Um, no, I never said "stunning" resolutions. The numbers are about even for 1280x1024, more than adequate for all the normal users I know, most of which still run at 1024x768.
These are read by lawyers, however, not people with brains. Let's see, how could it be done...ahh. The powers are granted to the people, and the federal government represents the people as a whole, so those powers are delegated back. So those powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the federal government;)
All reading it did for me is bring to light a few extra court cases, which like the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, will serve as an excuse now, and be a perpetual stain on our national honor for the rest of our history.
Could go either way. I think it looks more like Stallman is standing on the shoulders of Linus. Without the emergance of the Linux kernel, most of Stallman's work was just sitting there looking pretty. Linux is the only reason many people have even heard of the GNU system, and until a few months ago, the only way it could even run on a system.
I think RMS overstates the importance of GNU to Linux. There are dozens of versions of most of the GNU userland utilities floating around, but very few modern and effective free kernels. It would be far easier to replace the GNU side than the kernel. There are competing userlands, but the FSF has taken what, 10 or 15 years is it, to produce a kernel that barely supports IDE disks.
Yep, and I'll be playing games at a friends house, answering my email while sitting at the beach, and enjoy the ability to not be chained to one location by a gigantic box when I want to work on my PC:)
Then I'll buy another one, with the same money I could have used for desktop upgrades, without having to suffer the intervening years with lack of portability.
As I said in another thread, stick with common resolutions (maybe what 90% of people run at) and the price difference is minor. For people with major demands, the price can get steep, but for most users, barely.
But when you go to 19', the difference is a lot smaller. There is always a price break point somewhere, you just buy on the friendly side of the curve. Also, I know _very_ few people with a 21' CRT, they take up such absurd amounts of desk space and generate enough heat to raise my office temp almost 5 degrees. Most stick with 19' in either case, where an LCD can be a much better deal, especially when they easily rotate for Portrait mode:)
They need a gun because it is the only system that will work against 5-6 guys with knives coming at you. Watch the Rodney King video if you want to see the effectiveness of a stun gun. If the gun falls into the wrong hands...so what? That means they already control the cockpit. If your goal is to control passengers, a gun might be useful. If you just want to crash the plane, doesn't matter. It's kinda like the people who don't want pilots armed because "they should be flying the plane". If they need to use a gun, someone is trying to kill them. If they don't fight back, everyone dies for sure. I'd rather they be distracted for a moment while they shoot the bastard and give the plane a fighting chance.
I don't think emotional coercion will work in the plane as a weapon scenario. "Crash the plane into the White House, killing everyone on the plane, or I'll kill the stewardess?" Just doesn't seem it would work that well, also don't think the passengers would stand for it anymore. The key is that the cockpit doesn't have an internal door. The pilot can't be coerced into opening it if it doesn't exist.
No, that's war in the middle east. Peace is much cheaper, just stop propping up brutal puppet dictators and murderers, it will settle down fairly quickly.
On the downside, in any unusual situation requiring a quick decision or a judgement call to live, users of a computer piloting system are screwed. What happens when a plane is on a collision course with an aircraft with a failed beacon? The computer doesn't see it, the pilot can't try to correct it...splat! There is a reason we still have pilots, because no computer can yet act correctly in that moment of decision.
The shuttle has a very limited flight area, incredibly well understood and common design, millions of man-hours, strict development processes and testing, etc and still has had 2 explode out of a couple of hundred flights. The only reason it has to be computer controlled is that the precision required on re-entry cannot be achieved by a human.
I don't know about you, but I'm not too comfortable with how that will scale to thousands of flights per day.
You're scared? Given the horrid performance of Patriot missiles every time they're used...ugh. The people that will be really scared are those on British airlines...
Caveat Emptor: latin for "If you didn't catch me lying up front, it doesn't count."
How much research do you expect a consumer to make into the legal issues surrounding replacement parts for a $50 product? The restrictions Lexmark is placing on their product are not clearly mentioned in the literature, and are certainly not common for similar products. There are legitimate differences consumers know to look for, but most don't expect, or know to look for, obscure legal crap like this.
"The offices of Direct Marketing International were strangely empty today after a raid ordered by the Justice Department. An official said 'well, someone printed an article about them and terror, good enough evidence for us!'"
"To respond to a separate reply to my message, you're bringing up a strawman to mention Elcomsoft. All you've proven is that there are bad lawmen, not that the DMCA is a bad law."
If a law allows people to be imprisoned with little evidence, engaging in behaviors that should be protected under fair use, it is a bad law. For every time the "little guy" has gotten a good result, it has been used dozens of times to muzzle detractors and prevent competition.
Actually, why don't you try reading the legal opinions about Geneva Convention violations of nearly everyone outside of the Bush legal team. The US is not on very stable footing here.
And how can you forget to mention King of the Hill?
Property tax is the chunk that takes it up a bit. He is probably exaggerating a bit, but not a lot.
Why wouldn't you want to own a house, under any circumstances? You don't have any more flexibility in payment. Hell, your mortgage payment can usually be up to 15 days late without a problem, a lot of landlords will have you evicted after that long. The payments on a house are usually lower than rent, and if you're on a 15 year, you will have equity pretty quickly. That way you can always sell the house, and use the equity for a paid off RV:)
Treating businessmen as second class citizens? Which US are you living in? We give them massive protection from the consequences of almost any wrongdoing, custom made tax relief packages, protective tariffs, weakened unions, and far more in government handouts than are given to the poor in this country. By what measure are they treated as second class?
Would "anyone with half a brain" include the MS employee one of my employers had on site to help? Would HP count as a real rollout? Yes, Exchange has some great functionality. Worked OK as well. Downtime, yep. It wasn't horrible, but it was worse than when they ran OpenMail. Database corruption, yep, that was the big issue. They were constantly battling issues that would result in DB corruption, and the restore procedures got a really good testing for months. Also, if you just ran Windows Update, that would make you severely negligant if managing any internet accessable system. Major security holes would not get patched for an uncomfortably long time. You have to stay on top of hotfixes as well.
It is an OK mail server, but your experience is the exception, not the rule.
By your definition, though, maybe 2% of businesses qualify as competent then. I've been involved in the purchasing process, and vendor golfing relationships, vendor goodies, and flashy slideshows typically carry much more weight than the numbers.
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Um, no, I never said "stunning" resolutions. The numbers are about even for 1280x1024, more than adequate for all the normal users I know, most of which still run at 1024x768.
These are read by lawyers, however, not people with brains. Let's see, how could it be done...ahh. The powers are granted to the people, and the federal government represents the people as a whole, so those powers are delegated back. So those powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the federal government ;)
Lawyer think is a really great party game.
In what world is increased police powers against what Republicans stood for?
All reading it did for me is bring to light a few extra court cases, which like the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, will serve as an excuse now, and be a perpetual stain on our national honor for the rest of our history.
Could go either way. I think it looks more like Stallman is standing on the shoulders of Linus. Without the emergance of the Linux kernel, most of Stallman's work was just sitting there looking pretty. Linux is the only reason many people have even heard of the GNU system, and until a few months ago, the only way it could even run on a system.
I think RMS overstates the importance of GNU to Linux. There are dozens of versions of most of the GNU userland utilities floating around, but very few modern and effective free kernels. It would be far easier to replace the GNU side than the kernel. There are competing userlands, but the FSF has taken what, 10 or 15 years is it, to produce a kernel that barely supports IDE disks.
I think they let you live in it for free if you keep the screen clean ;)
Yep, and I'll be playing games at a friends house, answering my email while sitting at the beach, and enjoy the ability to not be chained to one location by a gigantic box when I want to work on my PC :)
Then I'll buy another one, with the same money I could have used for desktop upgrades, without having to suffer the intervening years with lack of portability.
As I said in another thread, stick with common resolutions (maybe what 90% of people run at) and the price difference is minor. For people with major demands, the price can get steep, but for most users, barely.
But when you go to 19', the difference is a lot smaller. There is always a price break point somewhere, you just buy on the friendly side of the curve. Also, I know _very_ few people with a 21' CRT, they take up such absurd amounts of desk space and generate enough heat to raise my office temp almost 5 degrees. Most stick with 19' in either case, where an LCD can be a much better deal, especially when they easily rotate for Portrait mode :)
They need a gun because it is the only system that will work against 5-6 guys with knives coming at you. Watch the Rodney King video if you want to see the effectiveness of a stun gun. If the gun falls into the wrong hands...so what? That means they already control the cockpit. If your goal is to control passengers, a gun might be useful. If you just want to crash the plane, doesn't matter. It's kinda like the people who don't want pilots armed because "they should be flying the plane". If they need to use a gun, someone is trying to kill them. If they don't fight back, everyone dies for sure. I'd rather they be distracted for a moment while they shoot the bastard and give the plane a fighting chance.
I don't think emotional coercion will work in the plane as a weapon scenario. "Crash the plane into the White House, killing everyone on the plane, or I'll kill the stewardess?" Just doesn't seem it would work that well, also don't think the passengers would stand for it anymore. The key is that the cockpit doesn't have an internal door. The pilot can't be coerced into opening it if it doesn't exist.
I think if he's crashing planes by putting the beacon there, the FCC is the least of his worries.
No, that's war in the middle east. Peace is much cheaper, just stop propping up brutal puppet dictators and murderers, it will settle down fairly quickly.
On the downside, in any unusual situation requiring a quick decision or a judgement call to live, users of a computer piloting system are screwed. What happens when a plane is on a collision course with an aircraft with a failed beacon? The computer doesn't see it, the pilot can't try to correct it...splat! There is a reason we still have pilots, because no computer can yet act correctly in that moment of decision.
The shuttle has a very limited flight area, incredibly well understood and common design, millions of man-hours, strict development processes and testing, etc and still has had 2 explode out of a couple of hundred flights. The only reason it has to be computer controlled is that the precision required on re-entry cannot be achieved by a human.
I don't know about you, but I'm not too comfortable with how that will scale to thousands of flights per day.
You're scared? Given the horrid performance of Patriot missiles every time they're used...ugh. The people that will be really scared are those on British airlines...
Caveat Emptor: latin for "If you didn't catch me lying up front, it doesn't count."
How much research do you expect a consumer to make into the legal issues surrounding replacement parts for a $50 product? The restrictions Lexmark is placing on their product are not clearly mentioned in the literature, and are certainly not common for similar products. There are legitimate differences consumers know to look for, but most don't expect, or know to look for, obscure legal crap like this.
We can only hope Asscroft did.
"The offices of Direct Marketing International were strangely empty today after a raid ordered by the Justice Department. An official said 'well, someone printed an article about them and terror, good enough evidence for us!'"
Ooh, I had never even thought about how they would avoid the postmaster account. What a devious mind...I like it!
"To respond to a separate reply to my message, you're bringing up a strawman to mention Elcomsoft. All you've proven is that there are bad lawmen, not that the DMCA is a bad law."
If a law allows people to be imprisoned with little evidence, engaging in behaviors that should be protected under fair use, it is a bad law. For every time the "little guy" has gotten a good result, it has been used dozens of times to muzzle detractors and prevent competition.
Actually, why don't you try reading the legal opinions about Geneva Convention violations of nearly everyone outside of the Bush legal team. The US is not on very stable footing here.
And how can you forget to mention King of the Hill?
Property tax is the chunk that takes it up a bit. He is probably exaggerating a bit, but not a lot.
:)
Why wouldn't you want to own a house, under any circumstances? You don't have any more flexibility in payment. Hell, your mortgage payment can usually be up to 15 days late without a problem, a lot of landlords will have you evicted after that long. The payments on a house are usually lower than rent, and if you're on a 15 year, you will have equity pretty quickly. That way you can always sell the house, and use the equity for a paid off RV
Actually, with the money you save not buying Office XP, make the down payment on a new car...
Ugh, I am a frequent Windows user, and I don't have Office. I just can't justify spending that kind of dough for a minimal increase in features.
Treating businessmen as second class citizens? Which US are you living in? We give them massive protection from the consequences of almost any wrongdoing, custom made tax relief packages, protective tariffs, weakened unions, and far more in government handouts than are given to the poor in this country. By what measure are they treated as second class?
Would "anyone with half a brain" include the MS employee one of my employers had on site to help? Would HP count as a real rollout? Yes, Exchange has some great functionality. Worked OK as well. Downtime, yep. It wasn't horrible, but it was worse than when they ran OpenMail. Database corruption, yep, that was the big issue. They were constantly battling issues that would result in DB corruption, and the restore procedures got a really good testing for months. Also, if you just ran Windows Update, that would make you severely negligant if managing any internet accessable system. Major security holes would not get patched for an uncomfortably long time. You have to stay on top of hotfixes as well.
It is an OK mail server, but your experience is the exception, not the rule.
By your definition, though, maybe 2% of businesses qualify as competent then. I've been involved in the purchasing process, and vendor golfing relationships, vendor goodies, and flashy slideshows typically carry much more weight than the numbers.