for many people a fast internet connection allows them to work from home, thus extending the life of their car and decreasing their oil consumption. So then you must decide whether it is more hurtful to support their telecom/cable company, or to support the auto and oil industries.
the world is full of tradeoffs, to pretend otherwise is foolish and naive.
I'm one of those people who switched from pine to mutt. I switched for a number of reasons: better pgp integration, mail threading (no longer an issue), easier to modify code (pine is hellish), a better security history, and a more powerful interface.
mutt isn't as cuddly as pine is, but it was worth it for me. and i get the added bonus that nothing installs pico on my machines now.
well, I just re-checked. It's actually 380mb of quicken data, which seems big to me too, but it's what's there. maybe it stores an illogical amount of historical stock price data or something, i dunno.
i actually do rsync some of my data off to a colo'd server, but that's not a backup.
you see, the problem with rsync is you don't have any versioning. If I overwrite a file, then perform my backup, then realize that I overwrote that file, I'm fucked. I can't pull yesterday's rsync, or last week's rsync.
I use this service too, for my quicken files, but the lack of a high-capacity option, and the lack of a Mac or FreeBSD client keeps me from being able to use Connected Online as a one-stop backup solution.
On the plus side, the restore isn't slow. I did a test restoration, to make sure the service actually worked, and it went flawlessly and got me my half gig or so of quicken data as fast as my connection would allow.
first of all, most people aren't going to want to bother signing up for a po box outside the city to use for one thing, to save less money than they spend on coffee or dry cleaning.
secondly, most people don't want to engage in ethically questionable behaviour just because it's legal.
thirdly, it's inconvenient. who wants to spend their time opening up a po box, changing registered addresses, then remembering (once a year) to go pick up something from that box.
lastly, there are a limited number of post office boxes in every post office. if 2 million people decided to go get a post office box tomorrow, 99.9% of them would be told that they're on a waiting list.
yeah, some cheap bastards will do this, but most people will just bitch and moan and get on with life.
republicans aren't all self-righteous right-wingers who have sold their souls to big oil and big business.
Yes, but our president sold his. of course he also likes spending his time making sure that a felon runs the 'total information awareness' automated big brother system, nominating ultra-conversative judges, signing away our privacy, and basically making it so the only thing that's special about america is the fact that we're rich, and we can kick your ass.
I read the whitepaper, and I definitely don't call hoax. It offers an objective overview of the Hotmail FreeBSD to Windows transition, and doesn't portray either system as being perfect.
One of the main reasons for the transition to Windows was obviously not only to be able to say 'Hotmail runs Windows', but also to find the places where Windows was weak and to fix them. The paper details a number of places where Windows had trouble (unattended installation, IIS configuration, software distribution, content and code updates, inability to change various parameters without a reboot), but it also mentions that this input was given to the various development teams, to try to make the next version of Windows better.
Yes, the document explicitly states that there was not a straightforward business case for the transition due to the license fees which would be incurred by customers, and that a number of Microsoft technologies (AD, WLBS) were either useless in that setting, or were not price competitive to the alternatives, but it looks to me like Microsoft was smart enough to use this experience to find and address their shortcomings.
The whitepaper is real and accurate; the sensationalistic headline on this article, is not.
If you need references to believe allegations of corruption in India, it's clear that you've never been to India. It's present in Indian society on all levels, and if you even try travelling through the country, you're guaranteed to experience it at least a little bit, in the form of various 'surcharges' which officials ask that you pay them in cash, on the spot.
India is a massively poor country, it's a place where earning $5 a day puts you solidly in the middle class. Poverty breeds corruption.
not to nitpick, but it's easier than that... if you set the SUP variables in/etc/make.conf you can just type make update, instead of cvsup -blah -the -fuck -blah.
That flamebait of yours is really interesting and insightful. I found it slightly informative, but unfortunately it was a little too redundant for me, and so I marked it overrated.
Just a note, most high-end designer clothing isn't terribly profitable.
First, the design costs are spread out over a much smaller number of items. Then once the product has been designed, the raw materials are almost inevitably much more expensive than the raw materials used on less exclusive clothing. Now you need to make the product, and you don't see Made In Italy on tags for free, those workers are expensive, not like the Made In Taiwan crap. So now you've got an expensive bit of clothing... that must sell in it's designated season, or it's quite likely just expensive trash.
I'm not saying there's no profit in the designer game, far from it, but it's not the racket that a lot of people make it out to be.
I know there isn't much diference between a Dell Precision and a nice Dell Dimension, but there was until a few years ago.
Not much difference between a Dell Precision and a Dell Dimension? The Precision is manufactured to much tighter specs, has a guaranteed period of availability for both new systems, and for replacement parts. The Precisions have Xeons, multiple processors, support for 4 gigs of RAM, professional graphics cards, U320 SCSI drives, and RAID controllers.
Hell, I just priced out a $12,000 Precision, and that wasn't maxed out on RAM, didn't have the biggest hard drives, didn't have the best video card, and didn't include a monitor or any accessories.
If you can't tell the difference between a Precision and a Dimension, well, I hope you aren't in charge of purchasing.
The difference is perceived value. The perceived value of Microsoft Office is much higher than Sun's AlmostOffice. And don't think that just because you won't deal with markup, that everyone is with you. In the big scheme of things, $300 for software that a worker uses every day is a pretty trivial expense.
Glad to hear that you're happy, but if you want to talk about coverage, use a coverage map, not some anecdote about how your phone worked in the bar, and your buddy's didn't.
Please look at these maps of Pennsylvania, or these maps of California coverage and explain to me how it is that PCS coverage is "10x" T-Mobile's GSM coverage. It looks to me like you got your ratio reversed.
In California and Pennsylvania, Sprint is obviously second-rate.
I have a windows box that runs a few apps, but for the most part it sits around being bored.
My daily driver is a Mac, my other machines are mostly FreeBSD (one runs Linux, one runs Solaris, one runs IPSO), and my games are delivered via PlayStation 2. All in all, it's a pretty good setup, and it has the bonus of having a surprisingly low Microsoft content.
let's take a more realistic scenario than yours, where your magic candidate is able to commute to new york city, buffalo, dc, or reston, without issue, and is able to perform all technical jobs, from CIO to help desk, to java developer, to senior unix admin, to junior network admin, to technical writer.
instead, let's pretend for a moment that we have an out of work unix admin, experienced with aix, bsdi, linux and freebsd, living in philadelphia, and willing to commute about an hour and a half each way.
geekfinder starts off with 1300 jobs in the philly metropolitan region. Then you add the search term 'unix', and you're down to 234 jobs. Most of those jobs are only vaguely related to that admin position that you're qualified for, so you search within results for 'admin', and now there are only 11 jobs. Of those, there are three unrelated positions which brings us down to 8. Of those, most require solaris or HP-UX experience, and our admin is left with a whopping two positions for which he is well qualified.
You may have had an easy time finding a job, but to claim that people are out of work simply aren't looking hard enough is assinine. Companies are regularly receiving several hundred resumes for a single open position; depending on your skillset, it's not always easy.
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for many people a fast internet connection allows them to work from home, thus extending the life of their car and decreasing their oil consumption. So then you must decide whether it is more hurtful to support their telecom/cable company, or to support the auto and oil industries.
the world is full of tradeoffs, to pretend otherwise is foolish and naive.
for cellular, that regulation doesn't become active until november of 2003.
mutt isn't as cuddly as pine is, but it was worth it for me. and i get the added bonus that nothing installs pico on my machines now.
well, I just re-checked. It's actually 380mb of quicken data, which seems big to me too, but it's what's there. maybe it stores an illogical amount of historical stock price data or something, i dunno.
you see, the problem with rsync is you don't have any versioning. If I overwrite a file, then perform my backup, then realize that I overwrote that file, I'm fucked. I can't pull yesterday's rsync, or last week's rsync.
On the plus side, the restore isn't slow. I did a test restoration, to make sure the service actually worked, and it went flawlessly and got me my half gig or so of quicken data as fast as my connection would allow.
secondly, most people don't want to engage in ethically questionable behaviour just because it's legal.
thirdly, it's inconvenient. who wants to spend their time opening up a po box, changing registered addresses, then remembering (once a year) to go pick up something from that box.
lastly, there are a limited number of post office boxes in every post office. if 2 million people decided to go get a post office box tomorrow, 99.9% of them would be told that they're on a waiting list.
yeah, some cheap bastards will do this, but most people will just bitch and moan and get on with life.
One of the main reasons for the transition to Windows was obviously not only to be able to say 'Hotmail runs Windows', but also to find the places where Windows was weak and to fix them. The paper details a number of places where Windows had trouble (unattended installation, IIS configuration, software distribution, content and code updates, inability to change various parameters without a reboot), but it also mentions that this input was given to the various development teams, to try to make the next version of Windows better.
Yes, the document explicitly states that there was not a straightforward business case for the transition due to the license fees which would be incurred by customers, and that a number of Microsoft technologies (AD, WLBS) were either useless in that setting, or were not price competitive to the alternatives, but it looks to me like Microsoft was smart enough to use this experience to find and address their shortcomings.
The whitepaper is real and accurate; the sensationalistic headline on this article, is not.
India is a massively poor country, it's a place where earning $5 a day puts you solidly in the middle class. Poverty breeds corruption.
read the portupgrade man page, you can upgrade all ports in one fell swoop, if you want.
not to nitpick, but it's easier than that... if you set the SUP variables in /etc/make.conf you can just type make update, instead of cvsup -blah -the -fuck -blah.
Besides, nearly anything can be racked easily by ordering a rackmount from Middle Atlantic, even if there aren't rack ears available for it.
Far more people have component inputs than VGA inputs. besides, what the hell do you own that doesn't take component in?
Shoot all the moderators.
First, the design costs are spread out over a much smaller number of items. Then once the product has been designed, the raw materials are almost inevitably much more expensive than the raw materials used on less exclusive clothing. Now you need to make the product, and you don't see Made In Italy on tags for free, those workers are expensive, not like the Made In Taiwan crap. So now you've got an expensive bit of clothing... that must sell in it's designated season, or it's quite likely just expensive trash.
I'm not saying there's no profit in the designer game, far from it, but it's not the racket that a lot of people make it out to be.
Hell, I just priced out a $12,000 Precision, and that wasn't maxed out on RAM, didn't have the biggest hard drives, didn't have the best video card, and didn't include a monitor or any accessories.
If you can't tell the difference between a Precision and a Dimension, well, I hope you aren't in charge of purchasing.
The difference is perceived value. The perceived value of Microsoft Office is much higher than Sun's AlmostOffice. And don't think that just because you won't deal with markup, that everyone is with you. In the big scheme of things, $300 for software that a worker uses every day is a pretty trivial expense.
Glad to hear that you're happy, but if you want to talk about coverage, use a coverage map, not some anecdote about how your phone worked in the bar, and your buddy's didn't.
In California and Pennsylvania, Sprint is obviously second-rate.
or get a credit card that doesn't make those god-awful advertisements.
My daily driver is a Mac, my other machines are mostly FreeBSD (one runs Linux, one runs Solaris, one runs IPSO), and my games are delivered via PlayStation 2. All in all, it's a pretty good setup, and it has the bonus of having a surprisingly low Microsoft content.
instead, let's pretend for a moment that we have an out of work unix admin, experienced with aix, bsdi, linux and freebsd, living in philadelphia, and willing to commute about an hour and a half each way.
geekfinder starts off with 1300 jobs in the philly metropolitan region. Then you add the search term 'unix', and you're down to 234 jobs. Most of those jobs are only vaguely related to that admin position that you're qualified for, so you search within results for 'admin', and now there are only 11 jobs. Of those, there are three unrelated positions which brings us down to 8. Of those, most require solaris or HP-UX experience, and our admin is left with a whopping two positions for which he is well qualified.
You may have had an easy time finding a job, but to claim that people are out of work simply aren't looking hard enough is assinine. Companies are regularly receiving several hundred resumes for a single open position; depending on your skillset, it's not always easy.