Just because the school can doesn't mean they should. I don't think most people posting here were arguing that the school didn't have the power to pull the exhibit, but rather whether they exercised sound judgement in doing so.
One feature I miss in bash that's in ksh is
cd from to
It works like this: suppose you're in a directory
/home/splante/ec/src/com/insightsys/ede/abcd
but you have a parallel directory structure to
'src' called 'test' and you want to cd to the same
dir there--i.e. to:
/home/splante/ec/test/com/insightsys/ede/abcd
In ksh you just type:
cd src test </blockquote>
and it takes you there, printing the full directory you are now in.
I find this a hard feature to live without, so I have this in my.bash_profile when I use bash:
function cd()
{
#there are options on cd in bash2
cdopts=""
while [ "$1" != "${1#-}" ]
do
cdopts="${cdopts} ${1}"
shift
done
if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
pre=${PWD%%$1*}
[ "$pre" = "$PWD" ] && { echo "cd: bad substution"; return 1; }
post=${PWD#*$1}
newdir="${pre}${2}${post}"
[ -d "${newdir}" ] || { echo "cd: ${newdir}: no such directory";return 1;}
echo "${newdir}"
#echo builtin cd $cdopts "${newdir}"
builtin cd $cdopts "${newdir}"
else
# echo builtin cd $cdopts "$@"
builtin cd $cdopts "$@"
fi
}
With this, bash can do it too. Of course, I have
to copy it onto every system where I use bash
(mostly Linux).
Here a quote from one of a series of articles that explain the California power problem quite clearly:
[the "deregulation" law] prohibited buyers and sellers from agreeing to individual contracts and mandated that everyone pay the same -- and highest -- price offered on any given day. So that's how the "market" price for power would be set for the utilities. Here's another catch: Regulators would set the price the utilities could charge energy consumers.
Now this scheme may be many things, but a deregulated market it certainly isn?t.
In this article, Francine Cunningham, spokeswoman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said, "We don't have a problem if someone copies a piece of music for the car or summer house or teenage daughter."
It would be nice if the record and movie groups in the US held this view.
By the way, it's nice to be able to share, but who listens to the same music as their teenage daughter?
I bought an HP, and installed Linux and VMware. I then tried to install Win98 that came with the machine under the Linux/VMware, and it wouldn't let me because it couldn't detect it was that HP machine.
So now I am forced to go buy an off-the-shelf copy and leave the one that came with my machine unused. I'd like to sell the HP-only copy to recoup some of that cost.
Actually, if I "borrowed" a friend's media to install, would I be legal since I do have a license, just not one that will install properly?
Would this not be the same as borrowing a friend's copy because my CD was scratched?
16.Not a Bank. You acknowledge that (i) the Service is not a banking service (ii) Service accounts are not insured by any government agency of any nation, (iii) the Service is not subject to banking regulations and (iv) PayPal.com will invest in liquid assets and that interest earned on those assets will be the property of PayPal.com.
Note item (ii), not insured by any government agency (i.e. FDIC).
Second, they don't even guarantee protection themselves:
In order to file a Claim, you must be a Verified User at the time of filing. PayPal will investigate your claim, contact the seller and, if the seller does not present appropriate proof of shipment, a full refund or other evidence of a satisfactory resolution, PayPal will restrict the seller?s account and seek to collect the amount you paid from the seller. You and other buyers who file claims against the same seller will be entitled to the return of any and all funds PayPal is able to collect from the seller, on a first-come, first-served basis. Recovery of your claim is not guaranteed.
Claims must be filed not earlier than 30 days after the date of payment, and not later than 60 days from the date of payment.
(Note the "Recovery of your claim is not guaranteed. ")
The fact that they lie about the so-called "FDIC protection" and the questionable domain registration stuff is enough to make me not send my $250.
It's that "too good to be true" thing, which is hard to face when you really want it to be true.
We never gave the computers to the schools" outright, Mr. Mortensen said. And
William R. Connon, a Hartford lawyer who represents the Plainfield Township schools,
said the ZapMe contract gives the company the right to charge for its services or to
take them back.
And the reason it couldn't continue:
The company insists that while it reserved the contractual right to track students'
surfing habits individually, it never gathered anything more than their age, sex and ZIP
code - information it then shared in aggregate form with advertisers. When the
company announced a program called ZapPoints, which would have given students
points toward prizes while gathering personally identifiable information about them, the
outcry was so swift and loud that ZapMe quickly discontinued the idea.
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Just because the school can doesn't mean they should. I don't think most people posting here were arguing that the school didn't have the power to pull the exhibit, but rather whether they exercised sound judgement in doing so.
Actually, I've been lusting over one myself, but I can't begin to justify the $2200.
Hey, I just noticed the 24" crt is LESS than the 18" lcd. So why not opt for the bigger crt?
24" Sun Monitor
One feature I miss in bash that's in ksh is
/home/splante/ec/src/com/insightsys/ede/abcd
/home/splante/ec/test/com/insightsys/ede/abcd
.bash_profile when I use bash:
cd from to
It works like this: suppose you're in a directory
but you have a parallel directory structure to
'src' called 'test' and you want to cd to the same
dir there--i.e. to:
In ksh you just type:
cd src test </blockquote>
and it takes you there, printing the full directory you are now in.
I find this a hard feature to live without, so I have this in my
function cd()
{
#there are options on cd in bash2
cdopts=""
while [ "$1" != "${1#-}" ]
do
cdopts="${cdopts} ${1}"
shift
done
if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
pre=${PWD%%$1*}
[ "$pre" = "$PWD" ] && { echo "cd: bad substution"; return 1; }
post=${PWD#*$1}
newdir="${pre}${2}${post}"
[ -d "${newdir}" ] || { echo "cd: ${newdir}: no such directory";return 1;}
echo "${newdir}"
#echo builtin cd $cdopts "${newdir}"
builtin cd $cdopts "${newdir}"
else
# echo builtin cd $cdopts "$@"
builtin cd $cdopts "$@"
fi
}
With this, bash can do it too. Of course, I have
to copy it onto every system where I use bash
(mostly Linux).
Bash has some nice things too, though.
It would be nice if the record and movie groups in the US held this view.
By the way, it's nice to be able to share, but who listens to the same music as their teenage daughter?
So now I am forced to go buy an off-the-shelf copy and leave the one that came with my machine unused. I'd like to sell the HP-only copy to recoup some of that cost.
Actually, if I "borrowed" a friend's media to install, would I be legal since I do have a license, just not one that will install properly? Would this not be the same as borrowing a friend's copy because my CD was scratched?
Well, they will get involved, but they don't make any guarantees: see my other comment with an excerpt from and link to their policy
Note item (ii), not insured by any government agency (i.e. FDIC).
Second, they don't even guarantee protection themselves:
(Note the " Recovery of your claim is not guaranteed. ")The fact that they lie about the so-called "FDIC protection" and the questionable domain registration stuff is enough to make me not send my $250.
It's that "too good to be true" thing, which is hard to face when you really want it to be true.
SP