I don't care much for guns, don't own one, don't go shooting, don't really care.
I don't care much for the NRA - I think they go a bit overboard at times.
I think the 2nd ammendment is outdated - we have a well armed militia and probably won't need to come running out of the house to keep the King of England at bay, or even the reds.
That all being said, I think gun control is a waste of time. Much like the copy-restrictions on cd's/software/whatever, all it does is add a degree of difficulty for legitimate people - if I go to the store to buy a gun to shoot Bambi or coke cans, I have to jump through this hoop and that hoop to do something legal...meanwhile some hood or gangbanger will be getting some black market gun without all this hassle.
About the only place that I see stronger gun control helping would be crimes of passion - getting pissed and shooting someone. However, I think if I was that pissed to kill someone, then not having a gun would not be a deterant...there are enough heavy blunt objects in this world to help.
I think what is needed is sticter punishments (not a fan of the death penalty): Shoot someone during a crime, life in a 6x6 box - no parole. Shoot someone during a crime of passion, life in a 6x6 box - no parole. Shoot someone in a drive by, life in a 6x6 box - no parole. Get caught with an illegal gun, 20 years in a 6x6 box - no parole.
Instead you get infinite trials, out in a few years, and a book deal or a rap record.
Like I said - my views are mixed...don't own or want one, but don't care if others have one.
Actually, I think on the last point (IMHO - let australia sue me) comes across as "we have our way of making money and these things are messing that up. since we are (in theory) losing money by people skipping commercials we should be compensated so we don't have to come up with another way to make $$$.
I guess HBO will be suing me soon as a friend is gonna let me borrow his season 1 Soprano DVD's...not only did I not pay to see it on HBO, but I didn't pay to buy the DVD's either.
Guess I'n not a good little sheep. I'll share a secret - my office mate was listening to a CD in his truck while riding to lunch, and without forking over a dime, I heard a song.:)
C'mon...this is Next Generation - they just run a level 3 diagnostic on it.
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Now instead of being 58000 ft too far from the CO, I'm only 57400 ft too far from the CO. At leaps and bounds like this, by the time they get to ADSL97 I'll finally be able to get service.:)
My dad has two dells, my sisters both have dells, my aunt has a gateway and a IBM Thinkpad, neighboor has a HP which replaced a Packard Bell, just worked on a friend of my mom's HP the other night. Other neighboor just bought an HP, and another neighboor has an HP. Only neighboor I know who has a white-box special also recently bought an HP.
I dunno - I know a lot of the/. crowd probably have the custom jobs, but with one exception, everyone I know who has a machine whose type I know is a namebrand.
1) In the Thursday (thanksgiving) paper, this stuff was printed. I could simply know what was on sale before entering the store, just get what I wanted and get out. Does it really make a difference if I had the data a week before that? (Well...as I stayed home friday it's a moot point:)
2) Proof? Say I worked at the Post and saw the info come in on the digital media, pulled it up on my screen to make sure it was valid/not-corrupt. At that point, I or others could have printed it out, handwritten the prices down, etc... with no media ever being stolen.
3) I'll agree with that - the person did something they shouldn't have - but it has nothing to do with copyright (they did not post the ads as sent on the digital media) Basically, wal-mart has no idea how to figure out who leaked the info, so they are using the ridiculous power of the DMCA to drag it out, even though it shoudln't apply.
4) amen brother....though you still assume that something naughty went on with the media. NDA issues - probably, theft of digital media - doubtful.
Interesting footnote, though I can't say I agree with it. It's a far cry from being a computer company that can play a sound to being a record company.
On the first one, I can see the appliances coming with the ability - whether or not the connectivity is there is another thing.
But I imagine that the Best Buy drone will be bugging you like crazy to purchase the internet monitoring service like they do with the extended warranty - just another way for the companies to get money.
My school uses a product called Banner, made by a company named SCT. We get the full source code for the product. We can make changes if we want (our responsibility to maintain).
Obviously we can't give the source code/product out to anyone else. And we pay an annual maint fee. (Not sure what would happen if we stopped paying it - if we'd just code freeze where we were (no more upgrades) or have to stop using it)
The great thing is that tons of colleges use this product, so there is a large nationwide community of users. The company has several mailing lists for users on various aspects of the product. Code mods/fixes (amongst registered users) are quite normal, and sometimes some stuff even goes back into the baseline product.
The company is also active on these lists. Despite anything I may dislike about the product, I have to admit that I do like the company and the relationship we have with them and the other users.
To me this is a perfect example of how open source (not free source mind you) works wonderfully and lots of people benefit.
I'm sure there are some who believe that all software should be free source, but as for open source, it would be great if more companies would work like this.
Easy...just offer the tickets to this item at a huge discount and put the fact you'll spy on their every move into a EULA. They'll click right through it so fast it'll make your head swim...then it's all nice and quasi-legal.
That may help...however, with something complex as an Oracle database, you may be getting good backups of a file, but what if you backed the database up while it was running, or didn't include one file into the backup.
While you may have a great tape copy of the files, they may be worthless.
The past president where I work had a daughter in the 7th grade who was just as enthusiastic about installing OS/2.
See...IBM gave the president this notebook that had Win3.x on it and OS/2. On the Windows desktop was a program group with one icon - Switch to OS/2. I guess the daughter thought that sounded cool and clicked it. It would then reconfigure the machine to boot into OS/2 and was not easy to get Windows back.
After the third time I finally got smart and deleted the damn program group.
What would make a REAL cool linux install is a CD you pop in that autoruns (prompting of course) figures out what is installed on the windows box, what users as well, and then sets up a Linux box with similar programs installed and similar userid's or something.
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Let them try - I'll wipe my ass with it.
Well...it's survived all of the africa civil wars and obviously knows how to find gold.
I don't care much for guns, don't own one, don't go shooting, don't really care.
I don't care much for the NRA - I think they go a bit overboard at times.
I think the 2nd ammendment is outdated - we have a well armed militia and probably won't need to come running out of the house to keep the King of England at bay, or even the reds.
That all being said, I think gun control is a waste of time. Much like the copy-restrictions on cd's/software/whatever, all it does is add a degree of difficulty for legitimate people - if I go to the store to buy a gun to shoot Bambi or coke cans, I have to jump through this hoop and that hoop to do something legal...meanwhile some hood or gangbanger will be getting some black market gun without all this hassle.
About the only place that I see stronger gun control helping would be crimes of passion - getting pissed and shooting someone. However, I think if I was that pissed to kill someone, then not having a gun would not be a deterant...there are enough heavy blunt objects in this world to help.
I think what is needed is sticter punishments (not a fan of the death penalty):
Shoot someone during a crime, life in a 6x6 box - no parole.
Shoot someone during a crime of passion, life in a 6x6 box - no parole.
Shoot someone in a drive by, life in a 6x6 box - no parole.
Get caught with an illegal gun, 20 years in a 6x6 box - no parole.
Instead you get infinite trials, out in a few years, and a book deal or a rap record.
Like I said - my views are mixed...don't own or want one, but don't care if others have one.
Actually, I think on the last point (IMHO - let australia sue me) comes across as "we have our way of making money and these things are messing that up. since we are (in theory) losing money by people skipping commercials we should be compensated so we don't have to come up with another way to make $$$.
I guess HBO will be suing me soon as a friend is gonna let me borrow his season 1 Soprano DVD's...not only did I not pay to see it on HBO, but I didn't pay to buy the DVD's either.
:)
Guess I'n not a good little sheep. I'll share a secret - my office mate was listening to a CD in his truck while riding to lunch, and without forking over a dime, I heard a song.
nice article - but what subpeona?
C'mon...this is Next Generation - they just run a level 3 diagnostic on it.
Now instead of being 58000 ft too far from the CO, I'm only 57400 ft too far from the CO. At leaps and bounds like this, by the time they get to ADSL97 I'll finally be able to get service. :)
My dad has two dells, my sisters both have dells, my aunt has a gateway and a IBM Thinkpad, neighboor has a HP which replaced a Packard Bell, just worked on a friend of my mom's HP the other night. Other neighboor just bought an HP, and another neighboor has an HP. Only neighboor I know who has a white-box special also recently bought an HP.
/. crowd probably have the custom jobs, but with one exception, everyone I know who has a machine whose type I know is a namebrand.
I dunno - I know a lot of the
Nothing scientific here...just one experience.
FatWallet is not really using the DMCA - they are standing up saying that wal-marts claims of a violation are bullshit.
1) In the Thursday (thanksgiving) paper, this stuff was printed. I could simply know what was on sale before entering the store, just get what I wanted and get out. Does it really make a difference if I had the data a week before that? (Well...as I stayed home friday it's a moot point :)
2) Proof? Say I worked at the Post and saw the info come in on the digital media, pulled it up on my screen to make sure it was valid/not-corrupt. At that point, I or others could have printed it out, handwritten the prices down, etc... with no media ever being stolen.
3) I'll agree with that - the person did something they shouldn't have - but it has nothing to do with copyright (they did not post the ads as sent on the digital media) Basically, wal-mart has no idea how to figure out who leaked the info, so they are using the ridiculous power of the DMCA to drag it out, even though it shoudln't apply.
4) amen brother....though you still assume that something naughty went on with the media. NDA issues - probably, theft of digital media - doubtful.
Interesting footnote, though I can't say I agree with it. It's a far cry from being a computer company that can play a sound to being a record company.
I thought that case went to the supreme court that ruled as long as they were not operating a similar kind of business there is no problem.
I don't know if I call that cutting a deal.
On the first one, I can see the appliances coming with the ability - whether or not the connectivity is there is another thing.
But I imagine that the Best Buy drone will be bugging you like crazy to purchase the internet monitoring service like they do with the extended warranty - just another way for the companies to get money.
my mistake - at one point I had thought that Open Source was describing that instead of free software, or at least encompassing that somewhere.
There's gotta be some term for it somewhere - sourceware?
My school uses a product called Banner, made by a company named SCT. We get the full source code for the product. We can make changes if we want (our responsibility to maintain).
Obviously we can't give the source code/product out to anyone else. And we pay an annual maint fee. (Not sure what would happen if we stopped paying it - if we'd just code freeze where we were (no more upgrades) or have to stop using it)
The great thing is that tons of colleges use this product, so there is a large nationwide community of users. The company has several mailing lists for users on various aspects of the product. Code mods/fixes (amongst registered users) are quite normal, and sometimes some stuff even goes back into the baseline product.
The company is also active on these lists. Despite anything I may dislike about the product, I have to admit that I do like the company and the relationship we have with them and the other users.
To me this is a perfect example of how open source (not free source mind you) works wonderfully and lots of people benefit.
I'm sure there are some who believe that all software should be free source, but as for open source, it would be great if more companies would work like this.
One of the judges contentions was that it was a passive, non-interactive web site, therefore just a posting of info.
:)
Good thing it didn't have a flash interface or anything fancy to make it more interactive
I gave up on Byte when it went from having technical and informative articles to yet another look at our graphs for these two similar products rag.
It's not as bad as a ZD magazine, but a shadow of its former self.
It wasn't as much of a plotted story as a narrative. Kinda a then this happened and this and this, and this person was known by these 20 names.
If you like Lord of the Rings, this is basically the back story - how the world got the way it was in LotR.
Much as WWI is the way the world got setup for WWII, this has what brought Sauron to power.
Where you would have someone that you could ask "I'm trying to do x with y and z" and they could point you to component Q.
Now it's just:
"Dude...do you want a phone?"
No thanks...I just need a cable from x to y
"you can hook a cable to the phone"
etc...
A new store is opening near me, and I'm praying for it to be good - though the cards are stacked against me.
Yup...that is the reason I like working at the university I work at - the infinite funds to spend to do everything 100% right!!!
Easy...just offer the tickets to this item at a huge discount and put the fact you'll spy on their every move into a EULA. They'll click right through it so fast it'll make your head swim...then it's all nice and quasi-legal.
You can use ldap address books, however, you could only bind to the LDAP server as an anonymous user, which doesn't work in many LDAP environments.
Anyone know if this has been fixed in any recent patches? I didn't see it listed, but was hoping I missed it.
That may help...however, with something complex as an Oracle database, you may be getting good backups of a file, but what if you backed the database up while it was running, or didn't include one file into the backup.
While you may have a great tape copy of the files, they may be worthless.
Guess I shouldn't mention I have a Black Dell sitting under my desk (and a room full of Black Dell Servers).
Sitting right next to my white Dell box.
Ebony and Ivory...
The past president where I work had a daughter in the 7th grade who was just as enthusiastic about installing OS/2.
See...IBM gave the president this notebook that had Win3.x on it and OS/2. On the Windows desktop was a program group with one icon - Switch to OS/2. I guess the daughter thought that sounded cool and clicked it. It would then reconfigure the machine to boot into OS/2 and was not easy to get Windows back.
After the third time I finally got smart and deleted the damn program group.
What would make a REAL cool linux install is a CD you pop in that autoruns (prompting of course) figures out what is installed on the windows box, what users as well, and then sets up a Linux box with similar programs installed and similar userid's or something.