Which part of the AHRA are you looking at? Right up close to the top, I read, "The Act also includes blanket protection from infringement actions for private, non-commercial analog audio copying, and for digital audio copies made with digital audio recording devices." Private, non-commercial. I'm covered. It would seem that most P2P networks are covered, so long as they aren't making money.
Errr, no. A schooner is a ship. A sailboat is a boat. A sailboat can be crewed by one to 6 people, who may or may not be "sailors". A schooner has a real crew, almost all of whom are real sailors.
"Windows 7 is just Vista with a new skin and a new name. " Don't forget "tweaked". True, it is very much like Vista. I won't argue that. But, it is tweaked. Where Vista dragged forever on my test machine, Win7 runs very much like WinXP. Really - default settings just work. It's better than Vista was AFTER I searched for and applied tweaks for it. I am certainly no fan of Microsoft, but it's good to keep things in perspective. If you think of Win7 as a major upgrade to XP, you won't be far off the mark. Just forget about that other failed system that came in between. (Of course, it isn't worth the selling price, but that's a whole different topic)
As AuMatar states, the legislators are doing their jobs. They can forbid the state doing business with Microsoft at all, if they decide that to be in the State's interest. In this case, they have refused to foot the bill for upgrading to a shaky operating system. Besides which, it is highly doubtful that very many government owned machines will run Vista's aero "features" anyway. Waiting for Win 7, IF they decide to upgrade at all, makes sense. Of course, it makes even more sense to me that Texas upgrade to open source, require that their employees get the proper training to provide their own support, and simply stop paying for proprietary software. WinXP is, and will remain, a good business operating system for quite some time, after all.
You have slow internet in Silly Con Valley? Try moving out of the valley, alright? The best thing availabe where I live, is 1 MB, and I can't even afford it. ($79.00/month)
"I don't really care about "getting Linux on the desktop," and users should go use Windows or Mac if those platforms are working for them." I like honesty. Most of us do NOT really care whether our idiot neighbor is using Windows, Linux, or Mac. But, allow me to suppose that the currently circulating worm really DOES infect 3/4 of the world's computers, including desktops, servers, government machines, hospital machines, EVERYTHING. Will you then care whether your local hospital is running Windows, when you are hauled in by an ambulance? Or, would you rather be secure in the knowlege that all critical computers and machinery are run by Linux and/or Mac, which are immune to almost all worms? As I say, I admire honesty. But, honesty forces us to admit that Windows impacts on all our lives. Does your bank rely on Windows?
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Disconnect, most certainly. You are right, as far as you go. However, the constructive criticism being sought seeks to identify and correct that disconnect. Your example with "Goddam LittleGuy" accurately portrays the average computer user. He KNOWS that every hardware manufacturer in the world supports Microsoft. (I know, they don't, but Joe Sixpack KNOWS it, just the same.) So, whatever he buys that does NOT work in windows just has to be faulty. Simple, in his little world, there is nothing to figure out. On the other hand, anything that doesn't work in Linux has to be Linux' fault. Again, simple. This IS a hurdle to adoption of Linux by the average user, and it IS a problem that Linux must address. How do we connect, in spite of the disconnect that you pointed out?
On target. It's not Linux fault, but it is Linux problem that ATI doesn't work on Linux. Just like yourself, I bought an ATI card years ago, for a rather decent Win98 machine used for gaming for my sons. Top of the line, with 64 MB of onboard memory and TWO GPU's. It was sweet. Unfortunately the card ONLY WORKS properly in Win98. ATI never produced a driver for the WinNT line, or for *Nix. I had to purchase a newer card, with a totally different architecture before I could upgrade to XP or to Linux. Yeah, I'm on Linux now, but that stupid card frustrated me for quite some time.
DUHHHHH!!!! Have you ever really examined the reasons for that? Most hardware providers are A: microsoft-centric B: closed source C: proprietary. They believe that they can make more money off of their products by being secretive, and not allowing FOSS people access to the code, or supplying drivers that work. Hardware developers should supply a working driver, and/or source. This is not a Linux issue, but rather a business model issue. The solution, of course, is to buy hardware that is either supported, out of the box, with a proprietary Linux driver, OR, buy hardware with open source drivers. Open source is preferable, because if it doesn't "just work", you can look at it to see WHY, and FIX IT!
Oh, never mind. Not only do I not know, but I don't care. There are millions of women trying to make a living based on their oversized artificial tits.........
Good God. You must be the "Lowest Common Denomintor" that everyone talks about. Making excuses for shit movies doesn't mean they aren't shit movies. "Appearance of low quality"????? You should go into politics. You would be appreciated for your ability to make sounds, without actually saying anything.
No, I need nothing. I have my eyes, and my memory. Nothing more is required to develop a distaste for Microsoft's business practices. You can disagree, of course, but you shouldn't stoop to trolling. Xanax indeed.
A thirty million dollar publicly funded project had better benefit the public at large - wherever the project is located. 30 million in New York, 30 million in Texas, 1 million in California seems a pretty fair ratio to me. (Hey, you guys have all those stupid asses from television to help you fund your projects, make them pay up!)
Publicly accessible, meaning, what exactly? There are literally thousands of people within walking distance who have a need for this walkway? Or, maybe a few dozen? Whichever it might be, you and I both know that Microsoft has the funds to build the damned thing without any government help. Their budget is larger than many nation's budgets!! If MS needs/wants it, let them build it. Then, I would have a reason to be grateful to MS, for feeding some construction worker's kids, pumping funds into an ailing economy, and for encouraging lard assed Americans to walk (maybe even RUN?) somewhere. Uninformed hating? I hardly think so. What you call hate, I call contempt. And, there are a lot of reasons for that contempt. Perhaps you have looked at my sig? Need an explanation?
Perhaps you have a city ordinance which specifies such a thing. I live in Backwoods, Nowhere, and such ordinances don't apply here. I may seek my amusement whenever and wherever I wish. Hell, I can wait til next week to do my own April joke, and not worry about some silly rule about silly conduct.
Errrr, yes, it does. If our tax dollars are going to pay for something, they should pay for something that benefits us all. Like, maybe replacing bridges over the Mississippi, before another one falls into the water? Maybe a lot of things, that don't benefit one corporation in particular, excluding the PEOPLE of America.
You really meant OLD CARBON where you said NEW? I mean, all that carbon was formed millions of years ago. Ahhhh. THAT'S THE PROBLEM!! EUREKA!! It's not the quantity of carbon, it's the quality! Stale carbon is killing us!!!!!
Ooops, that just slipped in there. But, I'm not worried about buffalo farts. As others have pointed out, buffalo are just processing the carbon that was extracted from the atmoshpere a few weeks or months ago. Not to be compared with releasing millions (trillions?) of tons of carbon that was bottled up in another age.
We need to ascertain what you intended your post to say. You are brewing strawberry wine, of course. It's been fermenting for about ten days. And, you found a mouse in the wine? And, the mouse is watching you? Seems obvious to me, you will get no wine, because the mouse intends to drink it all. You could get a cat, I guess, but the cat may kick the mouse out, and keep the wine for itself.
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Which part of the AHRA are you looking at? Right up close to the top, I read, "The Act also includes blanket protection from infringement actions for private, non-commercial analog audio copying, and for digital audio copies made with digital audio recording devices." Private, non-commercial. I'm covered. It would seem that most P2P networks are covered, so long as they aren't making money.
Errr, no. A schooner is a ship. A sailboat is a boat. A sailboat can be crewed by one to 6 people, who may or may not be "sailors". A schooner has a real crew, almost all of whom are real sailors.
Google is doing the work of Islamic Jihadists, gathering data for the next terrorist strike.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3565918/Mumbai-attacks-Terrorist-suspect-arrested-in-February-had-Bombay-attack-plans.html
"Windows 7 is just Vista with a new skin and a new name. " Don't forget "tweaked". True, it is very much like Vista. I won't argue that. But, it is tweaked. Where Vista dragged forever on my test machine, Win7 runs very much like WinXP. Really - default settings just work. It's better than Vista was AFTER I searched for and applied tweaks for it. I am certainly no fan of Microsoft, but it's good to keep things in perspective. If you think of Win7 as a major upgrade to XP, you won't be far off the mark. Just forget about that other failed system that came in between. (Of course, it isn't worth the selling price, but that's a whole different topic)
As AuMatar states, the legislators are doing their jobs. They can forbid the state doing business with Microsoft at all, if they decide that to be in the State's interest. In this case, they have refused to foot the bill for upgrading to a shaky operating system. Besides which, it is highly doubtful that very many government owned machines will run Vista's aero "features" anyway. Waiting for Win 7, IF they decide to upgrade at all, makes sense. Of course, it makes even more sense to me that Texas upgrade to open source, require that their employees get the proper training to provide their own support, and simply stop paying for proprietary software. WinXP is, and will remain, a good business operating system for quite some time, after all.
You have slow internet in Silly Con Valley? Try moving out of the valley, alright? The best thing availabe where I live, is 1 MB, and I can't even afford it. ($79.00/month)
"I don't really care about "getting Linux on the desktop," and users should go use Windows or Mac if those platforms are working for them." I like honesty. Most of us do NOT really care whether our idiot neighbor is using Windows, Linux, or Mac. But, allow me to suppose that the currently circulating worm really DOES infect 3/4 of the world's computers, including desktops, servers, government machines, hospital machines, EVERYTHING. Will you then care whether your local hospital is running Windows, when you are hauled in by an ambulance? Or, would you rather be secure in the knowlege that all critical computers and machinery are run by Linux and/or Mac, which are immune to almost all worms? As I say, I admire honesty. But, honesty forces us to admit that Windows impacts on all our lives. Does your bank rely on Windows?
Disconnect, most certainly. You are right, as far as you go. However, the constructive criticism being sought seeks to identify and correct that disconnect. Your example with "Goddam LittleGuy" accurately portrays the average computer user. He KNOWS that every hardware manufacturer in the world supports Microsoft. (I know, they don't, but Joe Sixpack KNOWS it, just the same.) So, whatever he buys that does NOT work in windows just has to be faulty. Simple, in his little world, there is nothing to figure out. On the other hand, anything that doesn't work in Linux has to be Linux' fault. Again, simple. This IS a hurdle to adoption of Linux by the average user, and it IS a problem that Linux must address. How do we connect, in spite of the disconnect that you pointed out?
On target. It's not Linux fault, but it is Linux problem that ATI doesn't work on Linux. Just like yourself, I bought an ATI card years ago, for a rather decent Win98 machine used for gaming for my sons. Top of the line, with 64 MB of onboard memory and TWO GPU's. It was sweet. Unfortunately the card ONLY WORKS properly in Win98. ATI never produced a driver for the WinNT line, or for *Nix. I had to purchase a newer card, with a totally different architecture before I could upgrade to XP or to Linux. Yeah, I'm on Linux now, but that stupid card frustrated me for quite some time.
DUHHHHH!!!! Have you ever really examined the reasons for that? Most hardware providers are A: microsoft-centric B: closed source C: proprietary. They believe that they can make more money off of their products by being secretive, and not allowing FOSS people access to the code, or supplying drivers that work. Hardware developers should supply a working driver, and/or source. This is not a Linux issue, but rather a business model issue. The solution, of course, is to buy hardware that is either supported, out of the box, with a proprietary Linux driver, OR, buy hardware with open source drivers. Open source is preferable, because if it doesn't "just work", you can look at it to see WHY, and FIX IT!
Who the hell is Natalie Portman?
Oh, never mind. Not only do I not know, but I don't care. There are millions of women trying to make a living based on their oversized artificial tits.........
Good God. You must be the "Lowest Common Denomintor" that everyone talks about. Making excuses for shit movies doesn't mean they aren't shit movies. "Appearance of low quality"????? You should go into politics. You would be appreciated for your ability to make sounds, without actually saying anything.
HOW exactly is this important, or meaningful? Almost nothing good comes out of Hollywood anyway, and this certainly doesn't look like anything good.
No, I need nothing. I have my eyes, and my memory. Nothing more is required to develop a distaste for Microsoft's business practices. You can disagree, of course, but you shouldn't stoop to trolling. Xanax indeed.
A thirty million dollar publicly funded project had better benefit the public at large - wherever the project is located. 30 million in New York, 30 million in Texas, 1 million in California seems a pretty fair ratio to me. (Hey, you guys have all those stupid asses from television to help you fund your projects, make them pay up!)
Good question. Why DID we bother bailing out a failed industry? Never mind how many people are walking, a failed industry is a failed industry.
Publicly accessible, meaning, what exactly? There are literally thousands of people within walking distance who have a need for this walkway? Or, maybe a few dozen? Whichever it might be, you and I both know that Microsoft has the funds to build the damned thing without any government help. Their budget is larger than many nation's budgets!! If MS needs/wants it, let them build it. Then, I would have a reason to be grateful to MS, for feeding some construction worker's kids, pumping funds into an ailing economy, and for encouraging lard assed Americans to walk (maybe even RUN?) somewhere. Uninformed hating? I hardly think so. What you call hate, I call contempt. And, there are a lot of reasons for that contempt. Perhaps you have looked at my sig? Need an explanation?
Perhaps you have a city ordinance which specifies such a thing. I live in Backwoods, Nowhere, and such ordinances don't apply here. I may seek my amusement whenever and wherever I wish. Hell, I can wait til next week to do my own April joke, and not worry about some silly rule about silly conduct.
Errrr, yes, it does. If our tax dollars are going to pay for something, they should pay for something that benefits us all. Like, maybe replacing bridges over the Mississippi, before another one falls into the water? Maybe a lot of things, that don't benefit one corporation in particular, excluding the PEOPLE of America.
Yeah, still 9 1/2 more hours for some people to get in on the act. (it's 20:35 United States Central time as I write this)
No, I think he's Filipino. Or, are you suggesting that he is the result of a mixed marriage?
http://www.google.com/search?q=apocolypse+worm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
None of the antivirus people have published anything about an apocolypse worm. I take it that you are developing it now?
You really meant OLD CARBON where you said NEW? I mean, all that carbon was formed millions of years ago. Ahhhh. THAT'S THE PROBLEM!! EUREKA!! It's not the quantity of carbon, it's the quality! Stale carbon is killing us!!!!!
Who's mom is like a slinky?
Ooops, that just slipped in there. But, I'm not worried about buffalo farts. As others have pointed out, buffalo are just processing the carbon that was extracted from the atmoshpere a few weeks or months ago. Not to be compared with releasing millions (trillions?) of tons of carbon that was bottled up in another age.
We need to ascertain what you intended your post to say. You are brewing strawberry wine, of course. It's been fermenting for about ten days. And, you found a mouse in the wine? And, the mouse is watching you? Seems obvious to me, you will get no wine, because the mouse intends to drink it all. You could get a cat, I guess, but the cat may kick the mouse out, and keep the wine for itself.