You should buy a Mac now, then... OfficeX is only $199 for now. Of course, if you do it right, you can get WordPerfect2k for free with a Windoze laptop, like my wife did. She was adamant about needing Office (cause she uses it at work), but after about an hour, she decided that WP2k did what she needed for much less money (read $0).
If only I could have convinced her to get an iBook instead...
a) The phone company (pacbell) would not give me DSL without a land line.
I don't doubt your first point... I use cable modem, and am not even considering dropping cable service. Although, if I did, RoadRunner recently raised their rates $5 and dropped the requirement that you maintain basic (or better) CATV service. Used to be, you paid an extra $20/month for RR if you didn't have a cable subscription (basic cable only costing around $13-15/month).
b) Land line minutes are cheaper than cell minutes.
This all depends on how much you place/receive phone calls. I talk with most people online with some sort of IM. I may spend half an hour a week on the phone.
I already have a cell phone with 350 anytime minutes and 1000 night/weekend minutes free with the plan I'm on. I never use these up, so I never pay more than the original plan anyway.
Then you should cancel your phone service. If you have a landline connected to your house/apartment/etc. there are typically 2 phone numbers you can still call. The phone company that owns the line, and 911 (at least that's been true in the RTP area of NC).
Back in my college/grad school days, I moved every few months, and I always called the phone company to set up service from the new apartment itself. The poor phone reps got so confused when I told them that I was calling from my apartment to set up service at my apartment. Apparently, no one told them that this would actually work.
You are only thinking of the 1s and 0s of the situation. In reality, warez steals control from the copyright holder.
If I am a potential customer of BigSoftwareCo and I have two equal options of a) paying BigSoftwareCo $1000 for their products or b) downloading it for free from your warez site, which am I going to do? Maybe a), maybe b).
If I go with a), that's a moral failing on my part, sure... but the fact that you offer the product has stolen control of it from it's creators. They no longer have the ability to say who gets to use the product (those that cough up the $1000 to them) and those who don't.
Dude, at $200 a head, wipe Lindows and install a real linux distro. Get a decent switch, a RAID controller and several large HDs, and voila, a (pseudo-)real beowulf cluster.
You never buy anything with a mail-in rebate, do you?
I had a friend actually get a check with his name spelled wrong (on the check) but spelled correctly on the envelope. The address was incorrect, and the ZIP code was off in the second digit (ie, 28xxx, not 27xxx). The company did everything in it's power not to pay the rebate without breaking any fraud laws... It's a wonder he got the thing at all.
Fine... I'm sorry for not including the disclaimer that I was speaking as a human with normally functioning eyes (if somewhat myopic) and a nerve center in the brain which interprets wavelengths between ~400-700 nm as a 'particular color'.
White is the perception of this strange stimulus we call color composed of electromagnetic radiation of many distinct wavelengths covering the spectral range 400-700 nm.
Dude... learn some physics. White is the combination of all colors (a mixture of light emitted throughout the visible spectrum). Black is the absence of color (no light emitted in the visible spectrum).
Don't confuse this with, say, paint, which emits no light... it only reflects light incident upon its surface.
I wouldn't sully good whiskey with any soda. Personally, I prefer whisky (that's the Scotch version, BTW)... preferably a 15yr Macallan or 12 yr Oban. Can't wait to get my hands on a 16yr Lagavulin!
I'm sorry, but no one who is not a physics grad student should EVER pick up Jackson's Electromagnetism book. That is THE most feared book at nearly every physics grad school in the country, and for good reason. Most interested novices, for interest, wouldn't even understand the phrase 'integrating around the poles'.
How much do they lose when you get the same album from some guy on Direct Connect? Absolutely zero.
Wrong! They lose control. It's all about control. If I own the copyright on a song, and I don't want you to have access to it, I have control over it. As soon as you copy a song, I have lost my control. That's what intellectual property is all about, not the expression, but control of that expression.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your first paragraph, but if you're trying to imply that mozilla and oracle apps 11i don't play nicely together, you're wrong. Sure, Oracle's jinitiator.exe installs itself in the 'Program Files/Netscape...' path, but once that's done, find the.dll and copy it into mozilla's plugins directory and restart mozilla.
Now if only Oracle would start supporting non-windoze browsers...
Eric
PS If you did know that, maybe someone else will read this and get some use out of it.
PPS Oracle applications works with IE "out of the box"... but that's still not gonna make me use it!
I can't manually log into the ftp server, and the link from the releases page returns a 0 byte file. I know others have gotten this version, so where is it? Anyone got a reliable mirror out there?
CA isn't charging itself state sales tax. Logicon, the company which directly sold the licenses to CA is charging them sales tax. They have to pay the sales tax, regardless of the customer, so why shouldn't they charge the state to recover their expenses?
I have to agree... I was working from home for a short period, and I never got the hang of "the shoulder trick". Went to Sears, plunked down $14 bucks on a single-ear headpiece with swiveling microphone, plugged it into my cordless. Works great. If you're going to mostly be sitting at a desk coding, troubleshooting, etc., just put the cordless somewhere non-obtrusive and go with that.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but Lessig's work is far more important than writing articles for an online community. I'd rather see him continue his work with the EFF, argue cases before the Supreme Court, and get some of the more ridiculous laws off the books.
THAT is doing something worthwhile. Let's not reduce him to the same level as JonKatz...
Please please please do NOT do this to the local indie music retailer. Only use this tactic against the large chains, the Coconuts, Best Buys, Wal-Marts of the world. They can afford to lose a little money and have to fight Universal to get it back. Most of their profit comes from other merchandise lines (home electronics, for instance).
The indie music store makes nearly 100% of its money from selling music, and they typically have much better/wider selections than big corporate stores. If they end up losing a lot to ship it all back to their supplier, they might not be able to swallow the loss, even if it is eventually refunded. I'm all for pissing off the music companies, but don't screw your local music stores at the same time.
I definitely agree... I was in my back yard on the east side of Raleigh (fairly close to you). The night could not have been more perfect (well, a little warmer, but I'm not complaining). I saw one meteor streaking toward Orion that definitely was bright red. Most of the colors I saw were greenish blue, though. I'll never forget one fireball that pierced Orion about mid-chest and exploded near the middle!
What's this? You have to have QT5 Pro ($29.95) to see the largest version of the trailer! The "Medium" is only about 2"x4"... that may be generous. I want my 640x480 trailers, a la LoTR...
This decision doesn't give anyone the right to take an idea from someone else and patent it without adding said person to the patent. What it does is prevent the exclusion of important parties to the research, be they professorial researchers, or graduate research assistants. The decision basically states that the two positions should be equal under law. Nowhere does it say the student can act with the same blatant dishonesty which this professor showed to his graduate student.
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You should buy a Mac now, then... OfficeX is only $199 for now. Of course, if you do it right, you can get WordPerfect2k for free with a Windoze laptop, like my wife did. She was adamant about needing Office (cause she uses it at work), but after about an hour, she decided that WP2k did what she needed for much less money (read $0).
If only I could have convinced her to get an iBook instead...
I already have a cell phone with 350 anytime minutes and 1000 night/weekend minutes free with the plan I'm on. I never use these up, so I never pay more than the original plan anyway.
Then you should cancel your phone service. If you have a landline connected to your house/apartment/etc. there are typically 2 phone numbers you can still call. The phone company that owns the line, and 911 (at least that's been true in the RTP area of NC).
Back in my college/grad school days, I moved every few months, and I always called the phone company to set up service from the new apartment itself. The poor phone reps got so confused when I told them that I was calling from my apartment to set up service at my apartment. Apparently, no one told them that this would actually work.
You are only thinking of the 1s and 0s of the situation. In reality, warez steals control from the copyright holder.
If I am a potential customer of BigSoftwareCo and I have two equal options of a) paying BigSoftwareCo $1000 for their products or b) downloading it for free from your warez site, which am I going to do? Maybe a), maybe b).
If I go with a), that's a moral failing on my part, sure... but the fact that you offer the product has stolen control of it from it's creators. They no longer have the ability to say who gets to use the product (those that cough up the $1000 to them) and those who don't.
That's theft, plain and simple.
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Dude, at $200 a head, wipe Lindows and install a real linux distro. Get a decent switch, a RAID controller and several large HDs, and voila, a (pseudo-)real beowulf cluster.
Eric
Well, I don't know ASP (nor do I want to), but for a M$ designated expert to use the following phrase totally sickens and revolts me:
Now I was ready to add the ASP code (business logic) to the top of the page
If you have to explain it, at least swap 'ASP code' and 'business logic' so as not to insinuate that all code is business logic.
ACK
Eric
You never buy anything with a mail-in rebate, do you?
I had a friend actually get a check with his name spelled wrong (on the check) but spelled correctly on the envelope. The address was incorrect, and the ZIP code was off in the second digit (ie, 28xxx, not 27xxx). The company did everything in it's power not to pay the rebate without breaking any fraud laws... It's a wonder he got the thing at all.
Eric
Fine... I'm sorry for not including the disclaimer that I was speaking as a human with normally functioning eyes (if somewhat myopic) and a nerve center in the brain which interprets wavelengths between ~400-700 nm as a 'particular color'.
White is the perception of this strange stimulus we call color composed of electromagnetic radiation of many distinct wavelengths covering the spectral range 400-700 nm.
How's that?
Eric
Dude... learn some physics. White is the combination of all colors (a mixture of light emitted throughout the visible spectrum). Black is the absence of color (no light emitted in the visible spectrum).
Don't confuse this with, say, paint, which emits no light... it only reflects light incident upon its surface.
Eric
I want my pre-wrapped bacon!
/. stupidity)...
(Trying to type slowly to avoid the
I wouldn't sully good whiskey with any soda. Personally, I prefer whisky (that's the Scotch version, BTW)... preferably a 15yr Macallan or 12 yr Oban. Can't wait to get my hands on a 16yr Lagavulin!
I'm sorry, but no one who is not a physics grad student should EVER pick up Jackson's Electromagnetism book. That is THE most feared book at nearly every physics grad school in the country, and for good reason. Most interested novices, for interest, wouldn't even understand the phrase 'integrating around the poles'.
Eric
Wrong! They lose control. It's all about control. If I own the copyright on a song, and I don't want you to have access to it, I have control over it. As soon as you copy a song, I have lost my control. That's what intellectual property is all about, not the expression, but control of that expression.
Eric
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your first paragraph, but if you're trying to imply that mozilla and oracle apps 11i don't play nicely together, you're wrong. Sure, Oracle's jinitiator.exe installs itself in the 'Program Files/Netscape...' path, but once that's done, find the .dll and copy it into mozilla's plugins directory and restart mozilla.
Now if only Oracle would start supporting non-windoze browsers...
Eric
PS If you did know that, maybe someone else will read this and get some use out of it.
PPS Oracle applications works with IE "out of the box"... but that's still not gonna make me use it!
You took the words right out of my mouth! I'm sure there are lot's of us out there...
I can't manually log into the ftp server, and the link from the releases page returns a 0 byte file. I know others have gotten this version, so where is it? Anyone got a reliable mirror out there?
Eric
CA isn't charging itself state sales tax. Logicon, the company which directly sold the licenses to CA is charging them sales tax. They have to pay the sales tax, regardless of the customer, so why shouldn't they charge the state to recover their expenses?
Eric
Well, the FAQ says the vehicle must accomodate a roll cage. Pretty useless unless someone is going to be *in* the thing.
Eric
I have to agree... I was working from home for a short period, and I never got the hang of "the shoulder trick". Went to Sears, plunked down $14 bucks on a single-ear headpiece with swiveling microphone, plugged it into my cordless. Works great. If you're going to mostly be sitting at a desk coding, troubleshooting, etc., just put the cordless somewhere non-obtrusive and go with that.
Eric
Maybe you haven't noticed, but Lessig's work is far more important than writing articles for an online community. I'd rather see him continue his work with the EFF, argue cases before the Supreme Court, and get some of the more ridiculous laws off the books.
THAT is doing something worthwhile. Let's not reduce him to the same level as JonKatz...
Eric
Please please please do NOT do this to the local indie music retailer. Only use this tactic against the large chains, the Coconuts, Best Buys, Wal-Marts of the world. They can afford to lose a little money and have to fight Universal to get it back. Most of their profit comes from other merchandise lines (home electronics, for instance).
The indie music store makes nearly 100% of its money from selling music, and they typically have much better/wider selections than big corporate stores. If they end up losing a lot to ship it all back to their supplier, they might not be able to swallow the loss, even if it is eventually refunded. I'm all for pissing off the music companies, but don't screw your local music stores at the same time.
Eric
I definitely agree... I was in my back yard on the east side of Raleigh (fairly close to you). The night could not have been more perfect (well, a little warmer, but I'm not complaining). I saw one meteor streaking toward Orion that definitely was bright red. Most of the colors I saw were greenish blue, though. I'll never forget one fireball that pierced Orion about mid-chest and exploded near the middle!
Eric
It gave me an error the first 12 times. I gave up at that point.
What's this? You have to have QT5 Pro ($29.95) to see the largest version of the trailer! The "Medium" is only about 2"x4"... that may be generous. I want my 640x480 trailers, a la LoTR...
Eric
This decision doesn't give anyone the right to take an idea from someone else and patent it without adding said person to the patent. What it does is prevent the exclusion of important parties to the research, be they professorial researchers, or graduate research assistants. The decision basically states that the two positions should be equal under law. Nowhere does it say the student can act with the same blatant dishonesty which this professor showed to his graduate student.
Eric