if you factor in the time it takes to source parts, I think it's at least break-even, and I've generally been satisfied with the build options I get from Dell...
Um, I hate M$ as much as the next guy (actually, as a sysadmin in a nearly all-windows shop, I probably hate it much more than the next guy), but I feel the need to point out that they could have removed the evidence in question if they were really trying to hide the BSD code...
>>The thing about the "Microsoft tax" is that it is wholly a "use tax". Unlike your income tax
>>which pays for services you may never use, no one is forcing you to pay.
Really, the Microsoft tax is that portion of the cost of a system that comes bundled with Windows which would be refunded if the purchaser took the time to return the copy of Windows 'unused'. Since the difference often isn't worth the hassle, people (like me) just eat the cost of an OS they'll never use.
You're right, no-one is _forcing_ me to pay it, they're just making it hard enough not to that I couldn't be bothered...
My understanding of those laws is that email is treated as a public document because of it's inherintly insecure nature, while snail-mail isn't.
I'd expect that encrypted email would be protected under those laws...
Wolbachia infects the reproductive organs of a wide variety of arthopods where it pulls a number interesting reengineering stunts, such as enabling virgin births.
Do the offspring of these virgin births form religions, thereby causing 'holy' wars against un-infected insects?
and evolution will primarily act in ways that will make us more attractive
In countries like Canada and the US, it is as likely to happen that evolution selects on absent-mindedness -- "oops, forgot to take the pill/carry a condom/get my birth-control injection/..."
In Canada, we're not even breeding fast enough to maintain our population (it is growing, largely because of immigration)
Personally, I'm wondering whether Sun has the juice to give linux a run for its money. I work in solaris all day at work, on a BIG system, and I yearn for my little linux box all damn day. I've been far more impressed with the speed & stability of linux than solaris.
One word: JunkBuster. go to http://www.junkbuster.com/ download and install the filtering proxy Bye Bye ads, cookies, etc. you can set what you don't want to waste bandwitch on (cookies, anything from doubleclick,...) and you can set exceptions to rules (allow anything from, say, slashdot.org)
Hey, why we're limiting ourselves to command-line email, why bother with a client at all... Telnet to the relevant port on the mail server and send/read there. :)
Slashdot Mirror
I think that's a bit of an understatement
seems to be a cluster of alpha geeks!
if you factor in the time it takes to source parts, I think it's at least break-even, and I've generally been satisfied with the build options I get from Dell...
Um, I hate M$ as much as the next guy (actually, as a sysadmin in a nearly all-windows shop, I probably hate it much more than the next guy), but I feel the need to point out that they could have removed the evidence in question if they were really trying to hide the BSD code...
>>The thing about the "Microsoft tax" is that it is wholly a "use tax". Unlike your income tax
>>which pays for services you may never use, no one is forcing you to pay.
Really, the Microsoft tax is that portion of the cost of a system that comes bundled with Windows which would be refunded if the purchaser took the time to return the copy of Windows 'unused'. Since the difference often isn't worth the hassle, people (like me) just eat the cost of an OS they'll never use.
You're right, no-one is _forcing_ me to pay it, they're just making it hard enough not to that I couldn't be bothered...
>>Apps like Outlook still remain essentially untouched by the open source movement
That's cuz most open-source coders would die of
shame if their names were hung ont something as
ugly as outlook/exchange
Or if you have stuff even they'll refuse to do,
clone a few dubyas
:)
um, where exactly is that a weather report for???
do we really need nother scripting language???
:)
um, that code doens't appear to work (IE 5.01)
a search of netscape's DevEdge site for getMaxScreenX also returns no results...
??
My understanding of those laws is that email is treated as a public document because of it's inherintly insecure nature, while snail-mail isn't.
I'd expect that encrypted email would be protected under those laws...
obligatory acronym: IANAL
Good, I'm not the only one...
Not that I'd drink Budwater even if they did
run Linux/BSD, but I'd at least make fun of
them a little less...
:)
But he would certainly cook you up, probably with a light white wine sause.
Free Range Rude...
This is great!
Now when I lose my TV remote control (often), I can go look up its location on the web!
Wolbachia infects the reproductive organs of a wide variety of arthopods where it pulls a number interesting reengineering stunts, such as enabling virgin births.
Do the offspring of these virgin births form religions, thereby causing 'holy' wars against un-infected insects?
>>Seriously, how long until Harmel (or whatever their name is) decides to go after various
>>net companies, suing that the word Spam is a trademark?
see here for hormel's official position
they just want the SPAM v. spam distinction to be clear
and evolution will primarily act in ways that will make us more attractive
In countries like Canada and the US, it is as likely to happen that evolution selects on absent-mindedness -- "oops, forgot to take the pill/carry a condom/get my birth-control injection/..."
In Canada, we're not even breeding fast enough to maintain our population (it is growing, largely because of immigration)
I think the Geneva Convention prevents this.
We'll have to just kill them.
bugger, I didn't see any comments when I started entering mine
gotta learn to type faster...
>>a political system that is as coherent and functional as a game of cricket
:)
Did I miss something? Someone from the B.R.A. is making fun of someone else's political system?!?
Um, who's the president-elect today?
Personally, I'm wondering whether Sun has the juice to give linux a run for its money.
I work in solaris all day at work, on a BIG system, and I yearn for my little linux box all damn day. I've been far more impressed with the speed & stability of linux than solaris.
One word: JunkBuster. ...)
go to http://www.junkbuster.com/ download and install the filtering proxy
Bye Bye ads, cookies, etc.
you can set what you don't want to waste bandwitch on (cookies, anything from doubleclick,
and you can set exceptions to rules (allow anything from, say, slashdot.org)
Hey, why we're limiting ourselves to command-line email, why bother with a client at all...
:)
Telnet to the relevant port on the mail server and send/read there.