The best part about it is that you can actually run something on it, unlike SGi's older IRIX-based crap.... unless you like re-writing code to blow your nose, be glad this one is running Linux.
South Korea, through capitalism and foreign trade, has built itself into an industrial and technological powerhouse. Flip over any electronic device, and it was probably made in Korea, Taiwan, or Japan. Korea today is in a similar place to Japan in 1980--trying to gain a good name in Western markets. No one drove Hondas in 1980, and Hyundais aren't too popular today. I bet, though, that in 2010 there will be Korean cars all over American streets. (Not European streets, tho. The only really successful Japanese car maker there is Mitsubishi, and that's because they build Mitsubishis in Europe, often alongside European makes, i.e. Volvo S40/Mitsubishi Carisma).
Now look where North Korea is... trying to build nukes and pissing off everyone in the world except bin Laden and Hussein.
The RIAA is the Recording Industry Ass'n of the AMERICAS... but you can bet anything they'll try to get their fingers into that one. If there was an RIAE (Europe) in the 1450's, Gutenberg would have been shot and his press burned.
100 years ago, you could call all over the British Empire. Today, you can't call next door because your phone company hosed your bill and you didn't pay them the $23,412 they think you owe.
Copying your friends discs in the USA (and in Canada as well, but in Canada _you_ must make the copy yourself) is not a grey area; while copyright violation is still bad, federal laws in both countries bar lawsuits against consumers for the non-commercial use of recording equipment. the USA law specifies "analog or digital"... the Canadian law says that you must make the copy for your own use--in Canada, you can copy your friend's disc for yourself but you technically can't copy your own disc for a friend. As long as you don't sell it, you're protected in the USA.
It's so much easier (even for a geek like myself) to sit down with that beer on my couch and catch channel 9 news than it is to type stuff on my computer to see the news. I think TV news will be here for a long time, internet news is much less convenient once you get home and it's 10pm (or 11, whichever) and you want the day's news. A newspaper is going to be around a long time too; it's easy to read on the train/bus/whatever on the way to work, here in Denver, it only costs a quarter (thanks to 15 years of newspaper wars), and when you're done, you can use it to pack that vase you're sending Aunt Marge for her birthday so the USPS doesn't break it into 3000 pieces.
Seems to me it makes a better hobby than a job; knowing your sh!t from years of experience or knowing a different way to do things because that's how it USED to work (Win 3.1, DOS, and MacOS 6.x gurus unite) can definitely help you get your "regular" job done more quickly and effectively. I know DOS has saved my @$$ a few times when Win98 has puked on me.
Hey--did anyone in this country pay a damn bit of attention to what Kansas did last year?! Guess not. They changed the state-wide standards so that teaching of evolution was *no longer required* It's still perfectly fine to teach evolution, and it's also fine to ignore it. What no one realizes is that many states (Colorado included) never had evolution in the state standards to begin with! Kansas basically just did something that many states did 70 years ago........
I want the aura. I wonder if i hold the exchange mail server hostage if my boss will get me one... Oh wait, you can't hold it hostage, it never works anyway! Oh well. I guess I'll just have to hold the jetdirect box on our printer hostage. "Gimme that or the printer goes local!" (ppl quivering in their boots) -der saeufer (ich bin besoffen)
This is like busting someone for speeding, then charging him with posessing 100 lbs of explosive material because his car has 13 gallons of gas in it! Breaking other people's systems is wrong, but keeping a program that can do it isn't a crime! What's next? "Possession of Piracy Tools" for having a CD burner (or a floppy drive, for that matter!), "Possession with intent to sell pirated software" for having a burn of Win98 on your desk? (remember, you are allowed to make one backup copy for personal use)... BTW, I have 4 deadly weapons in my pocket: three car keys and a 1.5" pocketknife. (Incidentally, a 1.5" pocketknife can get you expelled from high schools here in colorado. glad i'm done.)
I'm a student at the University of Colorado (Boulder campus). At what we're paying for our housing, we are most definitely paying for our internet connections. University policy prohibits "servers of any kind" within the dorms. To prove it, the firewall prohibits inbound connections on ports 20, 21, 80, 5500 (hotline), and a few others. I know some people (myself included) are running servers anyway: it's not that hard to change from x.x.x.x to x.x.x.x:31337 for your server (that's right, backorifice's port is WIDE OPEN). Through FTP and hotline (inbound) I can download mp3s and other things at ~200k/sec without trouble. However, the university (just this semester) has the bandwidth allowed for napster's port(s) (i don't remember the number) very limited; no matter from whom i download, i can get only 6k/s on a good day. Before this, I could soak up 200k of the university's bandwidth. Invent a better security system, and we'll invent better students and servers. It seems to me (i work for the university between classes) that the whole campus is prohibited from having servers; i can't get to my work PC from outside the campus net either. Incidentally, here in colorado at least, the tuition rates are subsidised with tax revenue. housing rates are not.
Ihre verwendung der deutsches Sprache ist ganz schlecht! Kommen Sie aus Amerika oder die Schweiz? Ich werde Ihre Eier abschneiden, aber ich will nicht nach Kentucky reisen, nur um Sie zu schaden. Gibt es gute Hanf dort? Ich möchte was Hanf kaufen, Amsterdam ist sehr weit. Sie Können fast kein richtige Deutsch... Sie Können "Dummkopf" nicht buchstabieren, fast alle 6-jährige Kinder können das machen! Was für ein Blöder Amerikaner! Stück Scheiße! Auf Englisch: Learn some fucking German!
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The best part about it is that you can actually run something on it, unlike SGi's older IRIX-based crap.... unless you like re-writing code to blow your nose, be glad this one is running Linux.
A good ole geek party... maybe the name should be "The alternative *sausage* party" ??
South Korea, through capitalism and foreign trade, has built itself into an industrial and technological powerhouse. Flip over any electronic device, and it was probably made in Korea, Taiwan, or Japan. Korea today is in a similar place to Japan in 1980--trying to gain a good name in Western markets. No one drove Hondas in 1980, and Hyundais aren't too popular today. I bet, though, that in 2010 there will be Korean cars all over American streets. (Not European streets, tho. The only really successful Japanese car maker there is Mitsubishi, and that's because they build Mitsubishis in Europe, often alongside European makes, i.e. Volvo S40/Mitsubishi Carisma).
Now look where North Korea is... trying to build nukes and pissing off everyone in the world except bin Laden and Hussein.
You tell me which is the better system.
The RIAA is the Recording Industry Ass'n of the AMERICAS... but you can bet anything they'll try to get their fingers into that one. If there was an RIAE (Europe) in the 1450's, Gutenberg would have been shot and his press burned.
100 years ago, you could call all over the British Empire. Today, you can't call next door because your phone company hosed your bill and you didn't pay them the $23,412 they think you owe.
Copying your friends discs in the USA (and in Canada as well, but in Canada _you_ must make the copy yourself) is not a grey area; while copyright violation is still bad, federal laws in both countries bar lawsuits against consumers for the non-commercial use of recording equipment. the USA law specifies "analog or digital"... the Canadian law says that you must make the copy for your own use--in Canada, you can copy your friend's disc for yourself but you technically can't copy your own disc for a friend. As long as you don't sell it, you're protected in the USA.
It's so much easier (even for a geek like myself) to sit down with that beer on my couch and catch channel 9 news than it is to type stuff on my computer to see the news. I think TV news will be here for a long time, internet news is much less convenient once you get home and it's 10pm (or 11, whichever) and you want the day's news. A newspaper is going to be around a long time too; it's easy to read on the train/bus/whatever on the way to work, here in Denver, it only costs a quarter (thanks to 15 years of newspaper wars), and when you're done, you can use it to pack that vase you're sending Aunt Marge for her birthday so the USPS doesn't break it into 3000 pieces.
Seems to me it makes a better hobby than a job; knowing your sh!t from years of experience or knowing a different way to do things because that's how it USED to work (Win 3.1, DOS, and MacOS 6.x gurus unite) can definitely help you get your "regular" job done more quickly and effectively. I know DOS has saved my @$$ a few times when Win98 has puked on me.
Hey--did anyone in this country pay a damn bit of attention to what Kansas did last year?! Guess not. They changed the state-wide standards so that teaching of evolution was *no longer required* It's still perfectly fine to teach evolution, and it's also fine to ignore it. What no one realizes is that many states (Colorado included) never had evolution in the state standards to begin with! Kansas basically just did something that many states did 70 years ago........
that's not very bright... i wonder what's gonna happen when m$ gets screwed over by judge jackson? oops for them! --joe
I want the aura. I wonder if i hold the exchange mail server hostage if my boss will get me one... Oh wait, you can't hold it hostage, it never works anyway! Oh well. I guess I'll just have to hold the jetdirect box on our printer hostage. "Gimme that or the printer goes local!" (ppl quivering in their boots) -der saeufer (ich bin besoffen)
This is like busting someone for speeding, then charging him with posessing 100 lbs of explosive material because his car has 13 gallons of gas in it! Breaking other people's systems is wrong, but keeping a program that can do it isn't a crime! What's next? "Possession of Piracy Tools" for having a CD burner (or a floppy drive, for that matter!), "Possession with intent to sell pirated software" for having a burn of Win98 on your desk? (remember, you are allowed to make one backup copy for personal use)... BTW, I have 4 deadly weapons in my pocket: three car keys and a 1.5" pocketknife. (Incidentally, a 1.5" pocketknife can get you expelled from high schools here in colorado. glad i'm done.)
I'm a student at the University of Colorado (Boulder campus). At what we're paying for our housing, we are most definitely paying for our internet connections. University policy prohibits "servers of any kind" within the dorms. To prove it, the firewall prohibits inbound connections on ports 20, 21, 80, 5500 (hotline), and a few others. I know some people (myself included) are running servers anyway: it's not that hard to change from x.x.x.x to x.x.x.x:31337 for your server (that's right, backorifice's port is WIDE OPEN). Through FTP and hotline (inbound) I can download mp3s and other things at ~200k/sec without trouble. However, the university (just this semester) has the bandwidth allowed for napster's port(s) (i don't remember the number) very limited; no matter from whom i download, i can get only 6k/s on a good day. Before this, I could soak up 200k of the university's bandwidth. Invent a better security system, and we'll invent better students and servers. It seems to me (i work for the university between classes) that the whole campus is prohibited from having servers; i can't get to my work PC from outside the campus net either. Incidentally, here in colorado at least, the tuition rates are subsidised with tax revenue. housing rates are not.
Ihre verwendung der deutsches Sprache ist ganz schlecht! Kommen Sie aus Amerika oder die Schweiz? Ich werde Ihre Eier abschneiden, aber ich will nicht nach Kentucky reisen, nur um Sie zu schaden. Gibt es gute Hanf dort? Ich möchte was Hanf kaufen, Amsterdam ist sehr weit. Sie Können fast kein richtige Deutsch... Sie Können "Dummkopf" nicht buchstabieren, fast alle 6-jährige Kinder können das machen! Was für ein Blöder Amerikaner! Stück Scheiße! Auf Englisch: Learn some fucking German!