Mail delivery has not always been a government monopoly. In the early 1800s private railroads and steamboats gave rise to private companies offering mail delivery services. The Private Express Statutes of 1845 put an end to that service between cities. Private companies still delivered within cities until the Postal Code of 1872 barred them from doing so.
Heck, no downtown smaller than NYC's could. Amazon bills itself as the "world's largest bookstore" for a reason; it would take a few dozen warehouses the size of a Border's to carry every title out there.
But, stores like Borders will order a title for you; they don't have to actually stock everything they sell, any more than Amazon stocks all of their titles on their web site.
It seems he even managed to get some of the Nigerians to fly around the world to meet him. All in all, Bravo!
So, let's see: The Nigerians have scammed at least one person to the tune of $2.1 million dollars. However, they had to make a few useless flights around the world.
Gee, as scams go, they seem to be ahead, so I imagine the Nigerians are saying "Bravo!"
Yeah, really. As soon as I see "M$" or "M$FT" or "windoze" I immediately figure the poster is some ranting script kiddie, until proven otherwise. Maybe there's a valid point buried in the message, but the churlish comments make it hard to see.
The typographical tricks might have been cute the first hundred thousand times, but the fun has worn off.
Can you imagine a Led Zep fan choosing to give up Led Zep because they are on Atlantic? Impossible. Thats what you are asking people to do.
If Zep fans found out (and this is completely for the sake of example) that Atlantic was funding Al Qaeda, don't you think they might at least stop *buying* Atlantic products?
The question is, how onerous are the actions of the RIAA, and at what point do your principles override your cultural conveniences?
They're called standards for a reason.
Well, no, they're not called standards, and for a reason. From the w3c home page:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
W3C produces what are known as "Recommendations". These are specifications, developed by W3C working groups, and then reviewed by Members of the Consortium. A W3C Recommendation indicates that consensus has been reached among the Consortium Members that a specification is appropriate for widespread use.
Again, no mention of standards.
The W3C is a vendor consortium, primarily a group of big players who are trying to reduce their cost of busness by hammering out some common formats. The W3C is not a standards body, and they do not produce standards. While there are smart, possibly altuistic people on W3C working groups, by and large the W3C as a whole is intersted in promoting the welfare of its member companies, not that of the general developer community. Typically, though, these interests overlap, but that doesn;t change the purpose of the W3C.
This is awesome, now we've been seeing more online "Open-Source" books of good quality available.
What is an "open source" book? It *sounds* like it's a book where the source , i.e., the text, is available for anyone to read. You know, just like a, um, *book*.
My question is, since PEAP is dependent upon the Windows EAP-TLS infrastructure, are Linux and OS/X going to be left out in the cold as this new standard is pushed by MS?
My answer is, it won't become a standard unless companies other than Microsoft support it. Besides, there is a big difference between "a standard" and "the standard". I'd be curious to know how many of "the standards" (HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.) require the use of proprietary technology.
The book covers the 5.x series of editors, but that shouldn't be a problem for most people looking to get started with the 6.x series.
Well, there are enough little changes between 5 and 6 that doing anything beyond "looking to get started" is a pain. Why write a review of a book that's been out for some time now, and is due for an updated edition?
yeah but everytime you say C# you tend to spread word of mouth about Microsoft. So even if there is a C# compiler for linux, Microsoft gets free advertising.
Try it this way: yeah but everytime you say Java(tm) you tend to spread word of mouth about Sun Microsystems. So even if there is a Java(tm) compiler for linux, Sun gets free advertising.
Oh, but Sun is the good megacorp, and Java(tm) is an open source and standards-based, well, OK, it isn't really, but C#, is, well, it is an ECMA standard. But Microsoft is bad, no matter what.
Try using ANY Office document made with a new version on an older version. I'm sorry, but there's no technical reason at all why an Excel spreadsheet made under XP can't be opened in Office97
So, software writen today must anticipate changes to all future versions? How much sense does that make? You can still save Office XP docs in other formats, including Office 97 (or ASCII, if that floats your boat). You might lose features that are specific to the current version, but I don't see a way aroyund that other than to stop adding new features to new versions. And if you prefer *that* approach, you can always use notepad or edit or edlin to write your documents.
Capitalism and Democracy are a symbiotic pair. You cannot have one without the other. Too much Capitalism (where money controls everything) and you loose your democracy, it becomes totalitarian.
Money does not magically control things; it influences people who have power, and that power generally comes from government. Put another way, if politicans did not have so much power, then there would be less reason to bribe them, and less concern over the influence of wealth. "Too much Capitalism" is not the problem Too much authoritarian government is, because that is the real locus of control.
but what's with links to SourceForge "projects" that have nothing more than a name? I go to check it out, and find "This Project Has Not Released Any Files." Great. I go to the project's home page, and find it has little more than, "To be updated later."
C'mon; even a short essay describing the goals of the project might be nice.
Even your propaganda web site says Nader spends almost all his money on his causes. It's not my site, and I never claimed that all, or even most, of what Nader did was bad.
IF you go around accepting what disinformation says as gospel I got a bridge I want to sell you. I rasied a question based on some information, and gave a source. I never claimed that the source was gospel, and was hoping to get an informed response to either confirm or disprove the claims. If you go around making snap judgements of people, you may already own several bridges.
Thank god America is full of moronic idiots like you. How else would the rest of us make a living. Touchy, are we? I guess name calling is in order when you have no informed rebuttal. Thanks for proving a point for me.
BTW, how *do* you make a living? Customer relations?
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Because tha law forbids it.
Those guys use any and all tactics including exploitation of local ordinances to put the local shops out of business in many small towns.
Do you have any links to back this up? Any references?
It's essentially untyped, transforming all your type errors into runtime occurrences that depend on dynamic data.
OH NO! It's untyped! Run away!
I want my compiler.
Sounds like you would be most comfortable with, say, Pascal.
Heck, no downtown smaller than NYC's could. Amazon bills itself as the "world's largest bookstore" for a reason; it would take a few dozen warehouses the size of a Border's to carry every title out there.
But, stores like Borders will order a title for you; they don't have to actually stock everything they sell, any more than Amazon stocks all of their titles on their web site.
How many kids started bands because of the Sex Pistols?
Well, I started a band because of Richard Hell.
We can thank him for the whole punk look (spiky hair, torn clothes, safety pins) as well.
It seems he even managed to get some of the Nigerians to fly around the world to meet him. All in all, Bravo!
So, let's see: The Nigerians have scammed at least one person to the tune of $2.1 million dollars. However, they had to make a few useless flights around the world.
Gee, as scams go, they seem to be ahead, so I imagine the Nigerians are saying "Bravo!"
You lost me when you started using the $.
Yeah, really. As soon as I see "M$" or "M$FT" or "windoze" I immediately figure the poster is some ranting script kiddie, until proven otherwise. Maybe there's a valid point buried in the message, but the churlish comments make it hard to see.
The typographical tricks might have been cute the first hundred thousand times, but the fun has worn off.
When did Java(tm) become an open standard? Did Sun finaly agree to relinquish control to ISO or IETF or ECMA?
Can you imagine a Led Zep fan choosing to give up Led Zep because they are on Atlantic? Impossible. Thats what you are asking people to do.
If Zep fans found out (and this is completely for the sake of example) that Atlantic was funding Al Qaeda, don't you think they might at least stop *buying* Atlantic products?
The question is, how onerous are the actions of the RIAA, and at what point do your principles override your cultural conveniences?
They're called standards for a reason.
Well, no, they're not called standards, and for a reason. From the w3c home page:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
No mention of standards.
Take a look at the HTML specification page:
W3C produces what are known as "Recommendations". These are specifications, developed by W3C working groups, and then reviewed by Members of the Consortium. A W3C Recommendation indicates that consensus has been reached among the Consortium Members that a specification is appropriate for widespread use.
Again, no mention of standards.
The W3C is a vendor consortium, primarily a group of big players who are trying to reduce their cost of busness by hammering out some common formats. The W3C is not a standards body, and they do not produce standards. While there are smart, possibly altuistic people on W3C working groups, by and large the W3C as a whole is intersted in promoting the welfare of its member companies, not that of the general developer community. Typically, though, these interests overlap, but that doesn;t change the purpose of the W3C.
This is awesome, now we've been seeing more online "Open-Source" books of good quality available.
What is an "open source" book? It *sounds* like it's a book where the source , i.e., the text, is available for anyone to read. You know, just like a, um, *book*.
Don't forget -- the GPL *gives* you rights you would not otherwise have. It does not take away any rights you have normally.
The GPL does not give anybody any *rights*. It it may give license or privledge, but not rights.
And since it only runs on Windows, hence x86, I need to produce bytecode why?
So you can run it on FreeDSD or Linux using Rotor or Mono.
Well sun isn't dictating nearly as much of the computer industry as Microsoft is.
True, but if Java(tm) ever become popular, we may have to keep an eye on Sun, since they own and control it.
Because Sun isn't doing this to prevent you from listening to the music that you purchased.
If you've purchased the music, then you own the MS DRM-free original media. What's to stop you from listening?
My answer is, it won't become a standard unless companies other than Microsoft support it. Besides, there is a big difference between "a standard" and "the standard". I'd be curious to know how many of "the standards" (HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.) require the use of proprietary technology.
Well, there are enough little changes between 5 and 6 that doing anything beyond "looking to get started" is a pain. Why write a review of a book that's been out for some time now, and is due for an updated edition?
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Try it this way: yeah but everytime you say Java(tm) you tend to spread word of mouth about Sun Microsystems. So even if there is a Java(tm) compiler for linux, Sun gets free advertising.
Oh, but Sun is the good megacorp, and Java(tm) is an open source and standards-based, well, OK, it isn't really, but C#, is, well, it is an ECMA standard. But Microsoft is bad, no matter what.
Plus since the latest Gecko engine has adopted many of the IE conventions (IFRAMES etc...)
The IFRAME element is a part of the W3C HTML 4.0.1 spec.
So, software writen today must anticipate changes to all future versions? How much sense does that make? You can still save Office XP docs in other formats, including Office 97 (or ASCII, if that floats your boat). You might lose features that are specific to the current version, but I don't see a way aroyund that other than to stop adding new features to new versions. And if you prefer *that* approach, you can always use notepad or edit or edlin to write your documents.
Money does not magically control things; it influences people who have power, and that power generally comes from government. Put another way, if politicans did not have so much power, then there would be less reason to bribe them, and less concern over the influence of wealth. "Too much Capitalism" is not the problem Too much authoritarian government is, because that is the real locus of control.
Good. But who ever said the concepts were the same? Not the parent post.
Anyway, nice troll.
I think the trolling lies in your misstatement of the original poster's comment. The rebuttal article is quite interesting. Consider reading it.
C'mon; even a short essay describing the goals of the project might be nice.
It's not my site, and I never claimed that all, or even most, of what Nader did was bad.
IF you go around accepting what disinformation says as gospel I got a bridge I want to sell you.
I rasied a question based on some information, and gave a source. I never claimed that the source was gospel, and was hoping to get an informed response to either confirm or disprove the claims. If you go around making snap judgements of people, you may already own several bridges.
Thank god America is full of moronic idiots like you. How else would the rest of us make a living.
Touchy, are we? I guess name calling is in order when you have no informed rebuttal. Thanks for proving a point for me.
BTW, how *do* you make a living? Customer relations?