Actually, depending on how you define "cleaning up the air", it would reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases. We know what those gases are, or at least what many of them are. The link between not putting those gases into the air, and the gases not being in the air, is conclusive.
The link from the gases to actual global warming, and the question of whether global warming is a natural process or an environmental catastrophe, are still under some debate.
That's a very good point - I think that one of the few ways that publishers could hope to coax people over to DRM would be by offering a price cut due to the anti-piracy elements. It's time for them to put their money where their mouths are, so to speak. And if you can't find a content company willing to take that step, then doesn't that show that the "piracy is costing us megabucks" argument is untrue? Either publishers or DRM companies (or both) have been feeding the public and the government a line for a while now; I hope that it won't stretch much farther.
How about if DRM in the future prevents the use of ideas from my/. comments becoming part of someone's thesis? See if you can spot the watermark in here somewhere:)
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There's a difference between a classified network where there are real consequences for violating security, and a GOVNET where every average civil servant will have an account but will not have a sterling appreciation of the security aspects. You can run high-security government and military installations on strict military security, but the large remainder of the federal government operates on a business level of security, which will not work in a separate air gap network. I don't think you could get that many people to be equally security-conscious without paying them a lot more, just like airport baggage checkers aren't going to be more careful just because you want them to be.
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Just what we need, a toaster that always gets your philosophy too dark:)
If you just want it to be fast and simple, Berkeley is probably faster than MySQL and it is truly ACID. If you want your DB to be relational, though, Berkeley's not for you.
Hmmm, if the countryside was littered with laser-blinded backhoe operators as a result of their slicing through the wrong cable, I don't know how that would be much worse than the current situation. You know what they will say: there are old backhoe operators, and bold backhoe operators, but there are no old, bold backhoe operators:)
Um, all you do is select "Reboot" or "Halt" from the GDM or KDM window, you know. It's not like we're all still using slackware w/o X here in 2001. My wife has no problems rebooting between Linux and Windows.
You know, it's not just people in the U.S. that use a 26-letter alphabet. Not that people in the U.S. aren't annoying in other ways, but I don't recall anyone here ever laying sole claim to [a-zA-Z]. Why don't you pick a real reason to complain about residents of the U.S. next time?
Oh, if they had only named it "assport", the back orifice jokes would never end:)
I would say that perception does not necessarily equal reality. At places of business, I see a lot more supporting of Windows being needed with very little Linux support required. Although I'll admit that for home users this is reversed, so it's a good deal for OEMs because business customers will subsidize their own internal support whereas home users will call the OEM directly. I imagine the support calls you would get if you tried to migrate home users away from Windows would be fairly expensive, but on the other end it would be a lot easier for OEMs to leave a secure backdoor into customer systems that would allow them to login and fix things. So with the effort up front Linux could be more supportable by OEMs, but the switchover would be painful. Here's hoping that Microsoft keeps cranking up the Windows pain to make the decision for them...
It's not worth $100 when I can get it for free. It's only worth $100 if you are too lazy to shop around for the best OS for your needs. Providing PC hardware control was maybe worth money in 1985, and network connectivity was maybe worth money in 1995. Sorry, that profit point has passed.
That's nothing - I was in a meeting the other day where a manager was taking notes in Powerpoint. Not preparing a presentation, just taking the minutes of the meeting. He then distributed the minutes as ppt, rather than a perfectly sufficient.txt file. I would have stopped him, but a) he's management and b) I didn't really think anyone would actually do that.
Whoa there, pardner - there's no right to get a cut every time your creative work changes hands. The artist and the RIAA each got paid once, when the music was sold retail. And since the RIAA receives more of a cut than the artist, at least you're hurting the recording company more (per album, if not percentage-of-earnings-wise) when you buy secondhand.
For one thing, I believe the anthrax vaccination is a little more dangerous than other standard childhood vaccinations; so much so that there was some question about this when the entire U.S. military was vaccinated.
Also, anthrax is apparently not very contagious. I'd worry more about smallpox, which almost no one has a current vaccination for (it wears off in ten years), might kill 1 out of three, but in an unexposed population like the current world might have even higher mortality than that.
I think the world would be nicer and more interesting if we got the mail delivered a little quicker, but that might be because I do not have the soul of an artist...
Here's an interesting thought: if I recorded whatever packets were associated with such an event, and then replayed them later or shared them with friends via a P2P network, would that be breaking the law? If we reach the point where physical actions can be distributed electronically, won't we have the same legal issues that we had when music first became distributable electronically?
I can see problems for society there, though - if everyone has their favorite Debbie Does Me recording, actual instances of real sex in the real world may not be nearly as appealing. So no more kids for you technological elites out there:)
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Actually, depending on how you define "cleaning up the air", it would reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases. We know what those gases are, or at least what many of them are. The link between not putting those gases into the air, and the gases not being in the air, is conclusive.
The link from the gases to actual global warming, and the question of whether global warming is a natural process or an environmental catastrophe, are still under some debate.
That's a very good point - I think that one of the few ways that publishers could hope to coax people over to DRM would be by offering a price cut due to the anti-piracy elements. It's time for them to put their money where their mouths are, so to speak. And if you can't find a content company willing to take that step, then doesn't that show that the "piracy is costing us megabucks" argument is untrue? Either publishers or DRM companies (or both) have been feeding the public and the government a line for a while now; I hope that it won't stretch much farther.
How about if DRM in the future prevents the use of ideas from my /. comments becoming part of someone's thesis? See if you can spot the watermark in here somewhere :)
There's a difference between a classified network where there are real consequences for violating security, and a GOVNET where every average civil servant will have an account but will not have a sterling appreciation of the security aspects. You can run high-security government and military installations on strict military security, but the large remainder of the federal government operates on a business level of security, which will not work in a separate air gap network. I don't think you could get that many people to be equally security-conscious without paying them a lot more, just like airport baggage checkers aren't going to be more careful just because you want them to be.
Just what we need, a toaster that always gets your philosophy too dark :)
Oracle tells the future.
If you just want it to be fast and simple, Berkeley is probably faster than MySQL and it is truly ACID. If you want your DB to be relational, though, Berkeley's not for you.
Not to mention students of criminology :)
Sorry, I'm only humor-impaired when my projects at work aren't going well. Much better now...
You can use Outlook Web Access to view all Exchange data through a web page.
Hmmm, if the countryside was littered with laser-blinded backhoe operators as a result of their slicing through the wrong cable, I don't know how that would be much worse than the current situation. You know what they will say: there are old backhoe operators, and bold backhoe operators, but there are no old, bold backhoe operators :)
No, I think a "crusade" would be more appropriate :)
Um, all you do is select "Reboot" or "Halt" from the GDM or KDM window, you know. It's not like we're all still using slackware w/o X here in 2001. My wife has no problems rebooting between Linux and Windows.
You know, it's not just people in the U.S. that use a 26-letter alphabet. Not that people in the U.S. aren't annoying in other ways, but I don't recall anyone here ever laying sole claim to [a-zA-Z]. Why don't you pick a real reason to complain about residents of the U.S. next time?
Oh, if they had only named it "assport", the back orifice jokes would never end :)
I would say that perception does not necessarily equal reality. At places of business, I see a lot more supporting of Windows being needed with very little Linux support required. Although I'll admit that for home users this is reversed, so it's a good deal for OEMs because business customers will subsidize their own internal support whereas home users will call the OEM directly. I imagine the support calls you would get if you tried to migrate home users away from Windows would be fairly expensive, but on the other end it would be a lot easier for OEMs to leave a secure backdoor into customer systems that would allow them to login and fix things. So with the effort up front Linux could be more supportable by OEMs, but the switchover would be painful. Here's hoping that Microsoft keeps cranking up the Windows pain to make the decision for them...
It's not worth $100 when I can get it for free. It's only worth $100 if you are too lazy to shop around for the best OS for your needs. Providing PC hardware control was maybe worth money in 1985, and network connectivity was maybe worth money in 1995. Sorry, that profit point has passed.
That's nothing - I was in a meeting the other day where a manager was taking notes in Powerpoint. Not preparing a presentation, just taking the minutes of the meeting. He then distributed the minutes as ppt, rather than a perfectly sufficient .txt file. I would have stopped him, but a) he's management and b) I didn't really think anyone would actually do that.
Whoa there, pardner - there's no right to get a cut every time your creative work changes hands. The artist and the RIAA each got paid once, when the music was sold retail. And since the RIAA receives more of a cut than the artist, at least you're hurting the recording company more (per album, if not percentage-of-earnings-wise) when you buy secondhand.
Maybe he wasn't any better at machine learning than he was at baseball...
Exactly the example I was thinking of.
If your Grandma was that smart, she'd be running Linux by now.
For one thing, I believe the anthrax vaccination is a little more dangerous than other standard childhood vaccinations; so much so that there was some question about this when the entire U.S. military was vaccinated.
Also, anthrax is apparently not very contagious. I'd worry more about smallpox, which almost no one has a current vaccination for (it wears off in ten years), might kill 1 out of three, but in an unexposed population like the current world might have even higher mortality than that.
Why don't you explain registry editing to Grandma ("a regular what, dear?"), and come back and say that again. Don't worry, we'll still be waiting :)
I think the world would be nicer and more interesting if we got the mail delivered a little quicker, but that might be because I do not have the soul of an artist...
Here's an interesting thought: if I recorded whatever packets were associated with such an event, and then replayed them later or shared them with friends via a P2P network, would that be breaking the law? If we reach the point where physical actions can be distributed electronically, won't we have the same legal issues that we had when music first became distributable electronically?
I can see problems for society there, though - if everyone has their favorite Debbie Does Me recording, actual instances of real sex in the real world may not be nearly as appealing. So no more kids for you technological elites out there :)