And no, this is not a flame, it's an honest question -- if this is really a problem, why aren't you using a FreeBSD system instead? They have ports. They have lots of free stuff. They have a large userbase, they have lots of online support and are pragmatic. What's the holdup?
OK, I am totally clueless as to the differences here. what is the most significant difference between BSD and Linux?
Can I run Linux stuff on BSD? E.g. Can I grab the latest GNOME desktop and install it on BSD along with any of the applications that come with it? And by install I mean I perform the same kind of effort involved in a Linux install.
It's impossible to force people - through policing, through DRM, through marketing - to pay for something they can get for free. I can't think of any examples where this has worked.
Hmmm. Last week I was over at my local computer store and I bought this nifty product called Mandrake Linux. Some idiot tried to convince me that I could download the thing for free off the internet. What an idiot. He obviously had some kind of grudge against the store.
Further, the number of infections caused by code weaknesses is probably far less than the number caused by social weaknesses - "Click on me!"
Where's the link dude? You are telling me to click and the urge is overpowering me and yet you don't provide anything to click on. What kind of sadistic torture is that?
You are so spot on with that! I detest the number of warning buzzers in my car already. After all if I am too stupid to realize that the parking brake is on with the car moving sluggishly and the little red dashboard light glaring at me, then why bother with an obnoxious buzzer.
Plus the stupid seatbelt buzzer going off if the car is not in motion and the stupid "open door" buzzer that always wakes the kids up when we get home. One of these fine days I will be getting in under the hood and start ripping out everything buzzer related.
With TiVo and the 30 second skip feature, fewer commercials are seen. Right, wrong, or indifferent, that's the truth.
Nonsense. I don't have a TiVo and I don't watch all the ads. I flick channels, I get up to make something to drink, etc. The Tivo owners simply stay on the same channel and skip the ads. Net result, same number of ads skipped and watched pre-tivo and post-tivo.
I for one didn't even realize that Nissan made a high end sports car...
I am shocked, shocked, shocked. Where have you been living!? How could you possibly not know about Nissan's sports car - especially now that it is available in a convertible.
Oh - that disclaimer thingy - yeah I work for Nissan.:)
I actually created a passport login to see how many places they would use it and if it would be beneficial. Thus far I have only seen it used with Hotmail and on the MSN site. Have any others seen it used on other non-Microsoft sites?
The VAC is then given to the voter, who inserts the VAC into any one of the stations, and is then presented with the ballot for their party.
So, in other words, if I read this correctly, you are only allowed to vote for your registered party on election day?
That is plain pathetic. What if the one and only candidate for your party suddenly reveals something you don't like 2 days before the election. You won't have to time to register to vote for another party?
No wonder voter turnout is so low.
I reckon they should do away with primaries. Let anybody stand who manages to get a certain number of votes and on voting day you can vote for anybody you like - even if it happens to be for a party you don't normally vote for.
Yes, dictatorship over myself and by myself, to the largest extent praticable and feasible in a civilized society. I prefer to refer to it as liberty.
Would you still think of it as liberty if my group of friends - forming a minority - effectively lobbied for some of your, and most other citizen's, liberties to be taken away so that some of our liberties could be protected?
E.g. Do you think it is Ok for the relatively few cubans living in the USA to dictate to the rest of the Americans that they cannot go and visit Cuba just because these few people have a gripe with the country they left?.
If all immigrants acted the same way then US citizens would be unable to visit any foreign country. However, these people would still be allowed to visit these other countries as they are still citizens of those countries.
Ok, how about this. I and 100 of my closest friends form this radical new way of living and part of that includes not paying any taxes.
So, is it OK for this minority to tell the majority to get lost when it comes to paying taxes, or is it OK for the majority to say, "Hey, if you want to live here among us then you conform to these rules. One such rule says that you must pay tax."
Couple of days later some armed types roll up at my front door and throw me into prison thereby squashing my minority rights.
Now this scenario can be applied to many other facets of life equally as well. E.g. people that think smoking dope is ok, people that think kiddie porn is ok, people that think slavery is ok.
At what point do you stop and say; "Yes, it is better to trample on the rights of these few rather than trampling on the rights of the many" ?
Which is why a Constitution is needed: so that the minority can tell the majority to fuck off and mind its own business.
Without that, all you have is another form of dictatorship.
Not to be too pedantic here, but if the minority tells the majority to fuck off then it is a dictatorship. Especially if you take it to the extreme where the minority consists of a single person!
Must be so difficult, to pay a tax on a product that COSTS NOTHING..
Sadly, it's not as difficult as you may think. If somebody gives you a car or a house, you will most likely end up paying tax on it somewhere down the line even though it cost you nothing and the other person already paid taxes on the product.
cars: these cause more stress than they solve, and health problems to boot.
Complete and utter nonsense. Out where I live (Tennessee) cars are no stress whatsoever. I can get on a freeway and drive at a decent speed whereever I want and park it once I get there.
Now, LA. That's different. Same car, different conditions. Not the car's fault at all.
I have just moved to a new area and my current contract expired at the same time. Thus I am in the market for a new phone.
Unfortunately the phones that I like - i.e. good battery power, great reception, tri-band, all seem to come with cameras these days!
Personally, I have no use for a camera in a phone, and my employer has explicitly forbidden cameras on the premises. This morning they sent out an email stating clearly that this restriction applied to phone cameras as well.
So, by tacking on a rather underpowered little slug of a camera, the manufacturers have made it impossible for me to buy one of their nicer phones.
Excessive bandwidth usage may be the result of many different activities. Activities that could contribute to exceeding bandwidth limitations may include, but are not limited to:
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Isn't this one of the reasons that they advertise as a reason you should switch to Broadband?
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And no, this is not a flame, it's an honest question -- if this is really a problem, why aren't you using a FreeBSD system instead? They have ports. They have lots of free stuff. They have a large userbase, they have lots of online support and are pragmatic. What's the holdup?
OK, I am totally clueless as to the differences here. what is the most significant difference between BSD and Linux?
Can I run Linux stuff on BSD? E.g. Can I grab the latest GNOME desktop and install it on BSD along with any of the applications that come with it? And by install I mean I perform the same kind of effort involved in a Linux install.
I figured the US tested more than enough nukes to last me a life-time ;)
Not sure about that. But they definately tested enough to last you a half-life time.
Sad really. I just couldn't resist.
It's impossible to force people - through policing, through DRM, through marketing - to pay for something they can get for free. I can't think of any examples where this has worked.
Hmmm. Last week I was over at my local computer store and I bought this nifty product called Mandrake Linux. Some idiot tried to convince me that I could download the thing for free off the internet. What an idiot. He obviously had some kind of grudge against the store.
Further, the number of infections caused by code weaknesses is probably far less than the number caused by social weaknesses - "Click on me!"
Where's the link dude? You are telling me to click and the urge is overpowering me and yet you don't provide anything to click on. What kind of sadistic torture is that?
Congratulations to #$%D$%^ERT^&%^RFYU%^&TRYU%& 456RTY456%^&RU*& for this astounding decryption.
Make the suckers decrypt the new message to find out who the winners where in the last competition.
You are so spot on with that! I detest the number of warning buzzers in my car already. After all if I am too stupid to realize that the parking brake is on with the car moving sluggishly and the little red dashboard light glaring at me, then why bother with an obnoxious buzzer.
Plus the stupid seatbelt buzzer going off if the car is not in motion and the stupid "open door" buzzer that always wakes the kids up when we get home. One of these fine days I will be getting in under the hood and start ripping out everything buzzer related.
With TiVo and the 30 second skip feature, fewer commercials are seen. Right, wrong, or indifferent, that's the truth.
Nonsense. I don't have a TiVo and I don't watch all the ads. I flick channels, I get up to make something to drink, etc. The Tivo owners simply stay on the same channel and skip the ads. Net result, same number of ads skipped and watched pre-tivo and post-tivo.
I for one didn't even realize that Nissan made a high end sports car...
:)
I am shocked, shocked, shocked. Where have you been living!? How could you possibly not know about Nissan's sports car - especially now that it is available in a convertible.
Oh - that disclaimer thingy - yeah I work for Nissan.
They're getting a little nano-pudgy.
With the kind of dimensions we are talking about here, you will have to get a "bit" more precise than "little" to be taken seriously.
I actually created a passport login to see how many places they would use it and if it would be beneficial. Thus far I have only seen it used with Hotmail and on the MSN site. Have any others seen it used on other non-Microsoft sites?
Ahh. That's a relief.
The VAC is then given to the voter, who inserts the VAC into any one of the stations, and is then presented with the ballot for their party.
So, in other words, if I read this correctly, you are only allowed to vote for your registered party on election day?
That is plain pathetic. What if the one and only candidate for your party suddenly reveals something you don't like 2 days before the election. You won't have to time to register to vote for another party?
No wonder voter turnout is so low.
I reckon they should do away with primaries. Let anybody stand who manages to get a certain number of votes and on voting day you can vote for anybody you like - even if it happens to be for a party you don't normally vote for.
Being about the size of a quarter, wouldn't it be 2 bits?
Except in Florida where it would probably be about 16 bits as they have to keep recounting them and lose track of them after a while.
Don't underestimate the power of Tux Racer. My 5 year old son is sold on Linux purely because of that game!
Yes, dictatorship over myself and by myself, to the largest extent praticable and feasible in a civilized society. I prefer to refer to it as liberty.
Would you still think of it as liberty if my group of friends - forming a minority - effectively lobbied for some of your, and most other citizen's, liberties to be taken away so that some of our liberties could be protected?
E.g. Do you think it is Ok for the relatively few cubans living in the USA to dictate to the rest of the Americans that they cannot go and visit Cuba just because these few people have a gripe with the country they left?.
If all immigrants acted the same way then US citizens would be unable to visit any foreign country. However, these people would still be allowed to visit these other countries as they are still citizens of those countries.
Ok, how about this. I and 100 of my closest friends form this radical new way of living and part of that includes not paying any taxes.
So, is it OK for this minority to tell the majority to get lost when it comes to paying taxes, or is it OK for the majority to say, "Hey, if you want to live here among us then you conform to these rules. One such rule says that you must pay tax."
Couple of days later some armed types roll up at my front door and throw me into prison thereby squashing my minority rights.
Now this scenario can be applied to many other facets of life equally as well. E.g. people that think smoking dope is ok, people that think kiddie porn is ok, people that think slavery is ok.
At what point do you stop and say; "Yes, it is better to trample on the rights of these few rather than trampling on the rights of the many" ?
Which is why a Constitution is needed: so that the minority can tell the majority to fuck off and mind its own business.
Without that, all you have is another form of dictatorship.
Not to be too pedantic here, but if the minority tells the majority to fuck off then it is a dictatorship. Especially if you take it to the extreme where the minority consists of a single person!
Must be so difficult, to pay a tax on a product that COSTS NOTHING..
Sadly, it's not as difficult as you may think. If somebody gives you a car or a house, you will most likely end up paying tax on it somewhere down the line even though it cost you nothing and the other person already paid taxes on the product.
How does the moon have military value?
That's obvious. You can build a "frikkin" laser there and proceed to hold the world to ransom for a million dollars.
cars: these cause more stress than they solve, and health problems to boot.
Complete and utter nonsense. Out where I live (Tennessee) cars are no stress whatsoever. I can get on a freeway and drive at a decent speed whereever I want and park it once I get there.
Now, LA. That's different. Same car, different conditions. Not the car's fault at all.
We have moved onto i-B2BS. It's the only way to go. It's collaborative, intuitive and more importantly new.
Independent movie producers like this with their limited movie release schedules must hit Netflix style distributers early.
Much as I would like to see these movies, I am not willing to fly to some other city just to watch a movie.
I hope they make it to Netflix or something similar so that I can support them then.
I'll show the article to my ATM mentor and see what he thinks about it. Especially some of those contentious sentences.
Wow dude - you must have serious cash flow problems if you have somebody mentoring your ATM activities.
Seriously, aside from a machine where I can get cash, what is an ATM in this context?
I have just moved to a new area and my current contract expired at the same time. Thus I am in the market for a new phone.
Unfortunately the phones that I like - i.e. good battery power, great reception, tri-band, all seem to come with cameras these days!
Personally, I have no use for a camera in a phone, and my employer has explicitly forbidden cameras on the premises. This morning they sent out an email stating clearly that this restriction applied to phone cameras as well.
So, by tacking on a rather underpowered little slug of a camera, the manufacturers have made it impossible for me to buy one of their nicer phones.
Excessive bandwidth usage may be the result of many different activities. Activities that could contribute to exceeding bandwidth limitations may include, but are not limited to:
* commercial or business applications,
* peer-to-peer networking,
* newsgroup downloading,
* file sharing,
* streaming music/videos and
* voice and/or video services
Isn't this one of the reasons that they advertise as a reason you should switch to Broadband?