some Comdex, they had two "Systems" - server and client. I thought: utter bull! Multi tasking = multi user, the OS is the same, just scam the world into thinking they are different and charge...
Unix was created to do a job, NT was created to make money!
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Also, the business concepts enforced with software run contrary to human nature: "I have something great - would you like me to give it to you?" and in a more easygoing culture as Brazil the schemes running contrary to human nature would be harder to enforce leaving the government (with government computer systems) liable.
Leaving the whole licensing fee box out looks like a very smart move.
There is somebody planning for this, has a strategy and this is being played right now.
I consider this as dangerous!
And - M$ having nothing to do with it, yeah sure! The M$ $$'s for the license being in the pipeline for a long time. Look who is talking!
The system is great - automatic cashflow. Every inkjet printer is charged 20.- Euro's, multipurpose 38.- Euro's on top out of the consumer's pocket, well that's planned.
It's not a question of balancing interests or any adequacy of measures. Pure greed!
The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver...quite a display
It seem to have escaped you that there are humans getting killed by this "firework". They have family, brothers, sisters, friends. Ever wondered, how one becomes a terrorist?
"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in." --General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign (200,000 people!)]
We are selling software, OS and applications. This gave us an edge. Along with our smart business practices, we have now a monopoly.
Therefore, our gross profit margins are phantastic, over 80 %! Our cash reserve is huge - over 40 billion $.
We still don't have enough and need more, more, more. We are right right right right, nobody can touch us - right?
Wanna walk in those moccasins?
Next, I figured, nobody would do this, so I did not get a TV hookup after I moved. After being weaned off for a while, the drain this media causes becomes even more intense.
I am not sure, what exposure does long term - if there would be any research on maybe causing attention span decrease or zombylitis, maybe there even is, just won't get any attention.
I think, you are totally right in what you say. The US has lost the opportunity to develop that maglev technology and has to go shopping overseas. Other "green" technologies will follow. This is, because the priorities are different.
1. US Military (build huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, aircraft and troops for defense from that other major superpower, um, Iraq (?)
The defense purpose is not the issue - making a buck on selling gear, control of resources in other countries, making bucks short term and blowing up bully egos because something else is too small (brain utilization, courage;-).
Where would you go? Don't you think that things in the US would need to change?
That's propaganda and an often used argument to justify spending the $$'s for destructive and harmful technology. If you would just finance a needed technology, it would be much cheaper. This is not even considering the cost of the trauma forced into a populations of countries "blessed" with military technology. Just think about landmines or local warlord egos terrorizing a population. Destroying infrastructures and then giving loans for rebuilding with the automatically following control would be modern colonizialism?
you all know there is way too much money in the military anyways.
That's a somewhat naive assumption. Fact is that the US population is taken for a ride and the majority agrees with what is happening - even supports it.
Either active by thinking to need "security" as suggested by the corrupted polititians or passive by just not giving a damn. If there would be a shift in a higher % of US's populations thinking about military spending, it would change.
Happens often that personal opinions are found inflaming and people get put in jail, tortured or killed for it. Non-conform ideas are hard to control and considered dangerous by tight people. On /., you can count with a high chance to get a "flamebait" when you show a negative opinion about US in a post (my limited observation). That's fairly cheap and I think, if you keep up writing what you think, that's just great :-)
Loss, loss, loss... billions...
As if everyone would subscribe if the boxes would not be around.
Same goes for software, music - etc..
It's an old tactic: Put something out there - ideas and then hype it up to keep people interested, occupied and distracted.
What are real issues? Look for yourself - where does the money go and what are the priorities? Are folks happy on this planet?
On a global level: resources used prudently used, human population numbers kept within reason?
This is too hot a potatoe to be even discussed on a wider scale.
In US, for example, is there a decent traffic system in the works - like a bullet train? US school system - smart people are not needed, they may look behind the facades. Health care - one big money making machine for some.
So - moon and mars expeditions? Humans have a finite number of muscle cells and if the cells are not used, they die: muscle atrophy. This process starts after a couple of month and is irreversible.Under gravity (planet earth strength), muscles are constantly in use to keep a body upright. In space, this does not happen. Long term reduced or missing gravity in a human body from this planet - forget it!
So - maybe the whole space hype is in essence a chicken scratch effect - when chicken are in an unusual situation and don't know what to do, they start scratching the ground.
Don't those goofs have anything better to do to compensate for their inferiority- or whatever complex/defect and trying to stand out to get what - liked, respected?
Contemplating - what's a good place these days?
I heard of some cities having it more together, one in Brazil, another in India.
Suggestions?
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was right on: Cut out the OS - give it to a separtate company and let all the other's compete as they choose on applications.
As long as this clear separation is avoided, there is bickering and cheating - in particular from the side of Microsoft. They are very skillful in this game. That's why they got there in the first place.
The company owning the OS and writing applications to it always has an advantage and Microsoft tried and is succeeding in blurring the border between OS and applications to keep this advantage.
This opportunity to clean this up was missed due to the fact that the judges of the appeals court are wimps.
Just look at the possibility of being prejudiced. Has it ever been looked at if any of the judges or their close relatives had any stock or mututal fund with Microsoft stock in it? I doubt it.
The courage to do "what is right" is missing in the US judidical system, things are done which are "politially right" or "don't hurt the consumer". What a mess!
Very disappointing.
This is almost successfully completed with the common use of the Social Security Number required for activities totally unrelated to the original purpose (for example, insurance- and medical transactions).
If a personalized key is used, it's purpose should be restricted to a narrow dedicated purpose and all other uses forbidden.
With increasing computer power and ever more personal information entered into computer systems - SS# and biometric information on drivers licenses, image recognition and DNS profiling open the doors to abuse.
- Refuse to give out your SS# - write complaints, if you are unreasonably forced to do so (for example to obtain car insurance or telephone service).
- Resist every attempt to create a centralized key which is not tightly restricted to a particluar purpose.
Dear Sir,
I heard about your recent campaign against Amazon.com and found this section on your web site:
Amazon's practice does damage to the publishing industry, decreasing royalty payments to authors and profits to publishers. In time, as we pointed out to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos when it first began this practice over a year ago, the financial loss to the industry could affect the quality and diversity of literature made available through booksellers. If profits suffer, publishers will cut their investments in new works, and authors facing reduced advances and royalties will have to find other ways to earn income.
Whatever your arguments and reasons for it are, in essence, your campaign is an effort to prevent trade with used goods and - if this principle would be applied to other categories, like cars, it would cause an extreme wastage of irreplaceable natural resources.
Transposing your attempted action into car sales, the appropriate response
would be:
"Selling used cars harms manufacturers and therefore should be prohibited - right? Sure - get real!"
That this type of campaigning comes from an organizations like yours is disappointing
and puts you in the same bin as the mind set which brought the DMCA, CBDTPA and patent idiocy going on these days, like Amazon's One-Click affair.
Couldn't the individuals standing behind the actions get less greedy, money oriented and come to their senses to see what is behind this behavior, see the consequences and become sensible?
I see very low chances for this.
Sincerely,
Uh, what is the "smartness" approach you would suggest?
I think it is an individual matter having to do with empowering individuals, with the first step recognizing, then acting upon it. There is no general "recipe" or "approach" which works. This would be the "old" way, as religions and political doctrines have it. These are rules, often against nature, like speed limits & sex before ... which are impossible to obey and make you wrong. This has profound consequences - it makes you more controllable.
For me it is to find the thing, which feels right to do in this scenario.
Anything to do with promoting military, weapons or patriotism creates just too much trauma in populations - for generations.
Ever thought about synchronicity, like an invention done on one side of the planet and the same thing done independently on a different place? I think that's what's happening - the brown stuff is just getting too much and it becomes more obvious, many see and act upon it.
There will be no change unless a significant percentage of the population becomes conscious about a need and sticks up for it. I doubt if it can happen easily in US - people are very much hypnotized.
Politicians are totally powerless when this happens. That's what they are afraid of and need to control everything with laws and, well, what they have - FBI, ATF, INS, CIA..
The formula on this planet:
consciousness level + suffering = constant * time
- you do the math.... is valid
Great toys - smart bombs, daisy cutters, drones, star wars, land mines, humans obeying push buttons doing "duty" for "their country" and immature psychopaths pulling the strings, itching to "do what has to be done", so they can finally see if it all works.
Guess what that increasingly creates?
Sheesh - old propaganda trap you fell into!
The military budget is so overblown, wasteful and outdated: stoneage dialog: Uh - you hit me, I hit you better with a stone
Fact is all the $$ are going into a destructive porpose which could be avoided altogether with a little bit more smartness
I gave up shipping computer equipment by UPS - no amount of packiging, padding would avoid freight damage with them.
Trying to get reimbursed is a tremendous hassle. They want to see the original package material and their attitude is towards saving the company money - against you, the customer. I did it once. They sent a company which took the computer and put it in a new housing - different, of cause. Maybe they get taken advantage off, I am not blaming them for that but for the unability to manage damage free movement of goods correctly padded (double boxed with cushioning).
It is not only the material damage, but also the time lost, hassle to get replacement equipment for something planned.
I am still using UPS for small things, chips, books - material which can survive a 6' free fall drop on concrete in the shipping box.
The impact on computer equipment which was damaged in transport with them was impressive. Housings bent, warped and shifted. Anything with a mass inside the computer got so much momentum by impact that suspensions were bend and parts got loose. CPU heat sinks came off and moved around in the housing. Seeing this kind of damage - similar to the original poster - on a repeated basis left me with no other choice but to avoid them.
I use Fedex and USPS which cost more but not when the overhead for damages is accounted for.
Subject: Buy Covalent's Apache Web Server and Get a FREE Entrust Certificate
I can tell because I use unique email addresses for everyone.<RANT>
How else can one cheat millions of people with building a monopoly, milking everyone and get by? This needs arrogance and perversion in the magnitude of [...] [...] [...] - fill in your favorite war lords, dictators, politicians, military leaders, bosses and what you have on suckers.
The suckers are extremely successful blocking decency out of their behavior and showing the finger to everyone else. Pawlow reflex needs 5 x negative response to counter one positive response. They are so high and drugged by themselves, they'll never get it not even in 5 lifetimes!
US folks won't get it either - average TV consumption is 4 hours per day - totally brainwashed from childhood on! Statistically, there are _some_ exceptions just not enough or this would not be happening!
</RANT>
Well, if you use qwest under Linux you may be screwed even more as you are anyway ( see below) unless you use one of their business account offerings which won't change as Qwest stated today and repeatedly before.
Look at Qwests migration paper, it states clearly:
Please note that your Qwest.net Internet access service will be unavailable starting November 5th, 2001.
<RANT MODE>
Qwest sucks major when it comes to Linux or anything out of the mainstream M$oft world.
What it boils down to that I have to know more than the support person in order to guide
them through to what needs to be fixed since they go by a computer interface solving problems in a standardized way.
The choices in their support telephone menu are:
- W95,98,3.1
-NT
-Mac
Here is my strategy:
I select NT in order to get in to a support person. If they ask me, which OS I am using, I sidestep the issue by asking them back what they want - I have many W2000, NT, W98 and the OS is not the issue - then I state the problem. If I would mention Linux, Netscape or Eurdora, I get the "not supported - we cannot help you" on their forehead display.
DSL router issues:
Qwest requires M$oft OS software in order to talk to the router.
Solution for me: I have the router accessed over the serial line and have the root access window open to be able to debunk anything via command line.
The initial support person is confronted with me being able to ping from the router in and out. This is over their head and they need to expedite the call. The results are poor, however.
POP issues:
I talk to the support person and ask them to help me to debunk the problem by using telnet in accessing their mail server.
Qwests web interface to add/change email accounts and passwords does not seem to be functional since I need to call support in order to make a change work.
DNS issues:
Their web interface apparently does not work since I need to call tech support several times in order to get changes implemented.
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Can't you read the raw device and disect the data retrieved. Or is the stuff scrambled? What are the issues?
I am not sure if you are trying to kid somebody since a similar text has been around. But I assume, you are serious. So please excuse me, I think you are dreaming or got too much smoke in your head.
....everything their hearts desire. Food. Clothing. Shelter. Jewelry. Television. McDonald's - would 2 to 3 Million refugees fleeing and in camps out of fear because a "president spoke", winter approaching, under the threat of famine, UN scrambling to prevent a catastrophe, really, would they be desiring MacDonalds, Jewelry and a TV?
First, give their women a better lot in life.
You probably can't imagine what consequence "giving women a better life" by somebody else except their husbands in a Moslem country with a fundamental belief system would give but you could try informing yourself. There are very strict rules, breaking the rules is sin and outsiders intruding blasphemy. American occupants trying to change anything would stir up things even more.
Gain territory. Then make the territory safe. Then give the people within that territory everything their hearts desire. Food. Clothing. Shelter. Jewelry. Television. McDonald's.
Gain territory? Do you think the American politics and military would change all of a sudden from before - arrogant, dictating, blackmailing, demanding, occupying, blockading, exployting and be the great helpers? Events during the recent days speak against it. US pushes, people flee and UN scrambles to prevent an even greater catastrophy.
Make territory safe? Please understand that there is hate, for decades - against everything America represents - in the populations of several Muslem states - Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan....
Can you imagine, that your grandfather had an enemy, your father had the same enemy, so does your teacher and so do you. Your brother and uncle were killed in war, your sister raped - and this enemy (everything non-muslem) you are now projecting all your anger on comes in your area by force and wants to make it "safe". I guess this won't work either.
Build them a beautiful mosque. Allow them to pray. Give them a world where they need not fear, where they are defended by the United States military.
Please imagine a Satanist cult (Americans) building a church (mosque) for Christians (Muslems)- would anyone go there, being "allowed" by Satanists (Americans), at the same time being your arch-enemies to pray and protect you?
When the Taliban tries to assert itself....found the security and freedom we Americans usually tend to take for granted, - yadiyadiyaa, try being a little bit different from mainstream happyness, then it's Waco/Ruby Ridge time in this freedom America.
You ask them what they want, and then give them more than they asked for. They won't be asked, they will be forced and given -War, bombs and landmines!
My first one was: 63.122.141.50 - - [04/Aug/2001:15:13:17 -0600]
This is a follow up to this post
It's the GE Adobe apparently hiring the krautlawyers from redneck kraut southend bavaria.
One can send them email at rsw@isarpatent.com.
Maybe sending friendly emails to GE and US Adobe and tell the lawyers what jerks they are would help??
I think what the lawyers are up to is serious.They apparently are employed by GE Adobe and they are not willing to compromise. Normally, one would send a demand letter to change something and then, if changes are not done accordingly within an adequate time frame, the plaintiff can get a judge to sign a decree. The next step then is to fight it out in court. IANAL, so I don't know if they can carge up front.
I doubt that things are done properly in this case and the kraut lawyers are full of hot air.
Kay-Uwe needs to get himself a lawyer and get this sorted out and protection from this kind of bull. Of cause, that costs money.
There was talk about donating money. If you are serious about it, please send email to help-kay-uwe@mtbwr.net, if there is need, I can set something up with paypal and make it available for Kay-Uwe in GE.
PS: one can still see the website in Google's cache. I wonder if they would sue Google too?
Unless.. the other distributions follow suit or Caldera has some jewels hidden in their distribution. Does anyone know about it? Is there an office software package equivalent to M$oft's products?
This multi seat is where the scam starts.
I think it violates the spirit of OSF, software reusability and all.They should suffer for doing that!
How much more effort does it take to allow more user per system? NONE! So, why charge for it?
When NT came out on some Comdex, they had two "Systems" - server and client. I thought: utter bull! Multi tasking = multi user, the OS is the same, just scam the world into thinking they are different and charge...
Unix was created to do a job, NT was created to make money!