OK, you need a couple of things for such a case to come about. Someone to be caught downloadig music without uploading it. Then that person needs to be able to clearly demonstrate owning the CDs or other media of the songs s/he downloaded. Then they would need to contact the ACLU/EFF before just knuckling under. See why this hasn't happened yet?
So far as I am aware there hasn't been one case of only downloading without uploading.
Most of the copying on a photocpier is fair use regardless of what the little blurb in the front says about obtain written permission to copy.
Downloading a copy may or may not be a copyright violation. I have read through the US code on this and I can see how it could be argued that it is not a violation. The RIAA is not going after someone that only downloads and does not upload. If they lose the case the precedent is devastating for them. If they win, they get no money, more bad press, and possibly get a charge of barratry.
Why were you given bad reviews, becuase you you did poorly or to create a paper trail to cover thier rears when they fire you for political reasons. I have seen far too many people get poor reviews because they don't bow scrape properly.
Yes, it is a standard high precision optical mouse (800dpi). They could have designed it as a standard joystick grip. The gun design is mostly aesthetics, but the sensor is towards the front of the barrel so twisting the grip side to side will produce quick horizontal movement.
With only a couple of hours of crossbow training, a person can reasonably expect to hit a man sized target at 100 yards or greater. Also, the modern recurve and compound bows are much easier to aim and fire then the Welsh yew bows. A recurve bow is not any more powerful than a medieaval crossbow. It's big advantage is a higher rate of fire. But it takes a bit more training to use effectively. A true long bow (where it is probably taller than most men) is whole orders of magnitude harder to aim and fire. In college I had a chance to fire a yew longbow. It was incredibly difficult to string. I was one of the few that could even draw the bow, and that only for a few draws. At 20 yards I could hit a target only because it was essentially a flat trajectory. I would be lucky to hit the proverbial broadside of a barn at 100 yards or greater.
I was highballing the number of Machines that a windows Admin would manage, lowball the number Machines a Linux admin would manage, and guestimate an amount of machines based on the licensing fee. We are probably looking at 100 to 300 machines. Combine this with the low wage that a small college IT department pays and the old mixim that you get what you pay for, plus the fact that the majority of MSCE I know personally, and the average holder of an MSCE is pretty worthless. While there are some amazing Windows Admins, and some of those even have an MSCE, they are not likely to be attracted a college IT job. If I was in my mid-twenties and single, with the corresponding level of experience that indicates, I would be all over such a job for a Linux Admin.
Thin Clients. Search Newsforge for how Largo, FL setup a the whole town's IT on Linux thin clients.
Lock down. edit permissions and or wipe the home directory on logout and rebuild from/etc/skel directory. Set apt/urpmi/yum/red carpet as a cron job to update the computer.
Build a Knoppix disk. but more of pain to make it so that say remote printers work, but on modern machines that only need limited functionality like saw web and a Office Suite, Knoppix will run acceptabley. As a bonus, you no longer need Hard Drives and users can not cause permament* software problems.
*Permament inso far as needing to format the drive.
PXE Boot/ network boot, and download an image. there are a number of utils available for Linux that can build ghost images. A little creative work in scripting with tar can do the same thing.
I consider the PXE option to be the least graceful. It is wasteful on bandwith and would seem to have the highest risk of failure.
When it comes to copyright there is no such thing as theft. Repeat after me: "Copyright violation is a different act from stealing."
There is a huge difference between me stealing your cds and me copying your cds. Depending on the jurisdiction, the recording industry will even get recompense for me copying because of blank media levies.
Well, there are Legal and technical issues to overcome regarding this. Nvidia has some patents that need to be overcome.
I expect the final answer will be some but not all games will work and use at own risk. I expect a few MS owned games like Halo will work but everything else is going to be a crapshoot.
Well, look at the specs- 3 cores each running at triple the speed of the orignal Xbox. It has 8 times the ram. The GPU is more than twice as fast. There is a reason MS bought Virtual PC.
No, it is not TCO figures the boss is thinking about, but rather anything free is crap. He is thinking about that time he sat in on a time share meeting or similiar things.
I think it is reasonable to expect that the difference in time to configure a Windows and a Linux box to be negligble. If anything it is weighted more in the favor of Linux. Take a look at any study about the average number of computers a Linux/Unix admin is responsible for and the average Windows Admin is responsible for. It is something on the order of a factor of 10. Even if the Linux admin makes twice as much money (and usually it is more like 50% more on average), he is still better value.
But what needs to be explained to your boss is that it is free like in going to church. You don't have to give anything, but if you want the church to stay, someone will need to provide some money.
I would say that in this case, sys-con took the easy route as they were probably told in specific terms byt hier advertisers that that thier advertisers did not want any ads to display with any MOG articles. Rather than try to tweak thier website so MOG articles (and it appears that just the latest one is gone which really should never have been published as is) do not have advertising, they just pulled it.
I think from warp onward it had 32bit compatibility, but it hardly matters for the discussion. Wine traces back to the 16bit compatibility layers so, IBM won't touch it.
The laws we had was not the problem. There was a number of different sources saying something was going down but our intelligence agencies ignored the threat. Making it easier to gather information is not needed, but rather we need to pay more attention to what is already gathered.
We have an administration that lies to get us involved in a war. They have abused thier power to punish those that voted against them. And you trust them to tweak an unconstitutional law and make it fairer?
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Nope, check the description, it automatically renders sites with MSIE.
OK, you need a couple of things for such a case to come about. Someone to be caught downloadig music without uploading it. Then that person needs to be able to clearly demonstrate owning the CDs or other media of the songs s/he downloaded. Then they would need to contact the ACLU/EFF before just knuckling under. See why this hasn't happened yet?
So far as I am aware there hasn't been one case of only downloading without uploading.
Most of the copying on a photocpier is fair use regardless of what the little blurb in the front says about obtain written permission to copy.
Downloading a copy may or may not be a copyright violation. I have read through the US code on this and I can see how it could be argued that it is not a violation. The RIAA is not going after someone that only downloads and does not upload. If they lose the case the precedent is devastating for them. If they win, they get no money, more bad press, and possibly get a charge of barratry.
Why were you given bad reviews, becuase you you did poorly or to create a paper trail to cover thier rears when they fire you for political reasons. I have seen far too many people get poor reviews because they don't bow scrape properly.
Y axis requires moving the whole arm but due to the placement of the sensor, you can twist your wrist for very fine control on the X axis.
Yes, it is a standard high precision optical mouse (800dpi). They could have designed it as a standard joystick grip. The gun design is mostly aesthetics, but the sensor is towards the front of the barrel so twisting the grip side to side will produce quick horizontal movement.
With only a couple of hours of crossbow training, a person can reasonably expect to hit a man sized target at 100 yards or greater. Also, the modern recurve and compound bows are much easier to aim and fire then the Welsh yew bows. A recurve bow is not any more powerful than a medieaval crossbow. It's big advantage is a higher rate of fire. But it takes a bit more training to use effectively. A true long bow (where it is probably taller than most men) is whole orders of magnitude harder to aim and fire. In college I had a chance to fire a yew longbow. It was incredibly difficult to string. I was one of the few that could even draw the bow, and that only for a few draws. At 20 yards I could hit a target only because it was essentially a flat trajectory. I would be lucky to hit the proverbial broadside of a barn at 100 yards or greater.
I was highballing the number of Machines that a windows Admin would manage, lowball the number Machines a Linux admin would manage, and guestimate an amount of machines based on the licensing fee. We are probably looking at 100 to 300 machines. Combine this with the low wage that a small college IT department pays and the old mixim that you get what you pay for, plus the fact that the majority of MSCE I know personally, and the average holder of an MSCE is pretty worthless. While there are some amazing Windows Admins, and some of those even have an MSCE, they are not likely to be attracted a college IT job. If I was in my mid-twenties and single, with the corresponding level of experience that indicates, I would be all over such a job for a Linux Admin.
Novell Zen for Windows software updating, but any Admin of a large windows network should be aware of such solutions.
You forgot, fire 3 worthless MSCE's that were managing the Window's Network and save $90-$135K.
Couple of ways to handle this:
/etc/skel directory. Set apt/urpmi/yum/red carpet as a cron job to update the computer.
Thin Clients. Search Newsforge for how Largo, FL setup a the whole town's IT on Linux thin clients.
Lock down. edit permissions and or wipe the home directory on logout and rebuild from
Build a Knoppix disk. but more of pain to make it so that say remote printers work, but on modern machines that only need limited functionality like saw web and a Office Suite, Knoppix will run acceptabley. As a bonus, you no longer need Hard Drives and users can not cause permament* software problems.
*Permament inso far as needing to format the drive.
PXE Boot/ network boot, and download an image. there are a number of utils available for Linux that can build ghost images. A little creative work in scripting with tar can do the same thing.
I consider the PXE option to be the least graceful. It is wasteful on bandwith and would seem to have the highest risk of failure.
Score one for excessive hubris. :)
When it comes to copyright there is no such thing as theft. Repeat after me: "Copyright violation is a different act from stealing."
There is a huge difference between me stealing your cds and me copying your cds. Depending on the jurisdiction, the recording industry will even get recompense for me copying because of blank media levies.
Well, there are Legal and technical issues to overcome regarding this. Nvidia has some patents that need to be overcome.
I expect the final answer will be some but not all games will work and use at own risk. I expect a few MS owned games like Halo will work but everything else is going to be a crapshoot.
Nope, it will be turn off HT in the bios.
Well, look at the specs- 3 cores each running at triple the speed of the orignal Xbox. It has 8 times the ram. The GPU is more than twice as fast. There is a reason MS bought Virtual PC.
A Railgun style weapon would be fairly feasible, be extremly precise, and be extremely deadly.
The other option would be to drop a meteor down. Whether it is an anvil or an asteroid, a kinetic missile droped from orbit would be devastating.
No, it is not TCO figures the boss is thinking about, but rather anything free is crap. He is thinking about that time he sat in on a time share meeting or similiar things.
I think it is reasonable to expect that the difference in time to configure a Windows and a Linux box to be negligble. If anything it is weighted more in the favor of Linux. Take a look at any study about the average number of computers a Linux/Unix admin is responsible for and the average Windows Admin is responsible for. It is something on the order of a factor of 10. Even if the Linux admin makes twice as much money (and usually it is more like 50% more on average), he is still better value.
But what needs to be explained to your boss is that it is free like in going to church. You don't have to give anything, but if you want the church to stay, someone will need to provide some money.
Yoda has a staff. Of course I suspose that only works if you are really old, short, green, and have big ears.
There are problems with your cooling setup if an Athlon64 is over 50C. A P4 shouldn't be over 65C. I think they both fail at about 90C.
I would say that in this case, sys-con took the easy route as they were probably told in specific terms byt hier advertisers that that thier advertisers did not want any ads to display with any MOG articles. Rather than try to tweak thier website so MOG articles (and it appears that just the latest one is gone which really should never have been published as is) do not have advertising, they just pulled it.
I think you mean gnumeric which is better than OOo or Kspread.
Oh, I'm sorry, a slashdot article from 4/25 is not that long ago, that I would not think I would need to point to the exact article.
I think from warp onward it had 32bit compatibility, but it hardly matters for the discussion. Wine traces back to the 16bit compatibility layers so, IBM won't touch it.
The laws we had was not the problem. There was a number of different sources saying something was going down but our intelligence agencies ignored the threat. Making it easier to gather information is not needed, but rather we need to pay more attention to what is already gathered.
We have an administration that lies to get us involved in a war. They have abused thier power to punish those that voted against them. And you trust them to tweak an unconstitutional law and make it fairer?