That's true if you're on a sub, but not the case if you're a skimmer and your sole role is to drag an LFA array around.
Also, as a sub, it's still best not to ping. If you do, it's to get a final range BEFORE you shoot. The torpedo will do a lot of pinging of it's own when it's closing on the target. If you're in the ball park with your firing solution, the torpedo will find it just fine.
Something else to remember, you can be detected more than twice the distance than you can detect someone with active SONAR. Which is one reason we tagged the breakers OFF when we went on deployment.
My point was that the only way they could get money from Linux users was to make a version of Office available. Most Linux users don't NEED office. Not with so many decent, albeit somewhat unpolished work-alike packages available.
That being said, I also find it unlikely that it will happen anytime soon. Some corporations may find it attractive to purchase MS Office if they wanted a higher degree of compatibility with already fielded windows-based systems. It would certainly be a way for MS to gain a degree of credibility/respectability (even though many, if not most, Linux users will recoil in disgust if it were suggested they install Office on their boxes).
As Open Office and StarOffice become better known, they will make it less profitable for Microsoft to enter that market.
I believe that Microsoft actually doesn't mind that Apple exists.
#1 Their OS only runs on propriatary hardware and the number of deployed systems is quite small compared to the number of Windows systems.
#2 Microsoft is able to make money from Apple users through application sales (Microsoft Office)
#3 Microsoft can point to Apple as being a worthy competitor thereby reducing the effect of Microsofts monopoly. (remember, Microsoft made a big contribution to Apple at a critical time not so long ago).
Basically, at this stage, Microsoft has nothing to fear from Apple. Once (if ever) Apple is able to take more than 10% or 20% of the market from Windows, watch out.
Microsoft fears Linux because they realize there is no easy way to make money from the Linux users other than porting (and maintaining various flavors for each version of Linux) Microsoft Office.
Linux runs on nearly every platform and is primarily used on cheap X86-based hardware rather than expensive propriatary systems.
I propose we have life sentences for irresponsible lawmakers.
A badly written law does far more damage than a bomb, a bullet or a feckless hacker.
While I agree that malicious hackers need to be held accountible for their actions, a life sentence seems rather "over-the-top" when compared to murder or child molestation.
That may be true. But her point about music downloads increasing sales (even for forgetable artists) is true.
Most music out there is utter crap. I've been burned badly so many times by buying discs by highly-hyped, but untalented "artists" that I'm almost afraid to buy anything.
Enter the Internet.
Now I can preview music and give it a test drive. Do I find a lot of crap? Yep. And I don't buy the discs, nor do I continue to listen to it.
BUT... I do find a fair amount of good stuff and do you know what? I actually BUY the disks. Really!!
I have 20 - 30 CDs full of MP3s that I've downloaded from the 'net and about 1200 CDs that I've purchased from the store (approx 250 since I've been "stealing" music from the Internet).
Are there people who just download the music and never buy a disc (effectivly stealing the music)?
Yes..
They need to pay for the music they listen to in order to reward the artist for producing it. Otherwise, why should the artists continue even trying?
Things need to change. The record companies need to lighten up and people who download and listen to the music need to get some ethics and pay for what they use.
Even though he's a (cough,cough) democrat, he's been doing a pretty good job keeping informed technically and sticking up for us. Of course, the gentleman from South Carolina negates any good will toward the Democrats I might be harboring (not that the republicans are any great shakes either).
And once they process the feathers down to a point where they'll be able to get decent transistor densities, what will happen? The air will all be processed out.
I suspect that there will be none of the mythical speed-enhancing air other than what's being blown up our collective butts.
Sounds like someone is hoping to get some research grants to me.
One of the main reasons that AOL doesn't want to play nice can be seen at the top of the AIM window.
A nice little ad.
If they allowed others to connect, they'd lose a significant ammount of ad revenue to those with nicer instant message products (not that AOL delivers anything but the FINEST products to their users).
Yeah, I agree... BUT...
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Having something like bidpay or paypal better integrated into E-bay would be nice, but Paypal needs to REALLY clean up their act. I use them when I can, but they won't let you have full access unless you "validate" yourself by giving them your checking account information. Which is SO NOT going to happen.
They already have my credit card info and that should be enough. My losses are limited if some bozo breaks into my Paypal account and pays for something with my credit card.
If they have my checking account info, they could potentially wipe me out and I have little to no recourse at that point.
#1 Microsoft is the dominant browser #2 Most web "developers" are right-brained types that don't have a clue about how to acomodate multiple browsers. #3 Many of the aforementioned people are too lazy to even TRY supporting non-IE browsers.
It would be an interesting exercise to build a IE-content detection function into Mozilla and emulate the "fee-churs" of IE (except for the security holes).
What about doing what Microplanet did with their Gravity news reader and making it freely available in binary format for all to use?
That way they don't have to give up the rights to it, but still have a loyal base of users. When they're able to make a buck off PGP again they can add some "must-have" features and the customer base will slowly come back to the commercial fold. As it is, the freeware versions will dominate and eventually PGP will be forgotten by most people.
There are a couple of problems with auto-responding with a "remove and unsubscribe" message.
#1 You're validating your own e-mail address and are more likely to receive spam as a result.
#2 You may not be responding to the correct address. Frequently, spammers use throw-away accounts (any wonder why?) and the account you respond to will probably never be read by a human.
That, unfortunatly, is illegal. They have actual laws in place (and spammers are big enough hypocrites to nail you too). Wouldn't it just totally SUCK to have to write a check to the Spam King?
One thing I'm having a hard time with is congresses inaction on SPAM. It's basically the same as fax spamming, just a lot easier to do and probably a LOT more costly to it's victims. It takes a significant ammount of a companies/ISPs resources that they shouldn't have to pay.
I think the problem (at least one of them, anyway) is that it's not "serious" enough. Given the other drek that wins constantly, I'm not sure being "serious" is such a good thing.
I was hooked big time, but the thing I liked the best was the interaction and watching your opponents face when you whipped out that killer combination on them.
I tried the software version and it left me cold. The AI stunk and there was no joy in owning rare cards (anyone wanna buy my REAL cards, PLEASE?!?).
The online version can only be better as far as gameplay, but given the number of enterprising hackers, they'll ruin any chance the online version has for success.
It's no/. and even though it's generally slanted for the left-thinking crowd, I'll miss Salon if it goes belly up.
They've had some very insightful articles and interesting columnists (I really miss reading Camille Paglia). The handwriting was on the wall when they adopted the subscription model. Most people aren't willing or even able to pay for content.
As a kid who had religion rammed down his gullet by clueless but well-meaning parents, I found myself unwilling to say the "under god" part. Call me a rebel, but why don't we just make the "under god part optional"?
My previous employer made me sign a statement that I wouldn't work for a competeing company for several years after leaving their employ. Needless to say, for some fields it would mean that you can't find work at all... I'm sure that if challenged, you could beat that prohibition in court, but it's still pretty scary sounding.
given the new costs the Internet broadcasters have to cough up now, I'd say that most of the current broadcasters are going to go belly up. I'll bet a nickle and a couple of old C-64 flippy disks that the record companies end up trying to replace them.
Of course, technology has been developed (for E-911 purposes) that will allow tracking of _UNMODIFIED_ cell phones with reasonably good accuracy. It's not even required to be in use (although it's a lot easier if it is), it just has to be turned on.
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That's true if you're on a sub, but not the case if you're a skimmer and your sole role is to drag an LFA array around.
Also, as a sub, it's still best not to ping. If you do, it's to get a final range BEFORE you shoot. The torpedo will do a lot of pinging of it's own when it's closing on the target. If you're in the ball park with your firing solution, the torpedo will find it just fine.
Something else to remember, you can be detected more than twice the distance than you can detect someone with active SONAR. Which is one reason we tagged the breakers OFF when we went on deployment.
My point was that the only way they could get money from Linux users was to make a version of Office available. Most Linux users don't NEED office. Not with so many decent, albeit somewhat unpolished work-alike packages available.
That being said, I also find it unlikely that it will happen anytime soon. Some corporations may find it attractive to purchase MS Office if they wanted a higher degree of compatibility with already fielded windows-based systems. It would certainly be a way for MS to gain a degree of credibility/respectability (even though many, if not most, Linux users will recoil in disgust if it were suggested they install Office on their boxes).
As Open Office and StarOffice become better known, they will make it less profitable for Microsoft to enter that market.
I believe that Microsoft actually doesn't mind that Apple exists.
#1 Their OS only runs on propriatary hardware and the number of deployed systems is quite small compared to the number of Windows systems.
#2 Microsoft is able to make money from Apple users through application sales (Microsoft Office)
#3 Microsoft can point to Apple as being a worthy competitor thereby reducing the effect of Microsofts monopoly. (remember, Microsoft made a big contribution to Apple at a critical time not so long ago).
Basically, at this stage, Microsoft has nothing to fear from Apple. Once (if ever) Apple is able to take more than 10% or 20% of the market from Windows, watch out.
Microsoft fears Linux because they realize there is no easy way to make money from the Linux users other than porting (and maintaining various flavors for each version of Linux) Microsoft Office.
Linux runs on nearly every platform and is primarily used on cheap X86-based hardware rather than expensive propriatary systems.
How many of us LoTR compulsives will end up buying BOTH?
I know I can't wait until November....
I propose we have life sentences for irresponsible lawmakers.
A badly written law does far more damage than a bomb, a bullet or a feckless hacker.
While I agree that malicious hackers need to be held accountible for their actions, a life sentence seems rather "over-the-top" when compared to murder or child molestation.
That may be true. But her point about music downloads increasing sales (even for forgetable artists) is true.
Most music out there is utter crap. I've been burned badly so many times by buying discs by highly-hyped, but untalented "artists" that I'm almost afraid to buy anything.
Enter the Internet.
Now I can preview music and give it a test drive. Do I find a lot of crap? Yep. And I don't buy the discs, nor do I continue to listen to it.
BUT... I do find a fair amount of good stuff and do you know what? I actually BUY the disks. Really!!
I have 20 - 30 CDs full of MP3s that I've downloaded from the 'net and about 1200 CDs that I've purchased from the store (approx 250 since I've been "stealing" music from the Internet).
Are there people who just download the music and never buy a disc (effectivly stealing the music)?
Yes..
They need to pay for the music they listen to in order to reward the artist for producing it. Otherwise, why should the artists continue even trying?
Things need to change. The record companies need to lighten up and people who download and listen to the music need to get some ethics and pay for what they use.
My 2 cents.
Even though he's a (cough,cough) democrat, he's been doing a pretty good job keeping informed technically and sticking up for us. Of course, the gentleman from South Carolina negates any good will toward the Democrats I might be harboring (not that the republicans are any great shakes either).
Come to the dark side, Rick!!!
And once they process the feathers down to a point where they'll be able to get decent transistor densities, what will happen? The air will all be processed out.
I suspect that there will be none of the mythical speed-enhancing air other than what's being blown up our collective butts.
Sounds like someone is hoping to get some research grants to me.
One of the main reasons that AOL doesn't want to play nice can be seen at the top of the AIM window.
A nice little ad.
If they allowed others to connect, they'd lose a significant ammount of ad revenue to those with nicer instant message products (not that AOL delivers anything but the FINEST products to their users).
Having something like bidpay or paypal better integrated into E-bay would be nice, but Paypal needs to REALLY clean up their act. I use them when I can, but they won't let you have full access unless you "validate" yourself by giving them your checking account information. Which is SO NOT going to happen.
They already have my credit card info and that should be enough. My losses are limited if some bozo breaks into my Paypal account and pays for something with my credit card.
If they have my checking account info, they could potentially wipe me out and I have little to no recourse at that point.
#1 Microsoft is the dominant browser
#2 Most web "developers" are right-brained types that don't have a clue about how to acomodate multiple browsers.
#3 Many of the aforementioned people are too lazy to even TRY supporting non-IE browsers.
It would be an interesting exercise to build a IE-content detection function into Mozilla and emulate the "fee-churs" of IE (except for the security holes).
Quickly!!! Arrest the winners!!! They have obviously violated the DMCA!!!
Perhaps he should buy it from them for what he paid. Then he can do with it what he wants.
What about doing what Microplanet did with their Gravity news reader and making it freely available in binary format for all to use?
That way they don't have to give up the rights to it, but still have a loyal base of users. When they're able to make a buck off PGP again they can add some "must-have" features and the customer base will slowly come back to the commercial fold. As it is, the freeware versions will dominate and eventually PGP will be forgotten by most people.
There are a couple of problems with auto-responding with a "remove and unsubscribe" message.
#1 You're validating your own e-mail address and are more likely to receive spam as a result.
#2 You may not be responding to the correct address. Frequently, spammers use throw-away accounts (any wonder why?) and the account you respond to will probably never be read by a human.
That, unfortunatly, is illegal. They have actual laws in place (and spammers are big enough hypocrites to nail you too). Wouldn't it just totally SUCK to have to write a check to the Spam King?
One thing I'm having a hard time with is congresses inaction on SPAM. It's basically the same as fax spamming, just a lot easier to do and probably a LOT more costly to it's victims. It takes a significant ammount of a companies/ISPs resources that they shouldn't have to pay.
I think the problem (at least one of them, anyway) is that it's not "serious" enough. Given the other drek that wins constantly, I'm not sure being "serious" is such a good thing.
Magic the Gathering?!? Oh, yeah... I remember...
cardboard crack.
I was hooked big time, but the thing I liked the best was the interaction and watching your opponents face when you whipped out that killer combination on them.
I tried the software version and it left me cold. The AI stunk and there was no joy in owning rare cards (anyone wanna buy my REAL cards, PLEASE?!?).
The online version can only be better as far as gameplay, but given the number of enterprising hackers, they'll ruin any chance the online version has for success.
I think I'll pass...
It's no /. and even though it's generally slanted for the left-thinking crowd, I'll miss Salon if it goes belly up.
They've had some very insightful articles and interesting columnists (I really miss reading Camille Paglia). The handwriting was on the wall when they adopted the subscription model. Most people aren't willing or even able to pay for content.
As a kid who had religion rammed down his gullet by clueless but well-meaning parents, I found myself unwilling to say the "under god" part. Call me a rebel, but why don't we just make the "under god part optional"?
one problem... the mainstream press ARE pretty much owned or are dependant on those very companies.
hmmm... sounds kinda similar to the /. rating system (not that it's a bad idea though).
My previous employer made me sign a statement that I wouldn't work for a competeing company for several years after leaving their employ. Needless to say, for some fields it would mean that you can't find work at all... I'm sure that if challenged, you could beat that prohibition in court, but it's still pretty scary sounding.
given the new costs the Internet broadcasters have to cough up now, I'd say that most of the current broadcasters are going to go belly up. I'll bet a nickle and a couple of old C-64 flippy disks that the record companies end up trying to replace them.
they're referring to GPS enabled CELL phones.
Of course, technology has been developed (for E-911 purposes) that will allow tracking of _UNMODIFIED_ cell phones with reasonably good accuracy. It's not even required to be in use (although it's a lot easier if it is), it just has to be turned on.