My regret was voting for Nader in 2000. I had voted for McCain in the primaries and didn't like the dirty tricks Bush/Rove pulled so I wasn't going to vote for Bush. Also, after looking at Algor's voting record in the senate, I wasn't going to vote for him, either. D'oh!
The whole left/right mind set is faulty. It's just a left over from the French revolution.
For myself, even if you expand things to include the greens and libertarians, there's no one party that aligns with my views on society and the economy. Really wish our electoral system wasn't set up for winner takes all. Fractional representation would be cool.
In Niven and Pournelle's Inferno, the hero goes to hell and in the lowest level, the ring of traitors, he finds two Senators; one Republican, one Democrat. The Democrat, even though he thought nuclear power was safe and cleaner than coal, voted to block nuclear reactors in his state while the Republican voted against air quality controls (I think; over decade since last read) even though he knew they'd help the environment.
They both ended up in the traitors level for betraying themselves, to server their party.
It's all about easy duplication of digital tracks. Remember all the DRM schemes they tried on CDs a few years ago? Most times, they ended up not being able to be played in computer CD-RW drives or you could get around them by putting a black line around the edge of the disk?
The record labels have been a parasite gate keeper, living off the idea that artists need to be promoted and distributed. Now that promotion is flying away from them and distribution is about to do the same, they're running scared.
Man, you do not want to have any TS/S items on a restricted or open system. Security does a scrub of systems and related items to the point that the issue isn't even put in work logs but tracked on paper.
What happened here was plain human error (stupidity). I've had users ask if it's OK to take work laptops to Canada. Hello, they're still a 'foreign country'. Just because they speak English and have decent beer doesn't change that. There is a security mind set that some people just don't get. They try to reason around rules (like my 6 year old when it's time for bed) when, if you're employed by certain organizations, you just have to follow the rules. Sure, they're a pain in the ass but that goes with the job. If you don't like the game go somewhere else. I hear Apple's very open and friendly./Mil, DoD, DoE employee, off and on, for last 20 years.
I have a live HP Lovecraft album that is unlikely to show up on anything other than vinyl, any time soon. Still, I get the OP's point; most new music I pic up is non-mainstream. I hit a few bars a year, to see bands I hear about and usually pick up a CD or two of theirs. Other than that, I have very little exposure to new music. I don't listen to radio, I don't watch MTV (ok, maybe no one watching MTV gets exposed to new music) and my daughter's too young to be dragging new music home. Still, when she does, no doubt I'll complain about how much better stuff was when I was a kid.
Ooh, thank you for your concern. I know you are totally motivated by the sad state of my existence. So cool that the world has people like you in it, to make sure every thirsty daisy gets a little drop of love. As to getting out, I'd like to, but then my boss wouldn't pay me. Sitting here on slashdot, I get paid. Cool!
Windows becomes a necessary gaming layer while productivity apps are transfered to server based stuff like Google apps? Still, how could you get game manufacturers to use your required software...?
We're looking at not using Office 2008 (for Macs) here at work but just migrating PPC Macs to Intel Macs/virtualization/Windows with Office 2007. The higher initial cost is more than balanced out by reduced support costs. Now, we only have around 1500 Macs here so we're not a large Mac shop but still, a few more places like us doing this and the future of MS Mac Office starts to look grim.
Here at my work, we're looking forward to all the PPC Macs being replaced with Intel Macs. We're planning on getting away from supporting Office 2004 (w/Entourage; Bleah) and Firefox on the Macs and just running Office 2003/2007 (in time) and IE. While the OS issues do require some extra knowledge, as far as supporting one set of apps is a good thing. As the lone Mac guy on hell desk, I only take 5 or 6 Mac calls a day; the rest are Windows. Much prefer supporting Office 2003/Outlook/IE issues as I 'touch' them more often. Now, when it's a graphic workstation, I prefer Mac Adobe stuff as that's what I started with and use at home.
After attending a virtualization demo with Apple and Intel engineers presenting, I think that, with Intel the main desktop/laptop chip, a lot of the lower level OS stuff may be pushed on to the chip and it'll run it's own virtualization level, with people running whatever OS they like the way you can run various window managers now in *nix. Developers may still write apps for various OS's but the virtualization layer will handle that. This could happen within 10 years the way stuff is progressing.
Same here. Our licensing deal with MS allows for upgrades and installs on systems that shipped with Windows originally. This leaves out Macs and any boxes that shipped with Linux installed. If they want to install Windows on these machines, they have to shell out for a new license.
Even with the new license and Parallels fees (around $180 a machine), and higher costs of Macs, we're having an upsurge in Mac purchases. Other cool thing about Parallels is that it allows any X-86 OS, except OS X, to run with out an OS window visible. Saw a demo with OS X, Win XP and Linux/Debian running. Very cool.
MS didn't steal PC-DOS, they purchases Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products, for $50K. They then ported it to work with IBM's personal computer line. When MS licensed it to IBM, they renamed it PC-DOS and cut the best licensing deal, eveh. Now, Seattle Computer Products says that MS misrepresented their intentions for Q-DOS, sued and got a $1M settlement.
MicroSoft has done a lot of slimy things but it's not cool to bend the facts, even about them.
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Take my wife, plea-
Oh, wait, this is slashdot. D'oh!
What about my dingy ducts?
I lived in Florida at the time. Just 3000 people like me voting for Nader might have changed things. Really showed me how one vote can count.
My regret was voting for Nader in 2000. I had voted for McCain in the primaries and didn't like the dirty tricks Bush/Rove pulled so I wasn't going to vote for Bush. Also, after looking at Algor's voting record in the senate, I wasn't going to vote for him, either. D'oh!
The whole left/right mind set is faulty. It's just a left over from the French revolution.
For myself, even if you expand things to include the greens and libertarians, there's no one party that aligns with my views on society and the economy. Really wish our electoral system wasn't set up for winner takes all. Fractional representation would be cool.
In Niven and Pournelle's Inferno, the hero goes to hell and in the lowest level, the ring of traitors, he finds two Senators; one Republican, one Democrat. The Democrat, even though he thought nuclear power was safe and cleaner than coal, voted to block nuclear reactors in his state while the Republican voted against air quality controls (I think; over decade since last read) even though he knew they'd help the environment.
They both ended up in the traitors level for betraying themselves, to server their party.
It's all about easy duplication of digital tracks. Remember all the DRM schemes they tried on CDs a few years ago? Most times, they ended up not being able to be played in computer CD-RW drives or you could get around them by putting a black line around the edge of the disk?
The record labels have been a parasite gate keeper, living off the idea that artists need to be promoted and distributed. Now that promotion is flying away from them and distribution is about to do the same, they're running scared.
Hey, I was a military person. Sounds like a funny as hell prank to me. Cool!
Hey, I'm from New Mexico. Ok, I'll admit, I did my crashing up in Washington state but still, New Mexico's very kind and inviting to aliens.
Hey, I'm 39. Doe stha tme an I'm actu ally 93?
The Boss: Philberts not home sick, he's sitting in the living room...watching Sponge Bob (unrated).
Yeah, but eXtreme P-2-P comes with a cool X icon. Suite!
Dude, your Mom's gonna' freak!
Are there any Google images from the '20s or '30s?
Man, you do not want to have any TS/S items on a restricted or open system. Security does a scrub of systems and related items to the point that the issue isn't even put in work logs but tracked on paper.
/Mil, DoD, DoE employee, off and on, for last 20 years.
What happened here was plain human error (stupidity). I've had users ask if it's OK to take work laptops to Canada. Hello, they're still a 'foreign country'. Just because they speak English and have decent beer doesn't change that. There is a security mind set that some people just don't get. They try to reason around rules (like my 6 year old when it's time for bed) when, if you're employed by certain organizations, you just have to follow the rules. Sure, they're a pain in the ass but that goes with the job. If you don't like the game go somewhere else. I hear Apple's very open and friendly.
I have a live HP Lovecraft album that is unlikely to show up on anything other than vinyl, any time soon. Still, I get the OP's point; most new music I pic up is non-mainstream. I hit a few bars a year, to see bands I hear about and usually pick up a CD or two of theirs. Other than that, I have very little exposure to new music. I don't listen to radio, I don't watch MTV (ok, maybe no one watching MTV gets exposed to new music) and my daughter's too young to be dragging new music home. Still, when she does, no doubt I'll complain about how much better stuff was when I was a kid.
Never wrestle with a pig...
I heard Leopard transforms your car into a jet pack. Cool! (unless you have a Ford, then it turns into a blender)
Ooh, thank you for your concern. I know you are totally motivated by the sad state of my existence. So cool that the world has people like you in it, to make sure every thirsty daisy gets a little drop of love. As to getting out, I'd like to, but then my boss wouldn't pay me. Sitting here on slashdot, I get paid. Cool!
Windows becomes a necessary gaming layer while productivity apps are transfered to server based stuff like Google apps? Still, how could you get game manufacturers to use your required software...?
We're looking at not using Office 2008 (for Macs) here at work but just migrating PPC Macs to Intel Macs/virtualization/Windows with Office 2007. The higher initial cost is more than balanced out by reduced support costs. Now, we only have around 1500 Macs here so we're not a large Mac shop but still, a few more places like us doing this and the future of MS Mac Office starts to look grim.
Here at my work, we're looking forward to all the PPC Macs being replaced with Intel Macs. We're planning on getting away from supporting Office 2004 (w/Entourage; Bleah) and Firefox on the Macs and just running Office 2003/2007 (in time) and IE. While the OS issues do require some extra knowledge, as far as supporting one set of apps is a good thing. As the lone Mac guy on hell desk, I only take 5 or 6 Mac calls a day; the rest are Windows. Much prefer supporting Office 2003/Outlook/IE issues as I 'touch' them more often. Now, when it's a graphic workstation, I prefer Mac Adobe stuff as that's what I started with and use at home.
After attending a virtualization demo with Apple and Intel engineers presenting, I think that, with Intel the main desktop/laptop chip, a lot of the lower level OS stuff may be pushed on to the chip and it'll run it's own virtualization level, with people running whatever OS they like the way you can run various window managers now in *nix. Developers may still write apps for various OS's but the virtualization layer will handle that. This could happen within 10 years the way stuff is progressing.
Same here. Our licensing deal with MS allows for upgrades and installs on systems that shipped with Windows originally. This leaves out Macs and any boxes that shipped with Linux installed. If they want to install Windows on these machines, they have to shell out for a new license.
Even with the new license and Parallels fees (around $180 a machine), and higher costs of Macs, we're having an upsurge in Mac purchases. Other cool thing about Parallels is that it allows any X-86 OS, except OS X, to run with out an OS window visible. Saw a demo with OS X, Win XP and Linux/Debian running. Very cool.
MS didn't steal PC-DOS, they purchases Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products, for $50K. They then ported it to work with IBM's personal computer line. When MS licensed it to IBM, they renamed it PC-DOS and cut the best licensing deal, eveh. Now, Seattle Computer Products says that MS misrepresented their intentions for Q-DOS, sued and got a $1M settlement.
MicroSoft has done a lot of slimy things but it's not cool to bend the facts, even about them.