...growing implementation of data-per-month caps has nothing to do with free-and-legal streaming video, right? It's all about those bandwidth-hogging criminals, most assuredly!
"I was interested in checking it out, but at $50/seat/year it's a little to much for me to suggest setting up on all the machines."
According to Sun you can decide not to renew the support/upgrade plan (the $50/year) and continue to run all the software, no problem (then again, it's nealy all Open Source, so that was sort of a given).
We use HPNA 2.0 on the second wire pair in our apartment and are happy with it, though we did have the occasional glitch when we were using a second phone line for a modem -- nowdays we use a cable modem and 2wire's HPNA router instead.
Two possible gotchas: It seems like HPNA gear is becoming harder to find, so I don't know how much longer it will be supported; I also don't know if there is Linux support for the chipset.
I'm not sure where it's going. I definatly see HP droping out of the comercial unix world over the next few months/years. The fact that they killed the project to migrate PHUX (sic) to itanium/merced, and killed the project for a new PA RISC chip (or whatever HP calles their unix chip) seems to prove this.
What are you talking about? HP-UX for IPF isn't just a project,
it's a product.
Note the part about Linus binary compatability by next year -- yet another sign of the Tru64 influence in the process.
-If a work has some form of access control, that access control must be disabled when the work enters public domain
By who, exactly, if the author has just died? I don't think there should be an extra burden placed on anybody who creates an original work, even if they decided to encrypt it before releasing.
Solution (for the U.S.A.): A non-controlled copy of any access-controlled work must be supplied to the Library of Congress, who will safeguard the work during the copyright term, then provide copies to the public domain upon expiration of copyright.
"Public domain" makes it available only to the first generation of people that touch it. It allows corporations to turn it into "Proprietary Software", which in effect means that the from that point on, the software is no longer "freely available to all".
I want publicly funded software to remain publicly available and free to all. I don't want Microsoft or any other corporate entity to swallow it and never let it see the light of day again.
Who modded this up? It's inane.
What, is Magic Fairy Ballmer suppose to tap public domain code with his Magic Wand XP and make it go *poof*?
Sure, any company can take the public domain code and use it in a closed source product. And any developer who wants to can fork the code and use the derivative in a GPL'd product, too, and the bright warm glow that is Free Software will shine on that fork, and keep it safe happily ever after. *grin*
An opposing viewpoint: In the Los Angeles Times today there was a column defending the school bullies and blaming that nasty 'ol Bill of Rights instead (it's media and guns! Get them both!).
This is the second time in the last year that I have thought Hatch did something right. Now don't get me wrong I'm still glad that I voted against him but this is just plain odd....
On nearly every issue Hatch is indeed a conservative's conservative, but unfortunately for the RIAA the Seanator is a musician himself. Funny how these things go sometimes.
for those people who wanted to get an i-opener to hack. As disgruntled Netpliance customers start replacing thier machines with inexpensive PCs and NetZero or Juno Internet access, you may be able to pick up those old machines cheap.
I wonder how easy it would be to customise the ThinkNIC's software for the i-opener? Switch to NetZero that way (so, since NetZero is now supporting a Linux-based "appliance", does that mean general support for Linux is on the way?)
As for the Supreme Court: If that were the biggest issue, I would instead hold my nose and vote for Bush. On nearly all other topics he is an idiot, but he is right on one issue: The Supreme Court is supposed to uphold the Constitution, not be social activists.
And effectively nullifying the First, Forth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments isn't being "social activists"? If Dubya gets his All-Scalia/Thomas/Kennedy clone court, you'll see activisim that makes Earl Warren look like a sleepwalker.
I've noticed since I was a child that the media, particularly in the US, spends a great deal of time discouraging votors from voting for third party candidates. As such, most Americans seem to have come to the conclusion that third party candidates are a wasted vote and nothing will change that.
Did you watch the coverage of the 1998 Minnesota governor's race? The media was so excited that CNN looked like feeding time at the puppy farm. Third-party candidates are something besides news as usual, and the media loves that. At least here in Los Angeles, the third-party candidates are getting more coverage than the likely percentage of votes they'll recieve.
So why, then, is the U.S. such a relentlessly two-party country?
That's easy. It's because it's an almost totally territorrial system. Offices are defined in nearly all cases as one to a territory, especially at the top of the hierarchy, and usually require a majority of the votes to win. It's a system that selects for a two-party setup by its very nature, and despite the rise and fall of such former mainstays as the Whigs and Federalists, it always shakes back down to two major parties in a few years.
Were the U.S. government the sort of at-large, party-oriented Parliment seen in most other elected systems, there would be the same sort of multi-party environemnt seen in those countries.
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Because the CPU is a DEC Alpha I wasn't able to install all the software I wanted to use.
What, you didn't have FX!32 ?
...growing implementation of data-per-month caps has nothing to do with free-and-legal streaming video, right? It's all about those bandwidth-hogging criminals, most assuredly!
Sounds like the "Information Purification Directives" for a new generation.
Cue the blonde with the sledgehammer...
...just what made that distro so "breezy"!
Sadly, it worked about as well as most of the marketing tricks that DEC tried...
Could this be used as a thermal blanket for the next generation re-entry vehicle?
"I was interested in checking it out, but at $50/seat/year it's a little to much for me to suggest setting up on all the machines."
According to Sun you can decide not to renew the support/upgrade plan (the $50/year) and continue to run all the software, no problem (then again, it's nealy all Open Source, so that was sort of a given).
We use HPNA 2.0 on the second wire pair in our apartment and are happy with it, though we did have the occasional glitch when we were using a second phone line for a modem -- nowdays we use a cable modem and 2wire's HPNA router instead.
Two possible gotchas: It seems like HPNA gear is becoming harder to find, so I don't know how much longer it will be supported; I also don't know if there is Linux support for the chipset.
Note the part about Linus binary compatability by next year -- yet another sign of the Tru64 influence in the process.
By who, exactly, if the author has just died? I don't think there should be an extra burden placed on anybody who creates an original work, even if they decided to encrypt it before releasing.
Solution (for the U.S.A.): A non-controlled copy of any access-controlled work must be supplied to the Library of Congress, who will safeguard the work during the copyright term, then provide copies to the public domain upon expiration of copyright.
military leadership is rare for a President, generalship even more rare (Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Eisenhower).
Lincoln wasn't a general (though by 1865 he had become a pretty fair military strategist in his own right). Perhaps you meant Grant?
But of course they are smaller than the american ones, usually have 4 cyl engines.
Hence, the term "utility", as opposed to "penis-substitution".
By U.S. law the latter term is limited to firearms, motorcycles, and sports cars.
Which happened this morning (Monday).
I want publicly funded software to remain publicly available and free to all. I don't want Microsoft or any other corporate entity to swallow it and never let it see the light of day again.
Who modded this up? It's inane.
What, is Magic Fairy Ballmer suppose to tap public domain code with his Magic Wand XP and make it go *poof*?
Sure, any company can take the public domain code and use it in a closed source product. And any developer who wants to can fork the code and use the derivative in a GPL'd product, too, and the bright warm glow that is Free Software will shine on that fork, and keep it safe happily ever after. *grin*
Kids these days. No sense of proportion...
An opposing viewpoint: In the Los Angeles Times today there was a column defending the school bullies and blaming that nasty 'ol Bill of Rights instead (it's media and guns! Get them both!).
On nearly every issue Hatch is indeed a conservative's conservative, but unfortunately for the RIAA the Seanator is a musician himself. Funny how these things go sometimes.
Woo Hoo! Still hanging on...
I wonder how easy it would be to customise the ThinkNIC's software for the i-opener? Switch to NetZero that way (so, since NetZero is now supporting a Linux-based "appliance", does that mean general support for Linux is on the way?)
But the "consumer-grade" 2.4MP PV230 (same website) is only $9995, according to the review in the last Air & Space Smithsonian magazine.
And effectively nullifying the First, Forth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments isn't being "social activists"? If Dubya gets his All-Scalia/Thomas/Kennedy clone court, you'll see activisim that makes Earl Warren look like a sleepwalker.
Did you watch the coverage of the 1998 Minnesota governor's race? The media was so excited that CNN looked like feeding time at the puppy farm. Third-party candidates are something besides news as usual, and the media loves that. At least here in Los Angeles, the third-party candidates are getting more coverage than the likely percentage of votes they'll recieve.
So why, then, is the U.S. such a relentlessly two-party country?
That's easy. It's because it's an almost totally territorrial system. Offices are defined in nearly all cases as one to a territory, especially at the top of the hierarchy, and usually require a majority of the votes to win. It's a system that selects for a two-party setup by its very nature, and despite the rise and fall of such former mainstays as the Whigs and Federalists, it always shakes back down to two major parties in a few years.
Were the U.S. government the sort of at-large, party-oriented Parliment seen in most other elected systems, there would be the same sort of multi-party environemnt seen in those countries.
Unless the SPA, MPAA, or RIAA is involved, anyway.