Simply speaking, it's the power of choice that the sales tax gives us that I'm trying to emphasize. Income is universal(unless you're some scumbag living off the state). It's just like buying generic goods... they are cheaper, and i pay less tax on them. I made that decision. I don't get to choose how much income tax I pay. What's even worse than income tax is damned property tax. That means that no matter what you have paid in the past, you still don't own it. If I'm delequent in paying my property taxes, some fucker can come along, pay the(relative to the total cost) minute amount and then he gets the property. Lifetime rental is more like it!
I know we are veering terribly OT, and I don't really care, but I've been upward to thirteen or fourteen times. I don't mind Disney the Evil Corporate entity... Just Mike Isner. That man wouldn't know the Disney Brothers' vision if it crawled up his pants leg and bit him on the gonads.
I say do both. That way, we can get rid of income tax, SocialistSecurity and all that ilk. It would all be optional taxes. The rich buying their Lincolin Navigators would be paying more, while me in my little VW will pay less than half!
They should really get on the ball. If theme parks were to start buying these things and renting them to the masses that move all over their parks ALL DAY, then they would make a killing in the process, and ol' wheelchair guy(whatever his name is that I can't seem to recall) could keep his business afloat and continue to make good products for the handicaped(which he should have stuck to in the first place).
Then again, I'm just a technician. "What do I know about diamonds?"
This is just hoopla. Libraries are allowed to subscribe. I work in a University Library and we have access to LN. We might not be able to pay for it for too much longer(our budget keeps getting cut) but we've had it for quite some time now.
You said a mouthfull. It's just like Linux, really. If you think about it: Linux is available totally free of charge, and you can do whatever you want with it once you have it. However, to get it in an easily usable form, you are going to have to pay someone who has done all the work for you(eg: a distrobution). Makes sense really. That way, you can get the information in several different forms and possibly for a better price/value rating.
It's called a telephone. Just because you think you have some sort of entitlement just because you are a US citizen doesn't mean it's true.
We only pay for the trials, not the searchabilaty of the proceedings. If you have a problem with that, why don't you write a DB that has all that info in it so we can all search it for free? Oh yeah, it costs lots and lots of money! And no, I'm not paying any more commie taxes just so you can search a database of case trials.
a totoal paranoid, but I'm not as worried about legislation like this. Why?! I hear you shout. Simple; the US will be under martial law before long, and we'll be living in a facist dictatorship. I hate to say it, but it looks like we've got a "Righteous Right" version of Hitler on our hands. Just take a look at how the whole thing has taken place. I'm surpized we haven't seen more buildings blowing up, giving him more "right" to clamp down on the citizens he is supposed to protect.
I don't mean porno dirty, but more like greasy used car salesman dirty.
It just seemed to me he was spending most of his time jusifying his existence, his 'geekishness'. We asked for answers and what we got was feelgood hyperbole. This bodes ill for the computing community.
You've got the right idea, but you're going in the wrong direction.
Apple didn't want to get hit with a Napster-Kazaa-like lawsuit. It's all a game of CYA when it comes to this sort of thing. Take a look at what RedHat did with the mp3 libs. That doesn't make the situation suck any less, but that is why they bother to make the license like the do and why they bothered to smack iCommune.
Most folks needed a PowerPoint replacement... Appleworks was already a good Office replacement. So, they came out with Keynote. From what I've seen of it... it's going to be good. As a matter of fact, it's sitting at home waiting to be installed.
You are absolutly correct in that we haven't really enough strong alternatives, although that is changing(albeit slowly). Apple is one of those exceptional companies who has an exceptonal managment team. They have continually made money when they seemingly should not. They've done so by mostly listening to their current customers. Yeah, they've made some real bonehead mistakes, but it never really broke their stride(let's forget about ol what's his name and the death of the Newton). I do think that the OEM market is going to listen more to what the TCPA board and Microsoft have to say, however. Mainly because although a hoard of people use alternative operating systems(and other softwares even in the Windows environment), more run Microsoft's software than any other on the planet. That is a large constituency. If they don't cater to that market, they will lose out to those that will.
As for the P3UID situation, that was at a time when civil liberties were becoming a household name. In the current atmosphere of fear, nothing is sacred. I wouldn't be surprised if congress didn't start sending signals to Intel to reinstate the UID program(if it ever did stop... I've not used an Intel chip in my own machine since they first announced that debacle). I just don't think that the public has quite the voice they once did.
However, I do think that if the forces that be notice a large percentage of their previous victims, er consumers had moved to a different market, would consider the possibility that they made a mistake.
Then again, it could work just like with the whole Windows/alternatives bit... not enough folks make the switch.
user is incapable of doing a damn thing about it unless they violate the DMCA and face criminal prosecution.
I do have a solution. Most folks won't like it, as I've voiced my opinion on the matter before and have been flamed... Buy something else. Jump the PC ship. Save up and buy the "other" hardware out there. You can still run your programs(although modified slightly)...I promise. Plus, the upshot is that prices will inevitably go down as more folks are jumping said ship.
I know it's really just a bunch of bs, but this is supposed to be the land of opportunity. The land of the free...
I think that mandating certification in anything is total bs and should be branded so. What does any government have sticking their nose into what ANYONE does? If I want to hire noncertified people, I will damnit.
And don't hand me any shit about "But what about people's lives!". That is exactly what I'm talking about. Control of lives. If people want to purchase goods and services from noncertified people... let them. They may get better service or higher quality goods from certified shops, but that is all part of the free market.
Certification laws were lobbied by commie unionists who wanted to control the market of workers, making their pay go up so they wouldn't have to learn another trade that was more in demand. Fuckers are worse than farmers.
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The DMA thing is due to the goofy shit that hardware manufactuers do. Namely VIA. Their chipsets are notorious for corrupting data when using DMA. Hence the default setting.
The NTFS support, as is mentioned in another reply is goofy, at best. RedHat likes to keep their reputation clean. That is why their lawyers are so strict about licenses. That is also why they make the decisions they do. As for the extras menu... I don't like it... but it does keep me from having gargantuan menus that I end up clicking on the wrong app.;)
It's on the way... I've a business which is looking to replace windows desktops with GNU/Linux thin clients in small businesses. Quickbooks has been a sticker... I'm very glad that server crossover is out. I've been waiting for this for months!
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Simply speaking, it's the power of choice that the sales tax gives us that I'm trying to emphasize. Income is universal(unless you're some scumbag living off the state). It's just like buying generic goods... they are cheaper, and i pay less tax on them. I made that decision. I don't get to choose how much income tax I pay. What's even worse than income tax is damned property tax. That means that no matter what you have paid in the past, you still don't own it. If I'm delequent in paying my property taxes, some fucker can come along, pay the(relative to the total cost) minute amount and then he gets the property. Lifetime rental is more like it!
I know we are veering terribly OT, and I don't really care, but I've been upward to thirteen or fourteen times. I don't mind Disney the Evil Corporate entity... Just Mike Isner. That man wouldn't know the Disney Brothers' vision if it crawled up his pants leg and bit him on the gonads.
Sweet. Going there in May for my Wife's Graduation/ our one year anniversary.
Then again, I'm just a technician. "What do I know about diamonds?"
I stand corrected. I've been in academic libraries so long, the public library system seems like a distant dream.
This is just hoopla. Libraries are allowed to subscribe. I work in a University Library and we have access to LN. We might not be able to pay for it for too much longer(our budget keeps getting cut) but we've had it for quite some time now.
You said a mouthfull. It's just like Linux, really. If you think about it: Linux is available totally free of charge, and you can do whatever you want with it once you have it. However, to get it in an easily usable form, you are going to have to pay someone who has done all the work for you(eg: a distrobution). Makes sense really. That way, you can get the information in several different forms and possibly for a better price/value rating.
We only pay for the trials, not the searchabilaty of the proceedings. If you have a problem with that, why don't you write a DB that has all that info in it so we can all search it for free? Oh yeah, it costs lots and lots of money! And no, I'm not paying any more commie taxes just so you can search a database of case trials.
Do you ever get tired of explaining to people why the GPL isn't an evil, communist plot against the American people and their values?
a totoal paranoid, but I'm not as worried about legislation like this. Why?! I hear you shout. Simple; the US will be under martial law before long, and we'll be living in a facist dictatorship. I hate to say it, but it looks like we've got a "Righteous Right" version of Hitler on our hands. Just take a look at how the whole thing has taken place. I'm surpized we haven't seen more buildings blowing up, giving him more "right" to clamp down on the citizens he is supposed to protect.
You actually make your own food!?
Come on man, the folks who tinker either do it because they like to, or they have to.
Come on man! Read some Lovecraft before you go toying with reality! The Elders await...
These are pretty standard things that all computers do and use. It's a lot like that little kernel thingy.
It took me three years and a whole lot of jaw-wagging to convince several of my peers of that very idea.
I don't mean porno dirty, but more like greasy used car salesman dirty.
It just seemed to me he was spending most of his time jusifying his existence, his 'geekishness'. We asked for answers and what we got was feelgood hyperbole. This bodes ill for the computing community.
Apple didn't want to get hit with a Napster-Kazaa-like lawsuit. It's all a game of CYA when it comes to this sort of thing. Take a look at what RedHat did with the mp3 libs. That doesn't make the situation suck any less, but that is why they bother to make the license like the do and why they bothered to smack iCommune.
Most folks needed a PowerPoint replacement... Appleworks was already a good Office replacement. So, they came out with Keynote. From what I've seen of it... it's going to be good. As a matter of fact, it's sitting at home waiting to be installed.
Phoenix... boy did I ever dislike them.
You are absolutly correct in that we haven't really enough strong alternatives, although that is changing(albeit slowly). Apple is one of those exceptional companies who has an exceptonal managment team. They have continually made money when they seemingly should not. They've done so by mostly listening to their current customers. Yeah, they've made some real bonehead mistakes, but it never really broke their stride(let's forget about ol what's his name and the death of the Newton). I do think that the OEM market is going to listen more to what the TCPA board and Microsoft have to say, however. Mainly because although a hoard of people use alternative operating systems(and other softwares even in the Windows environment), more run Microsoft's software than any other on the planet. That is a large constituency. If they don't cater to that market, they will lose out to those that will.
As for the P3UID situation, that was at a time when civil liberties were becoming a household name. In the current atmosphere of fear, nothing is sacred. I wouldn't be surprised if congress didn't start sending signals to Intel to reinstate the UID program(if it ever did stop... I've not used an Intel chip in my own machine since they first announced that debacle). I just don't think that the public has quite the voice they once did.
However, I do think that if the forces that be notice a large percentage of their previous victims, er consumers had moved to a different market, would consider the possibility that they made a mistake.
Then again, it could work just like with the whole Windows/alternatives bit... not enough folks make the switch.
I do have a solution. Most folks won't like it, as I've voiced my opinion on the matter before and have been flamed... Buy something else. Jump the PC ship. Save up and buy the "other" hardware out there. You can still run your programs(although modified slightly)...I promise. Plus, the upshot is that prices will inevitably go down as more folks are jumping said ship.
I think that mandating certification in anything is total bs and should be branded so. What does any government have sticking their nose into what ANYONE does? If I want to hire noncertified people, I will damnit.
And don't hand me any shit about "But what about people's lives!". That is exactly what I'm talking about. Control of lives. If people want to purchase goods and services from noncertified people... let them. They may get better service or higher quality goods from certified shops, but that is all part of the free market.
Certification laws were lobbied by commie unionists who wanted to control the market of workers, making their pay go up so they wouldn't have to learn another trade that was more in demand. Fuckers are worse than farmers.
The NTFS support, as is mentioned in another reply is goofy, at best. RedHat likes to keep their reputation clean. That is why their lawyers are so strict about licenses. That is also why they make the decisions they do. As for the extras menu... I don't like it... but it does keep me from having gargantuan menus that I end up clicking on the wrong app. ;)
Cheers!
I've taken to calling it the close-to-the-end-of-the-year-blow-all-your-money-o n-the-ones-you-love-partytime-holiday-where-I-get- a-week-off
It's on the way... I've a business which is looking to replace windows desktops with GNU/Linux thin clients in small businesses. Quickbooks has been a sticker... I'm very glad that server crossover is out. I've been waiting for this for months!