When will all the various DRMorons figure out that whatever they create WILL get cracked. They can't win. What a bunch of wasted time & effort! If they adapted their business model to current technology they might see an increase in sales.
Look at the history: The Wright Bros. built their airplane in a bicycle shop. HP was started in a garage. What about Apple? Most inventions of merit have come from backyard hobby/hackers/dreamers. They all had talent whether mechanical or electrical and ran with thier ideas/dreams.
If they mean controlling what happens on the plane when several people get fed up with the babble of the idiot next to them and shove his phone up his ass, then this might be valid.
Fifteen years ago if you saw someone with a cell phone you knew it was a Doctor or someone with equally important reason to be "on-call". Today you know they are just another servant on a leash!
It's also dirt poor. I spent 35 of my first 40 years there. If you didn't teach at NMSU(my Dad was in the College of Ag.), work for a contractor at White Sands Missle Range, own one of the large farms, or your own business, it was a struggle. The prevailing attitude into the 80's was: you don't want to work for min. wage? There are 16,000 college kids who will and if they won't there are 25,000 wets(illegal aliens) that will work for less! The per capita income in NM is in the bottom 5 in the country. Most of the growth involves retirees and their pensions avoiding snow. Thats why I left in 97. It is beautiful and was great for a kid to grow up there, but to make a living got harder and harder. Taxes are high, cost of living moderate. Find a way to make over $50,000 and be very comfortable.
It's logical to put the spaceport there do to so much open land, a good engineering school and the contractors at White Sands. Any job growth will be a big boost to the area. Being 4,000 feet above sea level doesn't hurt either. The biggest negative I can think of is the spring winds. From the west at an average of 30mph form 1 Feb. to 1 June with gusts to 80+ more common than you would believe. Keep a car for 5 years and replace the windshield due to sandblasting! Been there, done that!
How about the survey done of businesses about two years ago? What OS are you running and why? 64% were still running Win 2K and had no interest in getting XP. Everything worked and they did not want to spend the time, trouble, and money to upgrade. Many would have had to get their custom apps ported and there was no compelling reason. If the same poll was taken today the answer would be similar. Businesses will not spend money on fluff and thats all Vista is. Reliability and simplicity are more important than getting something else just because it's new. The sad fact is that with the stability problems Vista is looking more and more like ME2, remember what a catastrophe that was.
So the legal wienies have come up with two definitions of the same thing, only the medium is different? The actual content is more important to normal people than the medium. In this case bullshit is bullshit no matter how it is delivered. Lawyers can run up bills over this kind of foolishness forever, thats why they get laws written the way they are. SCO has made this a personal attack and I just hope PJ returns the favor and goes after all the individuals, not the company.
You could be right. Although this idea shows a level of thought and planning that SCO has not been very good at. This whole case has been poorly timed and planned from the start. I think this is more of a distraction than anything well thought out.
Now PJ can file a civil claim and try to get what little is left of SCO. Better yet use discovery to find the individuals who have done this and file against them personally. Slander is possible. They have made a concerted effort to discredit her in the press and since their claims are all false it will be easy to prove. Don't sue a worthless shell, get the jerks and lighten their wallets, that will end this farce the quickest.
The best comment I have seen on this one! I wish I had mod points today! So many people refuse to accept that there are differences between animals and humans. It really is more than just the oppossable thumb and logical thought.
You mean PETA doesn't stand for: People Eating Tasty Animals?
When I first went to college in 1980 (engineering) we were told to learn the basics and not spend to much time on how to apply them to the real world. Why? All the big companies will teach you how they want it done, a degree just proves that you are trainable!
There are two problems that cause cheating on papers: The fact that most people under 25 today think they can get away with it and don't really care. They don't understand the reasons for any form of research paper. Do the schools even try to explain why anymore? It really is part of the learning process.
The biggest problem is the trend to always place blame elsewhere. Everything is always someone elses fault. Few are truly held accountable for their own actions. The public schools are where this starts and even the courts help this farce. It has gotten progressivly worse for 40 years, today everyone tries to avoid accountability. Just read the news, everything is society's fault, the manufactureers fault, the bosses fault, it's never the idiots fault. Add to this the fact that nobody teaches morals anymore, it's now the dirtiest word! These kids don't know the difference between right and wrong, they have degrees of wrong. It's all shades of grey instead of black and white. Let's make deciding right and wrong a very complicated process when it really is simple, at least it used to be.
Most of the people making the decisions don't understand the technology. We have to figure out how to educate them first. The same problem applies to Washington, how else do you explain the stupid laws proposed? They fall for the best song and dance with the biggest donations!
If you could generate electricity from hot air, the Capitol could power the country. Hot air is the main product of Washington DC. The only other product is and endless amount of paper that means nothing.
Political party is irrelevant, all politicians are self-serving crooks. If you are not in their tax bracket, you have NO representation!
It's nice for someone to admit that it is a complete screw up. Unfortunately that is not enough for it to be struck down. Everyone on this site says Bush is the ultimate evil but a Clinton policy is one of the worst laws ever. It will be fun to read the responses to this that try to make it Bush's fault.
Who said that anyone in DC has worked for "us" in the last 50 years? The truth is, if you make less than $150,000 per year, you have NO representation in Washington. Those clowns work for the tax bracket they are in and the higher one they aspire to. It's really sad when the most effective and best working law passed in the last 35 years is the "Do Not Call" list! How many other specific laws does anyone remember (after civil rights in the 60's)? Party affiliation doesn't matter they all think the Federal Government is a jobs program. The bloat is at the mid level b-crats who don't actually do anything or have the power to do more than shuffle paper.
This is just one of the first shots in what will be the dirtiest campaign in history. This is going to make all the comments on/. about Bush seem like hugs and kisses, and that's just the Democrats beating each other up! The Republicans will probably end up eating their own too. When we get to the final 2 standing the public will be so sick of the whole thing that I expect the lowest voter turnout in history. It would be great if a couple of truly knowlegeable and likeable candidates showed up but I won't hold my breath.
I remember the questions about when a Vice President moves up due to the senility/mental competence of the President during Reagans second term. After seeing how the press and other candidates treat everyone running, I question the sanity of anyone who want's the damn job! Colin Powell might be the smartest man of our times. He refused to put himself or his family through this asinine process, that's character!
Very true, but I was trying to keep things simple. Wouldn't want to confuse the simple minds at the RIAA, they can't seem to grasp technology so ideas might be harder. That of course assumes they might think to read this site!
"Most likely the university dosn't want to play detective for free."
There is no reason they should, by law or any other logic. The **AA's need to be forced to spend the money to do all the research needed to file these suits. Then a good defense lawyer can apply the "true cost" of $.99 to each song since that is the most they sell for at "legitimate online outlets". When the **AA's start collecting only a freaction of their expenses on each suite, they will stop, or bleed to death. Making them pay the defenses legal costs on EVERY failed suite is very helpful in the cost vs. return battle. Their tactics are wrong and should be illegal but the only answer is to hit them in the wallet, it's the only thing any large Corporation or industry understands.
As a man that grew up down the street from Dr. T in Las Cruces, NM I have to agree that he would laugh. My Dad also taught at NMSU and I heard the lecture/story of the discovery of Pluto more times than I care to count. The 3 or 4 formal lectures were not quite as good as the one I got when I stopped by on the way home from school one time. Or the evening in his back yard looking through his homemade telescope in High School. Dr. T had a great sense of humor and was an excellent teacher. He was also one of the most quiet and unassuming people I have ever met. I do wish there were more like him.
After an election, do all politicians have commen sense removed? It doesn't matter where they are they all seem capable of this kind of stupidity. This might prove evolution of a new species: the Thundering Herd of Dumbass!
Once I learned how to tweek it I liked it, ran it on a 386 and a 486. Now 3.0 was such a joke that it couldn't be malware. 2k is still the best that M$ has ever done so my original post was off a touch.
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When will all the various DRMorons figure out that whatever they create WILL get cracked. They can't win. What a bunch of wasted time & effort! If they adapted their business model to current technology they might see an increase in sales.
I guess I should have said: on a leash to a higher power, like a wife!
Look at the history: The Wright Bros. built their airplane in a bicycle shop. HP was started in a garage. What about Apple? Most inventions of merit have come from backyard hobby/hackers/dreamers. They all had talent whether mechanical or electrical and ran with thier ideas/dreams.
If they mean controlling what happens on the plane when several people get fed up with the babble of the idiot next to them and shove his phone up his ass, then this might be valid.
Fifteen years ago if you saw someone with a cell phone you knew it was a Doctor or someone with equally important reason to be "on-call". Today you know they are just another servant on a leash!
It's also dirt poor. I spent 35 of my first 40 years there. If you didn't teach at NMSU(my Dad was in the College of Ag.), work for a contractor at White Sands Missle Range, own one of the large farms, or your own business, it was a struggle. The prevailing attitude into the 80's was: you don't want to work for min. wage? There are 16,000 college kids who will and if they won't there are 25,000 wets(illegal aliens) that will work for less! The per capita income in NM is in the bottom 5 in the country. Most of the growth involves retirees and their pensions avoiding snow. Thats why I left in 97. It is beautiful and was great for a kid to grow up there, but to make a living got harder and harder. Taxes are high, cost of living moderate. Find a way to make over $50,000 and be very comfortable.
It's logical to put the spaceport there do to so much open land, a good engineering school and the contractors at White Sands. Any job growth will be a big boost to the area. Being 4,000 feet above sea level doesn't hurt either. The biggest negative I can think of is the spring winds. From the west at an average of 30mph form 1 Feb. to 1 June with gusts to 80+ more common than you would believe. Keep a car for 5 years and replace the windshield due to sandblasting! Been there, done that!
And that's different from Micro$oft how?
How about the survey done of businesses about two years ago? What OS are you running and why? 64% were still running Win 2K and had no interest in getting XP. Everything worked and they did not want to spend the time, trouble, and money to upgrade. Many would have had to get their custom apps ported and there was no compelling reason. If the same poll was taken today the answer would be similar. Businesses will not spend money on fluff and thats all Vista is. Reliability and simplicity are more important than getting something else just because it's new. The sad fact is that with the stability problems Vista is looking more and more like ME2, remember what a catastrophe that was.
So the legal wienies have come up with two definitions of the same thing, only the medium is different? The actual content is more important to normal people than the medium. In this case bullshit is bullshit no matter how it is delivered. Lawyers can run up bills over this kind of foolishness forever, thats why they get laws written the way they are. SCO has made this a personal attack and I just hope PJ returns the favor and goes after all the individuals, not the company.
You could be right. Although this idea shows a level of thought and planning that SCO has not been very good at. This whole case has been poorly timed and planned from the start. I think this is more of a distraction than anything well thought out.
Now PJ can file a civil claim and try to get what little is left of SCO. Better yet use discovery to find the individuals who have done this and file against them personally. Slander is possible. They have made a concerted effort to discredit her in the press and since their claims are all false it will be easy to prove. Don't sue a worthless shell, get the jerks and lighten their wallets, that will end this farce the quickest.
The best comment I have seen on this one! I wish I had mod points today! So many people refuse to accept that there are differences between animals and humans. It really is more than just the oppossable thumb and logical thought.
You mean PETA doesn't stand for: People Eating Tasty Animals?
When I first went to college in 1980 (engineering) we were told to learn the basics and not spend to much time on how to apply them to the real world. Why? All the big companies will teach you how they want it done, a degree just proves that you are trainable!
There are two problems that cause cheating on papers:
The fact that most people under 25 today think they can get away with it and don't really care. They don't understand the reasons for any form of research paper. Do the schools even try to explain why anymore? It really is part of the learning process.
The biggest problem is the trend to always place blame elsewhere. Everything is always someone elses fault. Few are truly held accountable for their own actions. The public schools are where this starts and even the courts help this farce. It has gotten progressivly worse for 40 years, today everyone tries to avoid accountability. Just read the news, everything is society's fault, the manufactureers fault, the bosses fault, it's never the idiots fault. Add to this the fact that nobody teaches morals anymore, it's now the dirtiest word! These kids don't know the difference between right and wrong, they have degrees of wrong. It's all shades of grey instead of black and white. Let's make deciding right and wrong a very complicated process when it really is simple, at least it used to be.
Most of the people making the decisions don't understand the technology. We have to figure out how to educate them first. The same problem applies to Washington, how else do you explain the stupid laws proposed? They fall for the best song and dance with the biggest donations!
If you could generate electricity from hot air, the Capitol could power the country. Hot air is the main product of Washington DC. The only other product is and endless amount of paper that means nothing.
Political party is irrelevant, all politicians are self-serving crooks. If you are not in their tax bracket, you have NO representation!
It's nice for someone to admit that it is a complete screw up. Unfortunately that is not enough for it to be struck down. Everyone on this site says Bush is the ultimate evil but a Clinton policy is one of the worst laws ever. It will be fun to read the responses to this that try to make it Bush's fault.
Who said that anyone in DC has worked for "us" in the last 50 years? The truth is, if you make less than $150,000 per year, you have NO representation in Washington. Those clowns work for the tax bracket they are in and the higher one they aspire to. It's really sad when the most effective and best working law passed in the last 35 years is the "Do Not Call" list! How many other specific laws does anyone remember (after civil rights in the 60's)? Party affiliation doesn't matter they all think the Federal Government is a jobs program. The bloat is at the mid level b-crats who don't actually do anything or have the power to do more than shuffle paper.
This is just one of the first shots in what will be the dirtiest campaign in history. This is going to make all the comments on /. about Bush seem like hugs and kisses, and that's just the Democrats beating each other up! The Republicans will probably end up eating their own too. When we get to the final 2 standing the public will be so sick of the whole thing that I expect the lowest voter turnout in history. It would be great if a couple of truly knowlegeable and likeable candidates showed up but I won't hold my breath.
I remember the questions about when a Vice President moves up due to the senility/mental competence of the President during Reagans second term. After seeing how the press and other candidates treat everyone running, I question the sanity of anyone who want's the damn job! Colin Powell might be the smartest man of our times. He refused to put himself or his family through this asinine process, that's character!
Nice point! I wonder how this compares with the abuses of the RIAA/MPAA and the SBA. Do their strongarm notices get signed by a real person?
Very true, but I was trying to keep things simple. Wouldn't want to confuse the simple minds at the RIAA, they can't seem to grasp technology so ideas might be harder. That of course assumes they might think to read this site!
"Most likely the university dosn't want to play detective for free."
There is no reason they should, by law or any other logic. The **AA's need to be forced to spend the money to do all the research needed to file these suits. Then a good defense lawyer can apply the "true cost" of $.99 to each song since that is the most they sell for at "legitimate online outlets". When the **AA's start collecting only a freaction of their expenses on each suite, they will stop, or bleed to death. Making them pay the defenses legal costs on EVERY failed suite is very helpful in the cost vs. return battle. Their tactics are wrong and should be illegal but the only answer is to hit them in the wallet, it's the only thing any large Corporation or industry understands.
As a man that grew up down the street from Dr. T in Las Cruces, NM I have to agree that he would laugh. My Dad also taught at NMSU and I heard the lecture/story of the discovery of Pluto more times than I care to count. The 3 or 4 formal lectures were not quite as good as the one I got when I stopped by on the way home from school one time. Or the evening in his back yard looking through his homemade telescope in High School. Dr. T had a great sense of humor and was an excellent teacher. He was also one of the most quiet and unassuming people I have ever met. I do wish there were more like him.
After an election, do all politicians have commen sense removed? It doesn't matter where they are they all seem capable of this kind of stupidity. This might prove evolution of a new species: the Thundering Herd of Dumbass!
Once I learned how to tweek it I liked it, ran it on a 386 and a 486. Now 3.0 was such a joke that it couldn't be malware. 2k is still the best that M$ has ever done so my original post was off a touch.
I thought everything from M$ after Win 3.11 was malware!
The only thing I've ever seen that works. Although you need to follow the first two with a foot to the balls, which on most bullies is a small target.