Not at all, Linux is a setup and forget platform. It does not suffer from creeping slowness, expanding (undefragable) swap files, or other little nasties you've had to grin and bear under windows. If you're that small of a company, take a night off (not even an afternoon mind you, go at like 7:00 pmish, or whenever your "slow" time is) and buy a $50 book on Linux, you'll be up and running within days, and over the course of a few years you'll have substantial performance increase and maintance decrese.
Realy, then why is slide film more expensive than 400 speed color negitive? Eventual print size DOES matter, even with film. The film captures a certain amount of information based on the size of the film grains. The faster the film, the larger the grains, and the lower the resoultion of the picture. The way around this is to use medium format or large format cameras instead of 35mm, in other words more film to get more inforamtion. No, digital cameras do not come close to matching a 12x8 negitive, and I don't realy know how they compare to 35mm, because that also depends on speed. If you have subjects who stand still, it may still be preferable to use that 35mm slide film. Anyway, your argument about the size of the print is utter bullshit. The film may not be advertized that way, but it is one of the factors one must take into account when determining the film to use.
Seems to be a rather fratcuous hive. I hear all about slashdot group think, but then I also see these flame wars. I think you overstate the groupthink phenomonon.
We have this realy spiffy immune system that is suposed to attack foreign bodies, when there aren't dangerous foreign bodies it attacks anything that's not quite right. Alergies are caused because our environment is to clean and safe. Realy a fairly small price to pay not to have smallpox, malaria, and a host of other nasties.
I'll tell you what, when you can tell me an experiment that confirms evolution I'll try to figgure out one that confirms ID. both theories work on time scales that are NOT TESTABLE by humans.
"Somewhere there is something wrong with foo" is the begining of scientific inquiry. Deriding a theory just because it goes counter to current "knowledge" is not a scientific way of dealing with the disagreement, if a theory is incomplete, then that incompleteness needs to be addressed. Simple derision is counterproductive.
HERE HERE! that is about the most retared abuse of copyright I'm aware of. Portraits are obviously a works for hire, and as such should belong to the PATRON, not to the artist.
Bad example, most old (golden age) comic books aren't copyrighted, go ahead and scan and print all you want. Just make sure to check the status on the particular work you're doing.
Call it overhead expense reduction, once you reduce that expence it stops sucking up revenue. Software is an overhead expense, not a direct expense. The spend money to make money thing refers to direct expenses.
Where are you coming up with this? It's harder to PROPERLY administer a windows box than to PROPERLY administer a Linux box. Doing many administrative tasks in Linux is far more straighforward than in windows, there are a few that aren't but those are all one shot, then leave it the hell alone forever tasks. Once a Linux machine is set up, it's pretty simple to just leave alone. It's also very simple to configure multiples of the same machine without buying new software, just install, insert identical hard drive to secondary master, cp/dev/hda/dev/hdc then move the secondary master into a new computer, insert identical disk again, repeat until finished. You can also do a netboot or floppy boot that connects to an ftp server with the disk image on it and copy from there. Or the other option is a totaly diskless workstation where you simply have one server with all the files, or multiple servers with the files, and netboot everything.
Dee-mon. That's how it is in the dictionary. It's just a variation on the Demon spelling, is pronounced the same way. Daimon (a Greek word) is a lesser diety, and of course since the judeo/christian/islamic tradition has "thou shalt have no other gods before me" as a core law such beings are considered evil under the current religious mix for much of the world. However as that these Daemons are controled by the invoker (anybody seeing a trend here?) they are not being worshiped, and as such are imune to such a restriction. Any further questions?
Yeah, but the linux way makes UNINSTALLING easier. It also makes large groups of software packages take up less space because you can just declare a dependancy, and let apt or portage, or <insert package manager manager here> take care of the details.
The published a public specification as well as their pattent applicatoin. I'm not talking about implemtning from the patent application, wich is indeed illegal until the patent has ended, I'm talking about from the public documentation they provided about their format. You know, like what Compaq reverse engineered from IBM?
Nor does the end of the promotion end the fact that you own the bannanas you bought. What the MP3 people are doing is giving bannanas away, and when everyone has taken bannanas charging them for the bannanas taken while they were giving them away because they are no longer giving bannanas away. Totaly different situation.
Hey dickhead, they had to publish in the patent application, so that "they didn't have to publish" is bullshit. Implementing anything from a public spec is perfectly legal, so long as you don't have actual knowege of the patented implemenation, or at least it traditionaly has been.-
Hmm, you forgot about those with, unusual sexual tastes, rare hobbies, and other interests that it is far easier to get a group of people to talk about when you have a wide geographic area to draw from. I also seem to see a lot of 20something 30something, 40something and the like channels also. Nice blanket statement, but for the most part untrue. The legal uses far outstrip the illegal uses, especialy on nets that police themselves even halfway well.
The semantics of the grandparent of this post did not directly call YOU a MS Fanboy, it stated that the fanboys say Linux is free if you don't value your time. Since you indicated that Windows also costs you time he was meerly making an observation. Now there was indeed an implication that you are a fanboy, but it wasn't explicit, and we may both be reading more into it than needed. Have a nice day.
All I was poiting out what what law was being violated. Once again Decss doesn't violate the patents, and depending on how the supreme court views the DMCA might not be illegal after all. This also means that it's only illegal in the US.
Not realy. There is no patent on CSS. If there were it would be publicly published, and you could see it just by requesting the patent to see if they infringed on any of YOUR patents, and so that you don't infringe on it. It's a trade secret and only proteced by the DMCA because it's a "copy prevention measure" which until the DMCA were not at all protected, only the act of copying and distributing copyrighted works were. Now if you want to bring up the DMCA that's a totaly different ball of wax, but there is not patent infringment to deal with.
And who defines Serious Literary, Artistic, Political, or Scientific value? This is still just people in a dark room applying arbitrary standards to everything, and contrary to the ideals of our nation.
Realy? My SL-5500 only gets about 4 hours with the backlight on, I can bump it up near 8 by turning the backlight off. Of course if I'm reading for an extended period of time in one streach I just plug it in to it's charger and run with it.
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Not at all, Linux is a setup and forget platform. It does not suffer from creeping slowness, expanding (undefragable) swap files, or other little nasties you've had to grin and bear under windows. If you're that small of a company, take a night off (not even an afternoon mind you, go at like 7:00 pmish, or whenever your "slow" time is) and buy a $50 book on Linux, you'll be up and running within days, and over the course of a few years you'll have substantial performance increase and maintance decrese.
Realy, then why is slide film more expensive than 400 speed color negitive? Eventual print size DOES matter, even with film. The film captures a certain amount of information based on the size of the film grains. The faster the film, the larger the grains, and the lower the resoultion of the picture. The way around this is to use medium format or large format cameras instead of 35mm, in other words more film to get more inforamtion. No, digital cameras do not come close to matching a 12x8 negitive, and I don't realy know how they compare to 35mm, because that also depends on speed. If you have subjects who stand still, it may still be preferable to use that 35mm slide film. Anyway, your argument about the size of the print is utter bullshit. The film may not be advertized that way, but it is one of the factors one must take into account when determining the film to use.
Seems to be a rather fratcuous hive. I hear all about slashdot group think, but then I also see these flame wars. I think you overstate the groupthink phenomonon.
We have this realy spiffy immune system that is suposed to attack foreign bodies, when there aren't dangerous foreign bodies it attacks anything that's not quite right. Alergies are caused because our environment is to clean and safe. Realy a fairly small price to pay not to have smallpox, malaria, and a host of other nasties.
The catholic church has a non-literal view of the "Days" in Genisis. Actualy pretty much ALL of Genisis.
Um, I'd love to see how you plan on creating a whole new species of fruit flies, and wish you the best of luck.
I'll tell you what, when you can tell me an experiment that confirms evolution I'll try to figgure out one that confirms ID. both theories work on time scales that are NOT TESTABLE by humans.
"Somewhere there is something wrong with foo" is the begining of scientific inquiry. Deriding a theory just because it goes counter to current "knowledge" is not a scientific way of dealing with the disagreement, if a theory is incomplete, then that incompleteness needs to be addressed. Simple derision is counterproductive.
HERE HERE! that is about the most retared abuse of copyright I'm aware of. Portraits are obviously a works for hire, and as such should belong to the PATRON, not to the artist.
Bad example, most old (golden age) comic books aren't copyrighted, go ahead and scan and print all you want. Just make sure to check the status on the particular work you're doing.
And how exactly is spending more money on Microsoft products making you money?
Call it overhead expense reduction, once you reduce that expence it stops sucking up revenue. Software is an overhead expense, not a direct expense. The spend money to make money thing refers to direct expenses.
Where are you coming up with this? It's harder to PROPERLY administer a windows box than to PROPERLY administer a Linux box. Doing many administrative tasks in Linux is far more straighforward than in windows, there are a few that aren't but those are all one shot, then leave it the hell alone forever tasks. Once a Linux machine is set up, it's pretty simple to just leave alone. It's also very simple to configure multiples of the same machine without buying new software, just install, insert identical hard drive to secondary master, cp /dev/hda /dev/hdc then move the secondary master into a new computer, insert identical disk again, repeat until finished. You can also do a netboot or floppy boot that connects to an ftp server with the disk image on it and copy from there. Or the other option is a totaly diskless workstation where you simply have one server with all the files, or multiple servers with the files, and netboot everything.
Dee-mon. That's how it is in the dictionary. It's just a variation on the Demon spelling, is pronounced the same way. Daimon (a Greek word) is a lesser diety, and of course since the judeo/christian/islamic tradition has "thou shalt have no other gods before me" as a core law such beings are considered evil under the current religious mix for much of the world. However as that these Daemons are controled by the invoker (anybody seeing a trend here?) they are not being worshiped, and as such are imune to such a restriction. Any further questions?
Yeah, but the linux way makes UNINSTALLING easier. It also makes large groups of software packages take up less space because you can just declare a dependancy, and let apt or portage, or <insert package manager manager here> take care of the details.
The published a public specification as well as their pattent applicatoin. I'm not talking about implemtning from the patent application, wich is indeed illegal until the patent has ended, I'm talking about from the public documentation they provided about their format. You know, like what Compaq reverse engineered from IBM?
Nor does the end of the promotion end the fact that you own the bannanas you bought. What the MP3 people are doing is giving bannanas away, and when everyone has taken bannanas charging them for the bannanas taken while they were giving them away because they are no longer giving bannanas away. Totaly different situation.
Hey dickhead, they had to publish in the patent application, so that "they didn't have to publish" is bullshit. Implementing anything from a public spec is perfectly legal, so long as you don't have actual knowege of the patented implemenation, or at least it traditionaly has been.-
Hmm, you forgot about those with, unusual sexual tastes, rare hobbies, and other interests that it is far easier to get a group of people to talk about when you have a wide geographic area to draw from. I also seem to see a lot of 20something 30something, 40something and the like channels also. Nice blanket statement, but for the most part untrue. The legal uses far outstrip the illegal uses, especialy on nets that police themselves even halfway well.
The semantics of the grandparent of this post did not directly call YOU a MS Fanboy, it stated that the fanboys say Linux is free if you don't value your time. Since you indicated that Windows also costs you time he was meerly making an observation. Now there was indeed an implication that you are a fanboy, but it wasn't explicit, and we may both be reading more into it than needed. Have a nice day.
All I was poiting out what what law was being violated. Once again Decss doesn't violate the patents, and depending on how the supreme court views the DMCA might not be illegal after all. This also means that it's only illegal in the US.
Not realy. There is no patent on CSS. If there were it would be publicly published, and you could see it just by requesting the patent to see if they infringed on any of YOUR patents, and so that you don't infringe on it. It's a trade secret and only proteced by the DMCA because it's a "copy prevention measure" which until the DMCA were not at all protected, only the act of copying and distributing copyrighted works were. Now if you want to bring up the DMCA that's a totaly different ball of wax, but there is not patent infringment to deal with.
And who defines Serious Literary, Artistic, Political, or Scientific value? This is still just people in a dark room applying arbitrary standards to everything, and contrary to the ideals of our nation.
Right, that's why we need to send in comments protesting their actions to stiffle free speach.
Realy? My SL-5500 only gets about 4 hours with the backlight on, I can bump it up near 8 by turning the backlight off. Of course if I'm reading for an extended period of time in one streach I just plug it in to it's charger and run with it.