Yes, Microsoft should throw out 67% of their money-making operations and port the other 33% to another OS. That makes lots of sense from a business point of view.
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Depends on how long the business view is.
OSes are becoming commoditized. At some point OS development cost is going to become a drag on Microsoft. Being required to open up their "standards" reduces the value of continued development of their desktop OS.
Porting office over to other OSes furthers their vendor lock-in in that market. Basically an end-run around the ODF standard.
I've dropped literally hundreds of dollars at webscription.net, which not only allows me to buy DRMless books, but to redownload them whenever I want to. It doesn't take two minutes and an internet connection to open them. It'd take two bookshelves to hold them all if I'd bought physical copies. I appreciate the saved space.
Just out of curiosity... do you use an ebook reader, which one and do you like it?
because people will use what they are comfortable with
For sure comfort level is part of it but the other sticking point is office apps; word, excel, outlook, etc. The documents are "stuck" in Microsoft's format... tough to advocate switching OSes when the "work" is in Microsoft formats.
Microsoft should give up the ghost on desktop/consumer OSes and just port their office suite over to *nix.
There is a long thread about ipv6 & dynamic updates located here
There is a draft rfc for adding a router message to the autoconfiguration of ipv6 addresses to include sending dns addresses. The draft is available here. Of course after the draft is finalized kernel(linux, *bds, windows, etc) support will need to be added.
The ipv6 autoconfig is nice but lacks the useful things(ntp, dns, etc) that DHCP provides.
I like the fact that you can map an MAC address to a IP address in DHCP. So, my machines in my network always get the same IP address, even though I all set them to be dynamically allocated. Autoconfig removes this ability, as far as I can see.
IPv6 autoconfig for addresses uses the machine's MAC address to generate its IPv6 address. The method is referred to as EUI-64. There is a tutorial here.
As long as the machine's MAC doesn't change(e.g. generating a new MAC for privacy reasons) it will configure itself for the same IPv6 address every time.
Were I the site's developer, I would simply use a license that claimed copyright of everything on the site then let the purchaser battle it out.
Maybe I'm missing something here but copyright is the foundation the various licenses(cc, gpl, bsd, etc) are built on. A license is terms under which the author permits others to distribute his work.
I think what you are trying to saying is you would claim ownership of all material & submissions. This would be posted in the site's "Terms of Usage".
The most obvious examples of how it should have been done are Thottbot and WoWhead. Both were created to accept user submissions to build the site, both sold to IGE for barrels of cash. They don't support the creative commons license. Neither should this guy have.
Thottbot & WoWhead claimed ownership of all material & submissions. If they wanted to, they could license the material under creative commons and still retain/claim ownership of all materials & submissions.
The license isn't the problem. The problem the guy(& purchaser) run into, is who is the copyright owner of the material. The way the site was setup is the author of the article is the copyright owner. Which means for the website to be legally allowed to distribute(publish) the article, the author needs to give the website permission to do so. This is where the creative commons license comes into play.
Another reason not to use the creative commons license. Getting rewarded for your work is a shifty, problematic task.
Huh? What license do you suggest for people writing articles in a Wiki? And how would that license make it easier/better for the author to get rewarded in this situation?
Knowing how the "free OS" have copied freely GUI concepts off Windows, don't you think it's a hypocrisy to demand compatibility with software created long after Microsoft had their own.
Sure, Unix existed before Windows, but in command line form. NT was built upon concepts in industry strength OS (VMS). Microsoft were among the pioneers of desktop OS-es, and like it or not, no one just "lets go" of their power just because of some whiny OSS advocate, or two.
Ummm, unix had a GUI well before Windows was born. The first was Alto from Xerox in 1973. You can find more about the history of X here
As for pioneer of desktop OS, no not really. They are exceptional at establishing vendor lock-in and are rather good at designing user interfaces.
Personally I think they would be better off if they stopped bothering with their own OS. If they ported Office over to unix, they could easily continue their vendor lock-in with office software. Operating Systems have become commoditized.
"hypocrisy to demand compatibility with software"? Isn't the point of computers&networks to share information? If there isn't some level of compatibility, how does information get exchanged? What would be the point in the network?
rtorrent is pretty nice for a lot of purposes, but it's lacking in some expected features. For instance, you can't download just a subset of a torrent.
Sure, you can. Just go to the file list of the torrent and turn off the files you don't want to download. Highlight the file, press the space bar to toggle priority
The technology to run on water has been around for a while now. Do a search on youtube.com for "HHO" for the technology behind it. Here's a video showing the car & inventor -> Water car... Daniel Dingel
// you can stop holding your breath now.;) /// I read it on the internet... it must be true
Or just forget everything you've said and take into the fact that maybe a socially inept geek doesn't want to be naked and face to face/pressed up against someone he hardly knows.
You don't have to be face to face to have sex. There's doggie-style and reverse cow-girl(girl on top facing your feet). There is also the wheel-barrow, if you want to try for extra credit.;)
Don't worry about about being naked. The girl is way more nervous and self-conscience about being naked than you are. If you are really worried about it, do some sit-ups and push-ups every day.
Besides the girl will probably end up naked first anyways. You'll remove her bra&shirt before taking your's off. And you're half-way there after that.
But no, sex isn't remotely intimate these days, it's like shaking hands.
Yes, sex is generally intimate. It is a shared intimate experience. It is one that changes with age, so don't avoid the young version of it.
Don't be worried/scared of buying condoms, they're just another item and nobody is going to laugh or look at you funny. Go for the thin/ultrathin version with spermicide.
If sex is no big deal, then why the rush to do it?
One is only young once. Or maybe more to the point the girls are only young once.
There is much more to sex than just the act itself. It's sounding like you haven't noticed this, yet.
When you're in high school, sex has a certain mystery, a taboo-ness to it. This adds to the experience and euthenism of the players involved. One can only experience the taboo mystery of a teenage girl while one is a teenager themselves. It is an experience that is well worth it and can't be reproduced later in life.
After high school the mystery & taboo-ness is pretty much gone. The newness of experience is also pretty much gone. Even if two 25 year ago virgins get together, the air of taboo isn't going to be there and the air of mystery isn't going to be very strong either.
I did that myself for a long time, especially since one fuck up or malicious woman could cost me for the rest of my life.
Life is full of risks. Don't let fear rule you. Some of the coolest people I know were "mistakes".
It really isn't a big deal, and those waiting for someone they actually care about aren't missing out on anything they can't do for themselves.
Oh, for sure there is a difference between fucking and making love. No doubt about it. But there is also a universe of difference between masturbating and fucking. Hell's theres a difference between jerking yourself off and having a girl jerk you off. And yes there is a difference between spitters and swallowers, too.
If you're sexual experiences were no greater than your solo sessions, I feel bad for you. You might have popped your cherry but you haven't experienced good sex, much less really good sex.
I finally caved in because of asshats like yourself that made it sound like sex was something that I just had to do and wasn't a man until I did so. Honestly, I can say that I felt more like a man before I had sex than I do now. C'est la vie.
But then again, having an IQ in the 130s tends to bring about a kind of logical clarity.
You felt more like a man before you had sex? So the pity fuck didn't help your self-esteem? surprising.
I'm sorry your 130 IQ couldn't save you from the peer pressure of asshats. I just avoided the asshats... kinda surprised your superior intellect couldn't come up with that plan.
I've also been lucky to have friends both male&female that are comfortable talking frankly&openly about sex. Maybe you should try that instead of looking for advice from random asshats like myself.
It sounds like you're strung a little tight and a little low on the hormones... try a little drunken sex. Not shit-face wasted drunk but just a buzz and little up close dancing before hand to get the juices flowing.
Take care of your shit but don't forget to have some fun and get in some trouble along the way. Even better if you don't get caught.
Smart individuals with higher IQs (I can safely put mine waaaaaay past the 100 mark) know better than to set their values to those passed off by popular media, and therefore are less likely to lose their virginity. I'm glad you can see thru the marketing bullshit. But I think you are overlooking something.... The girls are only young once. Gravity & age ravage the body. Time passes much quicker than you realize.
If you're in high school, pass your classes and tag all the pussy you can.
Trust me, you won't regret it. High school is a joke, the only things worth your time in high school are the girls and the diploma. The rest is just there to keep you off the street and instill a certain mindset.
Oh, don't be the reason behind the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young". Man up, get yourself a box of condoms and get your freak on already. It's just sex, not some magical religious experience... that part takes practice, lots of.;)
Yeah, the google numbers were more there to just show there is a wealth info available on the topic. Should have kept that link&sentence with the "whoa dude/under a rock" statement to tie them together better.
However, that doesn't mean that all Chinese labour is necessarily exploitive. True enough. I basically countered an extreme position(no exploitation) with another implied extreme(all exploitation).
Just because some Chinese workers are being exploited doesn't mean that the whole idea of it is wrong. Which idea? Exploiting Chinese workers or just using Chinese labor in general? Sorry couldn't resist. Ahhh, good ole slashdot.:)
The google link/numbers was meant more to support my original snarky remark about you living under a rock. The link count was just there to show there is a wealth of information available on the topic. I should have kept that sentence with the "whoa dude" comment to tie them together better. Sloppy on my part.
China is everyone's next big market and has been for at least the last 15 years. I think it has something to do with them having a fifth of the world's population.;)
You're right it doesn't mean they aren't being exploited, but if they are fighting to get those jobs I'd say they are very willing work and accept the work conditions, thus they aren't being exploited.
Interesting. So, if a union goes on strike because of unsafe working conditions the scab replacements aren't being exploited? What if an independent board later determine that the working conditions were indeed hazardous. Were the scabs being exploited?
A person has to eat, if they're hungry enough they do about anything. Job or work conditions be damned(willingness to work and accept conditions). Taking advantage of this isn't exploitation?/shrug
The Chinese workers aren't making as much as First World workers make, but they aren't being exploited.
Whoa, there big guy. Not sure what rock you have been living under but reports & documentaries of exploited Chinese factory workers have been around for a while. Think sweatshops of turn-of-the-20th-century America but nastier and on a larger scale.
Go take a gander at Frontline's Is Wal-Mart good for America video. If I'm remembering right there is a bit in there about the Chinese factories and their workers.
Chinese who are employed in one of these factories make more than those who can't get a job at one
That doesn't mean they aren't being exploited. Work & safety conditions play a large part. Ask a coal miner.
Why not just load the machines with a linux or bsd distro? That would meet the "non-naked" PC requirement. If the machines were destin for the Chinese market, then wouldn't Red Flag linux be the default distro?
A flat-tax places a larger burden on low income people and families.
To a person or family only making $20k a year, that 10%($2000) is a very large chunk of money and desperately needed to buy food. To a person or family making $200k a year the 10%($20000) is still a large chunk of cash but isn't needed as badly for buying food.
Same thing applies to sales tax, which is effectively a flat-tax.
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Depends on how long the business view is.
OSes are becoming commoditized. At some point OS development cost is going to become a drag on Microsoft. Being required to open up their "standards" reduces the value of continued development of their desktop OS.
Porting office over to other OSes furthers their vendor lock-in in that market. Basically an end-run around the ODF standard.
I've dropped literally hundreds of dollars at webscription.net, which not only allows me to buy DRMless books, but to redownload them whenever I want to. It doesn't take two minutes and an internet connection to open them. It'd take two bookshelves to hold them all if I'd bought physical copies. I appreciate the saved space.
Just out of curiosity... do you use an ebook reader, which one and do you like it?
because people will use what they are comfortable with
For sure comfort level is part of it but the other sticking point is office apps; word, excel, outlook, etc. The documents are "stuck" in Microsoft's format... tough to advocate switching OSes when the "work" is in Microsoft formats.
Microsoft should give up the ghost on desktop/consumer OSes and just port their office suite over to *nix.
Now if you could bounce the message, it would just go back to the original IP, so I don't see why that would help either though.
Not quite. Bounce messages are sent to the server(s) listed as mx record(s) for the domain of the sender.
Except it was a fiction enshrined by the founding fathers into the Constitution
Could you provide a link? To the best of my knowledge copyright is not part of the US Constitution.
I haven't found a way to do without DHCPv6. See rfc 4704
There was a draft rfc, draft-jeong-ipv6-ra-dns-autoconf-00.txt but it was later rejected because of scale issues; required management of authorization information for individual hosts.
There is a long thread about ipv6 & dynamic updates located here
There is a draft rfc for adding a router message to the autoconfiguration of ipv6 addresses to include sending dns addresses. The draft is available here. Of course after the draft is finalized kernel(linux, *bds, windows, etc) support will need to be added.
The ipv6 autoconfig is nice but lacks the useful things(ntp, dns, etc) that DHCP provides.
IPv6 autoconfig for addresses uses the machine's MAC address to generate its IPv6 address. The method is referred to as EUI-64. There is a tutorial here.
As long as the machine's MAC doesn't change(e.g. generating a new MAC for privacy reasons) it will configure itself for the same IPv6 address every time.
Were I the site's developer, I would simply use a license that claimed copyright of everything on the site then let the purchaser battle it out.
Maybe I'm missing something here but copyright is the foundation the various licenses(cc, gpl, bsd, etc) are built on. A license is terms under which the author permits others to distribute his work.
I think what you are trying to saying is you would claim ownership of all material & submissions. This would be posted in the site's "Terms of Usage".
The most obvious examples of how it should have been done are Thottbot and WoWhead. Both were created to accept user submissions to build the site, both sold to IGE for barrels of cash. They don't support the creative commons license. Neither should this guy have.
Thottbot & WoWhead claimed ownership of all material & submissions. If they wanted to, they could license the material under creative commons and still retain/claim ownership of all materials & submissions.
The license isn't the problem. The problem the guy(& purchaser) run into, is who is the copyright owner of the material. The way the site was setup is the author of the article is the copyright owner. Which means for the website to be legally allowed to distribute(publish) the article, the author needs to give the website permission to do so. This is where the creative commons license comes into play.
Do you follow now?
Another reason not to use the creative commons license. Getting rewarded for your work is a shifty, problematic task.
Huh? What license do you suggest for people writing articles in a Wiki? And how would that license make it easier/better for the author to get rewarded in this situation?
Knowing how the "free OS" have copied freely GUI concepts off Windows, don't you think it's a hypocrisy to demand compatibility with software created long after Microsoft had their own.
Sure, Unix existed before Windows, but in command line form. NT was built upon concepts in industry strength OS (VMS). Microsoft were among the pioneers of desktop OS-es, and like it or not, no one just "lets go" of their power just because of some whiny OSS advocate, or two.
Ummm, unix had a GUI well before Windows was born. The first was Alto from Xerox in 1973. You can find more about the history of X here
As for pioneer of desktop OS, no not really. They are exceptional at establishing vendor lock-in and are rather good at designing user interfaces.
Personally I think they would be better off if they stopped bothering with their own OS. If they ported Office over to unix, they could easily continue their vendor lock-in with office software. Operating Systems have become commoditized.
"hypocrisy to demand compatibility with software"? Isn't the point of computers&networks to share information? If there isn't some level of compatibility, how does information get exchanged? What would be the point in the network?
rtorrent is pretty nice for a lot of purposes, but it's lacking in some expected features. For instance, you can't download just a subset of a torrent.
Sure, you can. Just go to the file list of the torrent and turn off the files you don't want to download. Highlight the file, press the space bar to toggle priority
No one will ever need more the 640K of memory. Right?
Its tough to "sell" a new internet "product" when 90% don't have enough bandwidth.
So smart kids have less sex? This should read "Kids who can get sex automatically dumb down because it's pretty much all they think about".
ROFL Amen brother, amen!
You don't have to be face to face to have sex. There's doggie-style and reverse cow-girl(girl on top facing your feet). There is also the wheel-barrow, if you want to try for extra credit.
Don't worry about about being naked. The girl is way more nervous and self-conscience about being naked than you are. If you are really worried about it, do some sit-ups and push-ups every day.
Besides the girl will probably end up naked first anyways. You'll remove her bra&shirt before taking your's off. And you're half-way there after that.
Yes, sex is generally intimate. It is a shared intimate experience. It is one that changes with age, so don't avoid the young version of it.
Don't be worried/scared of buying condoms, they're just another item and nobody is going to laugh or look at you funny. Go for the thin/ultrathin version with spermicide.
One is only young once. Or maybe more to the point the girls are only young once.
There is much more to sex than just the act itself. It's sounding like you haven't noticed this, yet.
When you're in high school, sex has a certain mystery, a taboo-ness to it. This adds to the experience and euthenism of the players involved. One can only experience the taboo mystery of a teenage girl while one is a teenager themselves. It is an experience that is well worth it and can't be reproduced later in life.
After high school the mystery & taboo-ness is pretty much gone. The newness of experience is also pretty much gone. Even if two 25 year ago virgins get together, the air of taboo isn't going to be there and the air of mystery isn't going to be very strong either.
Life is full of risks. Don't let fear rule you. Some of the coolest people I know were "mistakes".
Oh, for sure there is a difference between fucking and making love. No doubt about it. But there is also a universe of difference between masturbating and fucking. Hell's theres a difference between jerking yourself off and having a girl jerk you off. And yes there is a difference between spitters and swallowers, too.
If you're sexual experiences were no greater than your solo sessions, I feel bad for you. You might have popped your cherry but you haven't experienced good sex, much less really good sex.
You felt more like a man before you had sex? So the pity fuck didn't help your self-esteem? surprising.
I'm sorry your 130 IQ couldn't save you from the peer pressure of asshats. I just avoided the asshats... kinda surprised your superior intellect couldn't come up with that plan.
I've also been lucky to have friends both male&female that are comfortable talking frankly&openly about sex. Maybe you should try that instead of looking for advice from random asshats like myself.
It sounds like you're strung a little tight and a little low on the hormones... try a little drunken sex. Not shit-face wasted drunk but just a buzz and little up close dancing before hand to get the juices flowing.
peace
You're only young once.... don't waste it.
Take care of your shit but don't forget to have some fun and get in some trouble along the way. Even better if you don't get caught.
Smart individuals with higher IQs (I can safely put mine waaaaaay past the 100 mark) know better than to set their values to those passed off by popular media, and therefore are less likely to lose their virginity.
I'm glad you can see thru the marketing bullshit. But I think you are overlooking something.... The girls are only young once. Gravity & age ravage the body. Time passes much quicker than you realize.
If you're in high school, pass your classes and tag all the pussy you can.
Trust me, you won't regret it. High school is a joke, the only things worth your time in high school are the girls and the diploma. The rest is just there to keep you off the street and instill a certain mindset.
Oh, don't be the reason behind the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young". Man up, get yourself a box of condoms and get your freak on already. It's just sex, not some magical religious experience... that part takes practice, lots of. ;)
I've used NTSyslog with success to pipe Windows event logs to a syslog daemon on a unix box.
Yeah, the google numbers were more there to just show there is a wealth info available on the topic. Should have kept that link&sentence with the "whoa dude/under a rock" statement to tie them together better.
:)
However, that doesn't mean that all Chinese labour is necessarily exploitive.
True enough. I basically countered an extreme position(no exploitation) with another implied extreme(all exploitation).
Just because some Chinese workers are being exploited doesn't mean that the whole idea of it is wrong.
Which idea? Exploiting Chinese workers or just using Chinese labor in general? Sorry couldn't resist. Ahhh, good ole slashdot.
The google link/numbers was meant more to support my original snarky remark about you living under a rock. The link count was just there to show there is a wealth of information available on the topic. I should have kept that sentence with the "whoa dude" comment to tie them together better. Sloppy on my part.
;)
/shrug
China is everyone's next big market and has been for at least the last 15 years. I think it has something to do with them having a fifth of the world's population.
You're right it doesn't mean they aren't being exploited, but if they are fighting to get those jobs I'd say they are very willing work and accept the work conditions, thus they aren't being exploited.
Interesting. So, if a union goes on strike because of unsafe working conditions the scab replacements aren't being exploited? What if an independent board later determine that the working conditions were indeed hazardous. Were the scabs being exploited?
A person has to eat, if they're hungry enough they do about anything. Job or work conditions be damned(willingness to work and accept conditions). Taking advantage of this isn't exploitation?
Whoa, there big guy. Not sure what rock you have been living under but reports & documentaries of exploited Chinese factory workers have been around for a while. Think sweatshops of turn-of-the-20th-century America but nastier and on a larger scale.
A quick google turns up 1.1 million links for the phrase "chinese exploited workers"
Go take a gander at Frontline's Is Wal-Mart good for America video. If I'm remembering right there is a bit in there about the Chinese factories and their workers.
That doesn't mean they aren't being exploited. Work & safety conditions play a large part. Ask a coal miner.
Why not just load the machines with a linux or bsd distro? That would meet the "non-naked" PC requirement. If the machines were destin for the Chinese market, then wouldn't Red Flag linux be the default distro?
A flat-tax places a larger burden on low income people and families.
To a person or family only making $20k a year, that 10%($2000) is a very large chunk of money and desperately needed to buy food. To a person or family making $200k a year the 10%($20000) is still a large chunk of cash but isn't needed as badly for buying food.
Same thing applies to sales tax, which is effectively a flat-tax.
That sir, is a really good idea. I want that filter feature.