Funny you should mention that they are the US's poor neighbor. The US's lame excuse to go from Life+50 to Life+70 was to get in sync with other countries with longer copyright terms. Now Disney et al have 20 more years to grease palms in poor countries so they can have US copyright extended to Life+100. You know, to get in sync again especially with other NAFTA countries.
If you wish to argue that child porn (virtual or filmed) endangers kids because it might entice the sick f*cks who watch the stuff to try it for real, that's different.
That sounds like a valid argument on the surface and I think it is the argument used in some places to ban violent video games but the jury is still out on whether it actually has any influence. Plus some claim that such games actually reduce violence.
Similar arguments have been made that media influence has caused violence and been thrown out of court such as the suit against Judas Priest for alledgedly causing the deaths of two boys in a suicide pact through their lyrics.
If this argument could stand up in court then I think it would have been used long ago to force television producers to remove all violence from their programming and we would be watching The New Leave it to Beaver Show (in Technicolor).
You're right and thats what we get for letting our laws be decided by lobbyists. Our congressmen seem to be influenced only by those that not only give them money but who they think can continue to give. If a lone individual sold his house and contibuted the proceeds to his congressman to try to get him to do the right thing, it wouldn't make any difference because he would be all used up.
I have heard about this too but even though people have claimed to see them, no one has produced a shred of evidence that they still survive. Not a photograph, not a carcass, nothing. Even Sasquatch has more evidence for it and that is obviously a load of Malarky. But who knows? Other supposedly extinct species have been found again.
I'm guessing you probably would be most interested in geek type books so what about getting on the mailing list of your local Linux User Group and offering your already read books and asking if others have any they wouldn't mind sharing? Then just meet up and swap at the next meeting. No shipping costs involved, you make some new friends, and you might even broaden your job search network enough to get some inside leads.
So use an html editor like Dreamweaver which can handle all that bs for you. And Communicator does JavaScript pretty well. You just have to stick to the features that were available in that version. Also, doing dynamic html with Netscape 4's layers is not so hard. Take a look at this
using Netscape 4
For Open Source programs that one has to compile, there are actually three tasks: configure, build, and install.
It always seems more like 18 tasks because there are always at least 5 specific versions of libraries or libraries you don't have installed that must be configured, built, and installed before the program you want to compile can be.
I checked out A Tale in The Desert and it is very interesting. However it didn't really seem much like a game to me. The puzzles seemed like pedantic rituals. I felt like I was going through the levels in the Masonic lodge. Player interaction was confined to being helpful to each other so it could have been called "Mr. Roger Visits Ancient Egypt." I don't want to sound completely negative though. I haven't seen any other MMORPGs for Linux so I have nothing to compare it against. As an creative experiment it is certainly a success. Perhaps it may lead the developers toward a system with new aspects of gameplay but combined with the combat and intrigue we normally expect in a game. Just my two cents.
No. The Apple v. Microsoft Look and Feel case happened a long time ago but the $140M investment was fairly recent and concerned other Apple technology borrowed by microsoft.
In 1989 Apple filed suit against Microsoft claiming copyright infringement over 189 similarities between macintosh and windows 2.x. They later added a second list to cover similarities with windows 3.x. At the conclusion of the case the court determined that the similarities were 'unprotectable'.
Whoever wrote the paper seemed more worried about a _decrease_ in fertility than overpopulation. Many people can't wait until their kids move out of the house so they can have some of their life back before they get too old to enjoy it. Who would foster endless generations of children? Probably some but not many I think. They also seemed quite worried that the "cycle of life" that they already understand would change in ways they can not predict. I guess uncertainty scared them worse than mortality.
They didn't discuss in detail the benefits besides the obvious that it is what people want. Imagine a workforce that never ages. Everyone is in the prime of their life. Imagine the skills that employees could accumulate, the shorter learning curves because of previous experience. Imagine the increase in efficiency and productivity. Longer working life means people could save for retirement longer. Pension payouts would decrease. Workers could save enough to retire when they want and go back to working if they get bored which many do.
They also did not consider the possibility of rejuvenation for those who are already old. They talked of stretching the lifespan as if old age would also last longer, but with gene therapy maybe life can be maintained in its prime permanently or at least until you step in front of a bus.
They also seem to reduce the animal's ability to compete for mates, so that in experiments in which the single-gene mutation animals are placed together with normal members of their species and allowed to reproduce freely, the single-gene difference is fairly quickly selected out of the population.
I just wonder if their support costs are going to be higher. Finding 5 competant people to do Linux desktop support (and retaining them) might not be easy (or cheap).
A good friend of mine is an IT manager for a government agency and he has told me quite a bit about it. In his County which contains a major city all the computer and network maintenance is contracted out. The only support the internal people do is for custom written or in-house software. Of course they do handle the simplest issues so the county doesn't have to pay $300 an hour to have someone explain to a user that she can't plug an outlet strip into itself.
But my point is that finding people to do Linux desktop support is as easy as calling several service vendors and getting competetive bids. Then it is the vendor's responsibility to find and train good people just as they do now. And the people the vendor sends over with Linux expertise are likely to be more technically astute than the average numbnuts they keep around to suppport MS Windows shops.
You forgot to include the retraining costs for migrating to XP and office XP. Alhough to be fair, it is probably no harder for a user to learn how to use the Microsoft products than to just use KDE and Star Office. Plus MS Office has a dancing paperclip which is fun to play with... for about 5 minutes... unless you're retarded.
I doubt if the planes would need to be in their airspace. Just keep one over the Sea of Japan and one just south of the DMZ and we're good against ground based missiles.
If we want to nuke them for shooting down a plane, I think that would be a very bad thing.
Agreed, but when the time comes to reunite Korea under one (truly) democratic government, we can fight a conventional war while keeping our friends in the region safe.
Excuse my flippant remark. I was mostly joking though not totally. I had read about similar volunteer efforts wiring third world countries with high speed access long before it came to my area. That did used to upset me since I was reading about them on my unreliable 22-34k modem connection, and my little joke was based on that frustration. But no, I think it is great to bring small, poor nations closer to the international community through volunteer efforts such as this. Faster communication and faster transportation always seems to make the world smaller and therefore more cohesive. The free flow of information always seems to empower people and encourage democracy. Greater contact and understanding will promote world peace.
I am going to sign up so I can leave myself messages from the future. Every message will begin: 'Repost this immediately so the me from 3 hours ago will read it.' That way I'll find out whether I should dump my perfumania.com stock now or if the New Economy is just in a temporary slump.
A process where the hard disk read-write head picks up data in the direction it is traveling across the disk, rather than in the order data is requested. In this way, disk I/O requests are organized logically according to disk head position as they arrive at the server for processing. This reduces back-and-forth movements of the disk head and minimizes head seek times.
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Novell knowledge base
Elevator seeks reduce the average wait time for data to be returned and therefore increase performance. But as you already realized it has to understand the underlying geometry of the drive.
From the article:
Competition for the business market may become even more intense, because I expect Microsoft branded "PCs" to take much of home market within a couple of years. There's already XBox, Home Gateway coming soon, and XBox 2 will be much more like a fully functional PC.
And they are also moving toward the hardware market. They've already pissed on and pissed off the big vendors. Might as 'cut off their air supply' to keep their own revenues increasing right? I think Michael Dell is about to find out what it feels like to get bent over the barrel by his old friend Bill.
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Funny you should mention that they are the US's poor neighbor. The US's lame excuse to go from Life+50 to Life+70 was to get in sync with other countries with longer copyright terms. Now Disney et al have 20 more years to grease palms in poor countries so they can have US copyright extended to Life+100. You know, to get in sync again especially with other NAFTA countries.
That sounds like a valid argument on the surface and I think it is the argument used in some places to ban violent video games but the jury is still out on whether it actually has any influence. Plus some claim that such games actually reduce violence.
Similar arguments have been made that media influence has caused violence and been thrown out of court such as the suit against Judas Priest for alledgedly causing the deaths of two boys in a suicide pact through their lyrics.
If this argument could stand up in court then I think it would have been used long ago to force television producers to remove all violence from their programming and we would be watching The New Leave it to Beaver Show (in Technicolor).
As Mark Twain once wrote: You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.
I have heard about this too but even though people have claimed to see them, no one has produced a shred of evidence that they still survive. Not a photograph, not a carcass, nothing. Even Sasquatch has more evidence for it and that is obviously a load of Malarky. But who knows? Other supposedly extinct species have been found again.
I'm guessing you probably would be most interested in geek type books so what about getting on the mailing list of your local Linux User Group and offering your already read books and asking if others have any they wouldn't mind sharing? Then just meet up and swap at the next meeting. No shipping costs involved, you make some new friends, and you might even broaden your job search network enough to get some inside leads.
So use an html editor like Dreamweaver which can handle all that bs for you. And Communicator does JavaScript pretty well. You just have to stick to the features that were available in that version. Also, doing dynamic html with Netscape 4's layers is not so hard. Take a look at this using Netscape 4
Don't forget Delphi instead of VB since it is cross platform now with the release of Kylix.
It always seems more like 18 tasks because there are always at least 5 specific versions of libraries or libraries you don't have installed that must be configured, built, and installed before the program you want to compile can be.
We _do_ have a government that looks out for its _own_ people. Too bad I'm not one of them. I was born a poor, honest, hardworking American instead.
"Lock-in" is what it is called when you have a monopoly because you are limiting choice. When you are the underdog it is called having a "killer app".
I checked out A Tale in The Desert and it is very interesting. However it didn't really seem much like a game to me. The puzzles seemed like pedantic rituals. I felt like I was going through the levels in the Masonic lodge. Player interaction was confined to being helpful to each other so it could have been called "Mr. Roger Visits Ancient Egypt." I don't want to sound completely negative though. I haven't seen any other MMORPGs for Linux so I have nothing to compare it against. As an creative experiment it is certainly a success. Perhaps it may lead the developers toward a system with new aspects of gameplay but combined with the combat and intrigue we normally expect in a game. Just my two cents.
No. The Apple v. Microsoft Look and Feel case happened a long time ago but the $140M investment was fairly recent and concerned other Apple technology borrowed by microsoft.
In 1989 Apple filed suit against Microsoft claiming copyright infringement over 189 similarities between macintosh and windows 2.x. They later added a second list to cover similarities with windows 3.x. At the conclusion of the case the court determined that the similarities were 'unprotectable'.
Whoever wrote the paper seemed more worried about a _decrease_ in fertility than overpopulation. Many people can't wait until their kids move out of the house so they can have some of their life back before they get too old to enjoy it. Who would foster endless generations of children? Probably some but not many I think. They also seemed quite worried that the "cycle of life" that they already understand would change in ways they can not predict. I guess uncertainty scared them worse than mortality.
They didn't discuss in detail the benefits besides the obvious that it is what people want. Imagine a workforce that never ages. Everyone is in the prime of their life. Imagine the skills that employees could accumulate, the shorter learning curves because of previous experience. Imagine the increase in efficiency and productivity. Longer working life means people could save for retirement longer. Pension payouts would decrease. Workers could save enough to retire when they want and go back to working if they get bored which many do.
They also did not consider the possibility of rejuvenation for those who are already old. They talked of stretching the lifespan as if old age would also last longer, but with gene therapy maybe life can be maintained in its prime permanently or at least until you step in front of a bus.
We hardly ever get laid anyway!
Actually it tops out at 230kbps. The range is listed as 300-230k bps in the product brief.
A good friend of mine is an IT manager for a government agency and he has told me quite a bit about it. In his County which contains a major city all the computer and network maintenance is contracted out. The only support the internal people do is for custom written or in-house software. Of course they do handle the simplest issues so the county doesn't have to pay $300 an hour to have someone explain to a user that she can't plug an outlet strip into itself.
But my point is that finding people to do Linux desktop support is as easy as calling several service vendors and getting competetive bids. Then it is the vendor's responsibility to find and train good people just as they do now. And the people the vendor sends over with Linux expertise are likely to be more technically astute than the average numbnuts they keep around to suppport MS Windows shops.
You forgot to include the retraining costs for migrating to XP and office XP. Alhough to be fair, it is probably no harder for a user to learn how to use the Microsoft products than to just use KDE and Star Office. Plus MS Office has a dancing paperclip which is fun to play with... for about 5 minutes... unless you're retarded.
If we want to nuke them for shooting down a plane, I think that would be a very bad thing.
Agreed, but when the time comes to reunite Korea under one (truly) democratic government, we can fight a conventional war while keeping our friends in the region safe.
The ABL will carry enough reactants for about 20 shots on target
That's not very many shots, and what defense would the plane have against ground based lasers?
Excuse my flippant remark. I was mostly joking though not totally. I had read about similar volunteer efforts wiring third world countries with high speed access long before it came to my area. That did used to upset me since I was reading about them on my unreliable 22-34k modem connection, and my little joke was based on that frustration. But no, I think it is great to bring small, poor nations closer to the international community through volunteer efforts such as this. Faster communication and faster transportation always seems to make the world smaller and therefore more cohesive. The free flow of information always seems to empower people and encourage democracy. Greater contact and understanding will promote world peace.
There are lots of neighborhoods around me that can't get high speed internet access.
I am going to sign up so I can leave myself messages from the future. Every message will begin: 'Repost this immediately so the me from 3 hours ago will read it.' That way I'll find out whether I should dump my perfumania.com stock now or if the New Economy is just in a temporary slump.
Robert Burns might have disagreed but then what did he know? He didn't even know how to spell 'loove'.
--Snipped from the Novell knowledge base
Elevator seeks reduce the average wait time for data to be returned and therefore increase performance. But as you already realized it has to understand the underlying geometry of the drive.
And they are also moving toward the hardware market. They've already pissed on and pissed off the big vendors. Might as 'cut off their air supply' to keep their own revenues increasing right? I think Michael Dell is about to find out what it feels like to get bent over the barrel by his old friend Bill.