"Personally I think movies like this and the DnD movies make it harder for PnP rpgs to get new players. Thanx alot ass"
Did it cross your mind that gamers who take themselves and their games way to seriously and can't appreciate a joke might make it even harder to get new gamers? Relax it's a movie, a joke at that. It does nothing to perpetuate stereotypes unless you are taking it way to seriously. Do you think Best of Show hurts Dog Shows too?
"Instead, they don't drop a single product under $1,800."
Excluding of course the 17" dual core iMac for $1,299, well under your $1,800 claim and the 20" iMac (w/ slightly faster dual core chip) for $1799. If you're looking for a sub $1000 or sub $500 machine then they still have the iBook and Mac mini - and if you must have an Intel machine then you shouldn't have to wait to much longer before those both move to Intel chips as well.
The first thing to remember is that a Virus Scanner is primarily a reactive tool. While it is a necessary evil it does not replace the more important proactive measures which will decrease the need of virus scanning exponentially. Important proactive measures include:
Start by ensuring that you are running software you trust, in particular eliminate Internet Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express.
Next install a good firewall for your office with a default deny policy and only enable services needed for each individual machine. I would suggest OpenBSD with PF
Finall install a virus scanner on your email server which scans all incomming messagess before they are relayed. You also may want to consider scanning outgoing mail to insure you don't send a virus to your clients. I would recomend ClamAV for this.
As for regular scanning of your desktop machines, with the above measures the need should be greatly reduced. I would recomend ClamAV again. With the proper settings you can update your virus definition database 4 times/hour and it tends to be a very good scanner. The windows scanner UI leaves much to be desired, I would recomend creating running a custom shell script as a cron job from one of your servers that scans all desktop clients over SMB.
The only problem is that browser statistics in no way represent install base. It only gives you an accurate percentage of what browsers visit particular sites. Here's two major problems:
It only can be used to estimate computers which are on the web. Many homes have multiple computers but only one on the web. Other's have computers not online at all. This particularly adds a bias favoring newer computers which are more likely to be connected (simular bias to market share).
Browser statistics are based on the number of hits a page recieves. For example if there were only two computers in the world, one mac and one pc and the pc surfed the web twice as the mac it would suggest an base of 75% pc, 25% mac not 50/50
Well if your brother's roommate was let got in a 'silent layoff' then he was layed off by PeopleSoft and not by Oracle, as they have not even completed the takeover, and at the time he was layed off there wasn't even a deal for a takeover.
As for the idea of a 'silent layoff' any substantially sized layoff cannot remain silent.
I did not deny the claim that PeopleSoft's board would profit from this deal. I do however find it hard to believe that "a lot of employees have already lost their jobs" since they just agreed to the merger this morning and it will not be final for a couple months. Some employees will certainly be let go, however it has been repeatedly stated that Oracle will retain the PeopleSoft developers and support staff. And PeopleSoft software certainly will not "vanish."
While I am certainly not a fan of market consolidation as competition is a very necessary component of a capitalism. However, your comments are way off mark.
Oracle has aquired PeopleSoft for one reason, to increase their profits. While one way they do this is elimitating one competitor, it is not the sole method. To get the most profit from this buy out Oracle must retain PeopleSoft costumers, the increased customer base for Oracle products is the single most important asset they will recieve from PeopleSoft. In order to keep those costumers Oracle will fully support PeopleSoft products, continue development of PeopleSoft 9, and combine features of PeopleSoft and Oracle to provide PeopleSoft and Oracle customers with a better product to upgrade to.
PeopleSoft will not "vanish" in the short term it will continue to be supported and developed and in the long term PeopleSoft technologies will be integrated into the future versions of Oracle. Employees will remain with Oracle in order to facilitate this development.
So it looks like PalmSource can release the whole thing under GPL! Good memory!
The "completely new code" they speak of means that they did not base BeOS upon another operating system (such as Mac OS X is based upon NeXT, which is based on the Mach Kernel and FreeBSD). However this 'completely new code' was not all owned by Be, and some was licensed from 3rd parties, which means that parts of BeOS could are not owned by PalmSource and thus those parts of BeOS could not be release under the GPL (although they could be reimplemented by open source developers).
Nobody buys a mac becausethey own an iPod. The iPod simply introduces people to the Apple brand (and has done much to change the perception of Apple). It gets people into Apple stores and reseller stores to see and test other Apple products and people like the way iTunes works - "It just works" so they figure they will like the way Macs work.
Of course there are disputes as to whether this was actually said or not, or the context...but certainly one of the funniest and most famous tech boasts.
"(after that, it's fox news all the way...I like my news the way I wanna hear it!)"
I wonder what party you are volunteering for! Sure hope you're not a volunteer at the polls...next thing you know we'll find out you produce electronic voting machines with no paper trail.
In other words, the U2 iPod will be released when U2's new album is released.
Not necessarily true, as you quoted "The custom iPod will be made available the same week as the new album, which is slated for release in the U.S. November 23rd." (emphisis yours)
So in other words the iPod will be released the same week as the album, since the album is released on a Tuesday this statement would be true if the iPod was released as early as Sunday.
They do, and they do it for the same reason the republicans do - to give the public the impression that they were not behind the fraud and that they want a fair election.
Now I have more of a tendacy to believe the democrats then republicans ususally, but that's just because I don't trust the republican party as it seems to produce more propeganda then good public policy. (and I am conservative)
"In short, anyone who has already switched to a *NIX desktop (GNOME, KDE, Xfce [xfce.org], whatever) is unlikely to be tempted by an x86 OSX."
This is certainly not true. As a former Linux/BSD user on my desktop/server (respectively) I am now hapily posting this from my Powerbook G4, and it's my *nix background that drew me to OS X. I think the PowerPC archetecture is very attractive to many power users and the BSD background/basis of OS X has attracted many unix users (even Sun executives are known to run OS X at their home).
When I first got my Powerbook I wasn't sure I would keep OS X, figuring I may run linux on it or at the least dual boot OS X and Debian. However I am know very happy to run OS X and only OS X. When i need a terminal I can easily access one (and even login to a non graphical environment) but when I want to listen to music, watch movies, edit movies, edit pictures, etc everything "just works!"
Actually it's your math that's wrong, congrats on passing the greater then or less then test but come back when your teacher introduces the class to fractions and percentages.
In the legal world mitigate means to reduce or avoid damages. Basically a person who claims damages as the result of a wrongful act has the right to seek compensation for such damages. However they have the obligation to "mitigate" said damages - in other words the plantiff has the duty to minimize the damages that occour.
For example if a shop owner had his window broken by a thug he could sue that thug for the replacement of the window. However if he left the window unfixed and occoured aditional damage over time from water, robery etc. he would not have the right to sue for such damages.
Mitagating damages has nothing to do with providing reasonable proof of you claim, that's what the courts are for. By informing linux users that they believe they are infringing upon their IP the have attempted to mitigate the damages that such users would be liable for.
So they're paying almost 14 million dollars for nothing. Nice.
There's no way they paid $14 million for what clearly seems to be a pulbicity stunt from SCO. If you read the news.com article you can see they have around 20,000 servers and therfore recieved a high volume discount. On top of this they are the first company to not require a confidentiality clause in their agreement with SCO and I would be willing to be they recieved a handsome discount for giving SCO a little press to backup their claims.
As for paying for nothing only time will tell. Basically what they paid for insurance. They may realize that it is unlikely that SCO will win the lawsuit, however if they do they would then be liable for at least $14 million and possibly more. However by paying a small percentage of this to SCO now they have no liability.
BeOS has had this for a while (and it originally was a userland implementation). And there are many of us still using BeOS that use attribute quieries as our sole way to retrieve files. (I know two or three people that store all of their files in a single directory)
And for those asking why you would want to do such a thing, then you definately should give BeOS a try and you will see why it makes finding your files easier and faster.
I would compare a HFS to bookmarks for the internet: A few years ago most people had a ton of bookmarks saved so they could find the pages they need. Now most people I know don't use bookmarks at all, but instead relly on google to find pages (yes even pages they have used before) because it's a fast and easy way.
I only spotted one mistake. Sprigman states that Disney's 1967 movie The Jungle Book came out a year after Kipling's copyright expired, but I can't see how, under the terms of the 1909 copyright law, an 1894 book could have had its U.S. copyright expire much later than 1950.
Very simple...Rudyard Kipling died in 1936. Authors life + 30 years = 1966. One year before 1967.
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Unix-like. Until you can be accurate and truthful about this, your argument is hopelessly flawed.
For one thing much of Darwin's (open source base of OS X) user-land is based from BSD (primarily FreeBSD) whose roots are directly descendant from Bell Labs UNIX. Even more importantly (at least from a semantics point) about Leopard - "Leopard Server is designed to be UNIX compliant and fully compatible with existing UNIX software. Apple intends to submit Leopard Server to The Open Group for certification against the UNIX 03 product standard." With the release of Leopard there will be no more denying that OS X is UNIX.
Then how do you explain his use of slashdot?
"Personally I think movies like this and the DnD movies make it harder for PnP rpgs to get new players. Thanx alot ass"
Did it cross your mind that gamers who take themselves and their games way to seriously and can't appreciate a joke might make it even harder to get new gamers? Relax it's a movie, a joke at that. It does nothing to perpetuate stereotypes unless you are taking it way to seriously. Do you think Best of Show hurts Dog Shows too?
"Instead, they don't drop a single product under $1,800."
Excluding of course the 17" dual core iMac for $1,299, well under your $1,800 claim and the 20" iMac (w/ slightly faster dual core chip) for $1799. If you're looking for a sub $1000 or sub $500 machine then they still have the iBook and Mac mini - and if you must have an Intel machine then you shouldn't have to wait to much longer before those both move to Intel chips as well.
- Start by ensuring that you are running software you trust, in particular eliminate Internet Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express.
- Next install a good firewall for your office with a default deny policy and only enable services needed for each individual machine. I would suggest OpenBSD with PF
- Finall install a virus scanner on your email server which scans all incomming messagess before they are relayed. You also may want to consider scanning outgoing mail to insure you don't send a virus to your clients. I would recomend ClamAV for this.
As for regular scanning of your desktop machines, with the above measures the need should be greatly reduced. I would recomend ClamAV again. With the proper settings you can update your virus definition database 4 times/hour and it tends to be a very good scanner. The windows scanner UI leaves much to be desired, I would recomend creating running a custom shell script as a cron job from one of your servers that scans all desktop clients over SMB.The only problem is that browser statistics in no way represent install base. It only gives you an accurate percentage of what browsers visit particular sites. Here's two major problems:
Well if your brother's roommate was let got in a 'silent layoff' then he was layed off by PeopleSoft and not by Oracle, as they have not even completed the takeover, and at the time he was layed off there wasn't even a deal for a takeover.
As for the idea of a 'silent layoff' any substantially sized layoff cannot remain silent.
I did not deny the claim that PeopleSoft's board would profit from this deal. I do however find it hard to believe that "a lot of employees have already lost their jobs" since they just agreed to the merger this morning and it will not be final for a couple months. Some employees will certainly be let go, however it has been repeatedly stated that Oracle will retain the PeopleSoft developers and support staff. And PeopleSoft software certainly will not "vanish."
While I am certainly not a fan of market consolidation as competition is a very necessary component of a capitalism. However, your comments are way off mark.
Oracle has aquired PeopleSoft for one reason, to increase their profits. While one way they do this is elimitating one competitor, it is not the sole method. To get the most profit from this buy out Oracle must retain PeopleSoft costumers, the increased customer base for Oracle products is the single most important asset they will recieve from PeopleSoft. In order to keep those costumers Oracle will fully support PeopleSoft products, continue development of PeopleSoft 9, and combine features of PeopleSoft and Oracle to provide PeopleSoft and Oracle customers with a better product to upgrade to.
PeopleSoft will not "vanish" in the short term it will continue to be supported and developed and in the long term PeopleSoft technologies will be integrated into the future versions of Oracle. Employees will remain with Oracle in order to facilitate this development.
So it looks like PalmSource can release the whole thing under GPL! Good memory!
The "completely new code" they speak of means that they did not base BeOS upon another operating system (such as Mac OS X is based upon NeXT, which is based on the Mach Kernel and FreeBSD). However this 'completely new code' was not all owned by Be, and some was licensed from 3rd parties, which means that parts of BeOS could are not owned by PalmSource and thus those parts of BeOS could not be release under the GPL (although they could be reimplemented by open source developers).
"Gassee mentions that BeOS contains elements licensed from third parties, although this doesn't make open sourcing impossible - merely difficult."
Nobody buys a mac becausethey own an iPod. The iPod simply introduces people to the Apple brand (and has done much to change the perception of Apple). It gets people into Apple stores and reseller stores to see and test other Apple products and people like the way iTunes works - "It just works" so they figure they will like the way Macs work.
Of course there are disputes as to whether this was actually said or not, or the context...but certainly one of the funniest and most famous tech boasts.
I wonder what party you are volunteering for! Sure hope you're not a volunteer at the polls...next thing you know we'll find out you produce electronic voting machines with no paper trail.
In other words, the U2 iPod will be released when U2's new album is released.
Not necessarily true, as you quoted "The custom iPod will be made available the same week as the new album, which is slated for release in the U.S. November 23rd." (emphisis yours)
So in other words the iPod will be released the same week as the album, since the album is released on a Tuesday this statement would be true if the iPod was released as early as Sunday.
They do, and they do it for the same reason the republicans do - to give the public the impression that they were not behind the fraud and that they want a fair election.
Now I have more of a tendacy to believe the democrats then republicans ususally, but that's just because I don't trust the republican party as it seems to produce more propeganda then good public policy. (and I am conservative)
"In short, anyone who has already switched to a *NIX desktop (GNOME, KDE, Xfce [xfce.org], whatever) is unlikely to be tempted by an x86 OSX." This is certainly not true. As a former Linux/BSD user on my desktop/server (respectively) I am now hapily posting this from my Powerbook G4, and it's my *nix background that drew me to OS X. I think the PowerPC archetecture is very attractive to many power users and the BSD background/basis of OS X has attracted many unix users (even Sun executives are known to run OS X at their home). When I first got my Powerbook I wasn't sure I would keep OS X, figuring I may run linux on it or at the least dual boot OS X and Debian. However I am know very happy to run OS X and only OS X. When i need a terminal I can easily access one (and even login to a non graphical environment) but when I want to listen to music, watch movies, edit movies, edit pictures, etc everything "just works!"
Actually it's your math that's wrong, congrats on passing the greater then or less then test but come back when your teacher introduces the class to fractions and percentages.
This is a great way to encourage people to take advantage of the democracy we have been blessed with (and most American's don't take advantage of). I think it's fair to say just about every american has some beef with the government - but if you don't vote you can't change that. So register to vote, do your homework, and get to the polls!!!
In the legal world mitigate means to reduce or avoid damages. Basically a person who claims damages as the result of a wrongful act has the right to seek compensation for such damages. However they have the obligation to "mitigate" said damages - in other words the plantiff has the duty to minimize the damages that occour.
For example if a shop owner had his window broken by a thug he could sue that thug for the replacement of the window. However if he left the window unfixed and occoured aditional damage over time from water, robery etc. he would not have the right to sue for such damages.
Mitagating damages has nothing to do with providing reasonable proof of you claim, that's what the courts are for. By informing linux users that they believe they are infringing upon their IP the have attempted to mitigate the damages that such users would be liable for.
So they're paying almost 14 million dollars for nothing. Nice.
There's no way they paid $14 million for what clearly seems to be a pulbicity stunt from SCO. If you read the news.com article you can see they have around 20,000 servers and therfore recieved a high volume discount. On top of this they are the first company to not require a confidentiality clause in their agreement with SCO and I would be willing to be they recieved a handsome discount for giving SCO a little press to backup their claims.
As for paying for nothing only time will tell. Basically what they paid for insurance. They may realize that it is unlikely that SCO will win the lawsuit, however if they do they would then be liable for at least $14 million and possibly more. However by paying a small percentage of this to SCO now they have no liability.
BeOS has had this for a while (and it originally was a userland implementation). And there are many of us still using BeOS that use attribute quieries as our sole way to retrieve files. (I know two or three people that store all of their files in a single directory)
And for those asking why you would want to do such a thing, then you definately should give BeOS a try and you will see why it makes finding your files easier and faster.
I would compare a HFS to bookmarks for the internet: A few years ago most people had a ton of bookmarks saved so they could find the pages they need. Now most people I know don't use bookmarks at all, but instead relly on google to find pages (yes even pages they have used before) because it's a fast and easy way.
Very simple...Rudyard Kipling died in 1936. Authors life + 30 years = 1966. One year before 1967.