I'm out of here. I've been a staunch GNU/Linux supporter since 98 and have had nothing but grief. Time to rejoin the masses, strap that bell back around my neck and get back in line.
Well, the thing about states rights, and democracy is this: No matter the moral-rightness of a decision, if it was the will of the people, it should be upheld. Why? Because we wrote it that way.
I want to know why it is these super-small units can operate on 90W PSUs.
Intel and AMD swear up and down that I MUST use some 350-400W PSUs that generate heat like they were mini fission plants and sound like a 747 sitting under my desk. Bah.
It's like the old coffee commercial with the nuns. "What they don't know is that Sister Methusela has switched their usual coffee with Brand Echs brand frozen, decaffenated, pre-creamed and sugared vile nastiness... let's see what happens!"
I can't remember the last time I bought software from a brick and mortar. Every piece of software I have purchased(including, I might add, RH9) has been via the web.
Wait, I take that back. I did buy The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in a store. After which, I vowed I would use another vendor(online mainly, because they had better incentives).
As for the total wide array of shitty software available for the PC... oh yeah, they have more on Windows. But then again, have you looked at the Playstation's cataloge of software? Thousands and thousands of titles. Most of which suck. Same thing here.
I love Mac rumors. They are almost always wrong. We'll all find out what the real deal is Monday, just like everyone else. And still not be able to afford it.
I can't get bloody parts from ol' Apple, even if I go through our sales rep, Butch Casey. I'm in the University System of Georgia. Hell, I'm at Georgia Southern. I'd wager we have one of the larger Apple Labs in the region(which isn't saying much). But what really steams me is that we have to rely on Apple to send in a repair call to Savannah(which is an hour away from us) to a third party who then comes to fix what we could do in less than five minutes if they would get off of their damned high horse and send us the parts like say... Gateway!
When I saw that this was a USG site getting iPods for 'school' use, I nearly had an embolism. I can't get parts to keep a lab(for real, honest work) but these chuckleheads get a GD mp3 player!
Apple, I've told you this over the phone, and now I'm saying it in public: We are not buying from you again. I may love running my Mac at home, and I may love running a Mac lab, but your service has killed your company in the eyes of the institution I work for.
Why should the healthy subsidize the sick? Not meant as a flame nor a troll, I'd just like to know why.
I've always had a hardline stance against my money being stripped away from me to give to someone else(esp. someone I don't know nor care for). I would like a good, solid, non-bleeding-heart religious reason why.
As for GM children, do what you want. I've suffered terrible allergies all of my life. I've been very poor at sports because of difficulties with ligaments in my knees. I've got constant headaches because I have ground my teeth(which are mostly still baby teeth...I'm never even getting wisdom teeth) to almost nothing. If the option avails itself, my wife and I will most certainly sit down and discuss what we want "on or off."
They can kiss this customer goodbye. I've bought ALL of their games in the past. However, if they allow Microsoft another deal of exclusivity(even on the PC, remember... you can only run this stuff on Windows), I will never buy another ID product again.
Remember, that's how the 'free market' works. I don't care how great the game is. If ID wants it's customerbase to stay loyal... they have to stay loyal to their customer base.
I can certainly agree with the aggrivation of the "release, update, release" quagmire that we all in the technology industry(most certainly in software) contend with daily.
I can definatly see some companies sprining up on the horizon offering extended support for RH machines. This same thing goes on with IBM AS/400 customers. I work with a fellow that used to do training/support for a AS/400 VAR. It wouldn't be that much for a company to get the SRPMs, the patches from the original sources, and make post-EOL package releases... hmm... mental juices flowing. Anyway, whilst I churn over the possible financial implications of said business applications of providing packages support for retired software(got to remember that OSS/GNU is good for this very reason), I'll leave you be.
Have a good one, and good luck keeping up with updates! I've got my own planing to do. lol
Cut the knee-jerk reactions man. Re-read what I posted, not what you posted. If you'd like someone else to say it to you, someone else has already replied to you.
BTW, the flagship product is not the downloadable ISO versions, nor the $39.99 version. If it were, they'd most likely go out of business. You say you run a business? Then honestly you should know that you have to spend some money in order to get work done. It happens on both ends of the spectrum: you as a business must spend money to pay for the servers/software to get work done... RedHat has to pay for _everything_ they do to make that software that you don't want to pay for to get their work done. And what's funny is in the end, both of you expect to have made a profit!;)
Once you get past the spending and making of money and just work on making a good product/service... you have fun _and_ you make money in the end. Just try to keep that in mind.
If that's all you want, download the free stuff and purchase a yearly subscription to the RedHat Network. Or, you could pay the US$39.99 and do the same. You'll just have to update every year instead of every five unless you are going to get updated rpms from somwhere else(which since LSB is coming along... shouldn't be much of a problem anyway).
Why not have the Mac method of "Quitting" the application instead of relying on the window to quit the application.
Some folks really don't understand that there is a whole program running under there, not just a window with code inside it. I've always like being able to close a window and not have quit the app. It just makes more sense IMNSHO.
This is not like applying for a job and not getting it. It is legally like working two jobs. You have an expectation of making the same, if not more, at the second job than you would at the first. It is simple economics. I don't care where you are from. Those laws apply. End of trolling session.
Stealing is when you are depriving someone of something
This is the definition of steal. Don't try to justify theft.
Steal Steal, v. t. imp. Stole; p. p. Stolen; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stealing. OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries.
stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW.
stj"ala, Dan. stiaele, Goth. stilan.
1. To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right
or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal
the personal goods of another.
I do agree that artists should handle the burden of publishing their music. I have several friends who do just that.
I also agree that ASCAP sometimes gets a bit out of line when they charge people to perform works that are listed. For instance, I recall not too long ago someone being sued by ASCAP(and ASCAP won) for performing "Happy Birthday(to you)".
I'm a library systems tecnician at a small university. I have to deal with this all the time. I don't care what people do, as a matter of fact, although you may think that I support the RIAA's abuse of Congress... I don't.
I voted lp across the board last year, and I'll do it again and again. This isn't about civil liberties. This is a simple case of "I don't want to buy it, so I'm going to steal it."
Yes, the RIAA's method of distrobution is outdated. No, I don't think that Congress should make it a Federal crime to steal, that should be up to the local lawmakers. No, I don't think that all filesharing is illegal nor should it be. Yes, I do think that I should be able to play music that I _have_ paid for wherever I like in whatever format I like. However, we are talking about publicly funded institutions which are allowing petty theft on an internet scale. That's like using a school bus to steal cds. I'm not going to go overboard like certain(overpaid) senators and say it's like murder. I'm not going to call it piracy. It's stealing.
Universities at large are not private organizations. Most are state run. Therefore, if they want to continue recieving federal aid(which they do), they should get in gear and stop the lawbreaking.
So, by choosing to not to make purchases, you choose how much tax to pay. Now, consider what would happen if the fire department was funded by sales taxes. Imagine a scheme whereby the fire dept. knows how much you've "chosen" to not contribute to their operation. If you haven't paid "enough," they may decide to let your house burn.
Now, if the fire dept. is funded via income tax (which is typically NOT the case; most municipalities fund these services through property taxes), the amount you contribute is based on your ability to pay. In other words, you are compelled to pay for the service, unlike if the service was funded by sales tax and you choose not to participate.
Ok, point taken. However, given this, they could ignore those who don't make as much(hence they don't pay as much in income tax). It's a damned if you use taxes method. If you have enough money to pay for a good alarm system, you would pay for the fire dept that way(through a service contract via the alarm company through the fire dept... same way as folks outsource their IT work). If you can pay for it, then you get it.
As for property taxes, I don't really care how much it is... but that you can really don't own your own property(and in some areas, it is even worse). It should be done away with. Texas doesn't have it... Florida doesn't have it. They seem to be doing just fine.
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Screw you all and thanks for all the fish.
Well, the thing about states rights, and democracy is this: No matter the moral-rightness of a decision, if it was the will of the people, it should be upheld. Why? Because we wrote it that way.
Perhaps there is more to this than we once thought?
Intel and AMD swear up and down that I MUST use some 350-400W PSUs that generate heat like they were mini fission plants and sound like a 747 sitting under my desk. Bah.
It's like the old coffee commercial with the nuns. "What they don't know is that Sister Methusela has switched their usual coffee with Brand Echs brand frozen, decaffenated, pre-creamed and sugared vile nastiness... let's see what happens!"
You don't happen to work for a certain university in SE Georgia, would you?
Wait, I take that back. I did buy The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in a store. After which, I vowed I would use another vendor(online mainly, because they had better incentives).
As for the total wide array of shitty software available for the PC... oh yeah, they have more on Windows. But then again, have you looked at the Playstation's cataloge of software? Thousands and thousands of titles. Most of which suck. Same thing here.
I love Mac rumors. They are almost always wrong. We'll all find out what the real deal is Monday, just like everyone else. And still not be able to afford it.
gets asked a lot around here. And the answer is always the same: Talk to your legal department. There isn't anything else you can do.
Not to mention the Memory Stick and the screen that is leaps and bounds better than the comparable(in price) offerings from Palm or Handspring.
When I saw that this was a USG site getting iPods for 'school' use, I nearly had an embolism. I can't get parts to keep a lab(for real, honest work) but these chuckleheads get a GD mp3 player!
Apple, I've told you this over the phone, and now I'm saying it in public: We are not buying from you again. I may love running my Mac at home, and I may love running a Mac lab, but your service has killed your company in the eyes of the institution I work for.
I've always had a hardline stance against my money being stripped away from me to give to someone else(esp. someone I don't know nor care for). I would like a good, solid, non-bleeding-heart religious reason why.
As for GM children, do what you want. I've suffered terrible allergies all of my life. I've been very poor at sports because of difficulties with ligaments in my knees. I've got constant headaches because I have ground my teeth(which are mostly still baby teeth...I'm never even getting wisdom teeth) to almost nothing. If the option avails itself, my wife and I will most certainly sit down and discuss what we want "on or off."
LOL. Good point! I would like to see it come out on Gamecube though(ala Metroid Prime). That would be tasty.
Remember, that's how the 'free market' works. I don't care how great the game is. If ID wants it's customerbase to stay loyal... they have to stay loyal to their customer base.
I can definatly see some companies sprining up on the horizon offering extended support for RH machines. This same thing goes on with IBM AS/400 customers. I work with a fellow that used to do training/support for a AS/400 VAR. It wouldn't be that much for a company to get the SRPMs, the patches from the original sources, and make post-EOL package releases... hmm... mental juices flowing. Anyway, whilst I churn over the possible financial implications of said business applications of providing packages support for retired software(got to remember that OSS/GNU is good for this very reason), I'll leave you be.
Have a good one, and good luck keeping up with updates! I've got my own planing to do. lol
BTW, the flagship product is not the downloadable ISO versions, nor the $39.99 version. If it were, they'd most likely go out of business. You say you run a business? Then honestly you should know that you have to spend some money in order to get work done. It happens on both ends of the spectrum: you as a business must spend money to pay for the servers/software to get work done... RedHat has to pay for _everything_ they do to make that software that you don't want to pay for to get their work done. And what's funny is in the end, both of you expect to have made a profit! ;)
Once you get past the spending and making of money and just work on making a good product/service... you have fun _and_ you make money in the end. Just try to keep that in mind.
Cheers!
If that's all you want, download the free stuff and purchase a yearly subscription to the RedHat Network. Or, you could pay the US$39.99 and do the same. You'll just have to update every year instead of every five unless you are going to get updated rpms from somwhere else(which since LSB is coming along... shouldn't be much of a problem anyway).
Well, look at it this way: More than five people can use it at a time ;)
With losing the tabs, yes. I've just always wondered why not :)
Some folks really don't understand that there is a whole program running under there, not just a window with code inside it. I've always like being able to close a window and not have quit the app. It just makes more sense IMNSHO.
This is not like applying for a job and not getting it. It is legally like working two jobs. You have an expectation of making the same, if not more, at the second job than you would at the first. It is simple economics. I don't care where you are from. Those laws apply. End of trolling session.
This is the definition of steal. Don't try to justify theft.
I also agree that ASCAP sometimes gets a bit out of line when they charge people to perform works that are listed. For instance, I recall not too long ago someone being sued by ASCAP(and ASCAP won) for performing "Happy Birthday(to you)".
I voted lp across the board last year, and I'll do it again and again. This isn't about civil liberties. This is a simple case of "I don't want to buy it, so I'm going to steal it."
Yes, the RIAA's method of distrobution is outdated. No, I don't think that Congress should make it a Federal crime to steal, that should be up to the local lawmakers. No, I don't think that all filesharing is illegal nor should it be. Yes, I do think that I should be able to play music that I _have_ paid for wherever I like in whatever format I like. However, we are talking about publicly funded institutions which are allowing petty theft on an internet scale. That's like using a school bus to steal cds. I'm not going to go overboard like certain(overpaid) senators and say it's like murder. I'm not going to call it piracy. It's stealing.
Universities at large are not private organizations. Most are state run. Therefore, if they want to continue recieving federal aid(which they do), they should get in gear and stop the lawbreaking.
Ok, point taken. However, given this, they could ignore those who don't make as much(hence they don't pay as much in income tax). It's a damned if you use taxes method. If you have enough money to pay for a good alarm system, you would pay for the fire dept that way(through a service contract via the alarm company through the fire dept... same way as folks outsource their IT work). If you can pay for it, then you get it.
As for property taxes, I don't really care how much it is... but that you can really don't own your own property(and in some areas, it is even worse). It should be done away with. Texas doesn't have it... Florida doesn't have it. They seem to be doing just fine.