The only problem with that idea is that it may not have been the IT guy's decision to save money by not having a true backup system. I have seen companies skimp on backup systems because they thought their RAID system was enough.
That being said, I always though Microsoft's weird fascination with these things went a little too far -- anyone else remember the 20 or so different animated characters that you could get to help you in Windows XP, just to use the File Search feature?
Yes, because choice is bad. But, only in trivial applications. In things that actually matter, and use tons of resources, choice is good because everyone knows you should have to load two massive libraries to surf AND read your email.
Don't be silly. How dare you suggest that PROPRIETARY software might be a good idea with linux? You are obviously a MicroSux shill out to destroy the true beauty of FLOSS./sarcasm
According to the Constitution of the United States of America, I have, for a limited time, an exclusive right to my creative works and inventions. This right can be sold and can be owned by a corporation. Microsoft has that right with Microsoft Windows. Microsoft also has that right under Chinese law.
Now, please shut the fuck up before you make an even bigger fool of yourself, you fucking whiny bitch.
Has/. turned into the Weekly World News, or the Enquirer or something? This "lets' be as sensationalistic as possible with absolutely no proof or cause" shit is getting old.
That's little comfort to the software counterfeiters
You say that as if they deserve anything other than what they got. They knew the risks, they knew the penalties (or should have), they got caught. Now, it is time for them to pay the price.
Maybe all you poor little whiners who cry every time someone is busted for violating other people's rights should imagine how you would like it if someone violated your rights. Oh, that is right, when someone violates the rights of FSF or the like, you want the book thrown at them.
Look who is talk about stupidity. You are a pathetic, paranoid idiot. I am surprised you figured out how to post on Slashdot.
Maybe when you grow up, get out of high school or college or your mother's basement, and get out into the real world you will see how stupid you really are. But, until then, I have no hope for you to understand, well, anything.
Unless, of course, you are like the stupid little girl I knew in NYC who was just a lost cause. She sort of grew older, but never grew up. She kept on living her selfish, self-centered life, hurting people around her, not understanding why she was going nowhere in life, and believing her blog posts were going to get her raped by customs agents if she left the country.
I don't have that problem. I play for a while, then get bored because you have to run everywhere unless you are level 40 or higher. Stupid arbitrary rule.
I also get tired of quests where you have to 387 critters just to get the 10 drops you need to complete the quest.
So, is it your contention that I can be forced to register as a sex offender if I have not been convicted or plead guilty to a sex offense?
You hoist yourself on your own petard because you say
register people who committed their crimes decades ago, being a convicted felon is not necessary for being on the list
. If one committed a crime, even decades ago, one must be convicted of said crime to be required to register as a sex offender. If one is convicted of a crime, and to the best of my knowledge all crimes that would require one to register as a sex offender are felonies, then one is, by definition, a convicted felon.
Your argument is based on a false premise and fails because of it.
As a condition of parole, parolees are required to submit to search without a warrant and without cause. In other words, the parole officer can drop by and search the parolee's living space and person whenever the parole officer feels like it. In that context, I agree with this law.
However, once the convict/parolee has done his time, then that should be it. No registrations, no turning over passwords, etc. Anything else is just unAmerican.
Or, something vastly huge and requiring vast redundancy. But you are so used to working for tiny little companies with maybe two locations to know about things like that. Maybe when you work for a major multinational company you will understand these things. Until them, stay under your rock.
Yeah, you only think you are an engineer. You wouldn't know engineering if it reached up and bit you on the ass. This site is full of programmers, DBAs, wanna-be programmers, college students, high school students, and some other technical fields. The true engineers are few and far between.
No, I am not exaggerating. We handle a lot of data in a lot of different apps that have to kept separate. Our licensing fees are huge, but we still make money.
No, those two MySQL servers are handling a product that has little traffic. I should know, I support the app.
Oh, and all my apps run on Solaris. My last gig had me working on AIX and Solaris. Maybe you should stop making an ass out of yourself. I use WinXP on my work desktop. I use Vista Home Premium on my laptop, WinXPPro on my media pc, and Ubuntu server on my home server.
Stop smoking the FLOSS/MS-is-evil-and-should-die crack pipe and take a good look at the hypocrite you really are.
One, considering the site, he is probably posting anonymously to save his karma. You know as well as I do that he would be modded -9472 troll for posting something that doesn't support the FLOSS party line.
Two, MySQL may be "the number 1 database for web servers", but at every major company I have worked at the database servers have been either Oracle or DB2. At my current company, we have two MySQL servers compared to over one hundred Oracle servers.
Just because some thing is number one for web servers, it does not follow that said thing is number one for all servers.
You are right that this is a website, but it is not an engineering website and it is in no way exclusive, or apparently mostly, populated by computer scientists. I would say the population is made up of mostly FLOSS zealots and college kids. Speaking of which, don't you have a class you should be getting to?
Does it really surprise anyone that Linux.com would be against any project going closed source? That would be kind of like being surprised the Westboro Baptist Church put out a statement denouncing homosexuality.
My main desktop, it wouldn't even install without some major work!
Well, what did you have to do, buy new hardware?
Then there's my webserver. LAMP stack, SMTP and IMAP servers (with unlimited clients), gateway and firewall.
Yes, because Windows doesn't come with a webserver (IIS Personal Webserver comes with XP Prod and Vista Home Premium), or a firewall (Windows Firewall), or a gateway (Windows Connection sharing). Now, tell me, how many people run a LAMP stack (which is available for Windows), SMTP server (also available with WinXP Pro and probably vista Home Premium) and an IMAP server on their DESKTOP machines?
Maybe I missed it, but did you forget all the new server hardware that will need to be bought because most servers can't be shutdown for a day, let alone the time it would take to install and configure a new OS and any new apps.
If it had expired in August, then why is RIM bothering to sue to get it rescinded? Why don't they just ignore the agreement and then counter-sue Motorola if Motorola sues them?
The agreement could have covered anyone working for at the time and/or anyone that may be connected to the information that is the basis of the agreement.
If Motorola doesn't want it's employees to go to work for someone else, perhaps it should PAY them not to.
Motorola didn't bother with the employees, who are most-likely free to go to any other company. It made a deal with RIM so RIM would not use the information it acquired through the agreement to hire people associated with said information.
This is not as bad, let alone worse, than an employer-employee non-compete because it does not prevent the employees from working for any other Motorola competitor. It prevents RIM from recruiting certain employees/ex-employees of Motorola. An employer-employee non-compete generally bars the employee from working for ANY competitor of the employer.
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The only problem with that idea is that it may not have been the IT guy's decision to save money by not having a true backup system. I have seen companies skimp on backup systems because they thought their RAID system was enough.
Yes, because choice is bad. But, only in trivial applications. In things that actually matter, and use tons of resources, choice is good because everyone knows you should have to load two massive libraries to surf AND read your email.
I would laugh, but I live around too many people who would say exactly that.
You asked the wrong question. The proper question is "What do they have to gain?" and the answer is "Not much, at least not enough to be worth it".
Don't be silly. How dare you suggest that PROPRIETARY software might be a good idea with linux? You are obviously a MicroSux shill out to destroy the true beauty of FLOSS. /sarcasm
According to the Constitution of the United States of America, I have, for a limited time, an exclusive right to my creative works and inventions. This right can be sold and can be owned by a corporation. Microsoft has that right with Microsoft Windows. Microsoft also has that right under Chinese law.
Now, please shut the fuck up before you make an even bigger fool of yourself, you fucking whiny bitch.
Has /. turned into the Weekly World News, or the Enquirer or something? This "lets' be as sensationalistic as possible with absolutely no proof or cause" shit is getting old.
You say that as if they deserve anything other than what they got. They knew the risks, they knew the penalties (or should have), they got caught. Now, it is time for them to pay the price.
Maybe all you poor little whiners who cry every time someone is busted for violating other people's rights should imagine how you would like it if someone violated your rights. Oh, that is right, when someone violates the rights of FSF or the like, you want the book thrown at them.
What a bunch of whiny hypocrites you lot are.
Look who is talk about stupidity. You are a pathetic, paranoid idiot. I am surprised you figured out how to post on Slashdot.
Maybe when you grow up, get out of high school or college or your mother's basement, and get out into the real world you will see how stupid you really are. But, until then, I have no hope for you to understand, well, anything.
Unless, of course, you are like the stupid little girl I knew in NYC who was just a lost cause. She sort of grew older, but never grew up. She kept on living her selfish, self-centered life, hurting people around her, not understanding why she was going nowhere in life, and believing her blog posts were going to get her raped by customs agents if she left the country.
Come to think of it, you do sound a lot like her.
I don't have that problem. I play for a while, then get bored because you have to run everywhere unless you are level 40 or higher. Stupid arbitrary rule.
I also get tired of quests where you have to 387 critters just to get the 10 drops you need to complete the quest.
So, is it your contention that I can be forced to register as a sex offender if I have not been convicted or plead guilty to a sex offense?
You hoist yourself on your own petard because you say
. If one committed a crime, even decades ago, one must be convicted of said crime to be required to register as a sex offender. If one is convicted of a crime, and to the best of my knowledge all crimes that would require one to register as a sex offender are felonies, then one is, by definition, a convicted felon.
Your argument is based on a false premise and fails because of it.
That is a poem, not a basic truth.
You, sir, do not know the law when it comes to parole. You also have no clue as to the "fundamental principles" upon which this nation was founded.
You lose, thanks for playing, kbai.
As a condition of parole, parolees are required to submit to search without a warrant and without cause. In other words, the parole officer can drop by and search the parolee's living space and person whenever the parole officer feels like it. In that context, I agree with this law.
However, once the convict/parolee has done his time, then that should be it. No registrations, no turning over passwords, etc. Anything else is just unAmerican.
Yes, because every citizen is a convicted felon.
Oh, wait, no they aren't.
What is going to keep me from removing the GPS tracker and powering it from a battery or a power inverter?
Lotus Notes/Domino are commercialized. This is just more FLOSS zealots screaming "gimme gimme gimme" at proprietary software.
Or, something vastly huge and requiring vast redundancy. But you are so used to working for tiny little companies with maybe two locations to know about things like that. Maybe when you work for a major multinational company you will understand these things. Until them, stay under your rock.
Yeah, you only think you are an engineer. You wouldn't know engineering if it reached up and bit you on the ass. This site is full of programmers, DBAs, wanna-be programmers, college students, high school students, and some other technical fields. The true engineers are few and far between.
No, I am not exaggerating. We handle a lot of data in a lot of different apps that have to kept separate. Our licensing fees are huge, but we still make money.
No, those two MySQL servers are handling a product that has little traffic. I should know, I support the app.
Oh, and all my apps run on Solaris. My last gig had me working on AIX and Solaris. Maybe you should stop making an ass out of yourself. I use WinXP on my work desktop. I use Vista Home Premium on my laptop, WinXPPro on my media pc, and Ubuntu server on my home server.
Stop smoking the FLOSS/MS-is-evil-and-should-die crack pipe and take a good look at the hypocrite you really are.
And, this site is full of FLOSS zealots.
One, considering the site, he is probably posting anonymously to save his karma. You know as well as I do that he would be modded -9472 troll for posting something that doesn't support the FLOSS party line.
Two, MySQL may be "the number 1 database for web servers", but at every major company I have worked at the database servers have been either Oracle or DB2. At my current company, we have two MySQL servers compared to over one hundred Oracle servers.
Just because some thing is number one for web servers, it does not follow that said thing is number one for all servers.
You are right that this is a website, but it is not an engineering website and it is in no way exclusive, or apparently mostly, populated by computer scientists. I would say the population is made up of mostly FLOSS zealots and college kids. Speaking of which, don't you have a class you should be getting to?
Does it really surprise anyone that Linux.com would be against any project going closed source? That would be kind of like being surprised the Westboro Baptist Church put out a statement denouncing homosexuality.
Well, what did you have to do, buy new hardware?
Yes, because Windows doesn't come with a webserver (IIS Personal Webserver comes with XP Prod and Vista Home Premium), or a firewall (Windows Firewall), or a gateway (Windows Connection sharing). Now, tell me, how many people run a LAMP stack (which is available for Windows), SMTP server (also available with WinXP Pro and probably vista Home Premium) and an IMAP server on their DESKTOP machines?
Maybe I missed it, but did you forget all the new server hardware that will need to be bought because most servers can't be shutdown for a day, let alone the time it would take to install and configure a new OS and any new apps.
I believe the answer to that is "Yes". This is America and you can sue over anything here.
Two words "in perpetuum". Add that to any clause and that clause never expires.
If it had expired in August, then why is RIM bothering to sue to get it rescinded? Why don't they just ignore the agreement and then counter-sue Motorola if Motorola sues them?
The agreement could have covered anyone working for at the time and/or anyone that may be connected to the information that is the basis of the agreement.
Motorola didn't bother with the employees, who are most-likely free to go to any other company. It made a deal with RIM so RIM would not use the information it acquired through the agreement to hire people associated with said information.
This is not as bad, let alone worse, than an employer-employee non-compete because it does not prevent the employees from working for any other Motorola competitor. It prevents RIM from recruiting certain employees/ex-employees of Motorola. An employer-employee non-compete generally bars the employee from working for ANY competitor of the employer.