It's a mix of mud and straw commonly used as a building material throughout various times and places. There are houses in Ireland that have withstood centuries of weather and worse with little more than a renewed coat of lime every now and again.
I've used this material myself. It takes temps as hot as 2300F, becomes a more or less solid block once it set, can be built a vertical foot at a session. Amazing amazing stuff.
I believe that the law in Washington not only prohibits the sending f spam to residents of Washington State, but also prohibits companies in Washington State from sending it.
It's the only reason that we DON'T have M$/MSN/Hotmail brand penis and breast enlargements out there. Obviously there is a huge market for this kind of stuff and M$ wants to leverage their market position, file patents, and send out hordes of attack lawyers to consolidate their IP and marketshare.
Charities can ill-afford ill-will from their donor groups and it is in their best interests to leave people alone who request it. I think that the only ones left who are crass enough to do otherwise are those handicapped lightbulb sellers, the Red Cross, and the fraudulent ones(All of these are very much the same thing to me anyway).
Maybe not good for OSS, but it does provide overall competition in the market, which MS is in desparate need of.
Once OpenOffice and StarOffice mature some more, and we see the Linux community develop some if the integrations that MS claims it can't, THEN OSS becomes another, and more serious competitor.
No, they expressed the concern that the 'one size fits all' approach to AIDS treatment didn't account for factors unique to AIDS infections on the African continent. At least Mbeki spent more time thinking about the issue than some knee-jerk/. respondent.
Where in business you are rewarded for saving money and being efficient to improve profits margins, government runs on a completely different paradigm. For a start, government usually takes on tasks that are not profitable and usually cannot be made profitable. They still have to be done, so it falls to government to fix them.
But the real problem is that there is ZERO reward for government spend conservatively, and in fact there are disincentives to do so. Agencies and departments that don't use up their budgets are often penalized by not having that money given to them in the future.
So the first thing we have to do is quit asking the government to wipe our hineys for us, because it takes tax dollars to buy toilet paper and hire certified personnel. Then we have to tell government that spending every dime is not desireable. Then we need to throw out the whole Congress and elect people who understand how money really works, instead of who think that money is in finite supply and that you solve all problems through unfunded mandates and increased taxation.
The problem is that this whole stupid article makes the blanket assumption that 'gender equality' in the field would somehow make women more interested in IT.
They had this same stupid idea about welding after the movie "Flashdance" and unsurprisingly few women want to lift heavy things all day or turn wrenches in auto shops.
Note also that it only makes sense, given the current circumstances, for SUN to latch on to M$ by the throat and make them follow the contract--including the demands for damages--because letting M$ walk away would otherwise give M$ a free hand to do as they please.
People should really quit rooting for the cheating monopolist and start rooting for the process of making them follow agreements that they freely entered into. This simply isn't about penalizing success; it's about making an arrogant company play by the rules everyone else plays by(and anti-trust law applies to everyone in one way or another).
...and Microsoft violated the terms of their contract with Sun by including a non-compliant Java in Windows. They also misused a Sun trademark and have sought to further break the original agreement by simply removing it altogether. But since there still is a contract in force, M$ is obligated to follow it.
The courts ruled in favor of Sun, and since that time, M$ has been trying ANYTHING they can to weasel out of the consequences, mostly by using their huge amounts of cash and monopoly power to push their own technologies.
It's called things like hiking, boating, kayaking, coding, reading, writing, walking in Nature, and living a productive life. Communication improves, consumption of garbage, while on your butt on the couch goes down. Children are more creative and more likely to want to do the things listed above. I guess I'm not seeing the problem for anyone but the cable companies who would lose a lot of revenue if people like me became more prevalent.
We gave up broadcast TV and cable in 1996 and we never looked back.
Define 'real money'. Governmental budgeting is all paper money. We don't print currency in denominations large enough to make the pile of money spend that you can readily imagine, let alone touch.
If you like kooks and freaks on parade, then you really need to see this bunch. Divorced grandmothers from Wisconsin have no business being the avatar of the aliens. Believe me on this.
Harry Potter will make more than the studios have invested in it. Lots more. The author will get her cut, the ecomony will get a Xmas boost from Harry Potter Kitsch. There will in fact be several hundred million dollars in profit, likely before video and DVD sales. The point is that the MPAA is bellyaching over it when they aren't really going to lose money at all on their investment.
So what is the point of stamping out our rights over the fact that someone made a grainy video recording of the movie and put it on the internet? This isn't DeCSS doing this. Whether the MPAA set this one up themselves or it was simple old-fashioned analog piracy doesn't have much bearing on the fact that the MPAA is going to trot their lawyers and Jack Valenti out to blame you, me, and our computers for what happened.
For years, they checked for recording devices at concerts. Frankly, if they want to stop this kind of job, then they need to do that for movies--and take the risk that people won't want to pay 8 bucks to be frisked.
When citizens became 'consumers', we lost our rights. Perhaps we should aspire to become citizens again.
I was having fits with OS X until I put a stick of 512 in my tower. I usually have tons of stuff open while I'm working and things like X Darwin running GIMP are a lot of extra overhead. Once I doubled the RAM, most all of my problems vanished in a puff of 1s and 0s.
RAM is a very cheap solution here. Just get good stuff, since BSD really -hates- crappy RAM and OS X hates it even more.;)
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It's a mix of mud and straw commonly used as a building material throughout various times and places. There are houses in Ireland that have withstood centuries of weather and worse with little more than a renewed coat of lime every now and again.
I've used this material myself. It takes temps as hot as 2300F, becomes a more or less solid block once it set, can be built a vertical foot at a session. Amazing amazing stuff.
You are right, of course. The idea that anyone would try to make a national panty database sounds ridiculous,
Not for the panty raiders at DARPA!
Trust me, NOTHING is too ridiculous for DARPA. Your tax dollars at work.
I believe that the law in Washington not only prohibits the sending f spam to residents of Washington State, but also prohibits companies in Washington State from sending it.
It's the only reason that we DON'T have M$/MSN/Hotmail brand penis and breast enlargements out there. Obviously there is a huge market for this kind of stuff and M$ wants to leverage their market position, file patents, and send out hordes of attack lawyers to consolidate their IP and marketshare.
Commercial speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Thus, we need not think spam laws are bad, ever.
Now, say it to the reps in Washington State before they let Microsoft out of the cage to devour all of us.
Anyone got the emails for these people?
Or is their a check in place to stop this from happening?
;)
Yeah. Don't buy anything from a company that views you as a 'revenue stream'
Charities can ill-afford ill-will from their donor groups and it is in their best interests to leave people alone who request it. I think that the only ones left who are crass enough to do otherwise are those handicapped lightbulb sellers, the Red Cross, and the fraudulent ones(All of these are very much the same thing to me anyway).
Because, if you get one federal registry, you make less than you do off 50 contracts with 50 different states.
so now Master is going to have to release patches and hotfixes?
;)
You take them to a place like Home Depot or Lowes and pay the 5 bucks to have them rekeyed.
Maybe not good for OSS, but it does provide overall competition in the market, which MS is in desparate need of.
Once OpenOffice and StarOffice mature some more, and we see the Linux community develop some if the integrations that MS claims it can't, THEN OSS becomes another, and more serious competitor.
No, they expressed the concern that the 'one size fits all' approach to AIDS treatment didn't account for factors unique to AIDS infections on the African continent. At least Mbeki spent more time thinking about the issue than some knee-jerk /. respondent.
Where in business you are rewarded for saving money and being efficient to improve profits margins, government runs on a completely different paradigm. For a start, government usually takes on tasks that are not profitable and usually cannot be made profitable. They still have to be done, so it falls to government to fix them.
But the real problem is that there is ZERO reward for government spend conservatively, and in fact there are disincentives to do so. Agencies and departments that don't use up their budgets are often penalized by not having that money given to them in the future.
So the first thing we have to do is quit asking the government to wipe our hineys for us, because it takes tax dollars to buy toilet paper and hire certified personnel. Then we have to tell government that spending every dime is not desireable. Then we need to throw out the whole Congress and elect people who understand how money really works, instead of who think that money is in finite supply and that you solve all problems through unfunded mandates and increased taxation.
The problem is that this whole stupid article makes the blanket assumption that 'gender equality' in the field would somehow make women more interested in IT.
They had this same stupid idea about welding after the movie "Flashdance" and unsurprisingly few women want to lift heavy things all day or turn wrenches in auto shops.
o/~ Oh no. There goes Tokyo! Go go Godzilla! o/~
And yet, we still allow Microsoft to make Outlook Express and IIS.
Note also that it only makes sense, given the current circumstances, for SUN to latch on to M$ by the throat and make them follow the contract--including the demands for damages--because letting M$ walk away would otherwise give M$ a free hand to do as they please.
People should really quit rooting for the cheating monopolist and start rooting for the process of making them follow agreements that they freely entered into. This simply isn't about penalizing success; it's about making an arrogant company play by the rules everyone else plays by(and anti-trust law applies to everyone in one way or another).
...and Microsoft violated the terms of their contract with Sun by including a non-compliant Java in Windows. They also misused a Sun trademark and have sought to further break the original agreement by simply removing it altogether. But since there still is a contract in force, M$ is obligated to follow it.
The courts ruled in favor of Sun, and since that time, M$ has been trying ANYTHING they can to weasel out of the consequences, mostly by using their huge amounts of cash and monopoly power to push their own technologies.
Case closed, contingent upon appeals anyway.
Works like an IM. You just have to /whois to see if someone is on or not.
What about Home Depot???!
It's called things like hiking, boating, kayaking, coding, reading, writing, walking in Nature, and living a productive life. Communication improves, consumption of garbage, while on your butt on the couch goes down. Children are more creative and more likely to want to do the things listed above. I guess I'm not seeing the problem for anyone but the cable companies who would lose a lot of revenue if people like me became more prevalent.
We gave up broadcast TV and cable in 1996 and we never looked back.
It's what NIST is for.
Define 'real money'. Governmental budgeting is all paper money. We don't print currency in denominations large enough to make the pile of money spend that you can readily imagine, let alone touch.
The War on Terror.
The War on Drugs.
Corporate Welfare.
Ashcroft's War on the American People.
$25 billion for the Space Station is chump change compared to the above fiascos.
If you like kooks and freaks on parade, then you really need to see this bunch. Divorced grandmothers from Wisconsin have no business being the avatar of the aliens. Believe me on this.
No, piracy is not okay. However:
Profit = Revenue - Expenses.
Harry Potter will make more than the studios have invested in it. Lots more. The author will get her cut, the ecomony will get a Xmas boost from Harry Potter Kitsch. There will in fact be several hundred million dollars in profit, likely before video and DVD sales. The point is that the MPAA is bellyaching over it when they aren't really going to lose money at all on their investment.
So what is the point of stamping out our rights over the fact that someone made a grainy video recording of the movie and put it on the internet? This isn't DeCSS doing this. Whether the MPAA set this one up themselves or it was simple old-fashioned analog piracy doesn't have much bearing on the fact that the MPAA is going to trot their lawyers and Jack Valenti out to blame you, me, and our computers for what happened.
For years, they checked for recording devices at concerts. Frankly, if they want to stop this kind of job, then they need to do that for movies--and take the risk that people won't want to pay 8 bucks to be frisked.
When citizens became 'consumers', we lost our rights. Perhaps we should aspire to become citizens again.
I was having fits with OS X until I put a stick of 512 in my tower. I usually have tons of stuff open while I'm working and things like X Darwin running GIMP are a lot of extra overhead. Once I doubled the RAM, most all of my problems vanished in a puff of 1s and 0s.
;)
RAM is a very cheap solution here. Just get good stuff, since BSD really -hates- crappy RAM and OS X hates it even more.