I dont really buy this company property b.s. As someone pointed out above, if they buy you a notebook (as in paper), do they have the right to look at everything you write in there? It seems to me that the right to privacy does not disappear the second you're on company property. I'm sure an argument can be made that the company is allowed to monitor your work; but reading all your correspondence? At the very least they should warn everyone explicitly that e-mail is going to be checked.
The way I see it, the bandwidth may belong to the company, but what you write doesn't automatically belong to them. Imagine your wife visits you at work to tell you something important (and private); does the company have the right to eavesdrop on your conversation? Afterall, you are on company property (breathing company air). The exception to this might be an extremely security-concious company, in which case they damn well better tell you that they're listening to all converstations. I think the same would apply to phone conversations. As far as I know, a company must tell you specifically that phone calls may be monitored (I may be wrong about this), so I don't see why it should be any different with e-mail.
That being said, if they do warn everyone I guess they have the right, but I sure wouldn't want to work there. I got enough of that shit in the Navy. If a company can't tell whether its workers are doing their jobs from results, then maybe someone needs to monitor the management's e-mails to see if they are doing their jobs:-)
Pixar was the name of the computer Lucasfilm built (or had built?) to render, among other things, the Genesis sequence in Wrath of Khan, and the stained-glass knight in Young Sherlock Homes. They did a presentation about the computer at the "West Coast Computer Faire" in S.F. back in 84 or 85 (I'm not sure exactly).
Man was that awesome! Upwards of 1000x1000 resolution with a billion colors, all packed into a case barely bigger than a family refrigerator:-)
So.. Please think first. The player you buy today may be junk in nine months. I was responding to this. The player will not become junk if I can still use it to listen to my personal music collection.
People will stop wanting to use MP3 because they either have to break the law (bladeenc) or pay $$$ for an encoder If I'm using it to listen to MP3's now: 1. I already have paid the $$ for an encoder; unless... 2. I just grab MP3's from the Net, in which case I'm breaking the law. (or are you assuming there are any owners of portable players who listen exclusively to MP3's legally recorded by someone else? 3. I don't care if people stop listening to MP3's. I don't feel any need to be fashionable about the format of my music. I can still use the device to listen to MP3's of my music in 10 years and enjoy it just as much.
I'm speaking here as someone who still owns a Beta (as in -max) VCR. I can still use it to record and playback (and the quality still beats the average VHS), the only thing I can't do is rent movies for it. Extend that to MP3's: I don't rent music. Is that clear now?
-I have MP3 encoders on my computer. -I have the ability to transfer MP3 files to the player. -I now have a player with music on it.
Now tell me how a new standard will nullify one of the above. Is it going to magically erase all MP3 encoders I have? Will my player cease to play MP3's because it senses that it's no longer state of the art?
To "beg the question" means to assume the thing that you're trying to prove
I thought it meant to assume that something you can prove logically entails the thing you're trying to prove; i.e.:
1. OS A has threading and OS B doesn't...
3. Therefore OS A is a faster than OS B.
Which begs the question: 2. Is an OS with threading faster than one without? (note: this is hypothetical; I don't even know the answer, and it's probably a 'depends' anyways).
Correct me if I'm wrong or if that's what you were trying to say and I misunderstood you:)
...to be qualified as scientific "fact" it needs to be able to be "proven" (ie. reproducable) the very nature of the origin of life makes it impossible to prove any one theory scientifically.
1. Evolution is a theory, not a 'fact'. It just happens to be the best supported theory: All theories are not created equal.
2. To qualify as a scientific theory it must be disprovable, i.e. there must be hypothetical evidence which could disprove the thoery; this is the reason why Creationism doesn't qualify as science.
I don't know why 98 would be crashing so much, with that setup. I don't know for sure, but my guess would be the CPU or the mother board. Check amptrons site for BIOS upgrades (I have an amptron myself and it works pretty well).
That's funny, my guess would be the operating system ; )
Is it me, or is 'lose' the single most misspelled word on Slashdot(or on the net)? I swear if I see one more person loose the word 'loose' on everybody when he/she means 'lose' I'll lose it. And then I'll surely wish I could loose a big ferocious dog on the loser (and looser).
This licence means you can make as many copies as you want to give away, just not to sell it. That also means a company can buy one copy and make a bunch of copies to install everywhere.
As far as I can see, you could literally make a distro identical to SuSe except for YAST, sell it for gobs of money (well, you could try:), and then offer YAST 'for free' on an FTP site.
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The major difference to GPL that I see is that you can't sell anything derived from YAST. In that sense it is %100 free (as in beer) and free with restrictions (as in speech), as well as having the same 'infection' property which GPL does (including requiring that the source be available). Ummm, are we nitpicking?
I submit that the XF86Config file is a configuration file and does not belong in the off-the-wall place that SuSE sticks it (I don't recall where exactly they stuck it, but at least in 5.3 it wasn't in/etc).
What are you talking about? I've had 5.2,5.3,6.0, and 6.1 and I've always found XF86Config in/etc.
>>offtopic, but what IS an IT student? I'm a CS student, and "Information Technology" to me sounds like a meaningless buzzword..
It's basically what passes for CS in Europe. The idea is that they (I don't study it myself) focus their attention on the 'information' not on the 'computer'. That is to say, IT specialists are not necessarily programmers per se, but they are conversant in technologies used for the storage/organization/retrieval of information. What's meaningless about that?
Oh, so it's a matter of degree? How many 'mv' commands would it take in your opinion before it's not okay? A small version of a crime is still a crime. Or do actually condone strangers messing around on your computer as long as the number of commands to fix the problem is held to, say, less than 5?
>>The rich folks (being inbread and not too bright)
That's 'inbred' -> (breed, bred, bred)
>>thought that "beef" meant "dead cow that's been cooked" while the servants where just saying their word for "cow".
As pointed out above: backwards. And it wasn't a matter of misconceptions. Like I said, that's not how it works. The nobles called what was on their plate 'boeuf' (approx.) and the peasants called it something like 'kuh' and all of their common descendants incorporated it all together!
>>If my English teacher was right, then the Brits messed up those words long before they got to the US. We've messed up many, many other things (see: Velveeta) but not those words.
If your English teacher calls that messed-up then he or she is teaching the wrong language, otherwise I have to assume that you are applying that term, in which case see my message above regarding a clue and what to do with one.
U.S. doesn't have an 'official language'. English is the 'administrative' language. Every attempt (always by conservatives) to have English declared as the official language has failed.
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I dont really buy this company property b.s. As someone pointed out above, if they buy you a notebook (as in paper), do they have the right to look at everything you write in there? It seems to me that the right to privacy does not disappear the second you're on company property. I'm sure an argument can be made that the company is allowed to monitor your work; but reading all your correspondence? At the very least they should warn everyone explicitly that e-mail is going to be checked.
:-)
The way I see it, the bandwidth may belong to the company, but what you write doesn't automatically belong to them. Imagine your wife visits you at work to tell you something important (and private); does the company have the right to eavesdrop on your conversation? Afterall, you are on company property (breathing company air). The exception to this might be an extremely security-concious company, in which case they damn well better tell you that they're listening to all converstations. I think the same would apply to phone conversations. As far as I know, a company must tell you specifically that phone calls may be monitored (I may be wrong about this), so I don't see why it should be any different with e-mail.
That being said, if they do warn everyone I guess they have the right, but I sure wouldn't want to work there. I got enough of that shit in the Navy. If a company can't tell whether its workers are doing their jobs from results, then maybe someone needs to monitor the management's e-mails to see if they are doing their jobs
chris
Pixar was the name of the computer Lucasfilm built (or had built?) to render, among other things, the Genesis sequence in Wrath of Khan, and the stained-glass knight in Young Sherlock Homes. They did a presentation about the computer at the "West Coast Computer Faire" in S.F. back in 84 or 85 (I'm not sure exactly).
:-)
Man was that awesome! Upwards of 1000x1000 resolution with a billion colors, all packed into a case barely bigger than a family refrigerator
chris
Basically negative propaganda spread about an opposing product/view/idea, usually in order to avoid rational comparisons.
chris
Early stable releases are just massive beta tests. Of course unlike NT you can get the problems fixed quickly.
;-)
...and unlike NT you don't pay for the privilege of being a beta tester (snicker
chris
So.. Please think first. The player you buy today may be junk in nine months.
I was responding to this. The player will not become junk if I can still use it to listen to my personal music collection.
People will stop wanting to use MP3 because they either have to break the law (bladeenc) or pay $$$ for an encoder
If I'm using it to listen to MP3's now:
1. I already have paid the $$ for an encoder; unless...
2. I just grab MP3's from the Net, in which case I'm breaking the law. (or are you assuming there are any owners of portable players who listen exclusively to MP3's legally recorded by someone else?
3. I don't care if people stop listening to MP3's. I don't feel any need to be fashionable about the format of my music. I can still use the device to listen to MP3's of my music in 10 years and enjoy it just as much.
I'm speaking here as someone who still owns a Beta (as in -max) VCR. I can still use it to record and playback (and the quality still beats the average VHS), the only thing I can't do is rent movies for it. Extend that to MP3's: I don't rent music. Is that clear now?
Chris
Consider:
-I have MP3 encoders on my computer.
-I have the ability to transfer MP3 files to the player.
-I now have a player with music on it.
Now tell me how a new standard will nullify one of the above. Is it going to magically erase all MP3 encoders I have? Will my player cease to play MP3's because it senses that it's no longer state of the art?
chris
To "beg the question" means to assume the thing that you're trying to prove
:)
I thought it meant to assume that something you can prove logically entails the thing you're trying to prove; i.e.:
1. OS A has threading and OS B doesn't...
3. Therefore OS A is a faster than OS B.
Which begs the question:
2. Is an OS with threading faster than one without? (note: this is hypothetical; I don't even know the answer, and it's probably a 'depends' anyways).
Correct me if I'm wrong or if that's what you were trying to say and I misunderstood you
chris
...to be qualified as scientific "fact" it needs to be able to be "proven" (ie. reproducable) the very nature of the origin of life makes it impossible to prove any one theory scientifically.
1. Evolution is a theory, not a 'fact'. It just happens to be the best supported theory: All theories are not created equal.
2. To qualify as a scientific theory it must be disprovable, i.e. there must be hypothetical evidence which could disprove the thoery; this is the reason why Creationism doesn't qualify as science.
I don't know why 98 would be crashing so much, with that setup. I don't know for sure, but my guess would be the CPU or the mother board. Check amptrons site for BIOS upgrades (I have an amptron myself and it works pretty well).
That's funny, my guess would be the operating system ; )
chris
Fall doesn't start in California until about mid October :)
It's Civilization: Call to Power
Civ III has not been made yet IIRC.
chris
I think that says it.
>>My name is Eric J Sayward head of the Übermensch project. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
...if this does destroy the world, the end of the Microsoft monopoly will be assured.
or will it?
chris
...some blind people who have chauffeurs :)
left-handed, albino, stenographers
IIRC
chris
Is it me, or is 'lose' the single most misspelled word on Slashdot(or on the net)? I swear if I see one more person loose the word 'loose' on everybody when he/she means 'lose' I'll lose it. And then I'll surely wish I could loose a big ferocious dog on the loser (and looser).
:)
chris
...to what I said above.
:), and then offer YAST 'for free' on an FTP site.
This licence means you can make as many copies as you want to give away, just not to sell it. That also means a company can buy one copy and make a bunch of copies to install everywhere.
As far as I can see, you could literally make a distro identical to SuSe except for YAST, sell it for gobs of money (well, you could try
chris
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The major difference to GPL that I see is that you can't sell anything derived from YAST. In that sense it is %100 free (as in beer) and free with restrictions (as in speech), as well as having the same 'infection' property which GPL does (including requiring that the source be available). Ummm, are we nitpicking?
chris
I submit that the XF86Config file is a configuration file and does not belong in the off-the-wall place that SuSE sticks it (I don't recall where exactly they stuck it, but at least in 5.3 it wasn't in /etc).
/etc.
What are you talking about? I've had 5.2,5.3,6.0, and 6.1 and I've always found XF86Config in
chris
>>offtopic, but what IS an IT student? I'm a CS student, and "Information Technology" to me sounds like a meaningless buzzword..
It's basically what passes for CS in Europe. The idea is that they (I don't study it myself) focus their attention on the 'information' not on the 'computer'. That is to say, IT specialists are not necessarily programmers per se, but they are conversant in technologies used for the storage/organization/retrieval of information. What's meaningless about that?
chris
Oh, so it's a matter of degree? How many 'mv' commands would it take in your opinion before it's not okay? A small version of a crime is still a crime. Or do actually condone strangers messing around on your computer as long as the number of commands to fix the problem is held to, say, less than 5?
chris
>>The rich folks (being inbread and not too bright)
That's 'inbred' -> (breed, bred, bred)
>>thought that "beef" meant "dead cow that's been cooked" while the servants where just saying their word for "cow".
As pointed out above: backwards. And it wasn't a matter of misconceptions. Like I said, that's not how it works. The nobles called what was on their plate 'boeuf' (approx.) and the peasants called it something like 'kuh' and all of their common descendants incorporated it all together!
>>If my English teacher was right, then the Brits messed up those words long before they got to the US. We've messed up many, many other things (see: Velveeta) but not those words.
If your English teacher calls that messed-up then he or she is teaching the wrong language, otherwise I have to assume that you are applying that term, in which case see my message above regarding a clue and what to do with one.
...about the U.S.
U.S. doesn't have an 'official language'. English is the 'administrative' language. Every attempt (always by conservatives) to have English declared as the official language has failed.
chris
My cookie didn't fly or something...
chris