It's a well spent $300. For example I'm an hourly paid computer contractor who has a journey of 1.5 hours to get home and I regularly miss the start of "Buffy", "Enterprise" and other crap that I like to watch. As a result of Tivo I can arrive 25 minutes late and start watching. Due to the fact I can fast forward/skip ad breaks by the time "Angel" has finished in real time (running immediately after Buffy on UK Sky1) I have caught up to real time.
Working later means I get paid more and can afford more silly gadgets like this one. Or I can earn an extra $300 to pay for a gym membership/ bicycle!
The bridge is going to be able to handle trains (several hundred tons each) and a 6 lane highway, probably including HGVs (IIRC, current Euro limit 38tonnes). A few 60 tonne tanks aren't going to give it any problem.
Anyway, a army bridge master(forget the true title) wouldn't allow all the tanks to cross at the same time - its to inviting a target for an attacking aircraft.
..the question arises as to what video card we should all go and treat ourselves too when Doom 3 hits the streets.
Will Matrox get a card based on their Permedia GPU out in time, and will it kick ass? I'd quite like the excuse to buy a Matrox card as their support for the Millenium was excellent.
Will NVidia get another generation of GEForce cards out? If I'm not going for Matrox, this seems the best supported.
Will ATI get a decent set of drivers ? Even better, will there be a Open Source Linux set ?
The question does arise as to whether there is any difference between a huge patch and an upgrade, or whether in applying a whole raft of patches you are in effect performing an upgrade.
If your RH 6.0 servers are perfectly happy without the patches, then you did have the option of running them as is.
In the free OS world, you could argue that since there is no/minimal cost (apart from sysadmin time) to upgrade you may as well do so.
Providing you have a fairly standard install, I don't see that upgrading those or so boxes would take an inordinate amount of time.
Channel hopping is not zero sum - often the hopper will browse around the channels for the duration of the adverts to hop back to the original channel, having seen no adverts.
In the event of victory, would the law be totally repealed, or just the law applying to already produced works ?
If the latter, then I think we have a long way to go to get it back to a sensible level of say, 20 years from publication, which needs to be a worldwide campaign, or at least one which will get the EU and US to change simultaneously
GNU source makes up 90% of the code on a GNU/Linux system. It's only fair.
90% of the software on my Windows box is not written by Microsoft, but do I call it ID / Blizzard / Sierra / EA / Microsoft Windows ?
You know the answer as well as I do, it's called Microsoft Windows after the name of the core component - Linux is called Linux and not GNU/Linux for the same reason.
Actually this is not necessarily true. Every Customs normally takes a semi-random few people who are passing through and gives them a more intense interrogation. Most of these are probably innocent.
However if you base your selection decision on a system that gives false positives, then you have a means of deciding who gets extended interrogation/ ID/ baggage searches at customs points and similar checkpoints. The fact that false positives turn up is irrelavent, as the recognition system is just a means of identifying people on whom further checks should be performed.
From an overseas standpoint, it appears that US Senators and Congressmen are placed under much less direction from the party than, say, a UK Member of Parliament, who is generally expected to follow the party line. Also regional differences mean that Republican and Democratic parties place far less extreme candidates in certain areas, so thatthe boundaries between the two are very blurred.
However, it does seem as though the Democrats get a large amount of money from the entertainment industry and thus back it in areas where normally they would represent the people [in a loose sense of the term]
As you have so rightly said, we have little information to go on. To answer the damn question, more information would be needed, such as who runs what applications.
If money is really tight, targeted upgrades rather than a complete set of system upgrades will generate more performance. An assessment of what causes bottlenecks to which users would save money, and allow specific systems to be upgraded with say * more RAM * better graphics systems for machines used for design * faster networking for server apps.
Very few business workstations or applications require more than 400MHz. My advice would be find out how to spend less money better.
Anyway, as others have said, if you do persue an upgrade path, keep track of your Microsoft (and other) program licenses.
Obligatory ending: Of course you could also save money by running a cheaper Operating system, such as Linux, FreeBSD....
..with varying grades to hardware manufacturers, combined with a logo that can be placed on packaging. Say a Linux Friendly logo, with awards for a product ranging from bronze to platinum, depending on how much the manufacturer supports Linux.
Answer With Apple you'd just have the same problem (MS Office licences)
A better solution is to close down all unnecessary computers over a half term or end of term, and maintain their legacy documents on just enough Windows PCs as they can show they definitively have licenses for.
Switch all the classroom stuff to Linux operation over that period. Setting up a clasroom of PCs is not that hard and is likely to kill most of their compliance problems there and then. In addition to that wiping all the classroom computers is likely to stop and problems with illegal downloads.
There are a few problems with the above: e.g. curriculum changes etc, but KOffice for example is not so different from Word that you have to change all the lessons, and you only teach the basics in class.
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You're probably correct, but in this case it's a particulaly appropriate quote in the film. If you have seen it you know what I mean.
Paradox:
Does this mean that if you have a vacuum in a balloon it will have no problem going really high?
Two Words: Lifting capacity
Most balloons do not have much of a payload and I have a suspicion that getting a decent sized payload up high requires a really really big balloon.
Any physicists/aeronauticists out there to confirm this?
Have you ever considered setting up a distributed search engine client to expand your server farm through your users systems?
if any hacker has come up with a way of blocking forced recording let me know.
who had the skill to come up with good hacks on the hardware that I was manufacturing, I would want them on the payroll.
Why pay them when you can get the hacks for free!
It's a well spent $300. For example I'm an hourly paid computer contractor who has a journey of 1.5 hours to get home and I regularly miss the start of "Buffy", "Enterprise" and other crap that I like to watch. As a result of Tivo I can arrive 25 minutes late and start watching. Due to the fact I can fast forward/skip ad breaks by the time "Angel" has finished in real time (running immediately after Buffy on UK Sky1) I have caught up to real time.
Working later means I get paid more and can afford more silly gadgets like this one. Or I can earn an extra $300 to pay for a gym membership/ bicycle!
The bridge is going to be able to handle trains (several hundred tons each) and a 6 lane highway, probably including HGVs (IIRC, current Euro limit 38tonnes). A few 60 tonne tanks aren't going to give it any problem.
Anyway, a army bridge master(forget the true title) wouldn't allow all the tanks to cross at the same time - its to inviting a target for an attacking aircraft.
but if it did work it would give Napster et al a "get out of jail free" card, especially if this went to a Supreme Court decision.
So which do you want: free access to information or free acess to music?
..the question arises as to what video card we should all go and treat ourselves too when Doom 3 hits the streets.
Will Matrox get a card based on their Permedia GPU out in time, and will it kick ass? I'd quite like the excuse to buy a Matrox card as their support for the Millenium was excellent.
Will NVidia get another generation of GEForce cards out? If I'm not going for Matrox, this seems the best supported.
Will ATI get a decent set of drivers ? Even better, will there be a Open Source Linux set ?
The question does arise as to whether there is any difference between a huge patch and an upgrade, or whether in applying a whole raft of patches you are in effect performing an upgrade.
If your RH 6.0 servers are perfectly happy without the patches, then you did have the option of running them as is.
In the free OS world, you could argue that since there is no/minimal cost (apart from sysadmin time) to upgrade you may as well do so.
Providing you have a fairly standard install, I don't see that upgrading those or so boxes would take an inordinate amount of time.
...that the resale value of your machine has now sunk by the cost of the license to operate it.
Channel hopping is not zero sum - often the hopper will browse around the channels for the duration of the adverts to hop back to the original channel, having seen no adverts.
In the event of victory, would the law be totally repealed, or just the law applying to already produced works ?
If the latter, then I think we have a long way to go to get it back to a sensible level of say, 20 years from publication, which needs to be a worldwide campaign, or at least one which will get the EU and US to change simultaneously
GNU source makes up 90% of the code on a GNU/Linux system. It's only fair.
90% of the software on my Windows box is not written by Microsoft, but do I call it ID / Blizzard / Sierra / EA / Microsoft Windows ?
You know the answer as well as I do, it's called Microsoft Windows after the name of the core component - Linux is called Linux and not GNU/Linux for the same reason.
..but kicking Microsofts lawyers over a critical trademark such as this is an epic victory.
He's just a copycat. The Devil will be suing him for breach of copyright Real Soon Now
Actually this is not necessarily true.
Every Customs normally takes a semi-random few people who are passing through and gives them a more intense interrogation. Most of these are probably innocent.
However if you base your selection decision on a system that gives false positives, then you have a means of deciding who gets extended interrogation/ ID/ baggage searches at customs points and similar checkpoints. The fact that false positives turn up is irrelavent, as the recognition system is just a means of identifying people on whom further checks should be performed.
From an overseas standpoint, it appears that US Senators and Congressmen are placed under much less direction from the party than, say, a UK Member of Parliament, who is generally expected to follow the party line. Also regional differences mean that Republican and Democratic parties place far less extreme candidates in certain areas, so thatthe boundaries between the two are very blurred.
However, it does seem as though the Democrats get a large amount of money from the entertainment industry and thus back it in areas where normally they would represent the people [in a loose sense of the term]
I believe that banning Microsoft selling software with anti-GPL licences would make part of a good settlement in the anti-trust case.
It probably wouldn't help victims of Microsofts past conduct but it would help potential victims of its future conduct.
As you have so rightly said, we have little information to go on. To answer the damn question, more information would be needed, such as who runs what applications.
If money is really tight, targeted upgrades rather than a complete set of system upgrades will generate more performance. An assessment of what causes bottlenecks to which users would save money, and allow specific systems to be upgraded with say
* more RAM
* better graphics systems for machines used for design
* faster networking for server apps.
Very few business workstations or applications require more than 400MHz. My advice would be find out how to spend less money better.
Anyway, as others have said, if you do persue an upgrade path, keep track of your Microsoft (and other) program licenses.
Obligatory ending:
Of course you could also save money by running a cheaper Operating system, such as Linux, FreeBSD....
..with varying grades to hardware manufacturers, combined with a logo that can be placed on packaging. Say a Linux Friendly logo, with awards for a product ranging from bronze to platinum, depending on how much the manufacturer supports Linux.
...and also....if this agreement to be able to inspect is in the EULA, is it legally binding?
Answer
With Apple you'd just have the same problem (MS Office licences)
A better solution is to close down all unnecessary computers over a half term or end of term, and maintain their legacy documents on just enough Windows PCs as they can show they definitively have licenses for.
Switch all the classroom stuff to Linux operation over that period. Setting up a clasroom of PCs is not that hard and is likely to kill most of their compliance problems there and then. In addition to that wiping all the classroom computers is likely to stop and problems with illegal downloads.
There are a few problems with the above:
e.g. curriculum changes etc, but KOffice for example is not so different from Word that you have to change all the lessons, and you only teach the basics in class.