In most US states if someone breaks into your home and you kill them, you can't really be held liable. By getting a garage, if someone should break into your car (assuming it's in said garage), you can safely kill them!
Now, how you get your garage home, is an exercise left for the reader.
We do this at the company I work for. We have a "beer fridge" and the newest employee has to keep it stocked (until he's no longer 'newest') [expensed of course]. It's a great relief to be able to talk business with people at 4-5pm toward the end of the week over a few beers.
It's an ever better feeling knowing that your employer respects your judgement enough to know that you won't abuse the privilege(s) he/she extends to you.
You're forgetting that in a few years, you won't OWN the device, you'll only be licensing the IP to it. That USB device is just a "mechanism", you'll have to keep your USB-Keyfob Subscription(tm) up-to-date in order to actually do anything with it. As for your car, you'll need to pay the maintenance/IP fee in order to drive it.
Before you laugh, keep in mind that a few years ago it was possible to purchase and "own" software.
What about the grammar police? Since I'm such a nerd, I think I'll assume that role for the next minute (my Karma's so bright I have to wear shades):
As to that question who knows and who cares I use Gentoo, and after trying almost every one of the binary distro's
a) As You really shouldn't start a sentence with a preposition.
b) Run-on sentences are very hard to read and don't often tend to make very much sense since they are run-on sentences but I guess I shouldn't worry about it in this situation I just thought I'd point it out.
I really wonder if there is not some stealth blogging going on...
Do you mean ASTRO-blogging? I'd guess that's what you'd call astroturfing on a blog.
It's actually not a bad move - intentionally misleading your competition and letting them relax and slow down a bit. While they're relaxed, you can attack by releasing the full-featured product that they didn't think would surface.
You're missing another important number: 10.5 million songs
Let's see: 10.5 million songs ~40 years of reasonable recorded audio
Some simple math: 10,500,000 / 40 = 262,500 songs every year...
Hmmm: 262,500 / 12 = 21,875 songs every month...
Sounds like a hell of a stretch to me, especially considering that music wasn't as easy to record back in the 60s and 70s as it is today.
The biggest music libraries that I've seen contain less than 1 million songs. I'm not sure where another 9.5 million could come from (unless Al Queida provided them).
You forgot to mention all the back-company-time that your company is going to owe you. They'll have to give you company time to catch up on the internet reading that you missed while you were hacking the application!
Why would you qualify your question with an unreasonable limitation? The stark reality is that "your own site" is equivalent to "the general mean". If you want a realistic population reference, why impose arbitrary limits?
Your post appears to read similarly to: "Are there any metrics that say that users will need more than 640k?" Non-DOS 3.3 users don't count...
I think it's a very poignant indicator that Microsoft doesn't care about the consumer what-so-ever. They only care until they have you locked-in (ie, you have no [reasonable] alternatives). When they begin to lose that stranglehold, they suddenly "care" enough to "innovate" and add features (that already exist elsewhere).
The saddest part is that your average Joe Asshole doesn't know any better, and he's going to give credit to Microsoft for the "progress".
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In most US states if someone breaks into your home and you kill them, you can't really be held liable. By getting a garage, if someone should break into your car (assuming it's in said garage), you can safely kill them!
Now, how you get your garage home, is an exercise left for the reader.
We do this at the company I work for. We have a "beer fridge" and the newest employee has to keep it stocked (until he's no longer 'newest') [expensed of course]. It's a great relief to be able to talk business with people at 4-5pm toward the end of the week over a few beers.
It's an ever better feeling knowing that your employer respects your judgement enough to know that you won't abuse the privilege(s) he/she extends to you.
You're forgetting that in a few years, you won't OWN the device, you'll only be licensing the IP to it. That USB device is just a "mechanism", you'll have to keep your USB-Keyfob Subscription(tm) up-to-date in order to actually do anything with it. As for your car, you'll need to pay the maintenance/IP fee in order to drive it.
Before you laugh, keep in mind that a few years ago it was possible to purchase and "own" software.
What about the grammar police? Since I'm such a nerd, I think I'll assume that role for the next minute (my Karma's so bright I have to wear shades):
As to that question who knows and who cares I use Gentoo, and after trying almost every one of the binary distro's
a) As You really shouldn't start a sentence with a preposition.
b) Run-on sentences are very hard to read and don't often tend to make very much sense since they are run-on sentences but I guess I shouldn't worry about it in this situation I just thought I'd point it out.
c) I think you forgot to end your point
d) with punctuation.
Pure and Simple.
I really wonder if there is not some stealth blogging going on...
Do you mean ASTRO-blogging? I'd guess that's what you'd call astroturfing on a blog.
It's actually not a bad move - intentionally misleading your competition and letting them relax and slow down a bit. While they're relaxed, you can attack by releasing the full-featured product that they didn't think would surface.
been tested under Fedora Core 2 with a custom made 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel, but it should also work with other kernel versions
Version: 2.6.7-1.494.2.2-34.39.82-3.32-rmk-43.6.8.1
So I've been told.
You're missing another important number:
10.5 million songs
Let's see:
10.5 million songs
~40 years of reasonable recorded audio
Some simple math:
10,500,000 / 40 = 262,500 songs every year...
Hmmm:
262,500 / 12 = 21,875 songs every month...
Sounds like a hell of a stretch to me, especially considering that music wasn't as easy to record back in the 60s and 70s as it is today.
The biggest music libraries that I've seen contain less than 1 million songs. I'm not sure where another 9.5 million could come from (unless Al Queida provided them).
https (SSL Certs) use MD5SUM's don't they? What if they're going to try and attack the cert root authorities.
Just a thought...
You forgot to mention all the back-company-time that your company is going to owe you. They'll have to give you company time to catch up on the internet reading that you missed while you were hacking the application!
This is a pure tragedy waiting to happen...!
Actually, a much better solutions exists. I call it Aluwishusdeverdanderabercombie, but most people simply call it "discipline".
;)
You should try it sometime.
Heck, since you're married you can probably even try it on your wife.
I can think of few things that would make bash cooler than if it could render colors like the ANSI ones.
It's scary to think that we can send a robot to Mars running linux, but we can't get more than 7 colors out of our Bash shells.
It doesn't seem like terribly difficult code to write. I'd do it myself if I could find the time.
Does anyone have any pointers or starting points on where to begin doing this?
These guys are very Republican, and it looks like this is a pro-Bush propaganda film. Think it's any coincidence this is coming out in October?
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Do you not find it ironic that you're lambasting your employee for reading slashdot via a posting on slashdot?
Apparantly, you "lead by example"...
I hear that the website over at http://slashdot.org is a great online replacement for actual work.
... the ones that the Department of Defense "Lost", but recently "re-discovered".
"your own site stats don't count?"
Why would you qualify your question with an unreasonable limitation? The stark reality is that "your own site" is equivalent to "the general mean". If you want a realistic population reference, why impose arbitrary limits?
Your post appears to read similarly to:
"Are there any metrics that say that users will need more than 640k?" Non-DOS 3.3 users don't count...
I think it's a very poignant indicator that Microsoft doesn't care about the consumer what-so-ever. They only care until they have you locked-in (ie, you have no [reasonable] alternatives). When they begin to lose that stranglehold, they suddenly "care" enough to "innovate" and add features (that already exist elsewhere).
The saddest part is that your average Joe Asshole doesn't know any better, and he's going to give credit to Microsoft for the "progress".
... let's boycott ZD websites for the next month or so.
/. crowd stopped visiting ZD et al. for a month or so, they would realize the err of their ways.
I'm fairly certain that if the
A tech mag/publisher should know better.
Anyone have a list of Ziff/Davie sites we shouldn't visit for the next few weeks?
Use netcat (nc)
A version exists for Windows (it's what the kiddee's use), but it can be used for legit purposes if done properly.
Windows 2003 is 1000 times better than 2000
Isn't it also 1000 times the price?
(no joke, isn't it significantly more expensive?)
Then go for something more sane, like Linspire, Inc. They just priced at $9-11 per share for the August 11th IPO (the day after Google's).
Use avantgo or palm based websites...
Like this one:
http://www.slashdot.org/palm